postcodes.io

11.1.0 (6/3/2020)

• Updated ONSPD to Feb 2020
• Updated Open Names to Jan 2020
• Updated GSS codes for missing parishes
• Chore: Refactored static ejs templates

11.0.1 (6/1/2020)

• Fix: codes.cgg incorrectly returning short code rather than GSS code

11.0.0 (3/1/2020)

• Breaking Change CCG Short Code column added to ccgs table
• CCG Short Code returned in codes object
• Update ONSPD to November 2019
• Update OS Open Names to October 2019
• Updated GSS codes for midding NUTS
• Updated GSS codes for midding wards
• New docker-compose setup for test, dev and s3 pg_dump testing

10.2.1 (2/9/2019)

• Return specific error message if postcode not in SPD but in ONSPD. Thanks to @mashedkeyboard

10.2.0 (27/8/2019)

• Update ONSPD to August 2019
• Update OS Open Names to July 2019
• Updated GSS codes for missing wards
• Integrated Scotland Postcode Directory (SPD) dataset
• Added Scotland postcode lookup (for Scottish Constituencies) /scotland/postcodes/:postcode

10.1.4 (5/7/2019)

• CI testing on node 12 (instead of 11)
• Deprecated PMX configuration option. Use prom-client for monitoring
• Fix: Prom client uses stricter path matching to reduce cardinaility in path= label
• Update ONSPD to May 2019
• Update OS Names dataset to April 2019
• Rebuild GSS codes

10.1.3 (23/3/2019)

• Enable prometheus endpoint
• .env files loaded upon application start. These are overwritten with explicit ENV variables

10.1.2 (7/3/2019)

• Fix: npm run setup on ubuntu
• Dependency Update: switch from pmx to @pm2/io
• Add ability to define google analytics key with environment variable

10.1.1 (6/3/2019)

• Fix: renamed and moved docker-compose-test.yml as it breaks Docker Hub build

10.1.0 (3/3/2019)

• Updated ONSPD dataset to February 2019
• Updated OS Names dataset to January 2019
• Rebuild GSS codes for NHSHA and NUTS datasets
• Dropped bunyan as dependency. Replaced with pino, a faster and actively maintained logging library
• Log destination can now be assigned via env variable LOG_DESTINATION
  • "/absolute/path/to/file" logs to file
  • "stdout" logs to stdout
  • "perf" logs to stdout in extreme mode
• Added ability to export prometheus metrics by basic auth protected /metrics endpoint. To enable include PROMETHEUS_USERNAME and PROMETHEUS_PASSWORD as environment variables. Those environment variables are required to authenticate using HTTP basic authentication
• Updated dependencies
• Added ability to configure application limits using environment variables. See readme
• Amended npm run setup bash script to accept more configuration arguments

10.0.1 (16/01/2018)

• Fix: default config.js file would fail to load under NODE_ENV=production (thanks to @g-wilson)
• Update dependencies
• Added link to new Python lib (thanks to @raigad)
• Clean up documentation

10.0.0 (29/11/2018)

• Breaking Change Install dependencies upgraded. Going forward, only the following minimum versions will be tested:
  • Node.js 8
  • PostgreSQL 10
• Postcode responses now include County Electoral Districts (ceds)
• Updated documentation (outcodes, installation)
• Updated dependencies
• Updated GSS codes for missing wards
• Updated ONSPD dataset to November 2018
• Updated OS Names dataset to October 2018

9.0.3 (26/10/2018)

Minor updates and fixes. Many related to docker improvements

• Fix: /outcodes endpoint returned a result attribute rather than an error attribute for a not found response
• Docker Related: Application gracefully exits from SIGTERM
• Docker Related: Application writes logs to stdout when NODE_ENV=production
• DockerFile:
  • Added healthcheck
  • Run application as non-root user (node)
  • Reduced image size: delete npm cache, added .dockerignore
• DockerFile.pg:
  • New docker file that builds a postgresql container that preloads postcodesio.io dataset

9.0.2 (23/8/2018)

• Updated ONSPD dataset to August 2018
• Updated OS Names dataset to July 2018

9.0.1 (18/6/2018)

• Fixed regression. WGS84 geolocations for points with no assigned geolocation (in postcodes and terminated_postcodes relations) returned 0 and 99.9999 (ONSPD default identifiers for no geolocation) instead of null and null.
• Updated pg_dump released in 9.0.0 to incorporate above fix
• Updated noticeboard

9.0.0 (8/6/2018)

• Breaking Change Updated postcode and terminated_postcode models for the new schema in ONSPD CSV file. This means >9.0.0 will not be able to import ONSPD CSV files produced before May 2018. pg_dump imports will not be affected
• Added package.lock file
• Updated wards, districts, nuts, ccgs GSS Codes
• Updated ONSPD dataset to May 2018
• Updated OS Names dataset to April 2018

8.0.0 (6/3/2018)

• Breaking Change Terminated Postcode schema has been updated to include geolocation attributes: longitude, latitude, northings, eastings and location
• Extended /terminated_postcodes endpoint to include longitude and latitude
• Updated parishes GSS Codes
• Tidy up of ONSPD and Open Names import scripts. Now named postcodesio-onspd and postcodesio-oson respectively. Dropped unmaintained update script
• Updated ONSPD dataset to Feb 2018
• Updated OS Names dataset to Jan 2018

7.0.1 (26/1/2018)

• Fixed performance regression on /places endpoint where postgresql's unaccent() causing index miss

7.0.0 (8/12/2017)

• Breaking Change. Place schema has been amended with additional columns to support better text search for place names. When upgrading, places will need to be rebuilt
• Added Dockerfile & Dockerhub Repository (thanks to @jamescun and @billinghamj)
• Fix: Added missing filterable attributes for ?filter=
• Updated dependencies
• Updated NUTS, Wards, Parishses GSS codes
• Added optional rate limiting on bulk lookup endpoints
• Updated ONSPD dataset to Nov 2017
• Updated OS Names dataset to Oct 2017

• Updated dependencies
• [Dev] Run code coverage and linter by default