11.8-RC1

= 11.8.0 =
Release Date: August 6th, 2019

Find out all about Yoast SEO 11.8 in our 11.8 release post!

Enhancements:

• Moved advanced SEO settings to a collapsible in the SEO tab.
• Social settings tab in the metabox now contains collapsibles instead of tabs.
• Adds style for padding to the metabox menu to avoid it being overwritten by custom editor styles. Props to @emilyatmobtown.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the WP_Query::get_posts() method would be called multiple times when the query includes several taxonomy terms, resulting in different results. Props to @Chouby.
• Fixes a bug where the checkbox in the customizer about showing the blog page in the breadcrumbs would do exactly the opposite of what it promised. Props to @garrett-eclipse.

11.7-RC2

No changes compared to 11.7-RC1. This tag has been added for consistency with the RC versions of wordpress-seo-premium.

11.6

= 11.6.0 =
Release Date: July 9th, 2019

Yoast SEO 11.6 is out today. Of course, we did the regular round of bug fixing, but the focus of this release is two-fold: a new, much easier to use tabbed interface for the meta box and an updated HowTo structured data content block for WordPress. Find out all about Yoast SEO 11.6 in our 11.6 release post!

Enhancements:

• Changes the tabs in the metabox to horizontal tabs.
• Splits the content optimization tab in the metabox into two separate tabs: an SEO and a Readability tab.
• Updates HowTo schema output to reflect Google's new guidelines.
• Makes sure the media modal that is triggered for image uploads only displays images.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the Schema @id for Person would be incorrect on posts when author archives where disabled.
• Fixes a bug where the Schema would contain WebPage instead of CollectionPage for a latest posts homepage and the static posts page type.
• Fixes a bug where the Organization and Article Schema nodes would incorrectly be output when a website had not set their organization's name and/or logo.
• Fixes a bug where the eye marker tooltips would break out of the metabox, which would hide the last part of the tooltip text.
• Fixes a bug where instances of unfiltered HTML would be allowed in term descriptions where they shouldn't be.

11.7-RC1

= 11.7.0 =
Release Date: July 23rd, 2019

Enhancements:

• Allows a subset of HTML tags in FAQ answer, HowTo description and HowToStep description schema output: <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <br>, <ol>, <ul>, <li>, <a>, <p>, <b>, <strong>, <i>, <em>, and their closing counterparts.
• Remove the noindex from feeds as this causes issues for podcasts and other feeds.
• Improves the accessibility of the horizontal tabs in the metabox by implementing an ARIA tabbed user interface.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the avatar in the knowledge graph settings would incorrectly overwrite the default user profile picture.

11.6-RC6

Changes compared to 11.6-RC5:

• Fixes a bug where an author would be output for pages.

11.6-RC5

Changes compared to 11.6-RC4:

• Fixes a bug where instances of unfiltered HTML would be allowed in term descriptions where they shouldn’t be.

11.6-RC4

Changes compared to 11.6-RC3:

• Fixes a bug where the HowTo and FAQ Schema is not stitched correctly when the site is not represented.
• Fixes a bug where the HowTo step image schema URL was false when using a proxy server.

11.6-RC3

Changes compared to 11.6-RC2:

• Fixes a bug where the Organization and Article Schema nodes would incorrectly be output when a website had not set their organization's name and/or logo.

11.6-RC2

Changes compared to 11.6-RC1:

• Fixes a bug where the eye marker tooltips would break out of the metabox, which would hide the last part of the tooltip text.

11.5

= 11.5.0 =
Release Date: June 25th, 2019

Yoast SEO 11.5 is out today. This release features a big change that gives you a better idea of how searchers see your snippets on mobile. Yep, we’ve overhauled the mobile snippet preview and brought it up-to-date with Google’s latest changes. And that, of course, includes that shiny favicon. Find out what Yoast SEO 11.5 is all about in our 11.5 release post!

Enhancements:

• Updates the Mobile Snippet Preview.
• Moves the primary image for a page out of the WebPage piece into its own graph piece.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes missing trailing slash for the homepage on post sitemap. Props to stodorovic.