February 2026 Release Notes

Welcome to our February 2026 release notes 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:

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

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Announcements

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Schema Changes

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Person Industry V2 Fields (Person)

What’s New? This month we’re adding two new industry-related fields to the Person Dataset: We originally released the industry_v2 for our Company Dataset in September 2025 (v31.2), and based on the strong customer demand, we’ve now added it to our Person Dataset as well! These fields capture the most recently observed industry classification reported by the associated company, and include expanded support for external industry taxonomies. It ensures our dataset reflects modernized industry categories that may differ from the legacy classifications still in use by the legacy industry fields. Comparison to the legacy industry fields The legacy industry fields in the person dataset will continue to be available with their functionality preserved:

• experience.company.industry
• job_company_industry

These legacy fields will provide PDL’s original canonical industry taxonomy, while the industry_v2 field will provide classifications from an expanded industry taxonomy. For most users, we recommend using the new industry_v2 fields. However, if you have existing workflows reliant on the original PDL industry classifications, then you should continue to leverage the legacy industry field. Why It Matters These new fields bring a refreshed set of modern industry classification to our Person dataset, making it easier to filter, search, and categorize person records using an up-to-date taxonomy of industry classifications. Some of the key benefits include:

• Improved workflow compatibility → better results in targeting, search, and discovery use cases that depend on modern industry categories
• No manual mapping required → reduces the need to build and maintain your own taxonomy or conversion logic

For customers using both our Person and Company Datasets, this update now ensures that you can use the same industry values across both datasets. Availability These fields are immediately available to all Person Data Customers and will be automatically included in all new data deliveries moving forward. We’d Love Your Feedback! Your input helps shape what we build next. Share your thoughts on these fields or suggest new ones via our Roadmap Feature Request Board!

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Data Updates

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Freshness

The number of jobs and locations verified in our datasets (based on the job_last_verified and location_last_updated fields). Monthly (v33.0 → v33.1) Freshness updates over the past month.

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Job Changes

The number of person records where the primary job experience changed in our Person Dataset (based on the job_last_changed field). Monthly (v33.0 → v33.1) Freshness updates over the past month.

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Coverage (Full Stats: Person, Company, Job Posting, IP)

Monthly (v33.0 → v33.1) Resume Dataset API Dataset Email Dataset Mobile Phone Dataset Company Dataset Job Posting Dataset

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Commentary

• Person
  • We saw a 14% decrease in our fill rate for work_email as a result of our ongoing Email Validation efforts (see Improvements)
  • We saw a 5-7% increase in fill rate for our role-related fields in the resume dataset this month as a result of some improvements we made to our role tagging processes (see Improvements)
  • We saw a 57% increase in our coverage of headlines due to a bug fix we pushed this month (see Bug Fixes)
• Job Posting Data
  • This month, we added another 3k unique companies to our Job Posting dataset.

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Improvements and Bug Fixes

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Improvements

• Role Tagging Improvements
  • We expanded our Class/Role/SubRole taxonomy to include additional job titles (e.g. “Member of Technical Staff”, “Marketing Manager”), improving role tagging coverage.
  • We added enhanced logic to better handle roles associated with multiple industries.
• Updated Canonical Degrees
  • Removed canonical degree values with no representation in the dataset (e.g. master of community planning) to keep classifications clean and relevant.

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Bug Fixes

• headline Character Validation
  • Updated the character length and character-type constraints on the headline field that were incorrectly rejecting valid values and setting them to null.
• More Accurate Experience Locations
  • We fixed an issue that caused some experience records to incorrectly display a company’s headquarters in the experience.location_names field.

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Job Posting Daily Deliveries: Directory Structure Update (Feb 2026)

Effective date: February 10, 2026 We will be updating the directory structure for Job Posting Daily Deliveries to make it easier to distinguish between daily (delta) deliveries and monthly (full) deliveries.

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What changed

Each release directory will now include a subdirectory that explicitly indicates the delivery type: Monthly (full) delivery: YYYYMMDD_{current_release_version}/full/ Daily (delta) delivery: YYYYMMDD_{current_release_version}/daily/ Previously, both monthly and daily deliveries were written directly to the release directory without a clear indication of which type of delivery they were.

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Impact

This change affects customers ingesting Job Posting Daily Deliveries. Ingestion logic should be updated to check for the presence of a full/ or daily/ subdirectory and process the data accordingly. There are no changes to file contents or schemas.

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Why we made this change

This update reduces ambiguity between daily and monthly deliveries and makes it easier to programmatically handle each delivery type.

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Related Pages

For additional information on Daily Deliveries for Job Posting Data, see these pages: