Global Express Entry:Build History
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
GlobalExpressLocalityAdministrativeAreaendpoint 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