Release notes

New Feature

• Introducing support for Ordnance Survey's AddressBase Premium database which contains over 40M UK records via Autocomplete search type

New Feature

• Advanced transliteration support for Autocomplete search type to enhance global address capture process and integration flexibility

New Feature

• Introducing the new SaaS-based Layout Management User Interface, designed to enable the viewing, retrieval, and creation of custom address layouts.

New Feature

• Experian's proprietary business insights data is now available via Autocomplete search type, offering detailed information on over 5M UK based businesses.

Enhancements

• All enrichment elements can now be returned on a call to Format and Validate endpoints, reducing complexity of integrations.

Enhancements

• Coverage improvements for Japan, including additional data from Japan Post.

Enhancements

• 10 additional territories have been included in our Singleline and Validate search types, expanding their global address and geocode coverage. Use our address and geocode accuracy table for information on our supported datasets.

New Feature

• Introducing new layout management API endpoints. This will give you the ability to update and remove existing custom layout.

Enhancements

• UK Utilities proposition now returns both gas and electricity data from a single request.

Enhancements

• Matching improvements for USA addresses. Additional elements returned in address and metadata collections.

New Feature

• Introducing support for what3words, an innovative geocoding system. Users can now use their what3words addresses for input, and Experian Address Validation will supply a list of valid addresses nearest to that location. (Feature only available for locations in the UK initially.)

Enhancements

• Support for latest accuracy improvements for USA address validation introduced with USPS CASS Cycle O, including more granular delivery point validation flags, improved PO Box address handling, and performance optimizations

Enhancements

• UK Utilities proposition now offers:

1. Support for Autocomplete address search type.
2. Support for custom address layouts

Enhancements

• Global address keys generated by Singleline and Typedown search types are now fully compatible with Enrichment API

New Feature

• Location biased searching now available for the UK. Decrease time spent on address lookup by suggesting addresses that are geographically closer to your user's current location.
• The most comprehensive Irish data set is now available to be used with the Singleline search type (in addition to Autocomplete) - use Ireland ECAD for superior Irish address matching.

New Feature

• Support for searching by electricity/gas meter number (MPAN/MPRN), including compatibility with UK Business Names, UK Not Yet Build, UK Multiple Residence and MOSAIC datasets.

New Feature

• Locality-based enrichment is now available via Lookup v2 endpoint. Enter a town, district and/or postcode, instead of a full address, to return geocoding coordinates and other enrichment elements associated with the location.

New Feature

• Introducing new layout management API endpoints. This will give you the ability to create your own custom layouts and retrieve information on existing ones.

New Feature

• Introducing new Premium Global Location Insights which provides  greater precision geocoding data and richer location insights, such as access(door) level geocodes and time zone information.

Enhancement

• UK Utilities proposition is now providing real-time utilities data append to support faster and more reliable energy switching in the market.

Enhancements

• UK county names are now supported for Autocomplete. Coverage includes geographical, administrative, postal and traditional county names.

New features

• Custom address layouts are now supported for Autocomplete search type.

Enhancements

• Global locality and postal code matching improvements for /lookup/v2 endpoint.
• Expanded address element collections: UK constituent country name, deliverability indicators, LACSlink and line of travel information for USA.

Bug fixes

• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Enhancements

• Autocomplete search type accuracy improvements for North America and Singapore.

Bug fixes

• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

New features

• Introducing new endpoint for highest accuracy global locality and postal code based searching for 200+ countries and territories using data from postal authorities, third parties and Experian's proprietary sources.
• Return up to 1000 addresses for each locality and postcode on demand.

Enhancements

• Advanced matching accuracy for addresses in Europe and China.

Our Experian Address Validation REST API now offers several exciting new benefits:

• Support for dozens of new global address datasets, previously only available via Address Validate SOAP solution.
• Performance improvements of 10-15%.
• Faster and more accurate address validation using Autocomplete searching.
• Four additional ways to search for an address to provide maximum flexibility for any use case: Validate, Singleline, Typedown and Lookup.
• Support for custom layouts to return addresses exactly the way you want them without the need to post-process responses.*
• Transliteration and Unicode support for over 40 character sets.*

* available in select search types

Enhancements

• Matching improvements for USA and UK addresses.*
• Operational stability and security enhancements.

* Customer requested updates

Enhancements

• Advanced fuzzy matching logic improvements for the remaining 240 countries and territories.

Bug fixes

• Miscellaneous improvements in processing logic for North America and Europe.*

* Customer requested updates

New features

• Next generation address classification engine for most accurate global address matching.

Enhancements

• International data improvements for 245 countries and territories.
• Advanced fuzzy matching logic for CAN, GBR, IRE, JPN and USA.

Bug fixes

• Miscellaneous fixes for USA addresses containing numerous misspellings.

New features

• Introduction of ISO 3166-2-compliant country and regional codes.*

* Customer requested updates

New features

• Introduction of additional address elements for Australia and New Zealand to provide additional accuracy and granularity of address validation. Elements include address types, deliverability indicators, household identifiers and barcode information.*

* Customer requested updates

New features

• Introduction of delivery type for United Kingdom to indicate whether address is residential or business.
• Introduction of "Just Built" date for United Kingdom to indicate newly activated Royal Mail delivery points.*
• Introduction of PAF Address Key for United Kingdom.
• Support for permitted URLs and IP whitelisting via EDQ Self Service portal.*
• Introduction of a higher accuracy Eircode dataset for Ireland. Eircodes Address Database (ECAD), sourced from the most authoritative data source, includes over 2.2M Ireland addresses, including aliases and additional delivery points. (Other Ireland datasets will also continue to be supported.)

* Customer requested updates

New features

• Introduction of delivery type in the United States to indicate whether address is residential or business. *

* Customer requested updates

New features

• Introduction of two additional datasets for validating addresses in the United Kingdom (Multiple Residence and Not Yet Built), containing over 1.3M new data points.*

Enhancements

• Ellipses no longer appears for GBR addresses in the search suggestions.*

Bug fixes

• Resolved issues pertaining to queries with incorrectly placed dot character.*
• Fixed issue with missing building information for certain addresses in France.*
• Improved error handling for requests containing incorrect or missing country codes.

* Customer requested updates