Yoast News SEO Premium 13.2

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.