12.4-RC3

Changes compared to 12.4-RC2:

• Fixes a bug where the snippet preview image was set to content image when a featured image was set.

12.4-RC2

Changes compared to 12.4-RC1:

• Fixes a bug where the paged needed to be refreshed before the image in the mobile snippet preview would show.

12.3

= 12.3.0 =
Release Date: October 15th, 2019

While some of our checks are independent of languages, Yoast SEO has special skills to adapt the various content analyses to different languages from around the world. In Yoast SEO 12.3, we’re taking the first steps to add another language to the list: Hungarian. In addition, this release features a number of enhancement and fixes. Read our 12.3 release post to find out more!

Enhancements:

• Adds the transition word assessment for Hungarian. Props to @9abor.
• Includes the admin bar CSS in AMP dev mode. Props to @westonruter.
• Shows a floating Save changes button on Yoast SEO admin pages when the normal button is not visible in the browser window.
• Improves user input validation feedback and suggestions for error correction.
• Introduces a new filter wpseo_sitemap_http_headers which allows filtering the HTTP headers we send for XML sitemaps.

Other:

• Removes the notification that would be thrown if add-ons with a lower version number than the plugin were installed. The yoast_plugin_compatibility_notification method has been deprecated.

12.4-RC1

= 12.4.0 =
Release Date: October 29th, 2019

Read our 12.4 release post to find out more!

Enhancements:

• Adds "Google" and "schema" as keywords to the structured data Gutenberg blocks to make them show up for those search terms in the block search as well.
• Adds an image to the new mobile snippet preview for posts and terms.
• Changes Readability for empty content from "Needs Improvement" with a red icon to "Not Available" with a gray icon. Props to emilyatmobtown.
• Updates URLs to ping Google and Bing with a sitemap. Props to @emilyatmobtown.
• Increases the specificity of the width and height CSS of the MobileDescriptionImage.
• Enhances the old WP version notice, by getting and calculating the current and next WP version.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where it is impossible to open the media library for social images on attachment pages.
• Fixes a bug where a nested paragraph was present in the "noindex" metabox warning.
• Fixes a bug where Google+ data would still be exported in the settings export.

12.3-RC2

Changes compared to 12.3-RC1;

• Fixes various bugs related to the new floating save button. See #1356

12.2

= 12.2.0 =
Release Date: October 1st, 2019

Yoast SEO 12.2 is a release full of the regular bug fixes and enhancements, but also a new addition to meta robots. Last week, Google announced a new way to give publishers more control over what the search engine can show in the results. This change, however, seems not driven by customer demand, but rather by law. Find out what this is all about and why we chose to automatically opt sites in for this in our 12.2 release post!

Enhancements:

• Adds default robots meta settings to opt in to all snippet display features, to prevent affected websites in Europe from having snippet display issues.
• Adds an alert to the configuration wizard and the knowledge graph settings that is shown when organization information is missing.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the banners in the sidebar were no longer responsive.

Other:

• Changes all mentions of the Yoast SEO for WordPress training, which is now free.
• Combines the 'Newsletter' and 'You might like' steps in the configuration wizard to a step called 'Continue learning'.
• Removes the colon from the form labels at the settings pages.

12.3-RC1

= 12.3.0 =
Release Date: October 15th, 2019

Enhancements:

• Adds the transition word assessment for Hungarian. Props to @9abor.
• Includes the admin bar CSS in AMP dev mode. Props to @westonruter.
• Shows a floating Save changes button on Yoast SEO admin pages when the normal button is not visible in the browser window.
• Improves user input validation feedback and suggestions for error correction.
• Introduces a new filter wpseo_sitemap_http_headers which allows filtering the HTTP headers we send for XML sitemaps.

Other:

• Removes the notification that would be thrown if add-ons with a lower version number than the plugin were installed. The yoast_plugin_compatibility_notification method has been deprecated.

12.2-RC4

Changes compared to 12.2-RC3:

• Adds default robots meta settings to opt in to all snippet display features, to prevent affected websites in Europe from having snippet display issues.
• Reverts the change of the change from 'Not available' to 'Focus Keyphrase not set', to prevent the 'Focus Keyphrase not set' from showing up for readability scores.

12.2-RC3

Changes compared to 12.2-RC2:

• Fixes a bug where tracking would fire on every page load.

12.2-RC2

Changes compared to 12.2-RC1:

• [non-userfacing] Adds a tracking class for sending anonymized settings + changes output format for plugins to an object instead of an array.
• Changes all mentions of the Yoast SEO for WordPress training, which is now free.
• Combines the steps called Newsletter and You might like in the configuration wizard to a step called Continue learning.
• Removes the colon from admin form labels.