1 Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
3 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
4 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
7 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
8 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
9 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
10 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
11 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
12 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
13 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
14 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
15 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
18 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
20 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
21 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
22 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
23 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
24 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
25 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
26 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
27 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
28 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
29 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
31 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
33 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
34 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
35 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
36 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
39 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
40 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
41 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
43 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
44 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
45 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
46 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
47 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
48 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
49 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
50 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
53 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
55 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
56 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
57 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
58 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
59 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
60 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
61 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
64 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
65 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
66 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
68 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
70 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
71 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
72 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
73 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
74 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
75 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
76 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
78 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
80 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
81 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
82 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
83 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
84 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
85 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
86 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
88 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
90 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
91 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
92 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
93 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
94 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
95 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
97 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
99 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
100 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
101 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
102 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
103 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
104 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
105 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
106 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
107 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
109 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
111 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
112 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
113 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
114 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
115 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
116 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
117 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
118 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
122 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
123 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
125 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
126 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
127 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
128 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
129 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
130 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
131 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
132 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
133 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
134 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
135 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
136 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
137 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
138 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
140 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
142 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
143 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
144 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
145 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
146 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
147 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
148 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
149 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
150 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
151 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
153 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
155 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
156 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
157 if it's safe to display to the user.
161 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
162 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
163 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
165 - Added the time zone mapping file.
169 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
170 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
171 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
173 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
174 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
175 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
176 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
177 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
178 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
179 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
181 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
183 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
184 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
186 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
188 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
190 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
192 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
194 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
196 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
197 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
200 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
202 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
204 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
206 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
207 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
208 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
209 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
210 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
211 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
212 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
215 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
217 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
218 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
219 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
220 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
221 at the moment and subject to change.
223 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
224 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
225 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
226 not properly formatted.
227 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
229 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
230 grouping when extracting phone numbers
232 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
233 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
234 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
235 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
236 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
237 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
238 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
239 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
240 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
243 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
245 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
246 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
247 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
248 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
249 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
250 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
251 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
253 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
254 * Metadata/code changes:
255 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
256 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
257 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
260 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
262 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
263 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
265 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
267 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
268 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
269 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
270 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
271 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
272 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
273 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
274 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
276 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
278 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
280 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
282 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
283 formatting rule, such as China.
285 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
286 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
287 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
288 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
289 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
291 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
293 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
294 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
295 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
296 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
298 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
299 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
300 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
301 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
303 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
305 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
307 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
309 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
310 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
311 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
312 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
314 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
316 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
317 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
320 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
321 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
322 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
323 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
324 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
326 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
328 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
329 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
330 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
331 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
333 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
335 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
337 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
339 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
342 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
343 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
344 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
345 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
347 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
349 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
350 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
351 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
353 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
355 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
356 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
357 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
359 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
361 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
362 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
363 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
364 [http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/detail?id=202]
365 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
366 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
367 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
368 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
370 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
371 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
372 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
374 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
376 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
378 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
380 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
381 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
382 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
384 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
386 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
387 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
389 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
391 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
393 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
395 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
396 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
397 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
399 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
401 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
403 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
404 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
405 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
407 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
409 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
410 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
411 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
412 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
414 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
417 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
418 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
420 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
422 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
423 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
428 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
430 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
432 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
433 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
435 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
437 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
440 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
441 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
442 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
443 * Functionality changes:
444 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
445 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
447 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
449 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
450 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
452 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
453 * Metadata update only:
454 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
456 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
457 * Metadata update only:
459 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
461 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
462 * Metadata update only:
463 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
465 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
466 * Metadata update only:
467 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
468 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
470 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
471 * Metadata update only:
472 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
473 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
474 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
476 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
477 * Functionality changes
478 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
479 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
481 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
483 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
484 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
485 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
486 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
488 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
490 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
492 - AC,AM,AT,AZ,BF,BR,BY,BZ,CR,CU,DE,DJ,EE,EG,ET,GA,GH,HK,HN,ID,IN,JP,KE,KG,KH,KR,KW,KY,LB,LU,MA,MD,
493 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
494 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
495 base class which handles this.
497 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
499 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
500 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
502 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
504 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
505 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
506 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
508 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
509 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
510 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
511 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
513 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
515 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
516 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
518 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
521 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
522 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
523 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
524 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
526 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
528 - Support for Voicemail numbers
529 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
530 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
531 of all invalid numbers.
534 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
536 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
538 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
539 removing national prefix for some numbers.
540 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
541 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
542 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
544 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
547 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
549 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
551 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
552 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
553 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
554 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
555 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
558 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
559 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
561 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
562 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
564 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
566 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
568 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
569 invalid by the library.
570 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
572 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
576 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
577 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
578 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
579 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
580 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
581 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
582 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
583 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
584 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
586 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
588 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
589 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
590 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
591 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
594 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
595 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
596 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
597 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
599 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
601 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
602 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
603 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
604 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
607 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
608 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
609 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
611 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
612 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
613 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
615 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
617 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
618 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
619 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
620 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
621 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
622 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
623 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
624 stored as part of the number.
625 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
626 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
627 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
630 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
631 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
632 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
633 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
634 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
635 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
636 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
640 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
641 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
644 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
645 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
649 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
652 - Added phone number area mapping files for
655 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
657 - IT in English and Italian
659 - TR in English and Turkish
660 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
661 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
665 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
666 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
668 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
669 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
672 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
673 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
674 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
678 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
679 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
680 marked as a phone numbers.
681 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
682 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
684 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
688 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
689 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
690 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
691 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
693 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
694 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
698 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
699 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
701 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
702 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
703 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
704 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
708 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
709 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
710 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
712 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
713 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
714 * Minor documentation updates
718 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
719 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
720 for that country code are possible.
722 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
723 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
724 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
725 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
729 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
730 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
731 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
732 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
734 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
735 (calling) codes and region codes.
736 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
737 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
738 library is based around region codes.
739 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
741 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
746 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
750 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
751 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
752 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
753 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
754 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
755 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
757 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
758 - Fixing several lint errors
759 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
760 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
762 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
764 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
765 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
770 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
774 - Adding support for AC
778 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
782 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
783 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
784 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
785 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
786 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
787 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
790 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
791 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
792 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
793 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
797 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
801 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
806 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
807 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
808 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
809 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
810 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
811 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
813 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
814 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
815 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
816 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
817 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
818 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
819 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
820 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
821 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
822 possible carrier prefixes
827 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
831 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
832 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
833 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
838 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
842 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
843 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
845 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
847 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
850 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
854 - Added new phone number type: pager
856 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
858 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
859 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
862 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
866 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
867 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
868 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
869 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
874 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
875 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
877 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
878 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
879 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
882 * Further improve startup performance
883 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
884 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
885 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
889 * Improve startup performance
890 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
891 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
892 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
894 - Same change also applied to unittests
899 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
902 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
903 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#