This page is updated with each new release of the Address Validation API. The changelog lists releases by date and includes any new features, bug fixes and significant performance improvements. You can also browse and filter all release notes for all products in the Google API Console.
See the Getting Started documentation for information on how to get started using the Address Validation API.
June 18, 2025
The Address Validation API now supports the following features:
possibleNextAction field in the verdict to help you determine what action to take after receiving the API response.
The following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:
Japan (JP)
This is currently a preview feature. This region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see Address Validation API coverage details.
July 25, 2024
The following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:
India (IN)
This is currently a preview feature. This region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see Address Validation API coverage details.
May 16, 2024
The following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:
The following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:
Bulgaria (BG)
This region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see Address Validation API coverage details.
The Address Validation API now supports returning the address in English in the API response. This is currently a preview feature. For more details, see Convert addresses into English.
June 08, 2023
The following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Address Validation API. See the Release Notes for information about this release and for all other releases.
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Many regions now support residential and commercial address metadata, including the previously mentioned, plus Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Switzerland, Chile, Germany, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, and Poland. Session pricing was introduced with the Autocomplete (New) API, and new documentation guides were created. The API is now in General Availability.\n"],null,["[Subscribe](/static/feeds/address-validation-api-release-notes.xml)\nto these release notes.\n[](/static/feeds/address-validation-api-release-notes.xml)\nThis page is updated with each new release of the Address Validation API. The changelog lists releases by date and includes any new features, bug fixes and significant performance improvements. You can also browse and filter all release notes for all products in the [Google API Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes). See the [Getting Started](/maps/documentation/address-validation/release-notes/cloud-setup) documentation for information on how\nto get started using the Address Validation API.\n\nJune 18, 2025 \nThe Address Validation API now supports the following features:\n\n- possibleNextAction field in the verdict to help you determine what action to take after receiving the API response.\n- hasSpellCorrectedComponents field in the verdict.\n\nSee [Build your validation logic](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/build-validation-logic) and the [API reference docs](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/reference/rest/v1/TopLevel/validateAddress#possibleNextAction) for more details.\n\nMarch 20, 2025 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Japan (JP)\n\nThis is currently a preview feature. This region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nJuly 25, 2024 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- India (IN)\n\nThis is currently a preview feature. This region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nMay 16, 2024 \nThe following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:\n\n- Argentina (AR)\n- Brazil (BR)\n\nFor the complete list of regions that support residential and commercial address metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nApril 10, 2024 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Bulgaria (BG)\n\nThis region also supports both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response. For the complete list of supported regions, and which regions support residential and commercial metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nFebruary 21, 2024 \nThe Address Validation API now supports session pricing with the Autocomplete (New) API. See [Address Validation API Usage and Billing](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/usage-and-billing#address-validation-preferred) for more details.\n\nJanuary 08, 2024 \nThe following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:\n\n- Croatia (HR)\n- Estonia (EE)\n- Portugal (PT)\n\nFor the complete list of regions that support residential and commercial address metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nDecember 12, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Croatia (HR)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nDecember 05, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Portugal (PT)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nOctober 11, 2023 \nThe following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:\n\n- Austria (AT)\n- Belgium (BE)\n- Czechia (CZ)\n- Denmark (DK)\n- Hungary (HU)\n- Latvia (LV)\n- Lithuania (LT)\n- Luxembourg (LU)\n- Norway (NO)\n- Puerto Rico (PR)\n- Slovakia (SK)\n- Slovenia (SI)\n- Sweden (SE)\n- Switzerland (CH)\n\nFor the complete list of regions that support residential and commercial address metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nOctober 10, 2023 \nAnnouncing updated documentation for the Address Validation API to help developers with the following: \nImproved Getting started guides: [Send an Address Validation request](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/requests-validate-address) and [Understand a basic response](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/understand-response). \nCreated new guides for integrating the API response into your validation logic: [Build your validation logic](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/build-validation-logic) with related, detailed examples. \nRefreshed guide on using USPS data in the API response (for US addresses): [Handle United States addresses](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/handle-us-address).\n\nAugust 17, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Argentina (AR)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nJune 22, 2023 \nThe Address Validation API now supports returning the address in English in the API response. This is currently a preview feature. For more details, see [Convert addresses into English](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/convert-addresses-english).\n\nJune 08, 2023 \nThe following regions now support both residential and commercial address metadata in the Address Validation API response:\n\n- Chile (CL)\n- Germany (DE)\n- Finland (FI)\n- France (FR)\n- United Kingdom (GB)\n- Ireland (IE)\n- Malaysia (MY)\n- Netherlands (NL)\n- Poland (PL)\n\nFor the complete list of regions that support residential and commercial address metadata, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nMay 25, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Estonia (EE)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nApril 05, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Luxembourg (LU)\n- Latvia (LV)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nMarch 22, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Lithuania (LT)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nMarch 14, 2023 \nThe following regions are now supported by the Address Validation API:\n\n- Czechia (CZ)\n- Slovakia (SK)\n- Norway (NO)\n\nFor the complete list of supported regions, see [Address Validation API coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/coverage).\n\nNovember 09, 2022 \n**Address Validation API**\n\nAnnouncing the General Availability (GA) release of the Address Validation API. See the [Release Notes](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/release-notes) for information about this release and for all other releases.\n\nIf you are a new user, see [Set Up in the Google Cloud Console](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/address-validation/cloud-setup) to start the installation process."]]
