17 Nov 2021 - Version 13.1
Enhancements:* Huge performance improvement: moves the XML News sitemap to be based on our Indexables architecture. * Removes images from the XML News sitemap as they serve no purpose here and this further improves performance.Other:* Excludes attachments and non-indexed post types from the possible post types to include in the News Sitemap.
21 Oct 2021 - Version 13.0
Enhancements:* Adds Schema Article News subtypes: `ReviewNewsArticle`, `AnalysisNewsArticle`, `AskPublicNewsArticle`, `BackgroundNewsArticle`, `OpinionNewsArticle`, and `ReportageNewsArticle`.
13 Aug 2021 - Version 12.9
Bugfixes:* 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.
14 Jul 2021 - Version 12.8
Enhancements:* Adds key/value pairs of all News SEO meta tags to our REST API.* Improves the performance of the news sitemap. Props to [archon810](https://github.com/archon810).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. Props to [joneslloyd](https://github.com/joneslloyd).* Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.
07 Apr 2021 - Version 12.7