Yoast News SEO changelog

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.2

Other​

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.5

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.1

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the last modified date for the sitemap index has been displayed with the wrong time zone.

Other​

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.4

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a problem where the sitemap table could not be sorted.
• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.0

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.9

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.8

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.7

Enhancements:​

• Changes the capability on which the submenu is registered to wpseo_manage_options

Bugfixes:​

• Fixes a bug where the license check endpoint was using an incorrect URL

• Updated the internationalization module to version 3.0.
• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.5

• Updated the internationalization module to version 2.0.
• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.4

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.3

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.2

• Fixes a bug where the wrong timezone was used in the sitemap.

• Adds post type name (attachment) after the label to clarify the post type.
• Fixes a fatal error when Piklist and Yoast News SEO are both active.
• Fixes a fatal error when Liveblog and Yoast News SEO are both active.
• Fixes a warning in the News sitemap when bbPress and Yoast News SEO are both active.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.9.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.8.

• Fixes a bug where there were a deprecated function was being called, resulting in a warning.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.6.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.5.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.4.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.3.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes "Fatal error: Class 'yoast_i18n' not found".

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a deprecated function was being called, resulting in a warning.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes W3C validation error on <link attribute 'original-source'.
• Fixed broken link in news sitemap.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.0

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the editor's pick checkbox was reset after inline editing a post.

• Updates translations.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the editor's pick would be unset when quick editing.

• Fixes a bug where Google News would report an unexpected publication name in sitemaps.

• Updates translations.

• Updates translations

Enhancements​

• General accessibility improvements

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a page or post type with the slug news would be inaccessible.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where sitemaps would not be generated if a post with the same name existed.

Enhancements​

• Introduced noindex meta tag for the Google News bot.

Bugfixes​

• Sitemaps need a real timezone instead of a UTC timezone because daylight saving time is not included in UTC.
• Google News Genre global default could not be overridden by page setting.
• The news keyword counting, for a maximum of 10 keywords, no longer counts empty keywords.

Enhancements​

• Adds the Yoast i18n module to the Yoast SEO News settings page, which informs users the plugin isn't available in their language and what they can do about it.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the support beacon for Yoast SEO News was added to all Yoast SEO settings pages.
• Fixes a bug where updates were not working reliably when multiple paid Yoast plugins were active.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the news sitemap would be shown in the index even if the sitemap itself was empty.
• Fixes a bug where clicking the 'Update now' button on the plugin page didn't update correctly.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where our license manager could sometimes not reach our licensing system due to problems with ssl.

Enhancements​

• Makes sure users don't have to reactivate their license after updating or disabling/enabling the plugin.
• Adds a support beacon on the News SEO settings page enabling users to ask for support from the WordPress backend.
• Contains a few performance optimizations.

• Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the links in the sitemap would 'randomly' change from https to http or the other way around (in very rare circumstances).
• Fixes the news metabox that was broken in combination with Yoast SEO 3.0.
• Fixes deprecation warnings for filters that have been removed in Yoast SEO 3.0.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when the News SEO settings were updated.
• Added 1 new translation: en_AU.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when a news item was edited or added.
• Fixes a bug where the stylesheets for the news sitemap were not included when the sitemap was served from cache.
• Fixes a bug where specialchars were escaped in the news sitemap.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where an invalid argument error could be raised when visiting the sitemap.
• Fixes a bug where the sitemap could contain wrongly formatted publication dates.
• Fixes a bug where the wpseo_news_sitemap_url filter wasn't working properly.
• Fixes a bug where the News sitemap genre wasn't saved on posts.
• Fixes a bug where the sitemap didn't always contain the correct image url, props Marcus Jaschen.
• Fixes a bug with duplicate keywords in the news sitemap.
• Fixes an issue where the Editor's pick RSS took very long to load, by only fetching the selected post types from the database.
• Fixes a bug where the default keywords and the meta news keywords weren't added to the sitemap.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a few string improvements.
• Added 9 new languages: en_GB, es_ES, es_MX, fr_FR, he_IL, it_IT, nl_NL, ro_RO and tr_TR.

• Bugfixes
• The stock tickers didn't work properly, these are fixed.
• Setting correct HTTP header to be sure output is executed as a RSS-feed.
• Enhancements
• Hide the standout meta-tag automatically after seven days (you can still see standout was used in admin but it won't be displayed)
• Show the total number of used standout meta-tags (for the last seven days) in the post-admin

Bugfixes:​

• Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
• Fixed a bug where the wrong image url ended up in the image:loc in the Editor's Pick RSS
• Fixed a bug where the wrong http header was set for the Editor's Pick RSS

Enhancements:​

• Added translations for Polish

Bugfixes​

• Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
• Fixed bug where plugin would give a white screen of death in certain installations.
• Improve using the right image for the news sitemap.

Enhancements​

• Added pubDate to editors pick RSS feed.

• Several performance optimizations for sitemap generation.
• Added button that links to news sitemap on admin page.
• Added an option to include only the featured image in the XML News sitemap.
• Introduced filter wpseo_locale for locale/language of the XML News sitemap.
• Introduced filter wpseo_news_sitemap_url to allow changing the XML News sitemap URL.

• Removed the wptexturize filter from the_title and the_content in the Editors' Pick feed because corrupts our output.
• Added guid elements to item elements in the Editors' Pick feed.
• Added an atom:link element as recommended by the RSS Advisory Board to identifying a feed's URL within the feed.
• Added the WPSEO News fields to the WPSEO meta fields class to fix a bug where the post meta genre field isn't saved.

• Fixed a publication_date timezone bug.

• Add CDATA tags to RSS feed text output.
• Now using the same title for the Editors' Pick title as the channel title.

• Sitemaps now use creation dates instead of modified dates.

• Fixed a bug with version_compare.
• Adds sanitize callback to register_settings.

• Changed EDD product name to 'News SEO'.