1 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
3 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
4 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
5 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
6 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
7 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
8 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
9 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
12 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
14 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
15 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
16 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
17 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
18 at the moment and subject to change.
20 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
21 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
22 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
23 not properly formatted.
24 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
26 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
27 grouping when extracting phone numbers
29 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
30 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
31 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
32 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
33 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
34 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
35 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
36 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
37 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
40 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
42 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
43 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
44 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
45 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
46 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
47 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
48 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
50 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
51 * Metadata/code changes:
52 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
53 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
54 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
57 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
59 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
60 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
62 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
64 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
65 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
66 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
67 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
68 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
69 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
70 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
71 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
73 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
75 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
77 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
79 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
80 formatting rule, such as China.
82 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
83 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
84 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
85 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
86 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
88 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
90 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
91 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
92 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
93 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
95 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
96 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
97 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
98 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
100 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
102 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
104 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
106 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
107 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
108 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
109 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
111 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
113 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
114 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
117 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
118 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
119 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
120 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
121 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
123 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
125 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
126 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
127 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
128 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
130 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
132 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
134 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
136 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
139 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
140 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
141 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
142 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
144 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
146 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
147 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
148 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
150 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
152 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
153 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
154 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
156 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
158 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
159 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
160 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
161 [http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/detail?id=202]
162 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
163 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
164 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
165 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
167 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
168 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
169 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
171 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
173 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
175 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
177 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
178 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
179 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
181 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
183 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
184 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
186 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
188 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
190 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
192 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
193 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
194 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
196 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
198 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
200 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
201 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
202 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
204 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
206 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
207 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
208 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
209 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
211 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
214 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
215 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
217 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
219 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
220 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
225 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
227 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
229 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
230 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
232 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
234 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
237 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
238 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
239 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
240 * Functionality changes:
241 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
242 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
244 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
246 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
247 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
249 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
250 * Metadata update only:
251 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
253 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
254 * Metadata update only:
256 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
258 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
259 * Metadata update only:
260 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
262 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
263 * Metadata update only:
264 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
265 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
267 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
268 * Metadata update only:
269 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
270 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
271 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
273 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
274 * Functionality changes
275 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
276 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
278 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
280 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
281 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
282 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
283 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
285 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
287 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
289 - 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,
290 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
291 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
292 base class which handles this.
294 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
296 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
297 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
299 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
301 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
302 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
303 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
305 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
306 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
307 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
308 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
310 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
312 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
313 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
315 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
318 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
319 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
320 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
321 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
323 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
325 - Support for Voicemail numbers
326 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
327 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
328 of all invalid numbers.
331 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
333 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
335 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
336 removing national prefix for some numbers.
337 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
338 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
339 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
341 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
344 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
346 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
348 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
349 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
350 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
351 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
352 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
355 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
356 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
358 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
359 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
361 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
363 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
365 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
366 invalid by the library.
367 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
369 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
373 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
374 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
375 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
376 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
377 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
378 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
379 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
380 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
381 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
383 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
385 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
386 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
387 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
388 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
391 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
392 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
393 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
394 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
396 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
398 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
399 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
400 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
401 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
404 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
405 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
406 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
408 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
409 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
410 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
412 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
414 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
415 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
416 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
417 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
418 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
419 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
420 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
421 stored as part of the number.
422 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
423 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
424 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
427 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
428 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
429 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
430 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
431 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
432 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
433 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
437 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
438 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
441 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
442 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
446 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
449 - Added phone number area mapping files for
452 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
454 - IT in English and Italian
456 - TR in English and Turkish
457 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
458 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
462 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
463 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
465 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
466 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
469 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
470 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
471 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
475 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
476 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
477 marked as a phone numbers.
478 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
479 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
481 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
485 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
486 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
487 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
488 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
490 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
491 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
495 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
496 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
498 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
499 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
500 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
501 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
505 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
506 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
507 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
509 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
510 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
511 * Minor documentation updates
515 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
516 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
517 for that country code are possible.
519 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
520 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
521 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
522 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
526 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
527 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
528 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
529 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
531 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
532 (calling) codes and region codes.
533 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
534 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
535 library is based around region codes.
536 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
538 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
543 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
547 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
548 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
549 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
550 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
551 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
552 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
554 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
555 - Fixing several lint errors
556 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
557 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
559 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
561 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
562 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
567 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
571 - Adding support for AC
575 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
579 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
580 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
581 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
582 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
583 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
584 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
587 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
588 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
589 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
590 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
594 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
598 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
603 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
604 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
605 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
606 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
607 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
608 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
610 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
611 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
612 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
613 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
614 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
615 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
616 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
617 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
618 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
619 possible carrier prefixes
624 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
628 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
629 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
630 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
635 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
639 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
640 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
642 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
644 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
647 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
651 - Added new phone number type: pager
653 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
655 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
656 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
659 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
663 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
664 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
665 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
666 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
671 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
672 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
674 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
675 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
676 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
679 * Further improve startup performance
680 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
681 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
682 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
686 * Improve startup performance
687 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
688 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
689 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
691 - Same change also applied to unittests
696 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
699 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
700 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#