12.1

Release Date: September 17th, 2019

Yoast SEO 12.1 is out today! It features a couple of changes in order to match the design of Google’s search results pages, this includes those shiny new favicons. In addition to this, we added a number of new filters for our Schema implementation. See what else is new in the latest release of your favorite SEO plugin in our 12.1 release post!

Enhancements:

• Updates the desktop snippet preview to match Google's new font sizes.
• Introduces the usage of the site's favicon in the mobile snippet preview.
• Adds a collapsible around the hidden problems and notifications on the Yoast dashboard.
• Adds a filter wpseo_schema_organization_social_profiles that allows filtering an organization's social profiles in the schema output. Props to juliquiron.
• Adds a filter wpseo_schema_company_name that allows filtering the company name in the schema output. Props to @andrewgillingham.
• Adds a filter wpseo_free_schema_company_logo_id that allows filtering the company logo in the schema output. Props to @andrewgillingham.
• Adds a filter wpseo_sitemap_exclude_empty_terms_taxonomy to control hiding empty terms per taxonomy.
• Adds a filter wpseo_enable_structured_data_blocks to allow disabling Yoast's structured data block editor blocks.
• Adds a get_robots method to retrieve the robot HTML without it being output. Props to @bradymwilliams.
• Improves the input validation on the settings pages.
• Improves the consistency of the plugin icons.
• Improves the How-to and FAQ blocks styling for better compatibility with latest version of the WordPress blocks editor.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where subscription checks would fail on some sites due to certificate verification being disabled.
• Fixes a bug where the primary term selector would not display HTML entities properly. Props to @dlh01.

Other:

• Allows showing specific dashboard feeds based on the wp_version and php_version of a site.
• Removes the AMP Glue plugin suggestion from the SEO dashboard when AMP and Yoast SEO are installed. The AMP Glue plugin by Yoast will be discontinued soon.
• Removes the Courses menu-item.

12.2-RC1

= 12.2.0 =
Release Date: October 1st, 2019

Read more about Yoast SEO 12.2 in our 12.2 release post!

Enhancements:

• 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.

12.1-RC4

Changes compared to 12.1-RC3:

• Improves the How-to and FAQ blocks styling for better compatibility with latest version of the WordPress blocks editor.
• Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard would error on step 3 when in WordPress 4.9.10.

12.1-RC3

Changes compared to 12.1-RC2:

• Renames the following filters: yoast_free_schema_company_name to wpseo_schema_company_name, yoast_free_schema_company_logo_id to wpseo_schema_company_logo_id, and yoast_free_schema_organization_social_profiles to wpseo_schema_organization_social_profiles.

12.1-RC2

Changes compared to 12.1-RC1:

• No changes.

12.0

Release Date: September 3rd, 2019

Contrary to what the version number might suggest, Yoast SEO 12.0 isn’t a huge release. It’s simply the next release in our current release schedule, but after hitting 11.9 a couple of weeks ago we had no choice but to go for 12.0. That’s how it goes! But don’t worry, there’s enough interesting stuff in this release, including two new checks for the Portuguese language. Read more about Yoast SEO 12.0 in our 12.0 release post!

Enhancements:

• Adds a filter wpseo_exclude_from_sitemap_by_term_ids that allows excluding a term from the XML sitemap.
• Adds a filter wpseo_xml_sitemap_include_images that allows excluding images from the XML sitemap.
• Adds a maximum width to the metabox, props to @justemoilouise.
• Adds support for the assessment that checks whether multiple sentences begin with the same word for Portuguese, props to amesdigital.
• Improves the wording in the configuration wizard notification, props to @emilyatmobtown.
• Improves user input validation for URLs.
• Improves the sentence length assessment for Portuguese by increasing the recommended sentence length limit, props to amesdigital.
• Updates the document title with a message to communicate form submission errors have occurred.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a 404 error would be shown for the second sitemap (and up) of the author sitemaps in case of multiple author sitemaps.

12.1-RC1

= 12.1.0 =
Release Date: September 17th, 2019

Read more about Yoast SEO 12.1 in our 12.1 release post!

Enhancements:

• Adds a get_robots method to retrieve the robot HTML without it being output. Props to @bradymwilliams.
• Adds a filter yoast_free_schema_company_name that allows filtering Yoast company name setting. Props to @andrewgillingham.
• Adds a filter yoast_free_schema_company_logo_id that allows filtering Yoast company logo setting. Props to @andrewgillingham.
• Adds a filter wpseo_sitemap_exclude_empty_terms_taxonomy to make the hide or show empty terms decision, per taxonomy.
• Adds a filter wpseo_enable_structured_data_blocks to allow disabling Yoast's Structured Data block editor blocks.
• Adds collapsible around the hidden problems and notifications on the Yoast dashboard.
• Improves user input validation in the Yoast settings pages.
• Improves the snippet preview icon by using the site icon when available.
• Improves the consistency of the plugin icons.

Bugfixes:

• Changes the sslverify argument for remote requests to true (the default).
• Fixes a bug where the primary term selector would not display HTML entities properly. Props to @dlh01.

Other:

• Allows showing specific dashboard feeds based on the wp_version and php_version of a site.
• Changes desktop snippet preview to match Google's new font sizes.
• Removes the AMP Glue plugin suggestion from the SEO dashboard when AMP and Yoast SEO are installed. The AMP Glue plugin by Yoast is being discontinued.
• Removes the Courses menu-item in Yoast SEO.

12.0-RC1

= 12.0.0 =
Release Date: September 3rd, 2019

Read more about Yoast SEO 12.0 in our 12.0 release post!

Enhancements:

• Adds a filter wpseo_exclude_from_sitemap_by_term_ids that allows excluding a term from the XML sitemap.
• Adds a filter wpseo_xml_sitemap_include_images that allows excluding images from the XML sitemap.
• Adds a maximum width to the metabox. Props @justemoilouise.
• Improves the wording in the configuration wizard notification. Props @emilyatmobtown.
• Improves user input validation for URLs.
• Updates the document title with a message to communicate form submission errors have occurred.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a 404 error would be shown for half of the author sitemaps in case of multiple author sitemaps.

11.9

= 11.9.0 =
Release Date: August 20th, 2019

Are you ready for another exciting release to round up the Yoast SEO 11 cycle? Because we are! In Yoast SEO 11.9 we have improvements for security and accessibility. Read more about Yoast SEO 11.9 in our 11.9 release post!

Enhancements:

• Improves security by adding output escaping.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the image from the configuration wizard notification was missing an empty alt attribute.
• Fixes a bug where some translations would be missing in the metabox, sidebar, configuration wizard and the help center.

11.9-RC5

Changes compared to 11.9-RC4: none.