16 December 2025

This release note provides information about the release of the AddressBase Core product on 16 December 2025.

AddressBase Core planned Christmas downtime

The AddressBase Core product will not be refreshed on the week commencing 29 December due to planned downtime. Customers with Change Only Update orders will not receive any change for that week. Updates will resume following the AddressBase Core product refresh schedule on the week commencing 5 January 2026 and will include 2 weeks’ worth of change.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Core	34 807 541	35 038

Please note that the Full Supply record count is based on a Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS). If you ordered your national coverage via the online ordering system using a polygon outline, your counts may differ.

Product supply comparison

There is a difference in record counts between taking a national Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS) and the national 5km tile supply. This is because the two supplies use different selection criteria. The difference in record counts is shown in the following table, allowing you to validate your data holdings once you have loaded the latest release of AddressBase Core.

Product	MGBS Full Count	National 5km Tiled Supply	Difference
AddressBase Core	34 807 541	34 807 527	14

A small difference in record counts is expected due to there being several features supplied in the MGBS which fall outside of the tiled area.

Changed records

If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase Core product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following table details the numbers of these records which can be expected in the COU supply of the product:

Change Type	Count
Inserts	8 826
Updates	23 951
Deletes	2 261
COU populated 5km tile count	3 133

It's important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates. This is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Further guidance on this can be found in 'Working with COU data' in the AddressBase Getting Started Guide.

Source data currency

The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of this release of AddressBase Core:

Data Source	Date
Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF)	11 December 2025
National Land and Property Gazetteer	11 December 2025
One Scotland Gazetteer	07 November 2025
OS MasterMap Topography Layer	06 November 2025

Known data issues

Details of data issues, service disruptions and planned maintenance for AddressBase Core will be communicated on the AddressBase Core Data Issues, Service Disruption and Planned Maintenance page; this page will provide details of the impacts of any data issues, plus updates on the expected time frame for resolution.