# Releases

## PR-00-20190116: Web Authentication Proposed Recommendation (PR-00)

**Published**: 2019-01-23

This tags the commit used as the basis for the published Proposed Recommendation version of WebAuthn Level 1:   https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/PR-webauthn-20190117/

Note that the milestones associated with the Proposed Rec effort use "PropRec" in their identifiers rather than "PR" in order to try to reduce confusion with PRs (git pull requests) when referring to them (i.e., the PropRec milestones).

Diffs, change summary, etc. TBD.

## CR-00-20180320: Web Authentication Candidate Recommendation (CR-00)

**Published**: 2018-03-20

**Web Authentication Candidate Recommendation (CR-00) is officially published here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-webauthn-20180320/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-webauthn-20180320/<a>**

NOTE: the latest official WebAuthn spec release is always available here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/">https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/</a> (thus the latter presently yields CR-00)


**<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-webauthn-20180320/">WebAuthn CR-00</a> _features a number of 

## WD-09-20180315: Web Authentication Working Draft rev 9 (WD-09)

**Published**: 2018-03-20

**Web Authentication Working Draft rev 9 (WD-09) is officially published here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-webauthn-20180315/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-webauthn-20180315/</a>**

NOTE: WebAuthn WD-09 (20180315) morphed into [CR-00](https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/releases/tag/CR-00-20180320) on 20180320 -- **_there are no differences between the latter and the former other than the maturity level designations_**.  

The latest official WebAuthn spec release is always available

## WD-08-20180306: Web Authentication Working Draft rev 8 (WD-08)

**Published**: 2018-03-20

**Web Authentication Working Draft rev 8 (WD-08) is officially published here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-webauthn-20180306/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-webauthn-20180306/</a>**

NOTE: There are substantial differences between WD-08 and WD-07 -- see [CR-00](https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/releases/tag/CR-00-20180320) for relevant details and diffs, because: 

There is only [one minor normative difference](https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F20

## WD-07-20171205: Web Authentication Working Draft rev 7 (WD-07)

**Published**: 2017-12-05

**Web Authentication Working Draft rev 7 (WD-07) is officially published here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20171205/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20171205/</a>**

NOTE: the latest official WebAuthn spec release is always available here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/">https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/</a> (so this presently yields WD-07)

**Please also note that this spec is a _Working DRAFT_ and will change, possibly in "breaking" ways.**

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## WD-06-20170811: Web Authentication Working Draft rev 6 (WD-06)

**Published**: 2017-08-17

Web Authentication Working Draft rev 6 (WD-06) is officially published here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20170811/">https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20170811/</a>

NOTE: the latest official WebAuthn spec release is always available here: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/">https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/</a> (so this presently yields WD-06)

Please also note that this spec is a _Working DRAFT_ and will change, possibly in "breaking" ways. 

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## WD-05-20170505: Web Authentication Working Draft rev 5 (WD-05)

**Published**: 2017-05-07

Web Authentication Working Draft rev 5 (WD-05) is officially published here: https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-webauthn-20170505/

The latest official WebAuthn spec release is always available here: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/

Please note that this spec is only a Working DRAFT  and will change, possibly in "breaking" ways. While not a candidate recommendation, this version is informally intended by the working group to be an Implementer’s Draft, which will be used for experimenting with imp