2024Q4.0 API Minor release and 202410 Data release Notes

Release Details

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

The 2024 Q4.0 Major Release makes improvements to the verification process and the quality of the results. These enhancements are tied to both the data and the API so please update both.

Loqate has resolved several data related support cases as part of this release and details can be found in the Data Release Notes.

If you need any assistance with the upgrade of the 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.

API Release Notices

There are three customer case fix to our API in this release and details of these are available in the API Release Notes here

202410 Data & Geographic Hierarchy Release Notes

This release includes data updates for 34 countries, full details are in the Data Release Notes 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