February 2026

Multi-source Employee Data

February 2, 2026

Adding new fields

Adding three new fields to improve tracking of canonical shorthand names, awards, and certifications.

Data field	Description	Data type
professional_network_canonical_shorthand_name	The most recent version of employee’s shorthand name	String
awards_count	Count of user awards	String
certifications_count	Count of user certifications	String

Clean Company Data

February 25, 2026

Adding and fixing fields

Added fields

We are adding new company HQ location fields.

Data field	Description	Data type
company_location_hq_country_iso_2	ISO 2-letter country code for company HQ location	String
company_location_hq_country_iso_3	ISO 3-letter country code for company HQ location	String
company_location_hq_state	Company HQ state	String
company_location_hq_city	Company HQ city	String

Fixed fields

We are fixing inaccuracies in Clean Company schema, specifically company_locations_full nested fields, that were referenced in the December 2025 schema update but were not fully launched. The issue has now been resolved, and the previously missing fields are available in the Clean Company schema.

Data field	Description	Data type
company_locations_full.country	Fixed country name field	String
company_locations_full.country_iso_2	Fixed ISO 2-letter country field	String
company_locations_full.country_iso_3	Fixed ISO 3-letter country code field	String
company_locations_full.regions	Fixed regions array field	Array of structs
company_locations_full.state	Fixed state field	String
company_locations_full.city	Fixed city field	String

Employee Posts API

February 4, 2026

Adding new fields

Adding two fields to improve data mapping experience

Data field	Description	Data type
employee_parent_id	Employee profile identification key	String
reshared_post.employee_parent_id	Author profile identification key	String

Webhooks

February 9, 2026

Experience webhooks update

Promotions (for example, a new position at a company where the individual previously worked) now trigger a webhook event. Webhooks will be sent for internal role changes, enabling better tracking of promotions and career progression.

Real-time Employee API

February 9, 2026

Supporting a new endpoint

Supporting a new endpoint to retrieve real-time Base Employee data. The Real-time Employee API enables faster, more efficient data retrieval.

Added endpoint

Request type	Endpoint
POST	https://api.coresignal.com/rtapi/v2/employee/scrape

Find all the information in Real-time Employee API topic.

Base Employee API

February 25, 2026

Deprecating an endpoint

The /v2/employee_base/map/ids endpoint is deprecated due to low usage and limited need for IDs mapping between Base Employee and Legacy Employee APIs.

February 25, 2026

Elasticsearch DSL schema update

The field structure of selected fields was modified, enabling exact matching in Elasticsearch DSL queries.

These structural changes allow users to run exact-match queries on the listed fields, adding more flexibility for building queries and enabling lighter queries with fewer multi-level batches.

Updated fields

The following fields were updated to support exact match search:

• experience.title

• full_name

• first_name

• last_name

• experience.location

• skills.skill

• certifications.title

• certifications.issuer