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Releases

This page lists schema.org releases, most recent first. New developments are discussed on Github; editorial works-in-progress are publicly staged on the staging.schema.org drafting site for review and collaboration. See how we work for more background.

A summary view of the current published release is available from: https://schema.org/version/latest

Release Overview Description
29.1
2025-04-25

Version 29.1 - Patch release to fix issues in 29.0. Added a few new properties and classes. Some README updates.

29.0
2025-03-24

Version 29.0 - New and updated vocabulary in the area of financial incentives, legislation, and product shipping. Various build and documentation fixes.

28.1
2024-11-22

Version 28.1 - Various small additions, fixes, build improvements and site updates.

28.0
2024-09-17

Version 28.0 - Added support for member programs. Various build improvements and site updates.

27.02
2024-07-01

Version 27.02 - Migrate staging from webschemas.org to staging.schema.org.

  • PR #3556: Updates references for webschemas.org to staging.schema.org.
  • PR #3557: Fix formatting for markdown documentation files.
27.01
2024-06-24

Version 27.01 - Site redesign.

27.0
2024-05-20

Version 27.0 - Adding support for GS1 Digital Link and a few smaller updates.

26.0
2024-02-12

Version 26.0 - Restoring Physician subtype of MedicalBusiness.

25.0
2024-01-22

Version 25.0 - Add support for Certifications and a few smaller updates.

24.0
2024-01-09

Version 24.0 - Adding vocabulary for describing types of digital sources (in collaboration with IPTC), and clarifying subtypes of Physician.

23.0
2023-10-17

Version 23.0 - A collection of small fixes based on publisher feedback.

  • Issue #2858: Added agentInteractionStatistic to provide a way of counting interactions where the item of interest is in an "agent" rather than "object" role on the relevant Action.
  • Issue #3376: Provided a clearer way to indicate non-Comment items that Comments are attached to, by documenting the use of parentItem on CreativeWork in general. Also made it more explicit that this is especially applicable to those creative works beneath Comment in the type hierarchy which are mentioned in the definition, i.e. Question and Answer.
  • Issue #3389: Added Comment to the domain of sharedContent to better support link shares on replies/comments even though a lot of sites now support this.
  • Issue #3390: Expanded range of uploadDate to include DateTime, correcting a longstanding bug.
  • PR #3347: Improved error reporting in case the parsing of JSON-LD examples fails.
  • PR #3348: Improvements to unit-testing code.
  • PR #3349: Fixed all RDF comments that did not finish with a punctuation. Plus improved reporting of these.
22.0
2023-06-29

Version 22.0

21.0
2023-05-23

Version 21.0 - Added PoliticalParty

20.0
2023-05-22

Version 20.0 - Fixed a typo in maximumVirtualAttendeeCapacity.

19.0
2023-05-19

Version 19.0 - indicating measurement techniques with defined terms.

18.0
2023-05-18

Version 18.0 - Improving our ability to talk about text objects and thumbnail images for creative works.

17.0
2023-05-17

Version 17.0 - This is a small update, with small fixes.

16.0
2023-05-16

Version 16.0 - This release includes miscellaneous fixes, some additions around courses, an update to the vocabulary around statistical observations, as well as various eCommerce additions.

Changes in new area:

Changes to documentation:

  • PR #3277: Consistent formatting of 'GitHub' in README.md.

Site Improvements

  • Issue #3305: Fixed formatting of URIs for references to some terms from external vocabularies in CSV output files.
  • PR #3202: Text for acknowledgements separated out from turtle definition files into markdown formatted files. Links to acknowledgements identified by use of contributor predicate in term definitions.
  • PR #3204: Fixes to many examples that were failing internal validation tests.
  • Issue #3289: Fixes typo in schemaorg.owl.
15.0
2022-10-25

Version 15.0 - This release includes miscellaneous fixes as well as various eCommerce additions.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section:

New:

Site Improvements

14.0
2022-03-17

Version 14.0 - This release includes improvements and additions around audience restrictions for eCommerce.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section:

New additions:

Site Improvements

  • PR #2990: Update supporting Python version and libraries - RDFLib 6.1, Python 3.10.
13.0
2021-07-07

Version 13.0 - see planning pages. This release includes a number of terms proposed by the Bioschemas project, alongside other additions around e-commerce returns policy markup, job postings, and MediaReview markup.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section:

New additions:

Site Improvements

12.0
2021-03-08

Version 12.0 - see planning pages. This release consists primarily of additions to the Pending section of schema.org, alongside some bugfixes and improvements to core terms.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section:

New additions:

Site Improvements

  • PR #2706: Replaced TravisCI with GitHub Actions for continuous integration testing of changes to the schemaorg repository.
  • issue #2822: Updated punctuation used in breadcrumb path displayed at the top of property pages to reflect that a property is not a subtype of the Property type.
  • PR #2789: Identified and corrected 80+ broken links within site. Created a localised link checking script (brokenlinkcheck.py) for future testing possibilities.
  • PR #2800: Reorganized directory structure of repository and development environment to separate out software and test elements (into a software subdirectory) from vocabulary definition elements.
  • PR #2814: Completed process of moving Schema.org to https. This step included the move to https of vocabulary term definitions and consequent change to https of the canonical URI displayed under the term pages [more...] tag. The web site will continue to respond to both http and https URLs. Download files will continue to support both protocols.
  • PR #2815: Fixed links in release page that return a 404 response.
11.01
2020-12-08

Version 11.01 - see planning pages. This interim release consists primarily of bug fixes and site improvements.

Site Improvements

  • Fix invalid link to home page on Attic section (retired vocabulary).
  • Reinstated home pages for auto, bib, health-lifesci and meta sections (2023 note: these are no longer used).
  • Fix invalid links to section home pages on Schemas page.
  • Update wording on pages for terms that are superseded, new or retired.
  • Reinstated link to section home page for non-core terms.
11.0
2020-11-30

Version 11.0 - see planning pages. This release consists primarily of additions to the Pending section of schema.org, alongside some bugfixes and improvements to core terms.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section:

New additions:

Site Improvements

  • PR #2706: Improvements to underlying site build architecture including separation of vocabulary definition and display logic; move to Python 3; and simplified local build and test processes. Full Type hierarchy page is now more usable and accessible (collapsible navigation). Copy example to clipboard button added to Examples on term definition pages.
  • PR #2760: Added structured representation of JSON-LD examples tab to Examples display on term definition pages.
  • PR #2726: Removed previous RDFa term description from within html of term definition pages, replace with equivalent JSON-LD script element.
  • issue #2747 implemented in PR #2748: Fixed invalid comment syntax in the JSON-LD element of 47 examples.
10.0
2020-09-07

Version 10.0 - see planning pages. This release consists primarily of new additions, alongside some bugfixes and improvements to core terms.

Vocabulary

Changes in Core section: