WordPress 5.5 is Out Brings Lazy Loading and XML Sitemaps By Default

WordPress 5.5 brings some features that SEOs will love. They now offer

• native lazy loading, (not sure if they do it for video, iframes, etc which some of the plugins offer, test your site before disabling the 3rd party plugin you use)
• XML sitemap – again your SEO plugins likey handle this for you, will need to test if what WordPress offers by default is as feature-rich.
• Auto-updates for Plugins and Themes –  if you want you can now set plugins and themes to update automatically
• updated versions of bundled libraries: SimplePie, Twemoji, Masonry, imagesLoaded, getID3, Moment.js, and clipboard.js.
• Sites that use PHP’s OPcache will see more reliable cache invalidation, thanks to the new wp_opcache_invalidate() function during updates (including to plug
• and more