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9.4.1.7114

Released on: May 2025

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  • General Update

    • In this release, we have filled out our coverage of the ISO 3166-2 Country Subdivision Code. All countries that have possible values for CountrySubdivisionCode will now return them. The list of new countries that now have CountrySubdivisionCode are: AL, AZ, BA, BH, BJ, BN, BO, BY, CI, CU, CY, EG, HR, JM, JO, LS, MZ, NA, SE, SK, SR, ST, ZA, ZW

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, BELGIUM, CHINA, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, HONG KONG, ITALY, LUXEMBOURG, MEXICO, SPAIN, SWEDEN, UNITED STATES, VIETNAM, YEMEN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Australia

      • We have added more non-postal addresses to our reference database
      • Resolved an issue where building information was not always included in the address lines and FormattedAddress
      • Updated FormattedAddress to prioritize a street address in Addressline1 and a PO Box in Addressline2 if both are in the address
      • Fixed an issue where extra thoroughfare directional (N, S, E, W) could have been parsed as a subpremises number

    • Austria

      • Improved Thoroughfare parsing

    • Belgium

      • Improved casing for thoroughfares with l’ at the beginning

    • Bahamas

      We have updated our data source for Bahamas due to an availability issue with our previous source data.

      • House number data no longer available
      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned

    • China

      • Improved parsing of postal code values in the input address

    • Germany

      • Postfiliale data now available in our reference data. This is in addition to Postfache and Packstation data.
      • Improved logic to avoid false coding by de-prioritizing partial postal code matches. This was based on our analysis of customer input patterns and we determined that this logic was too aggressive
      • Improved thoroughfare parsing
      • Added additional thoroughfare synonym values to improve coding rate

    • Great Britain

      • Fixed an issue where the Organization value returned was a similar value to the input but not the best possible match

    • Hong Kong

      • We have made a major improvement in the parsing and coding logic to significantly improve coding accuracy and coding rates
      • Fixed an issue where sometimes, the subpremises, subpremiseslevel, building, or subbuilding parsed value was not returned in the Address lines and FormattedAddress
      • Estate values can now be returned as part of the output when available
      • MelissaAddressKey now returned again

    • Italy

      • Improved handling of the different variations possible for numbers or roman numerals (20 vs Venti vs XX)

    • Luxembourg

      • Fixed a rare issue where the country name variation used could have had an impact on the coding of a few edge cases

    • Mexico

      Melissa has made a heavy investment into Mexico address data. While we already have access to data from Correos de México (SEPOMEX), this data is postal code level only. We invested a significant amount of time, effort, and capital to find possible sources, evaluate and test them, and acquire the best data.

      • Improved coding rate with the new data source
      • Improved accuracy of the latitude and longitude values
      • The Locality values more closely align with Correos de México (SEPOMEX) and do not have the prefix (ie: Colonia, Fraccionamiento, Rancheria…) included
      • Fixed an issue where the country variation on input could affect the coding of some rare edge cases

    • Spain

      Based on user feedback, we have made a serious effort in doing data cleanup and also adding new data from other sources. Unfortunately, Spain address data is not as clean and uniform as other countries in western Europe. Melissa is dedicated to making sure the best data is available for our users and we have made a major addition to our data with this update.

      • Added an additional data source to fill in gaps in coverage
      • Improved coding rate
      • Fixed an issue where street information was sometimes missing when coded to AV12
      • Updated FormattedAddress to better match postal preferences in edge cases
      • Improved handling of building in the FormattedAddress
      • Improved handling of premises and subpremises values in the FormattedAddress

    • Sweden

      We have updated our data source for Sweden. Based on customer feedback and our own evaluation, we have determined that a new source with improved postal code and locality data was necessary.

      • Improved data accuracy between localities and postal codes
      • Improved coding rate
      • Postbox data no longer available as the data was determined to be outdated
      • AdministrativeArea preferred name no longer has “Län” as suffix (Skåne vs Skåne Län )

    • United States

      • Added over 660 thousand non-postal addresses for our reference database
      • Improved handling of identifying street vs high-rise addresses when there is a conflict in the source database
      • Fixed some edge case issues related to unique Zip codes where Addressline1 and Addressline2 values were being swapped
      • Improved quality of DeliveryIndicator and reduced number of Unknown (U) values returned

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Security

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9.4.1.7101

Released on: March 2025

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  • General Update

    • We have fixed an issue where double spaces in the address lines and FormattedAddress was being replaced by a single space as a data quality cleanup step. However, this conflicted with several countries, Australia and Netherlands in particular, where double spaces was not required but preferred in certain place. We have rolled back this cleanup for these two countries to better match postal preferences.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, GUATEMALA, HONG KONG, SOUTH KOREA, LUXEMBOURG, NORWAY, PERU, THAILAND, UNITED STATES, VENEZUELA

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Australia

      • We have added more Non-Postal data to our address database. We not are including over 700K non-postal addresses
      • We now return a double space between the Subpremise information and the house number to better match postal preference

    • Belgium

      • Improved handling of address patterns, especially around sub premises
      • Data improvement to better handle addresses that have data in parenthesis
      • Fixed an issue where some retired addresses were included in the address data

    • Brazil

      • Fixed an issue where the AdministrativeArea was sometimes returned in fully spelled out form instead of the expected abbreviated version.

    • Canada

      We have made a number of improvements to our Canadian Engine. We will now better handle the interaction between French versus English in the addresses. Previously, due to being SERP certified, we had to stick to the results expected by the SERP test. Now, we are adding a secondary mode in the engine so that we can return what many people expect, while still having the option to switch to SERP mode for certification.

      • We have improved a case where the CanadaPost SERP data provided caps the ThoroughfareName at 30 characters but the real-life street is longer. We have been able to research and adjust this data now that we don’t have to strictly adhere to SERP
      • Fixed an issue where MelissaAddressKeyBase was not being returned
      • Improved handling of edge case address patterns

    • Czechia

      • We have changed the official country name coming back from our engine to “Czechia” as per ISO 3166 standards

    • Finland

      • Improved address pattern recognition to improve coding
      • Reduced false coding
      • Improved area level validation
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where a duplicate postal code was returned in FormattedAddress

    • France

      • Fixed an issue where some house numbers were excluded from the data

    • Germany

      • Reduced false coding
      • Fixed an issue where some addresses that matched to a bulk postal code address but did not return AddressType=B

    • Great Britain

      • Improved validation with organizational data, especially with extra sub premise types present
      • Reduced false coding

    • Guatemala

      • Fixed an issue where the street type (Calle, Avenida, etc) was repeated twice in the ThoroughfareName

    • Guernsey

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Hong Kong

      We have made some major improvements to our data. However, in order to get this data into the hands of our users in this update, we had to release a version without the MelissaAddressKey values. Those values will be available in the next quarterly update.

      • Improved localities returned
      • Improved street address coding
      • Improved Building names returned
      • MelissaAddressKey temporarily not being returned

    • Isle of Man

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Jersey

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Korea, Republic Of

      • Fixed an issue where DependentLocality or DoubleDependentLocality was missing in the FormattedAddress for some addresses
      • Update the latin locality data to more closely match user expectation

    • Luxembourg

      • Improved handling of more address patterns
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress

    • Netherlands

      • We now return a double space between the postal code and locality to better match postal preference

    • Norway

      • Improved address pattern recognition to improve coding
      • Reduced false coding
      • Improved area level validation
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where a duplicate postal code was returned in FormattedAddress
      • Updated our FormattedAddress to put building information in a separate line to better match with postal preferences

    • Peru

      We have changed our data source for a source with improved quality

      • Improved coding rate
      • Fixed an issue where the FormattedAddress may be missing some parsed address data
      • Improved parsing for partially validated addresses

    • Thailand

      • Fixed an issue where Locality was not returned for some AV12 addresses

    • United States

      • Fixed an issue where duplicated postal code could be returned in the FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where not diacritic characters in Puerto Rico was not being returned correctly
      • Fixed an issue where MelissaAddressKeyBase was not being returned

    • Venezuela

      • Reduced false coding for inputs that included “y” between two streets values.

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Security

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8.4.1.7039

Released on: December 2024

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