postcodes.io

6.1.0 (4/9/2017)

• Minimum required version of node.js bumped to 6.x
• Added terminated postcodes relation and /terminated_postcodes API
• Postcode responses now include a GSS code for parliamentary constituencies
• Extraction scripts data files (data/*.json) now stored in data/scripts/ and will effectively document how the data files are generated
• Mispecified resources (404 errors) now return JSON instead of application/text
• Invalid JSON post requests return 400 errors instead of 500 HTTP response codes
• Updated ONSPD dataset to Aug 2017
• Updated OS Names dataset to July 2017

• Breaking Change Outcode schema has been modified to include country. When upgrading it's sufficient to rebuild support tables with npm run rebuild_support_tables
• /outcodes/:outcode, /outcodes/:outcode/nearest and /outcodes now also return a country array in the outcode result

• Breaking Change Postcode schema has been modified
• Faster and better quality postcode search and autocomplete
• Add missing wards for ONSPD May 2017

• Dependency updates
• Added references to additional libraries

• Incorporate OS Places dataset
• npm package now points to app.js which exports instance postcodes.io express app
• Minimum advised required Postgresql version of 9.5 (due to backwards incompatible pg_dump)
• Updated latest pg_dump for Feb 2017 ONSPD, January 2017 OS Places data

• Updated latest pg_dump for Nov 2016 ONSPD
• Updated NUTS GSS codes
• Added support for Node.js 6.9

Drop node 0.x support, supports 4.x only
Dependency upgrades