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We are planning an upgrade to the technology stack powering the OpenSanctions API in the coming days. While new functionality will be described in a separate announcement, users of the system might notice small changes in matching results. They can be a result of:

• Improved company type suffix/prefix matching (LLC, OAO, OJSC, etc.).
• More precise retrieval of matching candidates with very generic names (A B C Limited), and of names across different scripts (Putin and بوتين).
• Fix of a bug in logic-v1 in which certain match scores for organizations could vary between requests.
• Implicit support for a broader range of jurisdictions (eg. Alberta is recognized as Canada).

Of course, it is our goal to keep matching results stable over time. The result of rolling out these improvements to some of the existing matching systems, however, should strictly improve precision and reduce false positive burden for existing users.