diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 5b6aaa7ac1d..8d6bc80506a 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-7566: Search requests should return the shard name that is down. (Marius Grama, shalin)
 
+* SOLR-7667: Add missing _root_ field to managed-schema template so that the default data driven 
+  config set can index nested documents by default.  (yonik)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 * SOLR-7660: Avoid redundant 'exists' calls made to ZK while fetching cluster state updates. (shalin)
diff --git a/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema b/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
index aec8cc50f09..8b10b4d88bf 100644
--- a/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
+++ b/solr/server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/managed-schema
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
       -->
     <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false" />
     <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+    <field name="_root_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
     <field name="_text_" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
     <copyField source="*" dest="_text_"/>