generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo/
index: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/
note: >-
  Yoast publishes a dated changelog per product on the developer portal — Yoast SEO,
  Yoast SEO Premium, Local SEO, News SEO, Video SEO, WooCommerce SEO, Duplicate Post,
  Yoast SEO for Shopify and AI Brand Insights each have their own stream. The entries
  below are the recent window of the flagship Yoast SEO stream. Entries are categorised
  as Enhancements / Bugfixes / Other; breaking changes are not called out as a separate
  class, which is why lifecycle/ records deprecation policy as unpublished.
scheme: semver
cadence: roughly every two weeks
current_version: '28.2'
current_version_date: '2026-08-04'
products:
  - name: Yoast SEO
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo/
  - name: Yoast SEO Premium
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo-premium/
  - name: Local SEO
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/local-seo/
  - name: News SEO
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/news-seo/
  - name: Video SEO
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/video-seo/
  - name: WooCommerce SEO
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/woocommerce-seo/
  - name: Duplicate Post
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/duplicate-post/
  - name: Yoast SEO for Shopify
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo-shopify/
  - name: AI Brand Insights
    url: https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/ai-brand-insights/
entries:
  - version: '28.2'
    date: '2026-08-04'
    breaking: false
    highlights:
      - Fixed focus keyphrases without function words incorrectly lowering SEO scores
      - Fixed a fatal error in the post editor for OAuth users when AUTH_KEY was not a string
      - Yoast SEO Abilities are no longer registered when indexables are disabled
  - version: '28.1'
    date: '2026-07-21'
    breaking: false
    highlights:
      - Redesigned the bulk editor page for editing metadata across multiple posts
  - version: '28.0'
    date: '2026-07-06'
    breaking: false
    highlights:
      - Improved compatibility with Elementor V4's atomic editor
      - Fixed block-editor links writing raw type/id instead of data-type/data-id
      - Updated security-patched guzzlehttp dependencies
  - version: '27.9'
    date: '2026-06-22'
    breaking: false
    highlights:
      - Content analysis performance improved by reusing the HTML tree
      - Shortcodes now passed through to the Insights analysis
      - Fixed duplicate fetching of recently modified posts in the Content Planner
  - version: '27.6'
    date: '2026-05-12'
    breaking: false
    highlights:
      - Introduced the AI Content Planner, generating five site-specific post ideas and a structured starter draft
  - version: '27.5'
    date: '2026-04-28'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Yoast Abilities API — read SEO, readability and inclusive-language scores over the WordPress Abilities API
    highlights:
      - Added the Yoast Abilities API for retrieving analysis scores
      - Qatar added to Semrush keyphrase suggestions
      - Fixed AI Generator failures after a domain change caused by stale callback URLs
    note: >-
      This is the release that gave Yoast an agent-readable surface; it is the single
      most consequential entry in this window for API and agent consumers.
counts:
  entries: 6
  window_start: '2026-04-28'
  window_end: '2026-08-04'