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6 months ago

April 2026 Release Notes (v34.0)

We’ve got an exciting new product launch this month, alongside some impactful data quality improvements to share. 

Check it out!

  • ✨ Job Posting API It's here - our brand new API for real-time access to global hiring data
  • 🔧 Data Quality & Coverage Improvements: Big jumps in work email deliverability along with improved matching for location and school data across datasets.
  • 🪲 Important Bug Fixes Squashed key issues to improve deduplication and consistency in our Person dataset
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past month, we verified 68M+ jobs and detected 6M+ job changes across our global dataset

See the April 2026 Release Notes (v34.0) to learn more about all the updates, improvements, and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
7 months ago

March 2026 Release Notes (v33.2)

This month’s release focuses on data quality, freshness, and richer company workforce insights. We’ve made significant improvements across our datasets to ensure the information you rely on is more accurate, more current, and easier to analyze at scale.

Here’s what’s new:

  • ✨ More Company Insights 7 new company fields tracking fields hiring, retention, and geographic expansion trends
  • 🔎 Data Quality Improvements: More job change detections, better coverage for language proficiencies and more reliable funding information
  • 🪲 Important Bug Fixes We resolved several important issues affecting current and historical experience and education data to ensure more accurate headcount analytics and cleaner profile data.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past month, we verified 69M+ jobs and detected 17M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the March 2026 Release Notes (v33.2) to learn more about all the updates, improvements, and other important announcements in this release!


Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
8 months ago

February 2026 Release Notes (v33.1)

February may be the shortest month of the year, but this release is packed with plenty of exciting updates for you to check out!

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🆕 Person Data x Industry V2: Modern industry classifications now in the Person Dataset
  • ✉️ Email Quality, Leveled Up: We are continuing to improve our email validation to support better deliverability and more reliable outreach.
  • 📁 Job Posting Daily Deliveries: Clearer directory structure organization for Job Posting Daily Delivery customers
  • 💪 Big Data Gains: Big improvements in our fill rates for headline and role tagging
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past month, we verified 49M+ jobs and detected 7M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the February 2026 Release Notes (v33.1) to learn more about all the updates, improvements, and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
9 months ago

January 2026 Release Notes (v33.0)

Here’s what’s new this month that you don't want to miss:

  • ✉️ Using Email Data for Outreach? We’ve got a new guide on our docs you’ll want to check out!
  • ⬇️ Free, Easy Direct Data Deliveries: We’ve also got a new guide on getting set up with our new Direct Downloads delivery method for Data License Customers
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 315M+ jobs and detected 5M+ job changes across our global dataset.

Check out the January 2026 Release Notes (v33.0) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!


Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
10 months ago

December 2025 Release Notes (v32.2)

Here’s what’s new this month that you don't want to miss:

  • Parent/Subsidiary Data Expansion: We are introducing new fields in our company dataset that provide rich, contextual information on the relationships between related records. This includes new “Details” information, available now to users that opt-in to provide Alpha release feedback.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 139M+ jobs and tracked 2.5M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the December 2025 Release Notes (v32.2) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!


Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
11 months ago

November 2025 Release Notes (v32.1)

Here’s what’s new this month that you don't want to miss:

  • 📧 Email Deliverability Improvements: Continued work to lower bounce rates and improve match rates for our top-level emails
  • Improved Company Facebook / Meta Profile Resolution: We split Facebook & Meta into two distinct company profiles
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 278M+ jobs and tracked 723K+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the November 2025 Release Notes (v32.1) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!


Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

October 2025 Release Notes (v32.0)

We launched some major updates this month that you don't want to miss!

Here’s what’s new:

  • ✉️ Email Deliverability Improvements: Starting this month - lower bounce rates and higher match rates for our top-level emails.
  • ⚡ Daily Job Posting Data: Fresh job posts. Every day.
  • 💸 Job Posting Salary and Skill Fields: Standardized fields for compensation ranges and associated skills from job posts
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 313M+ jobs and detected 19M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the October 2025 Release Notes (v32.0) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

September 2025 Release Notes (v31.2)

This month, we’re rolling out some fresh updates and exciting features across our products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🏭 New Industry Field: Introducing the new industry_v2 field for our company dataset, providing the most recent industry classifications for over 60M+ company records.
  • 🚀 Self-serve Pro Plan Trial: Explore PDL’s premium APIs and field bundles with no upfront commitment required.
  • 📈 Job Posting Growth: This month our Job Posting Dataset grew another 14% and we added 16% more companies to our coverage!
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 111M+ jobs and detected 1.7M+ job changes across our global dataset.

Check out the September 2025 Release Notes (v31.2) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

August 2025 Release Notes (v31.1)

This month, we’re rolling out some fresh updates and exciting features across our products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • ➕ More Office Insights (Beta): Four new fields in our company records to give you richer company location context.
  • 🛝 API Playground: A streamlined tool to build API requests and view live data directly from your dashboard.
  • 📈 Job Posting Growth: Another month of continued ~20% growth in our Job Posting Dataset.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 65M+ jobs and detected 984K+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the August 2025 Release Notes (v31.1) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

Feature drop! Introducing the API Playground

We just launched the API Playground in the API Dashboard! You can now send API requests, explore endpoints, and instantly view results in tables or JSON making it easy to find the right data and start building fast.

Why should I use it?

  • Not technical? No problem: View live data with a single click
  • Zero setup: No more navigating outside of the API Dashboard to view live data
  • Dual views: Searchable tabular view plus raw JSON
  • Instant code snippets: One-click copy for various languages and SDKs
  • Product descriptions & use cases: Easily find the right data or endpoint
  • Built-in usage awareness: Clear credit consumption metrics and request cost

What’s changing?

We are deprecating and removing the following tools to reduce confusion and streamline the API Dashboard experience.

  • Docs-based API Explorer Tool is deprecated and will be removed on 11/30/25
  • Query Builder is deprecated and will be removed on 11/30/25
  • Explore the Data Tool has been removed effective immediately

Where can I get help?

  • Check out the Help Center article to learn more about the API Playground
  • Find a bug? File a support ticket
  • See a missing feature? Request it



Avatar of authorKade Beem