25.8-RC2

Changes compared to: 25.8-RC1

Non user facing:

• Improves the styling of the wishlist button, in the AI Brand Insights modal. #22502

25.7

= 25.7 =

Release date: 2025-08-12

Yoast SEO 25.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Re-generates the llms.txt file immediately when there's any change in the selection of the pages to be included.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the AI free sparks upsell would appear instead of the rate limit error in cases where the rate limit for AI Generate was reached before the free sparks limit.

Other

• Adds an announcement for the upcoming AI Brand Insights feature.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7.

25.8-RC1

Changes compared to: 25.7

Enhancements:

• Changes the AI generator button label and design. #22487

Other:

• Updates ads to reflect the new pricing scheme. #22488
• Fixes a console warning message triggered by the introductions in the Yoast admin page. #22480

Non user facing:

• Adds tests to ai authorization infrastructure section. #22467
• Adds tests for the available posts endpoint #22434
• Improves response validation of the Yoast license check. Props to aryanjasala. #22386
• Adds unit tests covering the classes in src/ai-consent directory. #22415
• Adds tests for ai authorisation domain methods. #22463

25.7-RC5

Changes compared to: 25.7-RC4

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the AI free sparks upsell would appear instead of the rate limit error in cases where the rate limit for AI Generate was reached before the free sparks limit. #22485

25.7-RC4

Changes compared to: 25.7-RC3

Non user facing:

• Fixes an unreleased bug where integration page would break. #22481

25.7-RC3

Changes compared to: 25.7-RC2

Other:

• Adds an announcement for the upcoming AI Brand Insights feature. #22477

Non user facing:

• Adapts the AI Generate usage count tooltip in case of Free Sparks. #22476
• Bumps the @yoast/ai-frontend package dependency version to 0.18.0. #22476

25.7-RC2

Changes compared to: 25.7-RC1

Non user facing:

• Restores the CTB id to the redirects upsell button. #22474
• Fixes an unreleased bug where the title of the redirections page would be incorrectly showing double the word Redirects. #22470
• Fixes an unreleased bug where link param were missing from the redirects upsell link and learn more link. #22472
• Refactors references slice according to the link params slice. #22472
• Updates the @yoast/ai-frontend package to the latest version in package.json to incorporate the latest improvements and fixes in the @yoast/ai-frontend library. #22475

25.6

= 25.6 =

Release date: 2025-07-29

Yoast SEO 25.6 adds enhancements to the llms.txt feature, introducing manual personalization. Read the release post here!

Enhancements

• Adds a free preview of the AI features from Yoast SEO Premium.
• Introduces a way to manually select the pages to be included in the llms.txt file.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the icon on search appearance would not be aligned when on a right-to-left locale.

25.7-RC1

Changes compared to: 25.6

Enhancements:

• Re-generates the llms.txt file immediately when there's any change in the selection of the pages to be included. #22439

Other:

• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7. #22461

Non user facing:

• Refactors and improves the Redirect UI. #22460
• Adds unit tests for the llms-txt configuration. #22431
• Adds integration tests for the available posts repository. #22438
• Adds back the AI Optimize buttons in Classic editor. #22464
• Updates some css for the upsell of the redirect feature. #22433
• Enables back the AI Optimize for Classic editor. #22379
• Merges the feature branch feature/ai-generator-in-free into trunk. #22432
• Refactors our React apps to use createRoot instead of render. #22430
• Refactors the defaultProps to be defaultArguments instead in the AI Optimize button component. #22448
• Removes the Yoast WooCommerce SEO and Premium bundle upsell link from the AI Generate subscription error modal. #22453

25.6-RC8

Changes compared to: 25.6-RC7

Non user facing:

• Fixes the link in the AI generator error modal. #22462