1 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
3 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
4 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
5 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
6 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
7 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
8 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
9 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
10 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
11 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
12 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
14 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
16 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
17 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
18 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
19 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
22 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
23 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
24 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
26 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
27 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
28 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
29 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
30 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
31 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
32 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
33 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
36 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
38 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
39 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
40 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
41 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
42 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
43 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
44 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
47 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
48 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
49 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
51 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
53 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
54 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
55 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
56 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
57 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
58 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
59 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
61 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
63 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
64 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
65 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
66 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
67 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
68 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
69 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
71 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
73 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
74 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
75 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
76 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
77 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
78 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
80 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
82 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
83 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
84 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
85 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
86 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
87 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
88 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
89 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
90 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
92 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
94 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
95 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
96 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
97 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
98 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
99 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
100 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
101 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
105 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
106 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
108 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
109 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
110 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
111 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
112 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
113 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
114 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
115 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
116 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
117 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
118 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
119 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
120 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
121 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
123 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
125 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
126 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
127 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
128 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
129 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
130 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
131 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
132 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
133 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
134 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
136 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
138 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
139 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
140 if it's safe to display to the user.
144 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
145 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
146 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
148 - Added the time zone mapping file.
152 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
153 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
154 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
156 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
157 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
158 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
159 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
160 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
161 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
162 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
164 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
166 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
167 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
169 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
171 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
173 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
175 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
177 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
179 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
180 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
183 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
185 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
187 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
189 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
190 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
191 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
192 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
193 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
194 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
195 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
198 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
200 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
201 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
202 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
203 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
204 at the moment and subject to change.
206 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
207 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
208 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
209 not properly formatted.
210 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
212 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
213 grouping when extracting phone numbers
215 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
216 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
217 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
218 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
219 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
220 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
221 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
222 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
223 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
226 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
228 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
229 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
230 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
231 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
232 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
233 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
234 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
236 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
237 * Metadata/code changes:
238 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
239 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
240 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
243 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
245 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
246 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
248 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
250 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
251 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
252 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
253 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
254 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
255 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
256 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
257 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
259 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
261 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
263 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
265 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
266 formatting rule, such as China.
268 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
269 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
270 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
271 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
272 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
274 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
276 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
277 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
278 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
279 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
281 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
282 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
283 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
284 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
286 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
288 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
290 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
292 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
293 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
294 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
295 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
297 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
299 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
300 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
303 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
304 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
305 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
306 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
307 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
309 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
311 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
312 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
313 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
314 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
316 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
318 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
320 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
322 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
325 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
326 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
327 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
328 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
330 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
332 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
333 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
334 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
336 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
338 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
339 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
340 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
342 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
344 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
345 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
346 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
347 [http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/detail?id=202]
348 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
349 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
350 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
351 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
353 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
354 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
355 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
357 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
359 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
361 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
363 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
364 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
365 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
367 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
369 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
370 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
372 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
374 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
376 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
378 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
379 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
380 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
382 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
384 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
386 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
387 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
388 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
390 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
392 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
393 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
394 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
395 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
397 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
400 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
401 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
403 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
405 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
406 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
411 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
413 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
415 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
416 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
418 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
420 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
423 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
424 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
425 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
426 * Functionality changes:
427 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
428 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
430 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
432 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
433 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
435 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
436 * Metadata update only:
437 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
439 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
440 * Metadata update only:
442 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
444 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
445 * Metadata update only:
446 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
448 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
449 * Metadata update only:
450 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
451 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
453 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
454 * Metadata update only:
455 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
456 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
457 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
459 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
460 * Functionality changes
461 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
462 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
464 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
466 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
467 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
468 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
469 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
471 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
473 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
475 - 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,
476 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
477 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
478 base class which handles this.
480 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
482 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
483 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
485 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
487 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
488 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
489 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
491 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
492 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
493 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
494 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
496 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
498 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
499 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
501 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
504 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
505 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
506 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
507 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
509 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
511 - Support for Voicemail numbers
512 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
513 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
514 of all invalid numbers.
517 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
519 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
521 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
522 removing national prefix for some numbers.
523 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
524 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
525 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
527 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
530 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
532 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
534 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
535 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
536 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
537 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
538 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
541 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
542 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
544 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
545 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
547 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
549 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
551 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
552 invalid by the library.
553 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
555 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
559 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
560 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
561 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
562 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
563 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
564 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
565 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
566 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
567 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
569 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
571 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
572 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
573 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
574 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
577 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
578 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
579 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
580 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
582 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
584 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
585 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
586 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
587 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
590 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
591 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
592 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
594 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
595 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
596 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
598 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
600 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
601 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
602 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
603 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
604 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
605 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
606 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
607 stored as part of the number.
608 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
609 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
610 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
613 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
614 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
615 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
616 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
617 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
618 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
619 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
623 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
624 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
627 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
628 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
632 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
635 - Added phone number area mapping files for
638 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
640 - IT in English and Italian
642 - TR in English and Turkish
643 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
644 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
648 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
649 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
651 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
652 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
655 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
656 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
657 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
661 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
662 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
663 marked as a phone numbers.
664 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
665 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
667 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
671 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
672 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
673 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
674 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
676 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
677 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
681 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
682 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
684 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
685 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
686 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
687 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
691 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
692 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
693 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
695 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
696 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
697 * Minor documentation updates
701 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
702 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
703 for that country code are possible.
705 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
706 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
707 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
708 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
712 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
713 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
714 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
715 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
717 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
718 (calling) codes and region codes.
719 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
720 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
721 library is based around region codes.
722 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
724 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
729 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
733 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
734 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
735 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
736 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
737 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
738 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
740 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
741 - Fixing several lint errors
742 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
743 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
745 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
747 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
748 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
753 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
757 - Adding support for AC
761 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
765 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
766 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
767 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
768 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
769 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
770 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
773 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
774 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
775 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
776 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
780 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
784 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
789 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
790 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
791 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
792 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
793 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
794 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
796 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
797 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
798 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
799 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
800 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
801 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
802 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
803 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
804 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
805 possible carrier prefixes
810 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
814 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
815 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
816 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
821 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
825 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
826 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
828 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
830 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
833 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
837 - Added new phone number type: pager
839 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
841 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
842 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
845 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
849 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
850 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
851 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
852 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
857 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
858 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
860 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
861 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
862 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
865 * Further improve startup performance
866 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
867 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
868 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
872 * Improve startup performance
873 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
874 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
875 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
877 - Same change also applied to unittests
882 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
885 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
886 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#