27.1-RC1

Changes compared to: 27.0

Enhancements:

• Introduces the Schema aggregation feature. #22973
• Introduces a more robust HTML processing and highlighting approach for the transition words assessment. #22279

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where Slovak two-part transition words wasn't recognized when running the readability analysis. #22279
• Fixes a bug where sentences containing transition words failed to be highlighted in transition words assessment when they contained elements excluded from the analysis such as <code>. #22279

Non user facing:

• Code quality & consistency #22985
• Code quality & consistency #22986
• Modernize codebase #22987
• Updated dev dependencies #22988
• Fixes PHPCS. #22999
• Code quality #22995
• Avoids exposing endpoints related to post types that are flagged as noindex. #22996
• Filters out posts that are flagged as robots_noindex. #22996
• Avoids opening a new page when the user clicks on the Enable Schema aggregation endpoint button in the feature introduction modal. #22996
• Fixes various code style issues. #22992
• Adds some miscellaneous unit tests. #22970
• Adds a notification in the Alert centre when indexables are disabled. #22969
• Adds some missing unit tests for Schema pieces repositories. #22968
• Fixes some missing @Covers annotations #22968
• Adds integration tests for the schema pieces repositories. #22965
• Fixes a bug where pages were never retrieved in case the user had indexables disabled. #22965
• Adds some test for the Site_Schema_Response_Header_Integration class. #22962
• Adds unit tests for the schema xml renderer. #22955
• Adds unit tests to cover filtering logic. #22900
• Adds an integration test to make sure the XML route displays the correct value. #22897
• Makes sure that plugins that integrate with the schema API are properly represented in the schema aggregator. #22879
• Adds tests for the cache integrations. #22870
• Adds tests for the Config and Aggregator_Config infrastructure. #22831
• Adds additional checks to make sure we don't add transients we don't need to #22821
• Adds a link to the robots.txt to add the XML endpoint when the schema aggregation feature is enabled. #22820
• Adds tests for the some infrastructure classes. #22814
• Adds tests for the enhancement config infrastructure. #22805
• Adds unit tests for the schema xml renderer. #22955
• Re-instates the Schema pieces de-duplication and properties merging logic. #22949
• Removes some filtering. #22948
• Fixes filtering for schema with multiple types. #22942
• Adds an introduction modal presenting the new Schema aggregator feature. #22929
• Refactors the elements-context map to be a class. #22916
• Adds unit and integration tests. #22914
• Adds a version marker in the response. #22906
• Adds unit tests to cover filtering logic. #22900
• Adds a link to the robots.txt to add the XML endpoint when the schema aggregation feature is enabled. #22820
• Gitignore the Claude folder, to make devs' life easier. #22989
• Adds tests for the commands + handlers. #22803
• Changes the output format to JSONL instead of JSON. #22801
• Adds tests for the schema enhancers. #22800
• Adds tests for the XML cache manager. #22799
• Adds a customisable schema pieces filtering logic and a default filtering strategy. #22790
• Adds tests for the cache manager. #22789
• Adds tests for the domain folders. #22787
• Changes the caching behavior to be inline with having a post type based filtering system. #22786
• Adds ability to differentiate the per page max based on post type. #22771
• Makes sure the Woo schema is added to the aggregration. #22763
• Adds a non indexable fallback for the XML schema endpoints. #22748
• Introduces a query-based fallback approach to be used when the user has deactivated the indexables creation. #22728
• Adds an xml file to make the schema aggregation endpoints discoverable. #22696
• Adds meta information to the schema aggregation endpoint. #22716
• Adds a toggle for the Schema aggregator feature #22711
• Writes a timestamp the first time the feature is enabled. #22711
• Changes the repository to be post type based. #22707
• Adds extra data to some schema pieces. #22685
• Filters posts to be used to generate the schema. #22678
• Deduplicates schema pieces on the basis of the @id property value. #22678
• Unifies properties of instances of the same schema piece. #22678
• Add a caching layer for the NL web response. #22675
• Uses the Meta_Tag_Context_Memoizer class to fetch the schema pieces data. #22669
• Introduces a route and CLI command for the schema aggregation endpoint. #22660
• Modernize codebase #22981
• Introduces the Code_Generator class to isolate a WordPress dependency. #22931
• Fixes an unreleased regression where AI Optimize button width affected the highlight and other buttons in the analysis. #22994
• Fixes a bug where schema piece enhancers were never applied. #22860
• Changes the size of the social image preview box. #22911
• Releases a new version of the JavaScript package yoastseo. #22971
• Update dev dependencies #22980
• Fixes WP tests for WP trunk. #22975
• Code consistency #22982
• Modernize codebase #22983
• Modernize codebase #22984