> no new version of the JSON specification is ever expected to be written.
T̵h̵e̵ ̵l̵a̵t̵e̵s̵t̵ ̵v̵e̵r̵s̵i̵o̵n̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵J̵S̵O̵N̵ ̵w̵a̵s̵ ̵a̵p̵p̵a̵r̵e̵n̵t̵l̵y̵ ̵r̵e̵l̵e̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵l̵e̵s̵s̵ ̵t̵h̵a̵n̵ ̵a̵ ̵y̵e̵a̵r̵ ̵a̵g̵o̵.̵ [EDIT: I was mistaken: the latest standard was RFC 8259. However, this was still published on 2017-12-13, after the article was written.] There have been three different RFCs alone, all defining JSON. (And let’s not even get into the thing called JSON5.)