feat: add version metadata to postal_patterns.json

app/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.13.0"
+__version__ = "0.14.0"

app/main.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     normalize_country,
 )
 from app.models import ErrorResponse, HealthResponse, NUTSResult, PatternResponse
-from app.postal_patterns import POSTAL_PATTERNS
+from app.postal_patterns import PATTERNS_META, POSTAL_PATTERNS
 
 logging.basicConfig(
     level=logging.INFO,
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ def health(response: Response):
         total_nuts_names=len(get_nuts_names()),
         nuts_version=settings.nuts_version,
         extra_sources=get_extra_source_count(),
+        patterns_version=PATTERNS_META.get("version", "unknown"),
         data_stale=stale,
         last_updated=get_data_loaded_at(),
     )

app/models.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class HealthResponse(BaseModel):
     nuts_version: str
     total_nuts_names: int = Field(default=0, description="Number of NUTS region names loaded")
     extra_sources: int = Field(default=0, description="Number of extra ZIP source URLs configured")
+    patterns_version: str = Field(description="Version of the postal_patterns.json file")
     data_stale: bool = Field(description="True if serving expired cache after a failed TERCET refresh")
     last_updated: str = Field(
         description="ISO 8601 timestamp of when TERCET data was last successfully loaded"

app/postal_patterns.json

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  "_meta": { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-03-03" },
   "AT": {
     "regex": "^(?:A[\\s\\-\u2013\u2014.]*|AT[\\s\\-\u2013\u2014.]*)?([0-9]{4})$",
     "example": "1010, A-1010, AT-1010, A 1010, AT 1010",

app/postal_patterns.py

@@ -30,10 +30,13 @@
 # Regexes are applied after .strip().upper() and are case-insensitive.
 _patterns_path = Path(__file__).parent / "postal_patterns.json"
 try:
-    POSTAL_PATTERNS: dict[str, dict] = json.loads(_patterns_path.read_text())
+    _raw: dict[str, dict] = json.loads(_patterns_path.read_text())
 except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError) as _exc:
     raise SystemExit(f"Fatal: failed to load {_patterns_path}: {_exc}") from _exc
 
+PATTERNS_META: dict[str, str] = _raw.pop("_meta", {})
+POSTAL_PATTERNS: dict[str, dict] = _raw
+
 # Pre-compile all patterns for performance
 _COMPILED: dict[str, re.Pattern] = {
     cc: re.compile(pat["regex"], re.IGNORECASE) for cc, pat in POSTAL_PATTERNS.items()

tests/test_api.py

@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ def test_includes_estimates(self, client):
         assert "total_estimates" in data
         assert data["total_estimates"] >= 0
 
+    def test_includes_patterns_version(self, client):
+        resp = client.get("/health")
+        data = resp.json()
+        assert "patterns_version" in data
+        assert data["patterns_version"] == "1.0"
+
     def test_includes_nuts_names(self, client):
         resp = client.get("/health")
         data = resp.json()