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Yoast SEO 28.3 Released

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What’s new in Yoast SEO 28.3

Released: 2026-08-18

Active installations: 10,000,000

Tested up to WordPress 7.1

Requires PHP 7.4

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.
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.
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

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