Auto redirect doesn't work for permalink changes?

The description for Redirection lists as an existing feature:

• Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes

But it seems that this does not include changes made as a result of changing the permalink structure. Is that right?

I’m updating the permalink structure on a site and was hoping to use Redirection to automatically add and log the 301 redirects. But it’s not working.

http://staging.petalumastar.com/category/news/

(No custom 404 page yet so it redirects to the home page.)

I see that a few others have posted this same question but their posts have gone unanswered.

So I tested it on a change to just the /%postname%/ or slug, in the edit post screen, and the redirect and log work fine.

http://staging.petalumastar.com/story/lifestyle/test-redirection

So from this, I guess I’m out of luck?

If someone can confirm that Redirection isn’t meant to handle changes to permalink structure, that would be helpful. And if you know of a tool that will, I’d be really grateful!

Thanks.

-Laura

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/