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Build History

8.4.0.1318

Released on: October 2024

Added

  • New Age Input Filtering for Personator
  • New ES08 Result Code for Email Addresses to detect group email addresses (ex: sales@, support@, or postmaster@)

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

8.4.0.1310

Released on: September 2024

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Melissa Identity Key now only gets appended when the record is verified (VR01, VR02 or VR03)
  • Melissa Demographics will not longer appear for historical records (VS01)
  • Credit car user will not longer return unless the name and address is verified (VR01)
  • Children Age Range now returng multiple values

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where Moves were incorrectly returning for some cases
  • Fixed an issue where demographics and MIK was not appending when a new name is appended

Security

  • None

8.4.0.1295

Released on: July 2024

Added

  • Added new AliasMode Option to preserve aliases addresses or convert them to the USPS preferred street name.

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

8.4.0.1289

Released on: June 2024

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where doing a MAK search sometimes does not append an address.
  • Fixed an issue where the Demographics Gender output was requiring a subscription to demographics. Demographics Gender now correctly returns a value with a Check subscription.

Security

  • Removed "Server: Kestrel" from headers

8.4.0.1282

Released on: April 2024

Added

  • Personator now correctly appends Name Suffixes and Middle Names from the Data.

Changed

  • It is no longer possible for newly suppressed records to move.
  • It is no longer possible to detect moves based only on the Address and First Name.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where MIK was not appending when doing Append Action Only.

Security

  • None

8.4.0.1269

Released on: March 2024

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Personator will no longer move individuals based only on First Name and Address.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • The service now correctly returns GE24 when users request for Demographics and they are not subscribed

Security

  • Service now using .NET Core 8

7.4.0.1267

Released on: February 2024

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Response Header changed from Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0 to Server: Kestrel

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where record suppression sometimes does not work

Security

  • None

7.4.0.1265

Released on: January 2024

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where older SOAP Request Structures were not accepted by the service.

Security

  • Cache-Control Response Header now set to: no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate,private.
  • Removed from Response Header: X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319

7.4.0.1257

Released on: December 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • More optimization improvement for when doing Check,Verify Action to improve response times in certain cases

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • WSDL Support for HTTPS URLs put in place.

7.4.0.1252

Released on: December 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Optimization improvement for when doing Check,Verify Action to improve response times in certain cases

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Actions Input now correctly accepts semicolon delimiter
  • Fixed an issue where some information in the internal logs were being put in the wrong column

Security

  • Supports new system for ignoring problematic records that cause the web service to crashes

7.4.0.1235

Released on: December 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Web Service code is now in .NET Core.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • Several back-end Security updates to comply with industry standards for web service security.

5.6.17.0

Released on: November 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • MelissaIdentityKey now outputs only when the Name and Address are determined to be a full match in the data.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where certain long strings inputted to Email crashes the service
  • Fixed an issue where VR04 sometimes does not return for a matching address and phone number when the centricity is set to Phone.

Security

  • None

5.6.13.0

Released on: June 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where VR04 result codes was missing when doing a phone centric append
  • Fixed an issue where VR05 result codes was missing when doing an email centric append

Security

  • None

5.6.11.0

Released on: March 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Phones and Emails should now get appended when doing Address Only as input with Append action enabled.

Deprecated

  • Web service no longer supports Social Security Verification and Reverse Appends.

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where MIK Reverse Append does not return some of the demographic information.
  • Fixed an issue where some demographics don't get appended when doing reverse Phone and Reverse Email appends.
  • Fixed an issue where VR04 is being returned even when there is no phone in the output.
  • Fixed an issue where VR05 is being returned even when there is no email in the output.

Security

  • None

5.6.7.0

Released on: February 2023

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Added Logic to append Phones and Emails when VR02 or VR03 are returned. Currently it is only checking for VR01.
  • MIK Input now only requires Check and Verify Subscription Levels (Previously required Append).

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where DateLAstConfirmed was not populating
  • Fixed an issue where MIK was non populating

Security

  • None

5.6.6.0

Released on: January 2023

Added

  • New MIK (MelissaIdentityKey) Input for doing reverse appends using the Melissa Identity Key.

  • Added back-end configuration to disable SSN verification/reverse appends, in preparation for the March 27 SSN End of Life. Article can be found here

Changed

  • MelissaIdentityKey output to now only require Check/Verify level action (Previously required Append Action).

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Option for Cassandra bypass now fully implemented

Security

  • None

5.6.2.0

Formerly: 5.6.2.0 - November 2022

Released on: November 2022

Added

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.4.5.5

Formerly: 5.4.5.5 - July 2022

Released on: July 2022

Added

  • None

Changed

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.38.2

Formerly: 5.2.38.0 - November 2021

Released on: November 2021

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Improved API's ability to:
    • Append more accurate demographics and contact information
    • Verify name-address-phone-email correlation to ensure full contact accuracy
    • Perform Moves and provide the latest address for individuals
  • Recompiled Personator's Reference data with the newly acquired data sources. This offers better and more comprehensive data.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.38.1

Formerly: 5.2.38.0 - June 2021

Released on: June 2021

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Handle external API with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 Protocol
  • When VR01 only in the result code, append Phone and Email in the results
  • Remove all non-numeric characters in the SSN Input

  • SSN Search Improvements

  • Changes to SSN result codes:

    • VR11 changed to - Full name and SSN match
    • VS12 added - Last name and SSN match

  • The following SSN action=append changed applied for:

    • If it's VS12 only, allow appends.
    • If it's VS50 only, allow appends.
    • If it's BOTH VS12 and VS50, do not append

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.37.0

Formerly: 5.2.37.0 - November 2020

Released on: November 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Major Update
    • Personator now only appends Phones and Emails when there is an exact individual match (result codes contain VR01 AND NOT VS12 AND NOT VS13)

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.36.0

Formerly: 5.2.36.0 - August 2020

Released on: August 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update
    • Personator will no longer perform the append action when AS02 is returned in the results. Appends will now only occur for AS01 and AS03 result codes

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where the service sometimes returns bad phone numbers that return a PE03.
  • Fixed a bug where the service sometimes replaces a phone number with a new phone number from the Personator Database, despite setting the option to Append:Blank

Security

  • None

5.2.35.0

Formerly: 5.2.35.0 - July 2020

Released on: July 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update
    • All addresses retuning Delivery Indicator of "B" will no longer return Demographic information. This is because business sites should not be returning consumer information.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.34.0

Formerly: 5.2.34.0 - May 2020

Released on: May 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Major Update

    • New featrure: opt=DecennialCensusKey: 2010|off

    This option toggles the census key output to return the static 2010 census key instead of the latest census key.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.33.0

Formerly: 5.2.33.0 - May 2020

Released on: May 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update
    • The NS02 Result code has been deemed unnecessary and will no longer return in the web service result codes.
    • The PS02 (7-digit coded) will no longer return it the web service result codes. Instead, phone numbers will now code to PS01 (10-digit verified).

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.32.0

Formerly: 5.2.32.0 - April 2020

Released on: April 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Major Update
    • Personator now only returns demographics when there is an exact individual match (result codes contain VR01 AND NOT VS12 AND NOT VS13)

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.29.0

Formerly: 5.2.29.0 - February 2020

Released on: February 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Major Update

    • New Feature: Advanced Address Type

    When Advanced Address Type is set to on (&opt=AdvancedAddressType:on), the service will return more detailed Address Types.

  • Minor Update

    • Improvements to Canadian GeoCoding coverage and accuracy.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.25.0

Formerly: 5.2.25.0 - December 2018

Released on: December 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Further improvements done to the GeoCoding by using new input Parameters using the MAK as input to produce more accurate GeoCoding information

    • Fixed the address format for Private Mailboxes.

      • Improved data to increase AV23 and AV24 coding
      • Addresses with valid localities but invalid addresses will no longer code to AV22

    • Other internal changes to improve GeoCoding accuracy.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where the pipes (“|”) would sometimes output as part of the Results.

Security

  • None

5.2.20.0

Formerly: 5.2.20.0 - October 2018

Released on: October 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Internal Re-work of Geocoding Engine to replace direct database access to using the GeoCoder API.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.16.0

Formerly: 5.2.16.0 - August 2018

Released on: August 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Credit Licenses are now supported within Personator. A Credit License allows users to store pre-paid credits to their license in order to access the service. Credits can be purchased through the Melissa Credit Portal. Certain features are not accessible through Credit Only Licenses including:

      • SSN Verification
      • IP Address Verificaiton
      • Demographics

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.14.0

Formerly: 5.2.14.0 - June 2018

Released on: June 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where bad Canadian Email Addresses were being appended. It should now follow the same logic as the US.
  • Fixed an issue where the EmailAddress column sometimes disappears when asking for Demographics:MaskOnly or Demographics:ValueOnly
  • Fixed an issue where CBSA sometimes did not output correctly.

Security

  • None

5.2.5.0

Formerly: 5.2.5.0 - April 2018

Released on: April 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Global IP now returns GE27 in the TransmissionResults when a user is not subscribed to Global IP.
    • Name Centric was removed from CentricHint Cascading. Currently, when CentricHint is auto (default), Personator will check by ordering (SSN, Address, Phone, and Email) for CentricHint, until match in the data is found.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.2.2.0

Formerly: 5.2.2.0 - March 2018

Released on: March 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Added new output placeholder for EstimatedHomeValue. This does not currently return any values, and is reserved for future implementation.

    <EstimatedHomeValue />

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where Personator was returning redundant Email Result Codes

Security

  • None

5.2.1.0

Formerly: 5.2.1.0 - March 2018

Released on: March 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Minor Update

    • Added Name Centric Hint. This can be set as part of the options: &opt=CentricHint:Name
    • Added BirthDay, BirthMonth and BirthYear inputs. Setting the Date of Birth allows for additional filtering in order to match on specific individuals. This can be set in the input like so:

    &bday={BirthDay}&bmo={BirthMonth}&byr={BirthYear}

    • Added new input for supporting IP Address

    &ip={IpAddress}

    • The following outputs were also added in support of IP Address Verification in Personator:
    • <IPAddress/>
    • <IPCity/>
    • <IPCountryAbbreviation/>
    • <IPCountryName/>
    • <IPConnectionSpeed/>
    • <IPConnectionType/>
    • <IPContinent/>
    • <IPDomainName/>
    • <IPISPName/>
    • <IPLatitude/>
    • <IPLongitude/>
    • <IPPostalCode/>
    • <IPProxyType/>
    • <IPProxyDescription/>
    • <IPRegion/>
    • <IPUTC/>
    • The new columns may be retrieved individually or by calling the requesting for the GrpIPAddress in the columns input:

    cols=GrpIPAddress

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

5.1.5.0

Formerly: 5.1.5.0 - July 2017

Released on: July 2017

Added

  • Added Functionality for SSN Verification

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.3.2.0

Formerly: 3.3.2.0 - April 2015

Released on: April 2015

Added

  • Added Functionality for Canadian Append, Verify, and Move.
  • Added PhoneCountryName and PhoneCountryCode output.

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.65.0

Formerly: 3.2.65.0 - March 2015

Released on: March 2015

Added

  • Added MoveConfidence(Strict|Loose) Option.

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.59.0

Formerly: 3.2.59.0 - November 2014

Released on: November 2014

Added

  • Added Demographics as part of the output columns
  • Added LongAddressFormat(off|on|auto) Option.

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.52.0

Formerly: 3.2.52.0 - September 2014

Released on: September 2014

Added

  • None

Changed

  • New mdHints Functionality for optional Speed Improvements

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.32.2

Formerly: 3.2.32.0 - June 2014

Released on: June 2014

Added

  • Added 10 Year NCOA Move Capability

Changed

  • Data Update

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.32.1

Formerly: 3.2.32.0 - February 2014

Released on: February 2014

Added

  • Added 10 Year NCOA Move Capability

Changed

  • Free Form Input - Personator will now accept single line Input String and parse out the Address, Company, Name, Phone and Email Address. FreeForm Inputs can be both fielded and unfielded.
  • Email Append - Personator now has the capability to append Email Addresses

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.2.14.0

Formerly: 3.2.14.0 - July 2013

Released on: July 2013

Added

  • Added 10 Year NCOA Move Capability

Changed

  • Move Update - The Personator Web Service now has the ability to return the current address for an individual or company. This can be done by enabling the action Move.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

1.0.00.0

Formerly: 1.0.00.0 - November 2012

Released on: November 2012

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Past Announcements

Major Database Update - September 29, 2021

Notice details can be found here.