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Versions of: Meta's new terms and the news
5 published versions of Meta's new terms and the news: what the crawling clause says, what has happened since mid-October, and why publishers should answer with their own machine-readable terms, not only with letters. The current one is v1.4.0.
v1.0.0 is the article as first published. A change to its text (title, abstract or body) is the next minor version, v1.1.0; a change only to its other details (a LinkedIn link, the release it belongs to) is the next patch, v1.0.1. The list is read from the site's git history at every build, so it cannot be edited by hand and cannot leave a version out. Views extracted from an article, such as the Five readers, are not part of its text and do not change its version.
| Version | Date | Kind | Words | Change from the version before | Commit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.4.0 | 2026-10-27 | minor | 2,653 | +30 / −0 words; 3 changed, 0 added, 0 removed paragraphs | this release | what changed · current |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-10-27 | minor | 2,623 | +0 / −411 words; 8 changed, 0 added, 0 removed paragraphs | db67c5ce1 | what changed |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-10-27 | minor | 3,034 | +468 / −94 words; 9 changed, 7 added, 2 removed paragraphs prompted by Claude Fable (Anthropic)’s review | 4cb930e25 | what changed |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-27 | minor | 2,659 | +33 / −0 words; 2 changed, 0 added, 0 removed paragraphs | 019ddf902 | what changed |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-27 | published | 2,626 | first published | 07357be27 |