> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.respondent.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Product Updates

> All changes to the Respondent Partner API, newest first.

<Info>
  **Legend**

  * **New feature** — Net-new capability added to the API.
  * **Improvement** — Enhancement to existing functionality.
  * **Bug fix** — Correction to unintended behavior.
  * **Breaking change** — Change that may require updates to your integration.
</Info>

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  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Jun 22, 2026</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2026-06-22" className="changelog-title">Auto-approved identity verification for staging test participants</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Test participants created in the staging environment are now auto-approved for identity verification, unblocking end-to-end API test flows.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Jun 15, 2026</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag bug-fix">Bug fix</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2026-06-15" className="changelog-title">Lower-cased company and work-email domains</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Company domains and work-email domains on participant profiles are now stored and returned in lowercase for consistent comparisons.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Jun 8, 2026</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2026-06-08" className="changelog-title">Larger B2B targeting limits</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">B2B project targeting no longer caps how many professional industries or job functions you can select.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Mar 10, 2026</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag breaking-change">Breaking change</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2026-03-10" className="changelog-title">Participant profile fields removed from /profiles</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Several fields including lastName, location, age, gender, and company details will no longer be returned from the /profiles endpoint.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Feb 3, 2026</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2026-02-03" className="changelog-title">Improved clarity for screener response webhooks</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Added projectId to screener response events. The generic parentId field is now deprecated and will be removed in 12 months.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Dec 11, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-12-11" className="changelog-title">Messaging webhook events, AI suggestions, and job title updates</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Messaging events added to webhooks, AI-generated project titles and descriptions, and job title lookups filterable by seniority.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Sep 15, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag breaking-change">Breaking change</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-09-15" className="changelog-title">Breaking changes — live in production</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">publicDescription is now required to publish projects, webhook retries are enabled, and screener questions are limited to 40 per project.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 18, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag breaking-change">Breaking change</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-08-18" className="changelog-title">Breaking changes — live in staging</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">The Sept 15 breaking changes are now live in staging: required publicDescription, webhook retries, and 40-question screener limit.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 11, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag breaking-change">Breaking change</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-08-11" className="changelog-title">\[Action required] Breaking changes to Respondent API — live Sept 15</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Advance notice of required publicDescription, webhook retries, and a 40-question screener cap. Staging Aug 18, production Sept 15.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 5, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-08-05" className="changelog-title">Updates to Job Titles, Skills, and Quotas</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Quotas generally available, cleaner Job Titles and Skills lookups, participant limit raised to 500, and 30 job titles per project.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Jun 19, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-06-19" className="changelog-title">New screener response field and fix for non-Latin project titles</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Added qualifiedPendingIdVerification to screener responses and fixed project creation for titles with only non-Latin characters.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Apr 30, 2025</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2025-04-30" className="changelog-title">Auto-invite, Completion URLs, audience size estimates, and enhanced profiles</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Auto-invite qualified participants, Completion URLs, audience size estimate endpoint, and topics and profile pictures in profile responses.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Nov 20, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-11-20" className="changelog-title">Lookups including createdAt and updatedAt timestamps</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Lookups, Topics, Job-titles, Industries, and Skills now include createdAt and updatedAt timestamps in their responses.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Nov 14, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-11-14" className="changelog-title">Project description character limit increased to 800</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">The project description character limit was increased to 800 during project creation and update.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Nov 13, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-11-13" className="changelog-title">Key qualifiers: use signals as filters in the Public API</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Use signal-type audience parameters (topics, industries, company size, seniority, skills, household income) as filters when creating or updating draft projects.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Oct 30, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-10-30" className="changelog-title">Job Function added to B2B projects</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">You can now add targetJobFunctions when creating or updating draft B2B projects. Job Functions are also available in the lookups.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Oct 24, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-10-24" className="changelog-title">Projects create or update allows setting autopay true/false</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Project create and draft update now accept an automations.autopay field. Defaults to true when omitted.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Oct 18, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-10-18" className="changelog-title">Improved screener response matching information</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">The isTopicsMatch attribute is now accessible in the screener responses matching object for screeners submitted after this release.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Sep 18, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-09-18" className="changelog-title">Delete draft projects endpoint added</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">A new endpoint allows deleting projects programmatically. Only projects in DRAFT status can be deleted.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Sep 6, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-09-06" className="changelog-title">Screener response webhooks for rejection (production)</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Webhooks now fire when a screener response is rejected or made visible again, with the rejected field in updatedFields.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Sep 4, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-09-04" className="changelog-title">Simulate specific webhook events for screener response updates</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Pass screenerResponseUpdatedType when simulating SCREENER\_RESPONSES.UPDATED to trigger STATUS.PAID, STATUS.CANCELLED, REJECTED.TRUE, or REJECTED.FALSE.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 28, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-08-28" className="changelog-title">Screener response webhooks for rejection (staging)</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Screener response rejection webhooks are now available in staging ahead of the production release.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 21, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag improvement">Improvement</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-08-21" className="changelog-title">Updates to schedule screener and project</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Added publishedAt to project responses once published and marked bookedDate as required on the schedule screener endpoint.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 19, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-08-19" className="changelog-title">Update the external researcher name for published projects (production)</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">The update project endpoint now allows API partners to update the researcherName after a project is published.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div className="changelog-entry">
    <div className="changelog-meta">
      <div className="changelog-date">Aug 16, 2024</div>
      <span className="changelog-tag new-feature">New feature</span>
    </div>

    <div className="changelog-content">
      <a href="/docs/Changelog/2024-08-16" className="changelog-title">Update the external researcher name for published projects (staging)</a>

      <p className="changelog-body">Update the researcherName on published projects, now available in staging.</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>