diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a7e850f83..ad49ce2f1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) and this p
 
 This is a major release, and it might be not compatible with your current usage of our library. Please read about the necessary changes in the section about how to migrate.
 
+### Added
+
+-    `<ActivityControlWidget />`
+     -    Add parameter `active` to activity control action to set the `active` state of its button.
+
+### Changed
+
+-    `<MultiSelect />`:
+     -    Change default filter predicate to match multi-word queries.
+
 ### Migration from v24 to v25
 
 -   remove deprecated components, properties and imports from your project, if the info cannot be found here then it was already mentioned in **Deprecated** sections of the past changelogs
diff --git a/src/cmem/ActivityControl/ActivityControlWidget.tsx b/src/cmem/ActivityControl/ActivityControlWidget.tsx
index efda5060f..86018ded6 100644
--- a/src/cmem/ActivityControl/ActivityControlWidget.tsx
+++ b/src/cmem/ActivityControl/ActivityControlWidget.tsx
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ export interface ActivityControlWidgetAction extends TestableComponent {
     disabled?: boolean;
     // Warning state
     hasStateWarning?: boolean;
+    // Active state
+    active?: boolean
 }
 
 interface IActivityMenuAction extends ActivityControlWidgetAction {
@@ -228,6 +230,7 @@ export function ActivityControlWidget(props: ActivityControlWidgetProps) {
                                     hoverOpenDelay: 200,
                                     placement: "bottom",
                                 }}
+                                active={action.active}
                             />
                         );
                     })}
diff --git a/src/components/MultiSelect/MultiSelect.tsx b/src/components/MultiSelect/MultiSelect.tsx
index 3685ed862..eb0f07c1f 100644
--- a/src/components/MultiSelect/MultiSelect.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MultiSelect/MultiSelect.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,15 @@ import { removeExtraSpaces } from "../../common/utils/stringUtils";
 import { CLASSPREFIX as eccgui } from "../../configuration/constants";
 import { TestableComponent } from "../interfaces";
 
-import { ContextOverlayProps, Highlighter, IconButton, MenuItem, OverflowText, Spinner } from "./../../index";
+import {
+    ContextOverlayProps,
+    Highlighter,
+    highlighterUtils,
+    IconButton,
+    MenuItem,
+    OverflowText,
+    Spinner
+} from "./../../index";
 
 export interface MultiSuggestFieldSelectionProps<T> {
     newlySelected?: T;
@@ -53,7 +61,7 @@ interface MultiSuggestFieldCommonProps<T>
     /**
      * prop to listen for query changes, when text is entered in the multi-select input
      */
-    runOnQueryChange?: (query: string) => Promise<T[] | undefined>;
+    runOnQueryChange?: (query: string) => Promise<T[] | undefined> | (T[] | undefined);
     /**
      * Whether the component should take up the full width of its container.
      * This overrides `tagInputProps.fill`.
@@ -265,7 +273,8 @@ export function MultiSuggestField<T>({
     };
 
     const defaultFilterPredicate = (item: T, query: string) => {
-        return itemLabel(item).toLowerCase().includes(query);
+        const searchWords = highlighterUtils.extractSearchWords(query, true)
+        return highlighterUtils.matchesAllWords(itemLabel(item).toLowerCase(), searchWords)
     };
 
     /**