Your 2026 iRecruit release notes are here. We'll keep this page updated throughout the year as new fixes land. We only include notable defects that may affect our customers generally; customers will be separately notified of defect fixes specifically related to you via your customer care tickets.

2026-1 (July 2026)

Due for release week commencing 27 July 2026.

A bug-fix release addressing issues across the applicant portal, application forms, registration, two-factor authentication and general performance.

Fixes

• Applicant portal search:
  • Fixed an issue where searching using multiple keywords returned duplicate results
  • Vacancy attribute display names are now limited to 128 characters, fixing an issue where longer names could break the job search
• Applicant registration: Fixed an issue where registration could fail with a database error when the county or town field exceeded the database column width
• Application form:
  • Candidates accessing a secondary application form via the emailed link, after already submitting it, are no longer moved back to "online new" status
  • Edits saved by a recruiter via the edit application form data page now appear on the full application form view
• Candidate anonymisation: Anonymising or deleting a candidate now also removes their offer details, ensuring no personal data is left behind
• Document links: Links to uploaded documents inserted via variables now download the document as expected
• Generic form builder: Fixed an issue where date fields failed to save when the browser locale was not en-GB
• Performance: General improvements to loading speeds across iRecruit
• References: Applicants with multiple references no longer have those references duplicated
• Status change emails: Recruiters will now see agency recruiters in the selection lists in the update status, bulk status change, bulk status change - sent to vetting, and mail merge pages
• Two-factor authentication (2FA) verification page:
  • Branding is now retained and no longer displays a raw resource key
  • Error message no longer displays before the user has entered anything
• Vacancy list: If a page size of "all" is configured in the admin portal, the vacancy page no longer errors if no vacancies are found after filtering
   

Support

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