# Changelog

> Stay informed about the latest updates and improvements to our address validation services with our changelog. View release notes and see what's new.

## April 2026[​](#april-2026 "Direct link to April 2026")

* **\[Browser Extension]** Improved Odoo and Salesforce field detection *(2026-04-29, v1.25.4)*

  * Address Finder now waits for new Odoo contact forms to finish initialising before binding to address fields
  * Salesforce scope selectors updated for custom Aura components

* **\[Billing]** Credit notes available in your account *(2026-04-28)*
  * View credit notes alongside invoices from the billing section

* **\[Billing]** Statement of account *(2026-04-28)*
  * Download a consolidated statement of invoices, payments, and credit notes for any period

* **\[Dashboard]** Organisation deletion *(2026-04-27)*
  * Permanently remove an organisation and its data from your account when it is no longer needed

* **\[Dashboard]** Multi-organisation accounts *(2026-04-24)*

  * Switch between organisations from a single login
  * Single-organisation users are routed straight to their organisation page on sign-in

* **\[Billing]** Reduced 3D Secure (SCA) prompts on automated top-ups *(2026-04-23)*

* **\[Data]** Corrected ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Kosovo *(2026-04-23)*

* **\[Dashboard]** New URL checker tool for Allowed URLs *(2026-04-16)*
  * Test whether a given domain matches your account's allowed URL configuration before going live

* **\[Dashboard]** Documentation search integrated into the dashboard *(2026-04-14)*
  * Search docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk directly from your account using DocSearch

* **\[Data]** Fixed Republic of Ireland address line formatting on HERE datasets *(2026-04-08)*

* **\[Logging]** CSV transaction usage export now includes a licensee name column *(2026-04-02)*

* **\[Authentication]** Passkey (WebAuthn) sign-in *(2026-04-01)*
  * Sign in using Touch ID, Windows Hello, or hardware security keys instead of a password

## March 2026[​](#march-2026 "Direct link to March 2026")

* **\[Dashboard]** Dashboard UI refresh *(2026-03-27)*

  * Redesign with dark mode, smooth theme transitions, and modernised screens
  * Improved pagination and notification UX

* **\[Dashboard]** Account notifications *(2026-03-26)*
  * In-dashboard notification bell surfacing recent account events, with email recipients managed per organisation

* **\[Dashboard]** Per-dataset toggles on the API key dashboard *(2026-03-26)*
  * Enable or disable individual datasets on a key directly from the keys page

* **\[API]** `GET /keys/:key/details` returns expanded key metadata *(2026-03-25)*
  * Response now includes `name`, `contexts`, `datasets`, and notification settings

* **\[Address Finder]** New `hide` configuration option *(2026-03-20, v5.2.10)*
  * Dynamically hide and style additional HTML elements when the finder is collapsed

* **\[Dashboard]** Self-serve organisation creation *(2026-03-11)*
  * Create new organisations from your account without contacting support

## February 2026[​](#february-2026 "Direct link to February 2026")

* **\[Dashboard]** Organisation member invitations *(2026-02-25)*
  * Invite teammates to your organisation by email and review pending invitations from the organisation page
* **\[Dashboard]** Organisation accounts *(2026-02-20)*
  * Accounts are now organisation-based — invite teammates, share API keys, and assign roles within a single billable entity
* **\[Dashboard]** Account roles: admin, developer, and finance *(2026-02-20)*
  * Assign each organisation member a role to scope access to keys, billing, and developer settings
* **\[API]** Monthly lookup limits now configurable on API keys *(2026-02-04)*
  * Set a per-calendar-month cap independently of the daily limit, with usage rolling over at the start of each month

## December 2025[​](#december-2025 "Direct link to December 2025")

* **\[Data]** Added the BEV (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen) dataset for Austria, providing comprehensive and authoritative address coverage
* **\[Data]** Postcodes.io LSOA and MSOA fields now return 2021 Census data. 2011 data available via `lsoa11`/`msoa11` aliases
* **\[Data]** Postcodes.io ONSPD updated to November 2025
* **\[API]** Postcodes.io now returns terminated postcode data in 404 responses

## November 2025[​](#november-2025 "Direct link to November 2025")

* **\[API]** New dataset filter parameter allows you to restrict address searches to specific datasets within a country. E.g. `datasets=nyb` for latest new builds only.
* **\[API]** New GBR postcode query endpoint for UK postcode lookups
* **\[API]** Improved AddressBase Core searching, now harmonized with other GBR datasets for consistent results
* **\[API]** US Address Validation API now supports fuzzy matching on the state parameter, improving match rates for addresses with minor state name variations

## October 2025[​](#october-2025 "Direct link to October 2025")

* **\[Data]** Northern Ireland dataset update frequency increased from quarterly to weekly
* **\[API]** Non-US address data now parsed into individual structured fields (building number, street name, unit) rather than just address lines
* **\[Data]** Fixed an issue affecting Republic of Ireland addresses where administrative data may be missing for some premises

## September 2025[​](#september-2025 "Direct link to September 2025")

* **\[API]** Streamlined OpenAPI specification designed to reduce context length for LLM-assisted development
* **\[Documentation]** LLM-optimized documentation with llms.txt context file and universal markdown export (add `.md` to any documentation URL)
* **\[Integration]** WooCommerce plugin now available for WordPress e-commerce stores with no-code installation from the WordPress Plugin Directory
* **\[Integration]** Documentation now available through Context7's Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI-enabled IDEs
* **\[API]** Enhanced geospatial accuracy and intelligent country detection for improved search precision
* **\[Data]** Postcodes.io County Electoral Divisions updated to May 2025
* **\[Data]** Postcodes.io Parish/Non-Civil Parish codes updated to April 2025

## August 2025[​](#august-2025 "Direct link to August 2025")

* **\[API]** Fixed an issue with the Email Validation API to handle queries without proper encoding

## July 2025[​](#july-2025 "Direct link to July 2025")

* **\[API]** CSV usage log export now includes a `lookups` column showing how many lookups each request consumed. See the [CSV usage log API](/docs/api/key-logs.md) for details.
* **\[Performance]** JavaScript libraries now served directly from the API for improved caching, reduced latency, and simplified integration

## June 2025[​](#june-2025 "Direct link to June 2025")

* **\[Data]** Improved Republic of Ireland coverage for the standard dataset. All addresses now include Eircode (Irish postal codes)
* **\[Documentation]** Documentation site now generates an LLM.txt file and `.md` files to better support language model integration
* **\[API]** Improved handling of ordinals and directionals for US addresses

## May 2025[​](#may-2025 "Direct link to May 2025")

* **\[Data]** Improved and extended UPRN matching for Royal Mail Multiple Residence and Not Yet Built addresses
* **\[Data]** Additional HERE datasets included
* **\[Data]** Localised and improved South Korea coverage with MOIS dataset

## April 2025[​](#april-2025 "Direct link to April 2025")

* **\[Data]** Localised and improved Belgium coverage with FODBOSA
* **\[Data]** Localised and improved Japan coverage

## March 2025[​](#march-2025 "Direct link to March 2025")

* **\[API]** Maximum allowed configurations increased to 64. Maximum payload size for each configuration object increased to 64kb

## February 2025[​](#february-2025 "Direct link to February 2025")

* **\[Data]** Expanded Canada coverage with Canada National Address Register dataset

## January 2025[​](#january-2025 "Direct link to January 2025")

* **\[Data]** Expanded Denmark coverage with SDFI dataset

## May 2024[​](#may-2024 "Direct link to May 2024")

* **\[API]** Released `/addresses/verify` API for USA CASS Verification

## April 2024[​](#april-2024 "Direct link to April 2024")

* **\[Data]** Netherlands (Kadaster) address dataset incorporated
* **\[Data]** Norway (Kartverket) address dataset incorporated
* **\[Performance]** Improved P95 and P99 latency

## March 2024[​](#march-2024 "Direct link to March 2024")

* **\[Data]** AddressBase searches can now be filtered by property classification type (e.g. Commercial, Residential, Military, etc). See AddressBase data documentation for more information.

## February 2024[​](#february-2024 "Direct link to February 2024")

* **\[Data]** Search improvements for Iberian languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque
* **\[Address Finder]** Country selection is synced if `country:` is defined in `outputFields`

## January 2024[​](#january-2024 "Direct link to January 2024")

* **\[Data]** Australia GNAF address dataset added
* **\[API]** CASS Certified USA address verification generally available

## November 2023[​](#november-2023 "Direct link to November 2023")

* **\[Data]** Improvements to geospatial biasing for USA addresses

## October 2023[​](#october-2023 "Direct link to October 2023")

* **\[API]** Key settings can be updated via `POST /keys/:key` API
* **\[API]** Available datasets accessible through `GET /keys/:key/details` API
* **\[Address Finder]** Added the ability to `fix` Address Finder

## September 2023[​](#september-2023 "Direct link to September 2023")

* **\[Address Finder]** Added new callback for changes in country or context
* **\[Address Finder]** Country is automatically detected by IP address

## August 2023[​](#august-2023 "Direct link to August 2023")

* **\[Data]** Hong Kong dataset included
* **\[Data]** Macau dataset included
* **\[Data]** Taiwan dataset included
* **\[Data]** India dataset included

## July 2023[​](#july-2023 "Direct link to July 2023")

* **\[Data]** Asia Pacific data now available
* **\[Data]** Oceania dataset included

## June 2023[​](#june-2023 "Direct link to June 2023")

* **\[Data]** South America data now available
* **\[Data]** Middle East & Africa dataset included

## May 2023[​](#may-2023 "Direct link to May 2023")

* **\[Data]** Eastern Europe data now available

## April 2023[​](#april-2023 "Direct link to April 2023")

* **\[Data]** Western Europe data now available for Address Finder

## March 2023[​](#march-2023 "Direct link to March 2023")

* **\[Data]** Improved Zip and ZIP+4 searching on USA datasets
* **\[Data]** Improved apartment searches for GBR datasets

## February 2023[​](#february-2023 "Direct link to February 2023")

* **\[Data]** AddressBase Core data now available for GBR address search

## January 2023[​](#january-2023 "Direct link to January 2023")

* **\[API]** `/postcodes/:postcode` API now returns Eircode addresses if enabled on your account
* **\[Data]** Rooftop geolocations now available for Northern Ireland. Please contact us to have this enabled on your account
* **\[Data]** UPRNs now available for Northern Ireland. Please contact us to have this enabled on your account
* **\[API]** `/addresses/cleanse` GBR Cleanse API now available

## December 2022[​](#december-2022 "Direct link to December 2022")

* **\[API]** Phone Validation API now generally available
* **\[Data]** UK post towns are now titlecased (instead of all caps)
* **\[API]** Republic of Ireland addresses can be retrieved via the `/postcodes/:postcode` API if Eircode is enabled

## November 2022[​](#november-2022 "Direct link to November 2022")

* **\[API]** Email Validation API now available
* **\[Security]** Wildcard subdomain allowed URLs available. Add `*.domain.com` to allow requests from `domain.com` and all related subdomains
* **\[Address Finder]** Search improvements: Better search for numeric property numbers with preceding zeros. Improved search for address ranges

## October 2022[​](#october-2022 "Direct link to October 2022")

* **\[Security]** Allowed URLs now permit subdomain wildcards. E.g. `*.example.com` will match `example.com` as well as all subdomains

## August 2022[​](#august-2022 "Direct link to August 2022")

* **\[API]** New Places API
* **\[API]** `/places?query=` to query for place suggestions
* **\[API]** Allow for IP, geolocation and country filtering and biasing
* **\[API]** `places/:id` to resolve details for a place given a suggestion

## July 2022[​](#july-2022 "Direct link to July 2022")

* **\[API]** `/autocomplete/addresses/:id/gbr` now returns the local format of an address if not located in GBR inside the `native` attribute
* **\[API]** `/autocomplete/addresses/:id/usa` now returns the local format of an address if not located in USA inside the `native` attribute

## June 2022[​](#june-2022 "Direct link to June 2022")

* **\[Data]** Irish Addresses (Eircode) now supported by the autocomplete API. Contact our support team to have this enabled on your account
* **\[API]** `/addresses` API now provides reverse geocoding if `lon=` and `lat=` query arguments are supplied. Results are ordered by proximity to the supplied geospatial points

## May 2022[​](#may-2022 "Direct link to May 2022")

* **\[Data]** UK Alias addresses now generally available
* **\[API]** `/keys/:key` API now returns a contexts which correlates with the user's locality

## April 2022[​](#april-2022 "Direct link to April 2022")

* **\[Data]** Welsh PAF addresses now generally available

## March 2022[​](#march-2022 "Direct link to March 2022")

* **\[API]** New `autocomplete/addresses/:id/usa` API which resolves address suggestions to the USA address format

## February 2022[​](#february-2022 "Direct link to February 2022")

* **\[Data]** Addressing data for USA available
* **\[API]** `/autocomplete/addresses` now accepts a `context=` argument which allows additional countries to be searched. This currently defaults to `GBR` but also accepts `USA`
* **\[API]** New `autocomplete/addresses/:id/gbr` API which resolves address suggestions to the GBR address format (regardless of country)

## January 2022[​](#january-2022 "Direct link to January 2022")

* **\[API]** The standard GBR address objects now also return an `id` attribute
* **\[API]** The standard GBR address object now also returns a `dataset` attribute which identifies the provenance of a result (e.g. `paf` means Postcode Address File, `mr` means Multiple Residence and `nyb` means `Not Yet Built`)
* **\[API]** The standard GBR address object now also returns a `country_iso` which returns the 3 letter ISO country code

## December 2021[​](#december-2021 "Direct link to December 2021")

* **\[API]** `/addresses` and `/autocomplete/addresses` now accept query arguments to bias results by a geospatial area defined by an origin (WGS84 coordinate) and radius (in metres) with `bias_lonlat=[longitude],[latitude],[radius]`
* **\[API]** `/addresses` and `/autocomplete/addresses` now accept query arguments to filter results by a geospatial box defined by "top-left" and "bottom-right" WGS84 coordinates. Filter addresses with `box=[top left longitude],[top left latitude],[bottom right longitude],[bottom right latitude]`

## July 2021[​](#july-2021 "Direct link to July 2021")

* **\[API]** `/addresses` and `/autocomplete/addresses` now accept query arguments to bias results by a geospatial area defined by an origin (WGS84 coordinate) and radius (in metres) with `bias_lonlat=[longitude],[latitude],[radius]`
* **\[API]** `/addresses` and `/autocomplete/addresses` now accept query arguments to filter results by a geospatial box defined by "top-left" and "bottom-right" WGS84 coordinates. Filter addresses with `box=[top left longitude],[top left latitude],[bottom right longitude],[bottom right latitude]`

## June 2021[​](#june-2021 "Direct link to June 2021")

* **\[API]** `/addresses` and `/autocomplete/addresses` now accept query arguments to bias results by locality or postcode elements like `post_town` or `postcode_sector` with `bias_post_town=` and `bias_postcode_sector=`

## May 2021[​](#may-2021 "Direct link to May 2021")

* **\[API]** `/postcodes/:postcode` now returns up to 5 suggested postcodes if there is no exact postcode match. It will check for common errors first (i.e. mixing up `0` and `O` or `1` and `I`)

## April 2021[​](#april-2021 "Direct link to April 2021")

* **\[API]** `/postcodes/:postcode` now returns `total`, `limit` and `page` attributes for all responses (not just Multiple Residence)

## March 2021[​](#march-2021 "Direct link to March 2021")

* **\[API]** `/keys/:key` API now accepts sublicensee keys that begin `sl_`

## February 2021[​](#february-2021 "Direct link to February 2021")

* **\[Monitoring]** Incident feeds now available in Atom and RSS feed formats. E.g. [meta.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/history.atom](https://meta.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/history.atom). See [Status API documentation](https://docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/api#section/Getting-Started/Metadata) for more information

## January 2021[​](#january-2021 "Direct link to January 2021")

* **\[Logging]** Usage log exports now report the `Origin` header in the URL column if the `Referer` is not available

## December 2020[​](#december-2020 "Direct link to December 2020")

* **\[API]** Checking key details with the `/keys/:key` will now return a `datasets` attribute. This identifies which datasets (i.e. PAF, Multiple Residence, Not Yet Built) this key has access to

## November 2020[​](#november-2020 "Direct link to November 2020")

* **\[Authentication]** Licensee keys may now be passed in via the API Key argument of the querystring (`api_key=`) or authorization header `IDEALPOSTCODES api_key=""`. Our documentation will be updated to reflect this as the primary method of identifying a licensee. However the earlier method of supplying both `licensee` and `api_key` will continue to be supported

## October 2020[​](#october-2020 "Direct link to October 2020")

* **\[API]** `/addresses` now accepts no terms query. This means addresses can be searched using just filters like `postcode`
* **\[API]** New filters available for `/addresses` including `postcode_area`, `postcode_sector`, `uprn` and more
* **\[API]** Search `/addresses` with UPRNs using the `uprn=` filter

## September 2020[​](#september-2020 "Direct link to September 2020")

* **\[Data]** Address responses now return a `uprn` attribute for GB addresses
* **\[Data]** GB address geolocations are now rooftop accurate if they have a `uprn` assigned