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title: Ideal Postcodes Blog | Christopher Blanchard
description: Stay up to date with Ideal Postcodes announcements, news and updates
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# Christopher Blanchard

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<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-update-19.0.0>

## [Postcodes.io Update v19.0.0](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-update-19.0.0)

> Enhanced regional data & performance improvements

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-18.0.0>

## [Postcodes.io Update 18.0.0](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-18.0.0)

> Version 18.0.0 is the most significant Postcodes.io update in years.13 New Fields and 2021 Census Data

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-update-02-24>

## [New in Postcodes.io](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-update-02-24)

> The latest update to Postcodes.io is live: February 2024

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/using-ai-to-ensure-accurate-address-validation>

## [Using AI to Ensure Accurate Address Validation](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/using-ai-to-ensure-accurate-address-validation)

> At Ideal Postcodes, we are always looking ahead and striving to innovate

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/update-on-apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228>

## [Update on Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/update-on-apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228)

> We are not impacted or at risk from the recently disclosed security vulnerability but are closely monitoring the issue

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-1k-github-stars-and-1.2-million-installs-later>

## [Postcodes.io 1k GitHub stars and 1.2 million installs later](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/postcodes.io-1k-github-stars-and-1.2-million-installs-later)

> We're proud to announce our sister API has reached a milestone

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/new-live-developer-chat-via-gitter>

## [New Live Developer Chat via Gitter](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/new-live-developer-chat-via-gitter)

> Developer chat is now on Gitter to provide even better support for developers

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/api-handles-over-billion-requests-per-month>

## [We've passed 1 billion requests per month](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/api-handles-over-billion-requests-per-month)

> Our core address search APIs Ideal-Postcodes.co.uk and postcodes.io now handle over 1 billion requests per month

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/2021-05-27-data-processing-gdpr>

## [Onshoring Ideal Postcodes Data Processing](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/2021-05-27-data-processing-gdpr)

> With the collapse of the EU-US Privacy Shield and the unworkability of SCCs, all subprocessing activities have been onshored to UK/EU data centres only

<https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/2020-05-30-rotation>

## [TLS Certificate Rotation](https://blog.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/blog/2020-05-30-rotation)

> The TLS certificates for \*.ideal-postcodes.co.uk\* and \*.postcodes.io\* from13:12 UTC Saturday 30 May 2020.

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