21.2-RC1

Changes compared to: 21.1

Enhancements:

• Renames Google preview to Search appearance in the metabox and sidebar. #20578

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the redirect notification would mention "posts" when a tag was deleted or trashed. #20584
• Fixes a bug where, even if Show author archives without posts in search results is enabled, the archive page has a noindex in the robots metatag. #20594
• Fixes a bug where the redirect notification would mention "posts" when a tag was deleted or trashed. #20584
• Fixes a bug where notices about incorrect calls to wpdb::prepare would be thrown on Yoast SEO Premium activation. #20586
• Fixes a bug where pagination meta tags would be wrong when using Query Loop Block with custom query variables. #20542
• Fixing a bug where adding special characters like " »" as a title separator would break the RSS feed. #20539

Other:

• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.2. #20610

Non user facing:

• Adds a reusable, time-bounded notification to advertise promotions. #20620
• Shows a promotion notice in the product editor. #20620
• Improves the upsell for social previews. #20616
• Adds Black Friday ads in place of webinar ads. #20615
• Adds tests for the Wistia embed permission slice. #20587
• Upgrade to a new minor version of the Yoast UI library. #20565
• Adds integration tests to first time configuration notice helper. #20614
• Merges the feature branch feature/lingo-fixes into trunk. #20618
• Changes Translators to non-capitalized translators in files within the yoastseo package. #20572
• Introduces the Promotions_Manager class and related classes to manage temporary promotions ads. #20617
• Merges the feature branch feature/new-search-and-social-appearance into trunk. #20621
• Updates upsell copy for Social appearance previews. #20563