hub-insurance/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog.md

Yoast SEO

Requires at least: 6.8 Tested up to: 7.0 Requires PHP: 7.4

Changelog

27.9

Release date: 2026-06-22

Enhancements

• Improves the performance of the content analysis by reusing previously built HTML trees across assessor runs, related-keyphrase passes and research calls instead of rebuilding the tree for each.
• Passes shortcodes to the Insights analysis data for more consistent analysis result across application.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the recently modified posts were fetched twice when using the Content Planner.

Other

• Adds the web-server family to the server data collected for opt-in tracking.

27.8

Release date: 2026-06-09

Enhancements

• Significantly reduces loading times of the root sitemap on sites with many users.
• Reduces loading times of the author sitemap on sites with many users.
• Makes the schema aggregator faster by drastically reducing the roundtrips to the database, when indexables are disabled.
• Makes the SEO optimization faster by drastically reducing the roundtrips to the database.
• Prevents unnecessary expensive DB queries when admin pages are being visited.
• Optimizes expensive DB queries when performing actions in admin pages related to SEO optimization.

Bugfixes

• Ensures compatibility with the React 19 version bundled in Gutenberg 23.3 (WordPress 7.1), fixing several screens and components that could otherwise fail to render.
• Fixes a bug where the dismiss button in the Webinar promo notice in general page was transparent.
• Improves post editor rendering performance by stabilising Redux selector and withSelect references in multiple components to prevent unnecessary re-renders.
• Fixes a bug where NaN was set as the Primary taxonomy and triggered a console error.

Other

• Removes the Yoast group from the filter bar on the WordPress plugins list.
• Sets the title of a child task to "(no title)" in the task list, when the related post has no title.
• Introduces the wpseo_custom_fields_pre_query filter, allowing sites to short-circuit the potentially expensive custom-fields lookup in Yoast settings, with a pre-computed list or a custom query.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.