2024 Releases

Highlights: Episode 1

In this episode, Shannon Swanson, Customer Success Manager from BrightMove, will highlight a few of the new features deployed to the platform over the past several months.

2024 Change Log

2024.16.0 Release on Thursday September 5, 2024

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.

2024.15.0 Release on Thursday August 15, 2024

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.

2024.14.0 Release on Saturday July 27, 2024

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.

2024.13.0 Release on Monday July 8, 2024

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.

2024.12.0 Release on Thursday June 13, 2024

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.

2024.11.0 Release on Thursday June 6, 2024

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.

2024.10.0 Release on Friday May 24, 2024

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. 

2024.9.0 Release on Friday May 3, 2024

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. 

2024.8.0 Release on Saturday April 27, 2024

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. 

2024.7.0 Release on Thursday April 11, 2024

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. 

2024.6.0 Release on Friday March 22, 2024

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. 

2024.5.0 Release on Saturday March 9, 2024

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. 

2024.4.0 Release on Saturday March 2, 2024

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.

2024.3.0 Release on Saturday February 10, 2024

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.

2024.2.0 Release on Saturday January 27, 2024

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. 

2024.1.0 Release on Saturday January 6, 2024

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.