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@yoastbot yoastbot released this 14 Jun 09:30

Changes compared to: 19.1

Enhancements:

  • By adding the name of the article author to the author section of the Article schema piece, we make Pinterest detect as it doesn't traverse the graph properly. #18542
  • Adds a new filter wpseo_change_home_url that allows changing the URL the Ryte integration checks, to allow for more versatile hosting setups. #18469
  • Improves the sentence recognition by disregarding abbreviations as potential sentence boundaries. #18505
  • Added support for webp images for OpenGraph output. #18545
  • By adding a meta author tag we're making sure LinkedIn picks up the name of a post author properly. #18543
  • Improves the text analysis by not always splitting on ellipsis … regardless of whether the next sentence has a valid beginning or not. This previously could also result in score discrepancies when switching to Elementor. #18511
  • Improves the text analysis by not splitting sentences on semicolon ;. #18511
  • Enables sorting on the SEO and readability score columns on the post overview page. #18533
  • Adds WordProof to timestamp the privacy policy and terms and conditions pages. #18540
  • Improves the sentence recognition by disregarding initials as potential sentence boundaries. #18527
  • Improves the content analysis by excluding blockquote HTML elements. #18528

Bugfixes:

  • Fixes a bug where HTML tags in the og:description meta tag would be displayed encoded instead of being removed completely. #18079
  • Fixes a bug where the sitemap image:loc URLs containing ampersands would lead to encoding issues. #18557
  • Fixes a bug that would cause the First-time configuration to crash when completing indexation with the Yoast admin bar menu hidden. #18551
  • Fixes a bug where filtering the OpenGraph and Twitter image to a URL containing ampersands would lead to encoding issues. #18549
  • Fixes a bug where filtering the OpenGraph and Twitter image to a URL containing ampersands would lead to encoding issues. #18549

Other:

  • Renames the 'Keyphrase in title' SEO assessment to 'Keyphrase in SEO title'. #18504

Non user facing:

  • Refactors WPSEO_Shortcode_Filter to not use filter_input for better PHP 8.1 compatibility #18340
  • Increases the limit of the Yoast.NamingConventions.ObjectNameDepth sniff from 3 to 5. #18559
  • Adds some exceptions for the Yoast.Files.FileName.InvalidClassFileName sniff. #18559