Bump yoast/wordpress-seo from 27.6 to 27.8

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Bumps yoast/wordpress-seo from 27.6 to 27.8.

Changelog

Sourced from yoast/wordpress-seo's changelog.

27.8

Release date: 2026-06-09

Enhancements

• Significantly reduces loading times of the root sitemap on sites with many users.
• Reduces loading times of the author sitemap on sites with many users.
• Makes the schema aggregator faster by drastically reducing the roundtrips to the database, when indexables are disabled.
• Makes the SEO optimization faster by drastically reducing the roundtrips to the database.
• Prevents unnecessary expensive DB queries when admin pages are being visited.
• Optimizes expensive DB queries when performing actions in admin pages related to SEO optimization.

Bugfixes

• Ensures compatibility with the React 19 version bundled in Gutenberg 23.3 (WordPress 7.1), fixing several screens and components that could otherwise fail to render.
• Fixes a bug where the dismiss button in the Webinar promo notice in general page was transparent.
• Improves post editor rendering performance by stabilising Redux selector and withSelect references in multiple components to prevent unnecessary re-renders.
• Fixes a bug where NaN was set as the Primary taxonomy and triggered a console error.

Other

• Removes the Yoast group from the filter bar on the WordPress plugins list.
• Sets the title of a child task to "(no title)" in the task list, when the related post has no title.
• Introduces the wpseo_custom_fields_pre_query filter, allowing sites to short-circuit the potentially expensive custom-fields lookup in Yoast settings, with a pre-computed list or a custom query.

27.7

Release date: 2026-06-02

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the block editor was crashing when some AI features were triggering errors.
• Fixes a bug where a FocusTrap warning was thrown and the X button did not receive focus when the replace content confirmation modal from the AI Content Planner was opened.
• Fixes a bug where only the first piece was returned when indexables were not available.
• Fixes a bug where a warning was triggered in the console when editing a post with the Content Planner feature enabled.
• Fixes a bug in Schema aggregator where products Schema pieces had incorrect @id values for mainEntityOfPage and image properties.
• Fixes a bug where the AI features section was rendered twice on the user profile page.

Other

• Makes the Academy, Upgrade and Brand insights links visible to more user roles.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.

Commits

• 2810fa1 Release 27.8
• 912578d Release 27.8-RC5
• 619f605 Release 27.8-RC4
• abe636b Release 27.8-RC3
• 9d4d6ca Release 27.8-RC2
• cc90f11 Release 27.7
• d2c5190 Release 27.7-RC4
• 466f2cc Release 27.7-RC3
• c75f85d Release 27.7-RC2
• 75f5291 Release 27.7-RC1
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