What is the JSON-LD single-pass unescape change? Schema New Update
The change, live from August 21, 2026, is that Googlebot’s JSON-LD extractor now performs exactly one round of HTML unescaping on string values inside your structured data. Values that were double-encoded, such as & resolving to &, no longer decode cleanly. Google is aligning its parser with RFC 8259, the JSON specification, which never required HTML entity decoding in…