Yoast News SEO Premium 13.3

Enhancements
Allows for News Sitemap items to change the language via a new filter Yoast\WP\News\publication_language. Props to dgwatkins.

Bugfixes
Stops PHP notices on WordPress 6.7 about _load_textdomain_just_in_time loading incorrectly.

Other
Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 24.4.
Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.5.
Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7.

Enhancements

• Adds a wpseo_news_sitemap_content filter to append custom content to the XML sitemap. Props to @wccoder.
• This PR introduces a new way of retrieving translations for Yoast News SEO, by utilizing the TranslationPress service. Instead of having to ship all translations with every release, we can now load the translations on a per-install basis, tailored to the user's setup. This means smaller plugin releases and less bloat on the user's server.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a warning would be thrown on activation.
• Fixes a bug where using the & character in the publication name would break the XML sitemap.

Other

• Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
• Improves discoverability of security policy.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 22.2.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.3.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.
• The plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP 8.3.
• Users requiring this package via [WP]Packagist can now use the composer/installers v2.

Enhancements:

• Huge performance improvement: moves the XML News sitemap to be based on our Indexables architecture.
• Removes images from the XML News sitemap as they serve no purpose here and this further improves performance.

Other:

• Excludes attachments and non-indexed post types from the possible post types to include in the News Sitemap.

Adds Schema Article News subtypes: ReviewNewsArticle, AnalysisNewsArticle, AskPublicNewsArticle, BackgroundNewsArticle, OpinionNewsArticle, and ReportageNewsArticle.

Fixes a bug where a duplicate News section would be shown in the Yoast sidebar in the post editor when Yoast SEO Premium is active in combination with WP 5.8.

Enhancements:

• Adds key/value pairs of all News SEO meta tags to our REST API.
• Improves the performance of the news sitemap.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a database query including duplicate column names would fail on certain database systems.

Other:

• Adds a filter to override the decision to omit an item from the news sitemap.
• Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.

Enhancements:

• Adds News to the Yoast SEO sidebar in the Elementor editor and the block editor.
• Merges the Exclude from News sitemap and the Googlebot-News index settings from the News meta box into one setting: Exclude this post from Google News. Because both settings served the same purpose, to exclude your content from the News sitemap.
• Removes the Default genre setting from the News sitemap and settings because Google no longer supports Genres for articles in Google News.

Other:

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where certain conditions (e.g. using a different admin language) would result in an endless loop.
• Fixes “mixed content” warnings on the News SEO options page.

Enhancements:

• Adds ‘Article’ as @type to articles that are set to be included in the news sitemap. This results in a @type array with at least ‘Article’ and ‘NewsArticle’.

Other:

• Enables tracking when activating the plugin. It can be disabled in the Yoast SEO configuration wizard.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.

Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a large number of WordPress terms or post types would cause significant slowdowns and possible crashes on admin pages.

Other:

• Removes the code tags from the term and post type names on the News SEO settings page.