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November 25, 2025

Enhanced

  • A bug has been fixed where sometimes the candidate profiles in search results were automatically expanded.

November 13, 2025

Enhanced

  • Various IT networking skills added to the skills taxonomy
  • Various improvements to French profession normalization

November 11, 2025

Enhanced

  • A bug was fixed so that it is now possible to configure a date-picker facet on an hierarchical facet sub-field when configuring a search environment.
  • Email alerts can now only be sent to recipients and roles with access to the saved search project. This fixes the bad recruiter experience of receiving email alerts where the project links cannot be opened. Recipients without proper access are automatically removed when saving edits to existing alerts -- a warning is displayed before saving, so that users can cancel and grant appropriate access before proceeding. This change resolves issues where recipients received alerts but couldn't open or work with the results.

October 30, 2025

Enhanced

  • For Textkernel search and match environments that index normalized skill codes and use the Textkernel Search UI, autocomplete has been enhanced so that the user can enter skill descriptions instead of a skill code. This works across the Textkernel UI elements of search facets, skill clouds, and the search bar.

October 7, 2025

Enhanced

  • The date-selection widget in the search UI has been enhanced so that recruiters can add filters on a relative date (eg previous 90 days), not just an absolute date (ie between day x and day y)

September 30, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved localization for ADR Certification.
  • Improved taxonomy coverage of HR job titles and skills in English
  • Various French job titles added to the professions taxonomy

September 16, 2025

Enhanced

  • In the search results, when using click-to-query from an expanded candidate profile, the profile now remains expanded instead of collapsing after refreshing the search results.

Fixed

  • As issue has been fixed where sometimes email alert activity showed in the user activity reports.

September 10, 2025

Enhanced

  • In the search results, when using click-to-query from an expanded candidate profile, the profile now remains expanded instead of collapsing after refreshing the search results.

Fixed

  • As issue has been fixed where sometimes email alert activity showed in the user activity reports.

September 1, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of remote/hybrid jobs
  • Improved seniority classification

August 18, 2025

Enhanced

  • Various additions to the French professions taxonomy
  • Postal code search enabled for Vietnam (configurable)
  • Fix an issue with postal code recognition for Dublin, Ireland
  • Various German skills and job titles synonyms added
  • Resolved an issue with location search (New York vs New York City)

July 8, 2025

Enhanced

  • Natural Language Query feature now can support fields with custom dictionaries.
  • The natural language search query feature has been enhanced. Now whenever part of the free text cannot be mapped to a search concept, a warning message displays the unused term in the search results. This applies to both API responses and the Textkernel search UI.

June 30, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved job title handling in English, French, Spanish and other languages
  • Various German skills and job titles synonyms added
  • Added various French job title synonyms across industries

June 19, 2025

Enhanced

  • Postal code search enabled for Vietnam (configurable)
  • Fix an issue with postal code recognition for Dublin, Ireland
  • Various German skills and job titles synonyms added
  • Resolved an issue with location search (New York vs New York City)

June 5, 2025

Removed

  • On July 14, 2025, several candidate sources will be retired from the legacy Textkernel external candidate search feature: CareerStructure, CV-Library, CWJobs, Dice, EfinancialCareers, Jobserve, Jobsite, Reed, Resume-Library, TotalJobs, and VDAB. All of these sources can be searched using the newer Textkernel "Source" candidate search, with the exception of VDAB. Customers are encouraged to migrate to the newer Source feature.

Enhanced

  • The calculation of the bimetric score and the suggested threshold have been enhanced, so that a threshold is calculated for a broader range of match data coverage. Also the optional concept of a desired_job_title (ie the job title a candidate wants to obtain) has been introduced to the calculation of the bi-metric score and the suggested threshold.

June 3, 2025

Enhanced

  • The calculation of the bimetric score and the suggested threshold have been enhanced, so that a threshold is calculated for a broader range of match data coverage. Also the optional concept of a desired_job_title (ie the job title a candidate wants to obtain) has been introduced to the calculation of the bi-metric score and the suggested threshold.

May 26, 2025

Enhanced

  • Added various French job title synonyms across industries
  • Fixed an issue with the recognition of the city of Perth in Match
  • Resolved an issue with location search (New York vs New York City)
  • Added 110 new job title synonyms in Dutch and English

Fixed

  • Fixed missing postal code support for Cengkareng, Indonesia

April 29, 2025

Enhanced

  • Following the acquisition by Bullhorn, Textkernel's customer support email address has changed to:tksupport@bullhorn.com. This is now reflected in the documentation.
  • Search query usage reports previously included scheduled searches (eg email alerts) sometimes, but now the reports only show interactive search queries.
  • In the search usage metrics, when calculating the "Last Activity" time of a given search user, automated email alerts are excluded and no longer considered as a contributing activity.

Fixed

  • The behaviour of the default "Relevance" sort order in the search UI has been fixed. The definition of sorting by "Relevance" now always has the same meaning, regardless of whether a different custom default sort order has been defined. (Previously there was a bug where sometimes "Relevance" applied a custom sort order, resulting in a confusing user experience). Sorting by "Relevance" now always means: sort on the engine score (descending) and sub-sorting on document date (descending). Custom sort orders are still supported, but if defined as the default sort order, they always have a different custom label as part of the search environment configuration.

April 15, 2025

Enhanced

  • Fixed an issue related to radius search with Mumbai
  • Better handling of Australian geocoordinates for Search API integrations
  • Narrower expansions of 'International Law' in Search
  • Improved synonym coverage of product marketing manager in the professions taxonomy
  • Postal code support for Indonesia added (if configured)

April 14, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved the system through which skills found in the job titles are given extra weight

April 9, 2025

Enhanced

  • Natural Language Search now supports date fields

April 1, 2025

Fixed

  • In search query usage reports, scheduled email alerts were sometimes included in the query reports. This has been corrected now, so that only the interactive user queries will show in the statistics.

March 31, 2025

Enhanced

  • Various IT skills and certifications added to the skills taxonomy
  • Improved synonym coverage of product marketing manager in the professions taxonomy
  • Improved coverage of (US) medical jobs in the professions taxonomy

March 25, 2025

Enhanced

  • Japanese and Chinese keyword highlighting in the CV/Resume preview has been improved.

Fixed

  • We fixed an issue with the calculation of the score threshold and bi-metric score, where they were not calculated correctly in some cases when the API match request included custom result fields.

March 4, 2025

Enhanced

  • Previously, match query pre-filtering was disabled whenever a query had any filter query part on specific IDs. Now that behaviour is enhanced so that match query pre-filtering is still applied if the query excludes certain ID(s) from the match results; pre-filtering is disabled where the query part lists specific ID(s) as Must-have.

February 20, 2025

Enhanced

  • Fixed an issue with the French location 'Montrevel'
  • Australian city names now include state suffices, so that location names that exist in multiple states can be differentiated.

February 4, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved city recognition in France
  • Various IT skills and certifications added to the skills taxonomy

January 21, 2025

Enhanced

  • Match queries now have a maximum number of keywords

January 16, 2025

Enhanced

  • German spelling of the city Bolzano recognized
  • Fewer and 'narrower' job title expansions/synonyms in Search in all languages

January 6, 2025

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of "production operator" jobs
  • Improved French location parsing

December 19, 2024

Enhanced

  • Swiss German recognized as separate language code

November 12, 2024

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with minimum height in language selection pop-up.

October 15, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added Oil&Gas jobtitles

October 2, 2024

Enhanced

  • Swiss German recognized as separate language code
  • Added SAP Process Orchestration and synonyms to the IT skills
  • We added the following languages as language skills:NynorskPaliWalloonIdoNauruan LanguageSundaneseInterlingueChurch SlavonicHiri MotuVolapük
  • Improved normalization of mechanical engineers in German
  • Improved casing consistency of profession descriptions
  • Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy

September 18, 2024

Enhanced

  • Minor change to autocompletions: if no fitting suggestion is available, an exact match option is now displayed to clarify that it is possible to search for any string in the full text of the indexed documents.

September 16, 2024

Fixed

  • Fixed deduplication of keywords in Match queries

August 20, 2024

Enhanced

  • Autocomplete for regions available in countries where region normalization is supported

August 15, 2024

Enhanced

  • Medical Doctorates in the US no longer get classified as "Masters", but as "PhD or Professional Doctorate" (renamed from just "PhD")
  • We added the following languages as language skills:NynorskPaliWalloonIdoNauruan LanguageSundaneseInterlingueChurch SlavonicHiri MotuVolapük

August 8, 2024

Enhanced

  • Performance optimization for saving internal candidates.Breaking change in legacy (deprecated) External Candidate Search: the ability to save and tag external candidates has been discontinued. Lists of saved external candidates are also no longer available in this deprecated application. There are no changes to the processes for saving and tagging internal candidates or for handling internal and external jobs. Our advanced solution for external candidate sourcing, Source External, is not impacted either.

July 24, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added SAP Process Orchestration and synonyms to the IT skills
  • We added the following languages as language skills:NynorskPaliWalloonIdoNauruan LanguageSundaneseInterlingueChurch SlavonicHiri MotuVolapük
  • Resolved a few cases of inconsistent city / postal code mappings
  • Location “FR Sarlat” now points to Sarlat-la-Canéda, as it is much bigger than Sarlat (Saint-Augustin) where it pointed before.
  • Improved job title expansions and autocomplete
  • Fixed geocoding for Grandchamp

June 27, 2024

Enhanced

  • Better handling of seniority (head, C-level, etc.) of product and operations roles in profession normalization.
  • Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

June 13, 2024

Enhanced

  • Fix a bug preventing quick-to-query from working when the header line was too long.

June 11, 2024

Added

  • Bi-metric scoring is now supported. This additional method of scoring combines result-to-input and input-to-result scores, and makes it possible to define a threshold to disqualify poor results.This new feature is available in the new V6 API.

May 29, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

April 30, 2024

Enhanced

  • Fixed an issue where Boolean operators don’t work when one of the words contains special characters.

Fixed

  • Fixed the "last viewed" indicator on search results not always showing the correct date.

April 2, 2024

Enhanced

  • Fixed an issue that results in showing "South Ndebele" as language skill
  • Improved coverage of (Swiss) German medical skills
  • German inclusive speech now handled in Search.
  • Various job titles added to the professions taxonomy based on Swiss market data

  • Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 27, 2024

Enhanced

  • Renamed nationality 'Qatarian' to 'Qatari'
  • Fixed an issue that results in showing "South Ndebele" as language skill
  • Cleaned up job title synonyms in Search, removed job titles with low frequencies
  • Enhanced coverage of job title synonyms in Search for languages
  • Job title acronyms added to autocomplete and related terms in Search
  • Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 19, 2024

Enhanced

  • Renamed nationality 'Qatarian' to 'Qatari'
  • Fixed an issue that results in showing "South Ndebele" as language skill

March 7, 2024

Fixed

  • The Reports page now opens in the same tab as Search, to ensure correct behavior within iframe integrations.

February 23, 2024

Enhanced

  • Improved dynamic matching for candidates with work experience around graduation

February 13, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added expansions for various healthcare professions
  • Major coverage improvement for expansions of skills across industries
  • Added search facet translations in Norwegian, Slovakian, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian

February 6, 2024

Fixed

  • Resolved a vulnerability to Open Redirect

January 31, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added support for location search in Honduras and Panama
  • 'Warehouse helper' added to job title synonyms
  • Added CRNA to job title autocomplete
  • Improved the coverage of IT skill synonyms and autocomplete suggestions
  • Data-related skills added to Search expansions and autocomplete

Fixed

  • Product/project managers no longer suggested as related job titles of each other

January 30, 2024

Enhanced

  • Added search facet translations in Norwegian, Slovakian, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian

January 25, 2024

Enhanced

  • Improved job title splitting for healthcare jobs

December 14, 2023

Enhanced

  • Add skill COSYS to the skills taxonomy

November 27, 2023

Fixed

  • Fixed misinterpreting "Kat" in German Match

November 14, 2023

Fixed

  • Fixed misspelling of Singaporean

August 22, 2023

Deprecated

  • Deprecated Legacy External Search (use Source as a replacement).

Removed

  • Removed international CareerBuilder CV databases (Jobmedic, Les Jeudis, Oil and Gas, Jobs.de, and all Careerbuilder countries except for US and Canada). These have been acquired by Kariera Group. Kariera currently does not offer a replacement API for Textkernel to integrate with.

August 8, 2023

Added

  • Added possibility to change the default behavior of displaying facets when there are many options. By default, the list of checkboxes turns into a dropdown with autocomplete when there are more than 25 options. While this improves the UX, there are cases in which the dropdown is not preferred. In that case, we can change the default threshold of 25 on a per-facet basis. Contact Textkernel support if you would like this value to be adjusted.

Enhanced

  • Fixed the bug when it was impossible to close the language settings popup

July 25, 2023

Enhanced

  • Add "no-value" HTML attribute to the Object fields

July 11, 2023

Added

  • Added an endpoint for updating user settings (languages for synonym expansion and autocompletions)
  • Added Japanese UI translations

Enhanced

  • For international accounts: For improved experience and efficiency, the maximum number of languages used for searching is now limited to 5 per user. The language settings will pop up at first login to allow each user to select the languages most useful to them. The same languages will now be used both for query expansion (synonyms) and for autocompletion suggestions.
  • For international accounts: API queries use the user's selected languages for query expansion, unless the query explicitly contains a list of languages.

June 13, 2023

Added

  • Enriched data feeds: This new service allows our customers to unlock the full potential of their Search database for analytics purposes. We can now offer to export the structured and enriched data into a one-time or recurring feed. This data can first be enriched with normalized skills and professions if they are not already indexed.

May 16, 2023

Enhanced

  • Salaries: It is now possible to manually choose the minimum and maximum value of salaries to search for, instead of using predefined ranges, and also to include unspecified salaries. This is better adjusted for handling multiple currencies.

April 18, 2023

Enhanced

  • Fixed issue in the display of "compare view" for longer titles

March 7, 2023

Enhanced

  • Private data feeds: performance improvements

February 28, 2023

Enhanced

  • Improved bulk selection: it is now possible to select more results than are shown on the page.

February 22, 2023

Enhanced

  • Better support for overseas territories
  • Added support for Irish education levels

February 21, 2023

Fixed

  • Fixed missing 'python developer' in autocomplete and semantic search

February 7, 2023

Enhanced

  • Dynamic Match queries: Queries are tailored to the type of document we are trying to match. Based on factors like experience level, domain, remote or not, the query will place more importance on different elements.

January 24, 2023

Enhanced

  • Added PCB designer to English autocomplete
  • Improved recognition of the "sublocality (city)" pattern in Search
  • Added support for Japanese autocomplete
  • Added "Post-bar" to autocomplete
  • Date fields now support the time of day, when indexing as well as querying. Existing documents in the index that only have a date, midnight on that date is assumed.

Added

  • Added a 'pageSize' parameter in the API that controls the number of search results per page. Refer to the API documentation for details on when and how to use it.

December 15, 2022

Enhanced

  • Professions Service: improved job title analysis and extended job title knowledge

December 13, 2022

Enhanced

  • In international setups, postal codes for which only prefixes are supported are now auto-detected and converted without the need to add the country code. This benefits postal code searches for the UK, Canada, Ireland and The Netherlands.

November 29, 2022

Enhanced

  • Improved seniority detection

November 15, 2022

Enhanced

  • Improved seniority detection in German
  • Added Elmira, ON as default Elmira city in our Search locations

Fixed

  • Corrected city name GB Stoke to Stoak.
  • Changed "Baseball" to be the standard name, and "Base-ball" to be a spelling variant

October 27, 2022

Added

  • Added education resources for Singapore

October 18, 2022

Enhanced

  • Improve seniority detection for German

September 29, 2022

Enhanced

  • Added synonyms for 'Customer Success Manager'

September 20, 2022

Enhanced

  • Better alignment of financial skills across languages

Fixed

  • Missing postal codes added for UK location St Helens

August 23, 2022

Enhanced

  • Increase the amount of results that can be saved in bulk

Fixed

  • A broken link to the PDF help file has been fixed

August 9, 2022

Enhanced

  • In CV2Job matching, only use the fingerprint for recent job descriptions

July 29, 2022

Enhanced

  • Added synonyms for 'CNC Bender'

July 24, 2022

Enhanced

  • Removed excessive whitespace when viewing full profiles in external sources
  • Fix rendering of a result item for a specific case with "-" sign in the match score indicator

July 21, 2022

Enhanced

  • Removed excessive whitespace when viewing full profiles in external sources
  • Fix rendering of a result item for a specific case with "-" sign in the match score indicator

July 10, 2022

Enhanced

  • Support for Hebrew skills

June 30, 2022

Enhanced

  • Various improvements to Norwegian synonym expansion and autocomplete

June 2, 2022

Enhanced

  • Removed 'Prudential' as synonym
  • Various improvements to recognition of Belgian locations
  • Support for Greek postal codes

Fixed

  • Improved synonyms of Security Analyst in English
  • Fixed location mapping of "Ruisbroek, BE"

May 6, 2022

Enhanced

  • Additional Norwegian Search synonyms added

May 5, 2022

Fixed

  • Fixed wrong Italian translation of 'Croatian'
  • Fixed missing Umlauts in Austrian locations

April 21, 2022

Fixed

  • Fixed postal codes mappings for Brighton, UK
  • Removed wrong synonyms of "facteur" in French Search
  • Fixed recognition of location 'Krems an der Donau'

April 7, 2022

Enhanced

  • Improve detection of "experienced" experience level

March 28, 2022

Added

  • Added Greek UI translations

March 18, 2022

Added

  • Added Greek UI translations

March 12, 2022

Fixed

  • Fixed wrong Italian translation of 'Croatian'

Added

  • Added Greek UI translations

February 10, 2022

Fixed

  • Fixed wrong geocoordinates for Järvelä, Finland

January 28, 2022

Enhanced

  • The Delete method of the Indexing service now also returns a list of document IDs that were successfully deleted, and a list of document IDs that could not be deleted (e.g. because the document doesn't exist).

January 27, 2022

Fixed

  • Fixed postal code mapping for 'Longford'

December 10, 2021

Enhanced

  • Fixed recognition of "S5" postal codes in the UK

December 7, 2021

Enhanced

  • The User Activity Reporting UI and Export API no longer include searches in which the user didn't set any query terms or filters. That was already the case for empty queries, but now also applies to searches that only contain predefined query terms or filters. Additionally, saved searches which are run by the system for email alerting are no longer included.

November 12, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added skills related to experimentation and causal inference in six languages
  • Replaced transcribed umlauts (e.g. 'ae') with diacritic ('ä') in Austrian subregions
  • Improved Spanish subregion recognition

Fixed

  • Removed dots from location education level descriptions

October 25, 2021

Enhanced

  • Auto-generated Match queries and similar manually crafted queries are now automatically pre-filtered, which removes results with insufficient relevance and improves response time. For details check the Query Language - Match Queries section of the documentation.

October 22, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added 140+ new job titles and spelling variants to French semantic search

Fixed

  • Fixed recognition of 'Warszawa' in Polish location search
  • Fixed erroneous location mapping for Manchester

October 18, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added rate limiting for (API) requests to ensure stability and performance of the service. The API will respond with an error code (TOO_MANY_REQUESTS) in case you send too many requests within a short time frame.

Deprecated

  • Deprecated old API versions for the Search, Projects, Save Results, and Autocomplete Services (all have replacements). Also deprecated Import Document Service (will soon be replaced by a new component), and User-Logging Service (will not be replaced).

October 11, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added rate limiting for (API) requests to ensure stability and performance of the service. The API will respond with an error code (TOO_MANY_REQUESTS) in case you send too many requests within a short time frame.

Deprecated

  • Deprecated old API versions for the Search, Projects, Save Results, and Autocomplete Services (all have replacements). Also deprecated Import Document Service (will soon be replaced by a new component), and User-Logging Service (will not be replaced).

September 27, 2021

Fixed

  • Fixed wrong recognition of Chesterfield, US
  • Fixed an issue related to Spanish postal codes

August 30, 2021

Enhanced

  • Various SAP-related skills and job titles added to search expansion resources
  • Improved synonyms of Channel Manager

August 16, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved precision of UK location coordinates when indexing from postal codes
  • Added a warning in case the user is redirected to an external login page, in order to prevent phishing attempts.

Fixed

  • Redirect to redirect.jsp has been fixed (now it supports Search! being deployed to non-root pathname, e.g. home.textkernel.nl/Search-Match3/)

Removed

  • The most frequently searched projects/tags are no longer displayed in the user activity report.

August 12, 2021

Enhanced

  • City variants like Genova and Genoa now show the same coordinates.
  • Towns in Italy with the same postal codes are now distinguised in Match queries.
  • More city spelling variants have been consolidated: Roma/Rome, Milano/Milan, Napoli/Naples, Torino/Turin, Venezia/Venice.

August 4, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved precision of UK location coordinates when indexing from postal codes
  • Added a warning in case the user is redirected to an external login page, in order to prevent phishing attempts.

Fixed

  • Redirect to redirect.jsp has been fixed (now it supports Search! being deployed to non-root pathname, e.g. home.textkernel.nl/Search-Match3/)

Removed

  • The most frequently searched projects/tags are no longer displayed in the user activity report.

August 2, 2021

Added

  • Added Match support for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages.

July 30, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved translations of local education levels for multilingual countries
  • Improved recognition of nationalities based on country codes

July 23, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved precision of UK location coordinates when indexing from postal codes
  • Added a warning in case the user is redirected to an external login page, in order to prevent phishing attempts.

Removed

  • The most frequently searched projects/tags are no longer displayed in the user activity report.

July 19, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved precision of UK location coordinates when indexing from postal codes
  • Added a warning in case the user is redirected to an external login page, in order to prevent phishing attempts.

Removed

  • The most frequently searched projects/tags are no longer displayed in the user activity report.

July 16, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved handling of Sankt/St. variations in German and Austrian Locations

Fixed

  • Fixed location recognition: US Westfield TX

July 5, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved search expansions for Italian job titles

June 21, 2021

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue related to German location parsing

June 7, 2021

Fixed

  • Fixed links between translations of jobtitle Analyst/programmer
  • Fixed display of result information from Xing

Enhanced

  • Fixed searching on Github with both a location and keywords

May 10, 2021

Enhanced

  • Updated search and result fields for DPG external source

Fixed

  • Project names are now displayed correctly in the match indicator

April 23, 2021


  • 300 English job titles added to autocomplete and synonyms

April 9, 2021

Added

  • Added accounting standards to French skill taxonomy

March 19, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of 'QA' related jobs and skills
  • Improved recognition of French accountancy-related job titles
  • Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with the recognition of 'Lisboa'
  • Resolved an issue with location recognition in Austria

March 15, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of 'QA' related jobs and skills
  • Improved recognition of French accountancy-related job titles
  • Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with the recognition of 'Lisboa'
  • Resolved an issue with location recognition in Austria

March 11, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

  • Improved recognition of the country Austria in German documents

March 1, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of 'QA' related jobs and skills
  • Improved recognition of French accountancy-related job titles
  • Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with the recognition of 'Lisboa'
  • Document tags are now automatically deleted when a document is deleted from the index, so that the tags do not become stale.

Added

  • New field that captures the experience level (seniority) of a candidate or required by a vacancy.Can be used both for searching and matching. When enabled in Match queries, it leads to improvements in matching quality

February 15, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added 950 keywords in 6 Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish and Italian

January 29, 2021

Enhanced

  • Added cloud-related skill synonyms
  • Improved synonym recognition for operation managers

January 18, 2021

Enhanced

  • Improved CV2job Matching by better understanding of the job titles from the CV (e.g. "Java developer - Machine Learning" is made of the "Java developer" job title and the "Machine Learning" computer skill)

December 21, 2020

Added

  • Added 25 ISCO and ONET mappings to the profession taxonomy

Enhanced

  • A small fix in the Dutch Profession Taxonomy, resolving erroneous classifications of "Montagemedewerker Brilmonturen"
  • Medical Affairs Manager added to profession taxonomy
  • Small improvements to French profession normalization

Fixed

  • Minor improvements to the American English profession taxonomy

December 7, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixed a deduplication issue in Canada and Spain that resulted in some postings not being deduplicated when street or neighborhood information was present in one of the postings

Enhanced

  • Error severity levels have been revised and updated for the Extract SOAP API, including advice on retrying strategies for better error handling. Some error IDs have been changed. For more details, refer to the Sourcebox API Reference documentation.

November 23, 2020

Fixed

  • Postings in which only a country name was mentioned as working location, were geocoded in the center of the country. New postings for such cases will no longer receive any geocoordinates.
  • Fixed a login issue occurring in some integrations when using Google Chrome 84.0
  • The first letter of an a suggested query term was sometimes duplicated.

November 20, 2020

Fixed

  • Non-existing city 'Nueva York' removed from autocomplete

November 9, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved keyword extraction for English Match queries

October 26, 2020

Added

  • Added language guessing when no full text or document language is provided via the Input API

Enhanced

  • Improved classification of Freelance and Apprenticeship contract types for French
  • The retention time of user activity logs (accessible through the Reporting UI and API) is now 24 calendar months.

October 12, 2020

Added

  • Re-added Oil & Gas as an external source due to update of their search API

Fixed

  • In case the query contained a hidden filter, results were returned even when none of the visible query parts matched

Enhanced

  • Enriched match queries for Polish with the Textkernel profession classification, resulting in higher relevance of the match results
  • Automatic cleaning of noise from job titles in the Match query is now active for Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese and Polish. Cleaning was already active for English, German, French and Dutch.

September 28, 2020

Fixed

  • Bullhorn users were not able to import candidates from external sources.

September 14, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved recognition of temporary contracts for French jobs

August 31, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved extraction of posting dates for Dutch
  • Updated Polish, Slovak and Hungarian UI translations for sorting options
  • Added UI translations for all languages for the hide/show toggle of the query panel

August 17, 2020

Added

  • Added support for Monster Canada as external source

Enhanced

  • Improved ordering of autocompletions in case of multiple exact prefix matches on the user's input. The order is now alphabetical instead of reverse alphabetical.

Fixed

  • Canadian postal codes in certain formats were not recognized

August 3, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved classification of contract types for French

July 20, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved geocoding for France in case a postal code or only a department is mentioned
  • Enriched match queries for Simplified Chinese and Japanese with the Textkernel profession classification, resulting in higher relevance of the match results
  • Improved match relevance in case years of experience with no upper bound was requested in a job description

July 16, 2020

Added

  • Added DPG as external source for The Netherlands, which replaces Nationale Vacaturebank and Intermediair. Importing candidates is not yet supported.

Enhanced

  • Facet counts for nested fields returned by the API now take into account filters that are set on the first level of the nested field. For example, it can be used to filter by job ID and get the number of candidates per pipeline status for that job ID, or to filter by language skill and get the number of candidates per language level for that language.

Fixed

  • Changes to a nested query field in the UI (e.g. location + radius or language + level) were not applied to other search tabs
  • In some cases, the name of a person on LinkedIn (using Google API) was not returned

July 6, 2020

Enhanced

  • The profession code & class have been removed from Match queries, keeping only the profession group. This makes the query more user-friendly. The profession code & class were not contributing to the relevance of the results.
  • Added Text Fingerprint to Match queries. The fingerprint contains a large amount of keywords from the original profile (person or job), and boosts results containing salient keywords over common keywords. This way, it captures important nuances and greatly improves the ranking of the match results. The fingerprint is not displayed to users in the Search UI, but is active in the background.

June 22, 2020

Fixed

  • Querying with a field value containing the '$' character resulted in an error
  • In certain browser versions, the user's UI session was terminated after a validation error on the "save project" dialog.

June 8, 2020


  • In the Bullhorn-native integration, de-duplication was originally designed for single-tenant environments. It has been extended to work with multi-tenant orgs so that Bullhorn BusinessUsers will only see possible duplicates according to their Departments. This does not require configuration.

May 25, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved logic for computing annual salary for Austria

April 24, 2020

Added

  • Search & Match API documentation is now available via developer.textkernel.com

Enhanced

  • Improved UI load time by optimizing loading of saved projects/tags. Added a new optimized projects API version (v5).

Deprecated

  • Initializing the UI with a 'query state' on the URL is no longer supported due to browser limitations on the length of the URL. Use IDs to load saved searches via URL.

April 21, 2020

Fixed

  • Almost no results were returned when searching in Stack Overflow (via Google API)

April 14, 2020

Enhanced

  • The keywords in Match queries are now more relevant. Unnecessary keywords have been removed from the query, which makes it easier to digest for users.

March 19, 2020

Added

  • Re-added Dice (US) external source due to Dice platform changes

Enhanced

  • Improved readability of external profiles for certain sources (in particular VDAB, CV-Library and Resume-Library)

March 4, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved classification of permanent contracts for English

February 17, 2020

Fixed

  • When unchecking certain related terms in the UI, other related terms were unintentionally unchecked as well

Enhanced

  • Improved Matching when a minimum or maximum number of years of experience is required as mentioned in a job description

February 3, 2020

Enhanced

  • Improved classification of contract types for French
  • Improved relevance of Match results in case the job title contains "assistant to..." or similar

January 5, 2020

Enhanced

  • More certification acronyms added to Match keywords
  • Improved coverage of certifications in Match keywords