Release Notes - January 2026

January brought a major wave of Entity Hub improvements, giving users far more control over how they organize, navigate, and manage entities and topics. Alongside those, several high-impact bug fixes landed — most notably a critical correction to template deployment logic that was sending schema markup to unintended pages.

Entity Hub: Full Topic Management and Hierarchical Navigation

January saw a large set of interconnected Entity Hub improvements ship together. Users can now create and delete topic containers directly from the UI — with a confirmation modal on deletion that lists all associated entities to prevent accidental data loss. A new multilevel tree component makes it possible to browse and search deeply nested entity and topic hierarchies with dynamic child loading. A dedicated interface for assigning and visualizing "broader" and "narrower" relationships between entities and topics has also been introduced, along with an automatically refreshing Topic View report so data is always current without manual page reloads.

Dynamic, Context-Aware Actions in Entity View Reports

The Entity View Report now surfaces only the actions that are relevant to an entity's current status — so users see "Mark Optimize", "Remove Optimization", or "Unblock" based on what actually applies, rather than a static list. Complementing this, performing any of those actions (blocking, optimizing, etc.) now instantly updates the entity's status row in the report without requiring a page refresh, making bulk entity management noticeably faster and less error-prone.

Critical Fix: Templates No Longer Deploy to Unintended Pages

A high-priority bug was resolved in which templates were erroneously deploying schema markup to pages outside their configured URL patterns. This was generating Google Search Console errors and triggering unnecessary client notifications for pages that were never supposed to receive that markup. Templates now strictly respect their deployment patterns.

Other Improvements at Schema App

• Schema.org vocabulary updated to version 29.4 — Keeps the platform current with the latest schema.org definitions, including OnlineMarketplace as a subtype of OnlineStore, new hasStore and isStoreOn properties, and an expanded vocabulary range for recipe ingredient lists.
• Improved "Open in Analyzer" link navigation — The utility link now correctly navigates to the detail view of the most recent Analyzer crawl for the active project, eliminating the need to manually locate the right crawl after clicking through.
• Deployment Monitoring accuracy fixes — Resolved two related issues: scan and result counts are now consistent across the monitoring page sidebar and results view, and a query bug that was causing outdated scan dates and timeouts for certain templates has been corrected.
• Resolved 404 errors on entity.schemaapp.com URIs — Valid entities that existed in Entity Manager were incorrectly returning "404 – Entity Not Found" when accessed directly via their URI. These URLs now correctly serve the expected JSON-LD.
• Export API now handles large accounts reliably — Fixed persistent 502 Bad Gateway errors on Export API calls for accounts with large datasets by routing results through S3 with a pre-signed download URL, removing the payload size constraint that was causing failures.
• Improved UI responsiveness on accounts with many projects — Background HTTP requests on large multi-project accounts were blocking foreground user actions such as logging out or switching admin accounts, causing timeouts and failures. These requests are now handled without interfering with user-initiated actions.

In Brief

January 2026 was defined by a significant expansion of Entity Hub capabilities — topic creation, deletion, hierarchical navigation, and dynamic report actions all shipped this month, giving users substantially more control over how entities and topics are organized and managed. On the reliability side, a critical template deployment bug was corrected, the Export API was hardened for large accounts, and several Deployment Monitoring accuracy issues were resolved. Schema.org 29.4 support keeps the platform aligned with the latest vocabulary standards.

A strong start to the year with improvements that make everyday workflows faster and more predictable.