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Release 2024.21.0 on Wednesday, December 18, 2024, represents the twenty-first production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release that contains several high visbility bugs that have been resolved to improve customer experience.

The following fixes were deployed as part of this release.

This release affects all editions.

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On Friday, December 13, 2024, we released the LinkedIn Basic Job Feed integration to general availability within the JobGorilla posting engine. With this release, customers can now automatically post their jobs to their company LinkedIn page.

Through the partnership with LinkedIn, BrightMove is now an approved ATS within LinkedIn Recruiter. This integration allows customers to automate the posting of jobs to their company LinkedIn page using the LinkedIn Basic Job Feed. In order to use this feature, you need to set your company LinkedIn ID as a company preference. For more details on this new feature or how to setup your company preference, please see this article.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.20.0 on Friday, December 6, 2024, represents the twentieth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release that contains a significant overhaul to the BrightSync module.

BrightSync is the module that is included within all versions of ATS. It enables users to connect their Office 365 account to the ATS account for synchronization of mail, calendar and contact lists. This deployment includes the code to use the Microsoft Graph API, which is the required way to interact with the Office 365 suite. For more information on BrightSync, see this page.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.19.0 on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, represents the nineteenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release, contains several improvements and a few bug fixes to the BrightMove Platform.

The improvements include an enhancement to the Jobs Awaiting My Approval pane on the personalized dashboard for recruiters and hiring managers. Now, the location of the job is displayed in the pane. Additionally, new deliverability flags were added to the outbound email service - now users can tell if their message has been delivered or if the email is bouncing. Finally, as part of the Offer Letter & Document Signing feature, several new fields were added and are now supported within the template that allow for the fields to be included in the document to be signed.

The bug fixes include a fix to properly bing job fields and details into SMS messages (previously, job details were not being included). Also, there was a bug that prevented hiring managers from seeing attachments they uploaded because they were marked a private. Finally, a fix was made to Offer Letter & Document Signing feature to allow for the binding of variables within tables.

This release affects all editions.

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The 2024.18.0 release introduces several exciting new features and improvements designed to enhance the flexibility and functionality of the platform.

Interview questions and questionnaires are now fully supported within job templates, allowing users to standardize and manage these resources more efficiently across all job postings. This update streamlines the interview preparation process by enabling easy reuse of key questions and questionnaires.

Additionally, permissions for hiring managers have been adjusted, giving administrators the ability to enable or disable access to offer letters. This feature provides more granular control over sensitive hiring documents and ensures hiring managers only see what they are authorized to access.

New pay types have been introduced to accommodate both weekly and biweekly pay periods, expanding the range of options available when setting up jobs and making offers. This addition caters to the diverse payroll structures used by clients.

In terms of technical improvements, the job distribution webhooks have been enhanced to better track and record interactions with job postings on remote job boards. This ensures that user activity and engagement are accurately captured across all integrated platforms. Similarly, outbound email webhooks have been updated to capture email engagement events, such as opens and clicks, to provide deeper insights into candidate and client communications.

Alternate email management within the user's profile screen has also seen improvements. The process for managing and verifying alternate emails is now more intuitive, helping users maintain up-to-date contact information and ensuring smooth email delivery.

Finally, a bug fix addresses an issue with the submittal tab on the Applicant screen when viewed by hiring managers. Previously, a data table error was causing display issues, but this has now been corrected, ensuring that hiring managers can review submittals without interruption.

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Release 2024.17.0 on Saturday, September 28, 2024, represents the seventeenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains new bug fixes and enhancements to the BrightMove Platform. The bug fixes include a change the the Sense webhook to update the Sense API on candidate phone number change, several permission fixes to enable application access for hiring managers like ability to save power searches and a logic fix that requires hiring managers have an assigned email address and username for access to be granted.

In addition to these fixes, we also have several other improvements and enhancements, many of which were customer requested. We improved the controls around Interview Questions and Questionnaires with the addition of some helper text and permissions to control the ability to record notes. This is a risk mitigation feature to remind hiring managers to only include feedback in interviews which is compliant with their company's HR policies. We also changed the signing order for Docusign eSignature packages to send the offer letter to the company signer first, providing a lightweight offer approval model. We improved the email management under My Profile to automatically send a verification email when the user's email address is changed. We added the delivery of a PDF version of the candidate's resume when originating from Indeed Apply when the Notify Recruiters of Job Application property is set (previously, only TXT versions were sent). Finally, we expanded the Contact Support feature to allow hiring managers to chat with our support team.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.16.0 on Thursday, September 5, 2024, represents the sixteenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains new bug fixes and enhancements to the BrightMove Platform. The bug fixes include a correction to the Duplicate Candidate utility that now enables job seekers with submittals on the duplicate candidate record to be successfully merged. The enhancements include the check for valid username & email prior to enabling hiring manager access, the sending of a Welcome Email with login instructions to hiring managers when ATS access has been granted and and the ability for recruiters to assign submittal activity tasks to hiring managers.

In addition to these customer-facing enhancements, we are setting the stage for future product capabilities. The 2024.16.0 release also contains several platform additions to enable the future release of BrightMove for RPO remote ATS sync services. This will allow our RPO customers to sync directly with other ATS and HRIS platforms. Finally, this release also contains platform enhancements focused on email deliverability and observability, and to enable the future release of BrightMove's new Engage platform. What for more information of these future releases in the coming months.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.15.0 on Thursday, August 15, 2024, represents the fifteenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains new bug fixes to the BrightMove Platform. The bug fixes include a correction that allows HR recruiters to assign multiple hiring managers to a job.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.14.0 on Saturday, July 27, 2024, represents the fourteenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the BrightMove Platform. The new features include Offer Letters eSignature via DocuSign, the ability as a Hiring Manager to assign multiple hiring managers to the same job, and the ability for job location handling for international jobs. The new enhancements include a new company preference to disable the changing of the <referencenumber> tag in the Indeed Feed, so that modified jobs do not fall out of an Indeed campaign, a new Job Dashboard powered by Wisdom with legacy Job Dashboard available via new toggle button, and the HR enhancement to support moving a hiring manager to a different department.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.13.0 on Monday, July 8, 2024 represents the thirteenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release that contains several improvements and bug fixes. The improvements consist of the addition of the BrightFlow "kanban style" board for hiring managers & client contacts to be able to view the candidates submitted to their jobs, as well as improved location handling for jobs (multiple hiring locations, remote, work from home and hybrid jobs). The fixes include a correction to the ordered display of submittal activities and the ability to update assigned activities in mass. Finally, we modified the UX flow for creating a new job in order to reduce the number of clicks required. In this release, now the user creating the new job can search by department or client, hiring manager or client contact and location. This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.12.0 on Thursday, June 13, 2024 represents the twelfth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release that contains several bug fixes. The fixes include a correction to the marketing locations within job templates, the ability to assign hiring managers to multiple locations and a fix to the modal screen within the back office module.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.11.0 on Thursday, June 6, 2024 represents the eleventh production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release that contains a refactoring of the client contact / hiring manager database in advance of future, new functionality and several bug fixes. The new database model will allow for the assignment of hiring managers to multiple locations and allow for multiple hiring managers to a single job.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.10.0 on Friday, May 24, 2024 at 3pm ET represents the tenth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains new features, enhancements and several bug fixes to the BrightMove Platform. The new feature allows recruiters to assume hiring managers' identity to support them. The enhancements include improved visibility to job board feed info through the job board feed log, ad hoc reporting improvements so reports and controls use company preferences for labels & several Back Office module improvements.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.9.0 on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 3pm ET represents the ninth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains enhancements affecting the BrightMove Platform like the new Interview Questions component, Back Office module, Verified Emails & MOTD messaging, as well as several bug fixes.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.8.0 on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the eighth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains a major upgrade to the resume parser.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.7.0 on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the seventh production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains 13 bug fixes to the BrightMove platform.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.6.0 on Friday, March 22, 2024 at 3pm ET represents the sixth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains 10 bug fixes to the BrightMove platform.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.5.0 on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the fifth production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains a new Interview Questions feature as well as several bug fixes.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.4.0 on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the fourth production deployment of 2024. This release is a minor release and contains one enhancement to the BrightMove Platform and several bug fixes.

This release affects all editions.

Support for Retained Search Business Model in Back Office

In this release, we're delivering the functionality that allows users to realize and charge fees for retained search placements. This feature will allow for customers to use BrightMove Back Office to invoice a customer at the time in which a job is approved, and then subsequent to placements, realize and invoice the balance of fees per the customer's sales agreement.

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Release 2024.3.0 on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the third production deployment of 2024. This release is a major release and contains two significant upgrades to the BrightMove Platform, the ability to assign tasks to alternative users and a major refactoring of the hiring manager security framework.

This release affects all editions.

Assignment of Tasks To Alternative Users

In this release, we're delivering the functionality that allows users to assign tasks to other users as part of the submittal workflow. In the case where your users have the new permission Assign Submittal Activity to other employees, they can now place submittal activities onto other users' task list from within BrightMove. This feature will allow for customers to use BrightMove to manage tasks and submittals across teams more efficiently.

Hiring Manager Security Framework

In this release, we have rewritten the hiring manager security framework for performance improvements, scalability and flexibility. While this change should result in no visible change for users at the time of rollout, by adopting our robust core security framework for the hiring manager user types, this sets the stage for more flexibility for customers to control what hiring managers can do within the platform.

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Release 2024.2.0 on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the second production deployment of 2024. This release is a maintenance release and contains several minor infrastructure configuration changes and a few bug fixes.

This release affects all editions.

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Release 2024.1.0 on Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 11pm ET represents the first production deployment of 2024. This release is a maintenance release and contains several minor infrastructure configuration changes and a few bug fixes.

This release affects all editions.

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