Global Express Entry:Build History

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Please see the Melissa Product Release Notes for updated Build History moving forward:

• https://releasenotes.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-express-entry/

Build 4.6.23.1202

February Release

Released February 2023

General Information

This is a reference data update, please see below for the countries are updated

Country Specific Updates

CH

• Updated Reference Data

DE

• Updated Reference Data

NL

• Updated Reference Data

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• CH, DE, NL

January Release

Released January 2023

General Information

This is a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries are updated

• Bug fixes for AT

Country Specific Updates

AT

• Updated Reference Data
• Fix issue with DeliveryAddress Lines with the latest Reference Data

AU

• Improved reference data with greater coverage

FR

• Updated Reference Data
• Fix issue where special character œ in input is not accepted
• Add ability to search by Organization for ExpressAddress and FreeForm endpoints

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• AT, AU, FR

Build 4.6.22.1200

Released November 2022

General Information

This is a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries which are updated.

• Bug fixes for DE, US, ES, and IE
• Improved logging
• New result code “AS09” - The address is in a country not enabled for this ID.
• Added country check (US) to the logic which determines if a query should be converted to use the POBox index.

Country Specific Updates

DE

• Updated Reference Data
• Allow freeform postal code only queries

IE

• Updated Reference Data
• Added ability to look up postal codes without space

ES

• Ability to search to search on the superscript

US

• Fix issue on suite compression where a few records are being incorrectly compressed
• Fix issue with FF where address with single Apt does not return Apt in address line 1
• Fix issue with FF queries on just thoroughfare not returning results
• Fix issue with inability to search for numbered streets by name in FF

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• DE, IE

Build 4.6.15.1186

October Release

Released October 2022

General Information

This is a Data-Only Update for the following countries:

• US, GB

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• United States (US), Great Britain(GB)

September Release

Released September 2022

General Information

This is a Data-Only Update for the following countries:

• NL

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• Netherlands (NL)

August Release

Released August 2022

General Information

This is a Data-Only Update for the following countries:

• DE, ES, GB, IT, SE

Country Specific Updates

ES

• Using a new source for this country

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• Germany (DE), Spain (ES), Great Britain (GB), Italy (IT), and Sweden (SE)

July Release

Released July 2022

General Information

This is a US-only database and feature update.

• Backend bug fixes for US
• US Only - Addition of apartment/suite searching in the Free Form and Address Line 1 of Fielded Input fields, both Global and US endpoints.

Country Specific Updates

US

• Added the ability to search for apartments/suites in the ExpressFreeForm, ExpressAddress, GlobalExpressFreeForm, and GlobalExpressAddress endpoints. This feature will allow you narrow your users' input down to the suite or apartment, no longer returning XS03 if they continue to type past the street name. TIP: You can set suitecompression=false with the global endpoint, (setting to country to US), and matching suites will be listed separately with their own entries in the pick list.

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• US

Build 4.6.8.1173

Released April 2022

General Information

This is a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries which are updated.

• Backend bug fixes for DE
• Bug fixes for NL

Country Specific Updates

DE

• Updated Reference Data
• Fixed aliasing issue with attached thoroughfare types so that the type can be entered attached or non-attached.
• Fixed a bug with streets starting with Ue that do not come up.

NL

• Updated Reference Data
• Fixed a bug that prevented addresses starting with ' (left single-quote) from coming up.

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• DE, NL

Build 4.6.6.1171

Released March 2022

General Information

As a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries which are updated.

• More backend bug fixes for GB
• US bug fixes

Country Specific Updates

US

• Updated reference data
• Fixed a bug in filtering which caused addresses that currently have no rooftop geocoding available to appear in the distance sort. These addresses will now be removed from the results

GB

• New reference data
• Now allow search in Free Form using the Post Code, e.g. &ff=CR03RL
• Addition of UPRN and UDPRN codes

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• US, GB

Build 4.5.23.1160

Released February 2022

General Information

Primarily a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries which are updated.

• More backend bug fixes and supporting code for new data source with FR

Country Specific Updates

FR, BE

• New reference data for these countries

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• FR Data
• BE Data

Build 4.5.23.1158

Released November 2021

General Information

This is primarily a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for the countries which are updated.

• Fixed a bug that prevented thoroughfares in multiple cities in Germany from being shown
• Backend bug fixes
• Fixed non-results/spurious results with State filtering option where filter list had more than one member

Country Specific Updates

IE, DE

• New reference data for these countries

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• IE (EIRCode data), DE

Build 4.5.18.1151

Released October 2021

General Information

This release improves response times with a new, containerized version of the service allowing improved scalability and modular country data updates. The service will also return closer results to the search term for all countries. Upgraded hardware monitoring will improve uptime and optimize the Service resources for overall improved performance. For more information, see https://www.melissa.com/quickstart-guides/express-entry-advisory

• Fixed a bug that prevented thoroughfares with diacritics from being shown when using the GlobalExpressThoroughfare endpoint.

Country Specific Updates

(No country specific updates for this version)

Build 3.8.12.1126

Released July 2021

General Information

This is primarily a reference data and bug fix update, please see below for countries which are updated.

• Fixed a bug that prevented thoroughfares in multiple cities in Italy from being shown

Country Specific Updates

IT, CH, DE, CZ, MX

• New reference data for these countries from a master address table shared with other Melissa products

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• IT, CH, DE, CZ, MX

Build 3.8.12.1123

Released May 2021

General Information

This release adds dominant counties to the GlobalExpressLocalityAdministrativeArea endpoint for the U.S.:

• GlobalExpressLocalityAdministrativeArea: added dominant counties for the locality, into <SubAdministrativeArea>

Country Specific Updates

US

• New U.S. reference data

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• U.S.

Build 3.8.12.1120

Released April 2021

General Information

This release resolves bugs related to the following:

• GlobalExpressLocalityAdministrativeArea: Now returns the postal code list in countries such as Portugal
• GlobalExpressThoroughfare: Thoroughfares with diacritics are now returned

Country Specific Updates

SWEDEN

• New Sweden reference data

CANADA

• Added geocoding coordinates to Canada data

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• Canada (CA)
• Sweden (SE)

Build 3.8.12.1115

Released February 2021

General Information

This is a bug fix release to fix bugs related to request errors when using the &diacriticreplace option.

Country Specific Updates

AUSTRALIA

• New Australia reference data using a new master address table covers more addresses than previous versions
• Various countries and territories updated to latest version of reference data

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• AU
• Many other countries and territories

Build 3.8.12.1113

Released December 2020

General Information

We have updated our data source tables to enable more frequent updates to Global Express Entry reference data for popular countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. Also, we are updating infrastructure in order to scale better and improve response times. These changes are expected in 2021.

Country Specific Updates

UNITED KINGDOM

• Organization names from Royal Mail data are now inserted into the <Address1> field, and no longer need to be added to output from the <Organization> field
• Organization names are now searchable in Free Form requests, eg. ‘Croydon A Power Station’

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• UK

Build 3.8.12.1075

Released September 2020

General Information

This is a reference data only update.

Data Updates

Reference Data Updates

• CZ, IT

Build 3.8.12.0

Released December 2019

• Improved Free Form search and results display

Build 3.6.0.0

Released February 2019

• Now using AUS Post data for Australia
• Bug fixes

Build 3.4.1.0

Released August 2018

• Added unique ZIP Code Addresses to U.S. data
• Bug fixes

Build 3.4.0.0

Released July 2018

• Added unique ZIP Codes to U.S. data
• Added GB Dependent Locality search for Free Form

Build 3.3.8.0

Released May 2018

• Improved sorting of results

Build 3.3.1.0

Released January 2018

• Improved flat search in GB

Build 3.2.7.0

Released October 2017

• Bug fixes

Build 3.2.0.0

Released August 2017

• Resolved certain stability issues

Build 3.0.0.5

Released January 2017

• Filtering added
• Ireland updated with EIRCode Data

Build 3.0.0.1

Released December 2016

• Bug fixes

Build 3.0.0a

Released October 2016

• Aliases for directionals and street types in the U.S. data are now present– you don’t have to use abbreviations any more
• <CountrySubdivisionCode_x0020_ > has been renamed to <CountrySubdivisionCode> in the ExpressAddress and ExpressFreeForm endpoints
• Address Key is now a comma-delimited list corresponding to the suites, when present, at an address
• Data for U.S., Germany, Austria, Great Britain, and Switzerland is improved
• <MAK>, <BaseMAK>, <Latitude>, and <Longitude> fields are now present
• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.19

Released April 2016

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.18

Released April 2016

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.17

Released March 2016

• Added the GlobalExpressCountry endpoint

Build 2.0.0.16

Released February 2016

• Improved search for global endpoints

Build 2.0.0.15

Released January 2016

• User can now enter a zip and leave line1 empty and get results.

Build 2.0.0.14

Released December 2015

• Improved Free Form Search Algorithm

Build 2.0.0.13

Released November 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.12

Released September 2015

• Bug fix of GlobalExpressLocalityAdministrativeArea which had administrative area parameter error

Build 2.0.0.11

Released September 2015

• Added ISO2 Region codes

Build 2.0.0.10

Released September 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.9

Released August 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.8

Released May 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.7

Released May 2015

• fixed issue if maxrecords is empty or null

Build 2.0.0.6

Released May 2015

• Bug fixes
• Added locality to the GlobalExpressThoroughfare endpoint, some countries (Ireland) do not have postal code so we need to use locality

Build 2.0.0.5

Released May 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.4

Released May 2015

• Bug fixes

Build 2.0.0.3

Released March 2015

• Country code 'USA' added

Build 2.0.0.2

Released February 2015

• Now allows 1 digit postcodes (as for Ireland)

Build 2.0.0.1

Released November 2013

• Public Release

Build 1.0.0.0

Released September 2013

• Beta Release