20.9-RC1

Changes compared to: 20.8

Enhancements:

• We now automatically schedule background performance optimization processes (via WP Cron). #20305
• Tightens crawl optimization site search blocking rules. #20286

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the Yoast SEO metabox would crash in conjunction with Yoast SEO Premium when additional keyphrases are stored in the DB in a malformed way. #20336
• Fixes a bug where the link popover position in the block editor would be positioned incorrectly when adding or creating links. #20270

Non user facing:

• Improve test suite #20288
• Enable test code coverage monitoring. #20310
• Improve test suite + bug fix #20301
• QA #20311
• Code modernization #20312
• Reverts background cron indexation #20268
• Fixes incorrect covers tags in tests. #20285
• Removes the usage of yoast-components. #20284
• Improve test suite #20302
• Code style consistency #20297
• Code documentation consistency #20298
• Code style consistency #20299
• Fixes an unreleased performance regression, where expensive queries were introduced in all admin pages #20257
• Code style consistency #20296
• Enables creating filters for other scores, like the inclusive language score. #20338
• Code quality #20300
• Code quality #20287
• CI maintenance #20309
• Improve test suite #20290
• Improve test suite #20289
• PHP cross-version compatibility #20291
• Code style consistency #20292
• Code modernization #20293
• Code style consistency #20294
• Code quality #20295
• Code quality #20303