diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f762f15..87d8900 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Introduction of `is_required` boolean property at the `output_type` level to configure whether the output type is required for submissions to be considered valid (#99). 
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Disallowed `optional` property in `output_type_id` objects. As such, when a given output type is submitted, values for all output type IDs much be submitted (#100,#101, #102). 
 * Introduction of optional `derived_task_ids` properties to enable hub administrators to define derived task IDs (i.e. task IDs whose values depend on the values of other task IDs). The higher level `derived_task_ids` property sets the property globally at the hub level but can be overriden by the round level `derived_task_ids` property. The property allows for primarily validation functionality to ignore such task IDs when appropriate which can significantly improve validation efficency (#96). For more information see [`hubValidations` documentation on ignoring derived task IDs](https://hubverse-org.github.io/hubValidations/articles/validate-pr.html#ignoring-derived-task-ids-to-improve-performance).
+* Added more specific schema for `target_keys` to ensure only `string` properties are allowed (#97)
 
 # v3.0.1
 
diff --git a/v4.0.0/tasks-schema.json b/v4.0.0/tasks-schema.json
index bd0b0b5..663e35a 100644
--- a/v4.0.0/tasks-schema.json
+++ b/v4.0.0/tasks-schema.json
@@ -1286,7 +1286,10 @@
                                                 "type": [
                                                     "object",
                                                     "null"
-                                                ]
+                                                ],
+                                                "additionalProperties": {
+                                                    "type": "string"
+                                                }
                                             },
                                             "description": {
                                                 "description": "a verbose description of the target that might include information such as the target_measure above, or definitions of a 'rate' or similar.",