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yoast/wordpress-seo

27.1.12.2M downloads/moYoast-dist/wordpress-seo ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin.

Last release 2 days ago
18 Sep 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 2 weeks
Some releases are documented
notes for 17 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
8 years old
1338 releases · first in 2018

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1338 releases since 2018

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Additional notes2 sources agree

Release date: 2026-08-18

Enhancements

Adds a schemamap.xml file at the site root that exposes the aggregated schema map.
Adds the failing object's type and ID to the SEO data optimization error report when an indexable cannot be built.
Improves performance when running the SEO optimization by warming post and term caches in bulk.
Improves the performance of generating XML sitemaps by warming post, term and featured-image caches in bulk.

Bugfixes

Fixes a bug where the AI Content Planner inserted an empty paragraph block before the template blocks when a post type had a block template registered.

Other

Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 7.1.
Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.9.
Adds a first-time guided tour to the bulk editor.

Earlier versions

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

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