1 Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
3 - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
4 could belong to multiple countries
5 - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
7 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
8 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
9 AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
10 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
11 1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
12 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
13 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
14 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
15 27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
16 254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)
18 Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
20 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
21 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
22 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
23 27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)
25 Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
27 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
28 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
29 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)
31 Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
33 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
34 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
37 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
38 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
39 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
40 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
41 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
42 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
43 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
44 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
45 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
48 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
50 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
51 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
52 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
53 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
54 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
55 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
56 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
57 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
58 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
59 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
61 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
63 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
64 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
65 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
66 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
69 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
70 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
71 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
73 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
74 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
75 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
76 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
77 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
78 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
79 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
80 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
83 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
85 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
86 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
87 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
88 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
89 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
90 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
91 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
94 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
95 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
96 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
98 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
100 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
101 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
102 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
103 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
104 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
105 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
106 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
108 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
110 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
111 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
112 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
113 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
114 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
115 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
116 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
118 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
120 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
121 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
122 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
123 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
124 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
125 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
127 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
129 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
130 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
131 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
132 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
133 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
134 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
135 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
136 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
137 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
139 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
141 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
142 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
143 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
144 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
145 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
146 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
147 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
148 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
152 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
153 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
155 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
156 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
157 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
158 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
159 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
160 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
161 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
162 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
163 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
164 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
165 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
166 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
167 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
168 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
170 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
172 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
173 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
174 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
175 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
176 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
177 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
178 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
179 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
180 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
181 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
183 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
185 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
186 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
187 if it's safe to display to the user.
191 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
192 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
193 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
195 - Added the time zone mapping file.
199 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
200 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
201 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
203 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
204 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
205 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
206 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
207 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
208 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
209 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
211 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
213 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
214 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
216 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
218 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
220 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
222 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
224 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
226 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
227 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
230 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
232 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
234 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
236 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
237 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
238 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
239 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
240 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
241 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
242 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
245 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
247 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
248 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
249 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
250 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
251 at the moment and subject to change.
253 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
254 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
255 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
256 not properly formatted.
257 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
259 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
260 grouping when extracting phone numbers
262 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
263 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
264 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
265 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
266 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
267 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
268 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
269 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
270 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
273 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
275 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
276 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
277 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
278 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
279 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
280 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
281 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
283 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
284 * Metadata/code changes:
285 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
286 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
287 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
290 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
292 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
293 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
295 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
297 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
298 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
299 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
300 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
301 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
302 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
303 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
304 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
306 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
308 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
310 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
312 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
313 formatting rule, such as China.
315 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
316 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
317 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
318 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
319 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
321 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
323 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
324 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
325 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
326 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
328 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
329 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
330 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
331 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
333 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
335 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
337 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
339 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
340 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
341 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
342 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
344 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
346 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
347 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
350 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
351 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
352 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
353 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
354 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
356 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
358 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
359 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
360 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
361 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
363 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
365 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
367 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
369 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
372 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
373 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
374 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
375 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
377 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
379 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
380 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
381 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
383 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
385 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
386 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
387 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
389 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
391 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
392 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
393 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
394 [http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/detail?id=202]
395 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
396 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
397 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
398 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
400 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
401 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
402 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
404 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
406 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
408 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
410 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
411 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
412 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
414 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
416 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
417 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
419 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
421 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
423 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
425 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
426 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
427 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
429 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
431 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
433 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
434 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
435 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
437 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
439 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
440 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
441 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
442 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
444 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
447 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
448 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
450 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
452 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
453 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
458 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
460 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
462 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
463 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
465 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
467 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
470 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
471 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
472 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
473 * Functionality changes:
474 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
475 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
477 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
479 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
480 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
482 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
483 * Metadata update only:
484 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
486 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
487 * Metadata update only:
489 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
491 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
492 * Metadata update only:
493 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
495 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
496 * Metadata update only:
497 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
498 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
500 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
501 * Metadata update only:
502 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
503 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
504 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
506 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
507 * Functionality changes
508 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
509 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
511 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
513 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
514 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
515 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
516 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
518 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
520 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
522 - 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,
523 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
524 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
525 base class which handles this.
527 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
529 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
530 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
532 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
534 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
535 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
536 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
538 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
539 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
540 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
541 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
543 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
545 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
546 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
548 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
551 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
552 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
553 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
554 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
556 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
558 - Support for Voicemail numbers
559 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
560 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
561 of all invalid numbers.
564 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
566 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
568 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
569 removing national prefix for some numbers.
570 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
571 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
572 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
574 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
577 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
579 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
581 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
582 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
583 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
584 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
585 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
588 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
589 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
591 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
592 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
594 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
596 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
598 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
599 invalid by the library.
600 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
602 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
606 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
607 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
608 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
609 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
610 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
611 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
612 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
613 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
614 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
616 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
618 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
619 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
620 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
621 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
624 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
625 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
626 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
627 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
629 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
631 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
632 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
633 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
634 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
637 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
638 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
639 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
641 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
642 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
643 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
645 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
647 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
648 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
649 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
650 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
651 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
652 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
653 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
654 stored as part of the number.
655 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
656 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
657 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
660 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
661 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
662 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
663 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
664 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
665 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
666 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
670 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
671 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
674 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
675 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
679 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
682 - Added phone number area mapping files for
685 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
687 - IT in English and Italian
689 - TR in English and Turkish
690 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
691 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
695 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
696 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
698 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
699 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
702 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
703 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
704 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
708 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
709 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
710 marked as a phone numbers.
711 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
712 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
714 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
718 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
719 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
720 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
721 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
723 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
724 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
728 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
729 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
731 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
732 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
733 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
734 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
738 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
739 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
740 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
742 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
743 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
744 * Minor documentation updates
748 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
749 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
750 for that country code are possible.
752 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
753 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
754 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
755 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
759 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
760 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
761 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
762 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
764 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
765 (calling) codes and region codes.
766 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
767 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
768 library is based around region codes.
769 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
771 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
776 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
780 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
781 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
782 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
783 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
784 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
785 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
787 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
788 - Fixing several lint errors
789 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
790 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
792 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
794 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
795 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
800 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
804 - Adding support for AC
808 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
812 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
813 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
814 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
815 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
816 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
817 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
820 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
821 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
822 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
823 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
827 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
831 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
836 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
837 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
838 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
839 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
840 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
841 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
843 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
844 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
845 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
846 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
847 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
848 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
849 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
850 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
851 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
852 possible carrier prefixes
857 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
861 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
862 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
863 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
868 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
872 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
873 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
875 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
877 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
880 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
884 - Added new phone number type: pager
886 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
888 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
889 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
892 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
896 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
897 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
898 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
899 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
904 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
905 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
907 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
908 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
909 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
912 * Further improve startup performance
913 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
914 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
915 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
919 * Improve startup performance
920 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
921 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
922 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
924 - Same change also applied to unittests
929 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
932 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
933 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#