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This page contains a curation of our various guides and resources to support customers working with our data and API products.

Breaking Change Guides

API Release Detection

Description: This guide is for customers using PDL’s API products. It demonstrates how users can detect when a new release version of the data has been published using the release_version field in our API responses.

v26.0 - Renaming person.gender to person.sex

Description: This guide demonstrates how to handle the field renaming from person.gender to person.sex in our v26.0 Person Data.

v26.0 - Company id Format Change

Description: This guide demonstrates how to handle the formatting change of the company.id field from a LinkedIn slug format to a new alphanumeric format in our v26.0 Person Data.

v27.0 - Deprecation of job_last_updated

Description: This guide provides guidance on how to handle the deprecation of the job_last_updated field in the Person Schema scheduled for v27.0.

v27.1 - Migration Guide for Updated role and sub_role taxonomy

Description: This guide describes how to migrate to the new role and sub_role taxonomy being released for beta during v27.1 and for general availability in 28.0.

v32.0 - Email Deliverability Improvements Guide

Description: This guide outlines the ongoing improvements to PDL’s email validation and data quality and provides guidance and recommendations on how to best take advantage of these improvements.