New in Version 4.2.4 – Released on August 09, 2022
New: Advanced 404 Redirects – Keep track of deleted posts and terms by redirecting to their direct parent or the home url with WooCommerce support.
New: Huge Improvements to Image SEO – Choose characters to strip, characters to convert to spaces, and the casing to convert to for the Title, Alt Tag, Caption, Description and Filename of images.
New: URL slug and trash monitor now allow adding a redirect without leaving the posts table or page editor.
Updated: Minimum required PHP version is now 5.6.
Updated: Redirect logs and 404 logs are now searchable and display referrer information.
Updated: Validation for .htaccess file changes before saving to avoid Apache server crashes.
Updated: Post types, taxonomies and archive titles can now be edited even while set to noindex.
Updated: Removed parsed keywords from the SEO analyzer and added a tooltip defining the analysis for the home page.
Updated: Alert when importing from a V3 .ini file as the post/term IDs need to be identical.
New: Added an User Profile Social Tab to allow users to set their individual social URLs. Support was also added for additional social network accounts.
New: Translation API: New developer filter hooks to allow third-party translation plugins to localize AIOSEO’s data.
New: Image sitemap now is able to detect and include images in ACF fields.
New: Pre-publish panel now also includes a check for the social data (Facebook/Twitter).
Updated: Improved the performance of our TruSEO content analysis by running it on a separate thread.
Updated: AIOSEO’s post editor sidebar has been redesigned and is now easier to use.
Updated: Backwards compatibility with WordPress 5.0.
Updated: Removed deprecated sitemap ping endpoint for Bing.
Updated: Sitemap’s ‘Exclude Images’ option now excludes images regardless of third-party code using our sitemap filter hooks.
Updated: Added a new smart tag for the attachment description.
Updated: Excluded paths in redirects now account for the homepage.
Updated: When adding a redirect, the source and target URLs are normalized to prevent errors when redirecting.
Updated: Significantly improved the performance of our Link Suggestions algorithm, so that we can scan your site for suggestions even faster.
Updated: View/edit post links now reflect the post type of the relevant post row in Link Assistant.
Fixed: Access control for the post’s metabox now shows the correct tab for each capability.
Fixed: Some localizable strings not showing up on translate.wordpress.org.
Fixed: SEO Analyzer image alt attribute tags are now parsed correctly and are no longer blank.
Fixed: SEO title/description are now correctly output for third-party themes that significantly modify the static homepage behaviour.
Fixed: Prevent sitemap and IndexNow pings when the Limit Modified Date setting is enabled for a post.
Fixed: Elementor visual editor not loading sometimes when editing the content of a post.
Fixed: PHP error when the static sitemap is regenerated during a CRON call.
Fixed: SEO title/description now correctly update after editing it in the sidebar modal and closing it.
Fixed: Private terms are no longer included in the articleSection property of our Article schema markup.
Fixed: Inbound link suggestions sometimes linking to the same post.
