2023 Q4.0 Major Release Notes

The setup wizard for the Local API can be obtained from our SFTP server. Please contact your account manager to retrieve the SFTP information. If you do not know who your account manager is, please contact the support team at support@loqate.com.

Note: If you are using command line to connect to the SFTP server, you will need to use ‘sftp user@site’ format instead of just ‘sftp site’.

The 2023Q4.0 Major release makes improvements to the verification process and the quality of the results. Please remember to update the reference data. The improvements are tied to the data in the Global Knowledge Repository and the Local API.

When updating the data, it is recommended to use a new data folder each time in order to ensure the latest dataset is installed properly.

If you need any assistance with the upgrade of the Local API or the data update process, please contact GBG Loqate Support. The md5checksum can be used to help ensure the data packs have been fully downloaded.

If you would like to see a list of md5checksums for this release please visit the md5 hash value guide or contact your account manager.

Local API Notices

There is one change to the API that improves the geocode matching across all countries in some exception cases and details are available in the API Release Notes via the link below.

Data Notices

This release includes data updates for 26 countries. – These include regular refreshes for US, CA, GB, AU, DE, GG, JE, IM and refreshes for the following countries AE, AR, AT, BR, CN, ES, FI, HU, HR, IE, IN, JP, MX, NO, RO, SE, SG, and TR.

Please see the Data Release Notes below for details on these updates and any significant data changes.

We have resolved 16 support cases as part of this release and details of these can be found in the below release notes.

API Release Notes

To download a PDF version of the API Release Notes, please click here
To download a DOCX version of the API Release Notes, please click here

Data Release Notes

To download a PDF version of the Data Release Notes, please click here
To download a DOCX version of the Data Release Notes, please click here

Seed Release Notes

To download a PDF version of the Geographic Hierarchy (Seed) Release Notes, please click here
To download a DOCX version of the Geographic Hierarchy (Seed) Release Notes, please click here

Additional Information

For a list of resolved support cases, please click here

A list of supported platforms for this release can be found here

The information on the SFTP file contents for the release is available here

The installation instructions are available here