diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index 806ab7aa2..29e80fc2d 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 - **Form Validation** - Added ability for field validation to depend on other fields being filled out
 - **Popup** - Added new setting `boundary` and `scrollContext`. `boundary` lets you specify an element that the popup will try to position itself to be contained inside of. `scrollContext` lets you specify the element which when scrolled should hide the popup
 - **Popup** - Added new settings `autoRemove`, which is enabled by default. This will add special event listeners to auto hide a popup if the triggering element is removed from the DOM. This is useful in controlled DOM environments like Meteor/Ember/React to ensure a popup auto-hides itself when a page navigation or other DOM change occurs that may not trigger `mouseout`.
-- **Dropdown** - Dropdown now changes user selection on keyboard shortcuts **immediately**, this will save the extra `enter` key press to confirm selection in most cases. To enable previous pre `2.2` selection style use the setting `selectOnKeydown: false`
+- **Dropdown** - Dropdown now changes user selection on keyboard shortcuts **immediately**, this will save the extra `enter` key press to confirm selection in most cases. To enable previous pre `2.2` selection style use the setting `selectOnKeydown: false` NEEDS DOCS
 - **Dropdown** - Multiple select dropdown now sizes current dropdown input based on rendered width of a hidden element, not using an estimate based on character count. This means search will never break to a second line earlier than would normally fit in current line.
 - **Dropdown** - Added new setting for search selection `hideAdditions` this will remove showing user additions inside the menu, making for a more intuitive adding process. Dropdowns now have a new state `empty` which will format an active dropdown with empty results. #3791
 - **Dropdown** - Adds new `allowReselection` option to trigger `onChange` events even when reselecting same value ***NEEEDS DOCUMENTATION***
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 - **Dropdown** - All dropdowns, not just `selection dropdown`, will now select the first `menu item` that starts with a pressed keyboard key, for example "N" will select "New"
 - **Build Tools** - Added new `autoInstall` option to allow for Semantic to be installed without user interaction. See [docs explanation](http://www.semantic-ui.com/introduction/advanced-usage.html#Auto-Install) for how to use. #3616 **Thanks @algorithme**
 - **Popup** - Fixed issue where clicking element inside popup removed from DOM (like clicking a multi select label) would cause popup to close #3887
+- **Search** - Added a new option `selectFirstResult`, which defaults to `false`. Will automatically highlight first result on search
 - **Search** - Search now includes a `showNoResults` setting for determining whether no results messages should be shown **NEEDS DOCS**
 - **Visibility** - Added `onFixed` and `onUnfixed` callbacks for visibility `type: 'fixed'` **NEEDS DOCS**
 
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@
 - **Progress** - Progress `onSuccess`, `onError`, and `onWarning` callbacks now occur **after** the animation completes for the state change.
 - **Rating** - rating does not fire `onRate` when rating is initialized #3712
 - **Segment/Message** - `top attached message` has no border when attached to `segment` #3619
+- **Search** - Added `refresh` behavior for search to refresh selector cache. Cache will automatically refresh after API results received
 - **Segment** - Fixed `segments` to not clip border radius when only a **single** segment is included
 - **Step** - Fix incorrect bottom margin on `top attached steps`
 - **Statistic** - statistic receives incorrect size when using `tiny` `large` etc inside a statistic group #3116
diff --git a/src/definitions/modules/popup.js b/src/definitions/modules/popup.js
index c80ac7c7a..2aec74bc0 100644
--- a/src/definitions/modules/popup.js
+++ b/src/definitions/modules/popup.js
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ $.fn.popup = function(parameters) {
           else if($target.next(selector.popup).length !== 0) {
             module.verbose('Pre-existing popup found');
             settings.inline = true;
-            settings.popups  = $target.next(selector.popup).data(metadata.activator, $module);
+            settings.popup  = $target.next(selector.popup).data(metadata.activator, $module);
             module.refresh();
             if(settings.hoverable) {
               module.bind.popup();
diff --git a/src/definitions/modules/search.js b/src/definitions/modules/search.js
index 5b2bd7a4d..5974eae7f 100644
--- a/src/definitions/modules/search.js
+++ b/src/definitions/modules/search.js
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ $.fn.search = function(parameters) {
           ;
         },
 
+        refresh: function() {
+          module.debug('Refreshing selector cache');
+          $prompt         = $module.find(selector.prompt);
+          $searchButton   = $module.find(selector.searchButton);
+          $category       = $module.find(selector.category);
+          $results        = $module.find(selector.results);
+          $result         = $module.find(selector.result);
+        },
+
+        refreshResults: function() {
+          $results = $module.find(selector.results);
+          $result  = $module.find(selector.result);
+        },
+
         bind: {
           events: function() {
             module.verbose('Binding events to search');
@@ -419,6 +433,13 @@ $.fn.search = function(parameters) {
           },
         },
 
+        select: {
+          firstResult() {
+            module.verbose('Selecting first result');
+            $result.first().addClass(className.active);
+          }
+        },
+
         set: {
           focus: function() {
             $module.addClass(className.focus);
@@ -797,6 +818,10 @@ $.fn.search = function(parameters) {
             $results
               .html(html)
             ;
+            module.refreshResults();
+            if(settings.selectFirstResult) {
+              module.select.firstResult();
+            }
             module.showResults();
           }
           else {
@@ -1075,25 +1100,28 @@ $.fn.search = function(parameters) {
 
 $.fn.search.settings = {
 
-  name           : 'Search',
-  namespace      : 'search',
+  name              : 'Search',
+  namespace         : 'search',
 
-  silent         : false,
-  debug          : false,
-  verbose        : false,
-  performance    : true,
+  silent            : false,
+  debug             : false,
+  verbose           : false,
+  performance       : true,
 
   // template to use (specified in settings.templates)
-  type           : 'standard',
+  type              : 'standard',
 
   // minimum characters required to search
-  minCharacters  : 1,
+  minCharacters     : 1,
+
+  // whether to select first result after searching automatically
+  selectFirstResult : false,
 
   // API config
-  apiSettings    : false,
+  apiSettings       : false,
 
   // object to search
-  source         : false,
+  source            : false,
 
   // fields to search
   searchFields   : [