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28.3

Release date: 2026-08-18

Yoast SEO 28.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

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

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

28.2

Release date: 2026-08-04

Yoast SEO 28.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the overall SEO score was lowered when the focus keyphrase did not consist of function words only. Props to @faisalahammad.
• Fixes a bug where an uncaught fatal error was thrown in the post editor on sites using the OAuth connection to MyYoast, when the AUTH_KEY salt in wp-config.php was set to a non-string value.

Other

• Prevents Yoast SEO Abilities from being registered when indexables are disabled.

Earlier versions

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