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# February 2026 Release Notes (v33.1)

| Release Name  | Dataset Version | Publish Date |
| :------------ | :-------------- | :----------- |
| February 2026 | `v33.1`         | 02/17/2026   |

**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:

* **🆕 [Person Data x Industry V2](#person-industry-v2-fields-person)**: Modern industry classifications now in the Person Dataset
* **✉️ [Email Quality, Leveled Up](#-announcements)**: We are continuing to improve our email quality to support better deliverability and more reliable outreach.
* 📁 [**Job Posting Daily Deliveries**](#-announcements): Clearer directory structure organization for Job Posting Daily Delivery customers
* 💪 [**Big Data Gains**](#-improvements-and-bug-fixes): Big improvements in our fill rates for `headline` and role tagging
* **📊 Freshness Updates**: This past month, we [verified 49M+ jobs](#freshness) and [detected 7M+ job changes](#job-changes) across our global dataset

Dive into the full details below, or jump to what interests you using the table of contents below.

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# Table of Contents

[📣 Announcements](#-announcements)

[📐 Schema Changes](#-schema-changes)

* [Person Industry V2 Fields](#person-industry-v2-fields-person)

[🚀 Data Updates](#-data-updates)

* [Freshness](#freshness)
* [Job Changes](#job-changes)
* [Coverage](#coverage-full-stats-person-company-job-posting-ip)
* [Commentary](#commentary)

[🛠 Improvements and Bug Fixes](#-improvements-and-bug-fixes)

* [Improvements](#improvements)
* [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)

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# 📣 Announcements

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  **Reminder: Ongoing Email Deliverability Improvements**

  We’re continuing to improve the quality and deliverability of our `work_email` and `recommended_personal_emails` fields to ensure more reliable email performance over time.

  See the full announcement here: [Email Deliverability Improvements](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/changelog/november-2025-release-notes-v321#/email-deliverability-improvements-person)

  Additional Resources:

  * [Email Data for Outreach](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/email-data-for-outreach)
  * [Email Deliverability Improvements Guide](https://www.peopledatalabs.com/pdf/email-deliverability-improvements-guide.pdf)
</Callout>

<br />

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  **Reminder for Daily Job Posting Customers (Beta)**

  As of February 10, 2026, customers receiving Daily Job Posting Deliveries (Beta) now receive both monthly and daily files in an updated directory structure:

  **Monthly (Full) Delivery**: `YYYYMMDD_{current_release_version}/full/`

  **Daily (delta) delivery**: `YYYYMMDD_{current_release_version}/daily/`

  For more details, please see the full announcement: [Job Posting Daily Deliveries: Directory Structure Update (Feb 2026)](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/changelog/job-posting-daily-deliveries-directory-structure-update)
</Callout>

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# :triangular\_ruler: Schema Changes

## Person Industry V2 Fields ([Person](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/person-data-overview))

<br />

**What’s New?**

This month we’re adding two new industry-related fields to the Person Dataset:

| FIELD NAME                                                       | FIELD TYPE                                                            | FIELD BUNDLE | FIELD DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| :--------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`job_company_industry_v2`](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/fields#job_company_industry_v2)  | [`Enum (String)`](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries-v2) | Person Base  | The v2 industry for the person’s current company. <br /> <br />Industry v2 is the self-reported industry from an expanded list of [Canonical v2 Industries](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries-v2). If no industry is found, the field will be `null` |
| [`experience.company.industry_v2`](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/fields#experiencecompany) | [`Enum (String)`](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries-v2) | Person Base  | The v2 industry for the person’s company. <br /><br />Industry v2 is the self-reported industry from an expanded list of [Canonical v2 Industries](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries-v2). If no industry is found, the field will be `null`          |

We originally released the [`industry_v2`](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/company-schema#industry_v2)  for our Company Dataset in [September 2025 (v31.2)](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/changelog/september-2025-release-notes-v312#new-company-industry-field-company-), 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.

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  **Comparison to the legacy industry fields**

  The legacy industry fields in the person dataset will continue to be available with their functionality preserved:

  * `job_company_industry`
  * `experience.company.industry`

  These legacy fields will provide PDL’s [original canonical industry taxonomy](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries), while the `industry_v2` field will provide classifications from an [expanded industry taxonomy](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/industries-v2).

  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.
</Callout>

**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:

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

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](https://feedback.peopledatalabs.com/)!

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# 🚀 Data Updates

### 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.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Field        | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | :----------- | --------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | `experience` | 49,965,247      |
| Resume  | Global        | `location`   | 75,221,768      |
| Resume  | United States | `experience` | 24,657,830      |
| Resume  | United States | `location`   | 30,173,859      |

### 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.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | --------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | 7,880,536       |
| Resume  | United States | 2,877,546       |

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## Coverage (Full Stats: [Person](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/datasets), [Company](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/company-stats), Job Posting, [IP](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/ip-stats))

### Monthly (v33.0 → v33.1)

[**Resume Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/resume-stats)

| Linkage                     | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :-------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records               | 784,969,022       | 798,953,930       | 1.78%        |
| `headline`                  | 118,319,457       | 186,300,358       | 57.46%       |
| `work_email`                | 75,144,765        | 64,587,835        | -14.05%      |
| `experience.title.role`     | 371,439,134       | 398,397,592       | 7.26%        |
| `experience.title.class`    | 371,439,134       | 398,397,592       | 7.26%        |
| `job_title_class`           | 276,907,792       | 295,046,030       | 6.55%        |
| `job_title_role`            | 276,907,792       | 295,046,030       | 6.55%        |
| `experience.title.sub_role` | 325,919,031       | 343,396,186       | 5.36%        |

[**API Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/stats)

| Linkage       | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records | 2,438,436,297     | 2,453,435,765     | 0.62%        |

[**Email Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/email-stats)

| Linkage       | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records | 586,865,405       | 587,237,067       | 0.06%        |

[**Mobile Phone Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/mobile-phone-stats)

| Linkage       | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records | 479,691,773       | 479,855,809       | 0.03%        |

[**Company Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/company-stats)

| Linkage       | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records | 74,672,539        | 74,679,887        | 0.010%       |

[**Job Posting Dataset**](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/jp-stats)

| Linkage                | Coverage in v33.0 | Coverage in v33.1 | Increase (%) |
| :--------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | ------------ |
| Total Records          | 22,291,965        | 24,056,411        | 7.92%        |
| Total Unique Companies | 45,421            | 48,059            | 5.81%        |
| Total Active Postings  | 2,410,753         | 2,792,394         | 15.83%       |

## Commentary

* **Person**
  * We saw a 57% increase in our coverage of headlines due to a bug fix we pushed this month (see [Bug Fixes](#-bug-fixes))
  * 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](#-improvements))
  * We saw a 14% decrease in our fill rate for `work_email` as a result of our ongoing Email Deliverability efforts (see [Improvements](#-improvements))
* **Job Posting Data**
  * This month, we added another 3k unique companies to our Job Posting dataset.

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# 🛠 Improvements and Bug Fixes

## Improvements

* **Role Tagging Improvements**
  * We expanded our [Class/Role/SubRole taxonomy](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/title-subroles-to-roles) 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.

## Bug Fixes

* **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.
* **`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`.
* **Missing Canonical Degrees**
  * We fixed a bug in our education cleaning logic that was dropping a small subset of education degrees from our person records