Merge pull request #1526 from maxmind/andram/more-blankings-jan-2026

first 2026 release note is posted

Author: AndraMeer

content/geoip/release-notes/2025.md

@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 ---
 draft: false
-title: GeoIP Release Notes
+title: GeoIP Release Notes - 2025 Archive
 type: release-note
 outputs: ['html', 'rss']
 ---
 
-{{< alert info >}}
-[Sign up to be notified](https://comms.maxmind.com/geoip-rss-release-notes)
-whenever a new GeoIP release note is posted. {{</ alert >}}
-
 {{< release-note date="2025-12-17" title="Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in additional countries">}}
 
 Effective tomorrow, Thursday, December 18, 2025, we will be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in the following countries. This change will result in fewer resolutions in: 

content/geoip/release-notes/2026.md

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+draft: false
+title: GeoIP Release Notes
+type: release-note
+outputs: ['html', 'rss']
+---
+
+{{< alert info >}}
+[Sign up to be notified](https://comms.maxmind.com/geoip-rss-release-notes)
+whenever a new GeoIP release note is posted. {{</ alert >}}
+
+{{< release-note date="2026-01-06" title="Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in additional countries">}}
+
+Effective tomorrow, Wednesday, January 7, 2026, we will be blanking out the city and postal fields more often for cell networks in the following countries: 
+
+- Argentina
+- Australia
+- Germany
+- France
+- Japan
+- Poland
+- Spain
+- Turkey
+
+We will also be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in: 
+
+- Finland
+- Switzerland
+
+This change is to reduce false positives when the end users of a network are dispersed all over the subdivision or country.
+
+The update will be reflected in the following products and services:
+
+- GeoIP City database
+- GeoIP Enterprise database
+- GeoIP City Plus web service
+- GeoIP Insights web service
+- minFraud Factors web service
+- minFraud Insights web service
+
+{{</ release-note >}}

hugo.toml

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ title = 'MaxMind'
       weight = 90
     [[menus.geoip]]
       name = 'GeoIP Release Notes'
-      pageRef = '/geoip/release-notes/2025'
+      pageRef = '/geoip/release-notes/2026'
       parent = 'GeoIP'
       weight = 100
 

static/_redirects

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # The year needs to be hardcoded.  A page for the new year's
 # release note won't exist until a new .md file is created in the
 # /content/<product>/release-notes folder for that new year
-/geoip/release-notes /geoip/release-notes/2025/ 302
-/geoip/release-notes/ /geoip/release-notes/2025/ 302
-/geoip/release-notes/rss.xml /geoip/release-notes/2025/index.xml 302
+/geoip/release-notes /geoip/release-notes/2026/ 302
+/geoip/release-notes/ /geoip/release-notes/2026/ 302
+/geoip/release-notes/rss.xml /geoip/release-notes/2026/index.xml 302
 /minfraud/release-notes /minfraud/release-notes/2025/ 302
 /minfraud/release-notes/ /minfraud/release-notes/2025/ 302
 /minfraud/release-notes/rss.xml /minfraud/release-notes/2025/index.xml 302