Fixes a bug where archive settings for post types aren't shown on the search appearance page when the has_archive for that post type contains an archive slug. Props to nesinervink, schurig.
Fixes a bug where a notice ("Notice: Trying to get property of non-object") is given when the $term->taxonomy isn't set before it is used. Props to bainternet.
Fixes a bug where an uppercased encode URI isn't redirected to the category. Props to dawnbirth.
Fixes a bug where HTML entities were not always decoded in the Snippet Variables.
Fixes a bug where custom field labels would be separated by spaces in the classic editor, but in Gutenberg they would be separated by underscores instead.
Fixes a bug where the conversion of ', which is PHP's HTML entity for the apostrophy, did not happen.
Fixes a bug where the same notification is shown multiple times when trashing multiple posts.
Fixes a bug where a possibly non-existent key would be retrieved when generating the article:section OpenGraph tag. Props to mikeschinkel.
Fixes a bug in the UI that happend when do_shortcode was run on category descriptions in the admin list. Additionally, fixes rendering of shortcodes in category descriptions on the frontend.
Fixes a bug where saved templates in Search Appearance would be saved incorrectly into the database, resulting in them never being loaded when editing a post, page, etc. This meant that the default template would always be used.
Fixes a bug where the "Tagline" / %%sitedesc%% snippet editor variable was not selectable in the Search Appearance settings.
Fixes a bug where the newsletter signup in the configuration wizard would not work.
Moves some snippet variables to only appear within specific editors. Adds a filter wpseo_editor_specific_replace_vars to make this pluggable.
Adds the white background to the template of media on the Search Appearance page.
Changes feedback in the keyword density assessment to make it more explicit that synonyms are not taken into consideration when calculating the score.
Shows a notification with the message that you should check your post type archive settings when these are possibly reset to their defaults in 7.7 or 7.8.