Adds Article markup for posts, with Person markup for the author.
Changes the ‘Organization or Person’ section of the Knowledge graph settings to allow selecting an author that is the ‘Person’ that the website represents.
Adds MySpace, SoundCloud, Tumblr and YouTube URL input fields to people’s profiles.
Bugfixes:
Fixes an issue where the metabox would not display on term edit pages when running the development build of Gutenberg.
Reverted a fix relating replacement variables on the block editor, which was causing a slow and unworkable editting experience.
Fixes a bug where the license information from MyYoast is being saved aggressively, causing updates in MyYoast to take 24 hours to show up in the site.
Fixes a bug where the rel="publisher" Google+ tag was being output on the frontend if that profile was provided in the past.
Fixes a bug where the server could experience a high load when using external object cache.
Fixes the bug where Yoast SEO would contact Yoast.com for license checks on specific Yoast-pages even when no Yoast addons are installed.
Introduces recognition of grammatical forms for German keyphrases. This means that plural forms such as Häuser will be recognized if your keyphrase is Haus, for example. Doesn’t just work for those of you who have multiple homes by the way.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the Internal Linking metabox would show a warning that not all posts were analyzed, while all eligible posts actually were indexed.
Fixes a bug that impeded recognition of word forms for keyphrases on taxonomy pages.
Other:
Removes all functionality that has been deprecated before Yoast SEO 6.1.
Fixes a bug where a fatal error can occur on license requests which return an unexpected result.