19.8-RC1

Changes compared to: 19.7.1

Enhancements:

• Removes two notifications from the Yoast SEO dashboard: the one suggesting to set the auto update on, and the one suggesting to activate an add-on which is installed but currently inactive. #18960
• Removes empty breadcrumb schemas if not on homepage. #18974
• Adds a X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow header to all comment feeds to prevent them to be indexed, reducing duplicate content. #18976

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be when the php_uname() function is disabled by the web hosting provider. #18619
• Fixes a bug where robots meta would be synchronized between multilingual contents when using a plugin like WPML or Polylang. #18450
• Fixes a bug where ListItem entries would be output in a BreadcrumbList even if their text was empty, resulting in Schema validation errors. #18971
• Fixes a bug where the query parameters from an image URL would be omitted in the sitemap.xml #18907

Other:

• Deprecates the wpseo_twitter_card_type filter. #18967
• Forces the use of the large card, which is the only supported format by Twitter. #18967

Non user facing:

• Considers noindex status for posts (aside from the global noindex setting) before including them in the overview #18952
• Fixes a non released layout issue where two checkmarks were overlapping each other. #18956
• Adds an insight that can recognize the formality level of a text. #18708
• Updates content of the recommended reading list in the Indexables Overview. #18957
• Adds a filter to remove subdirectory sites from the robots.txt #18909
• Adds an upsell for the Formality feature in Free. #18708
• Fixes an unreleased bug where a horizontal scrollbar would appear when hiding an indexables from the indexables table on the new indexables page. #18959
• Adds the site representation, breadcrumbs and crawl optimization pages to the new settings UI. #18984
• Fixes the return value in a PHPDoc for ajax.php. Props to @arshidkv12. #18553