1 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
3 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
4 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
6 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
9 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
10 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
11 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
12 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
14 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
16 - Support for Voicemail numbers
17 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
18 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
19 of all invalid numbers.
22 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
24 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
26 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
27 removing national prefix for some numbers.
28 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
29 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
30 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
32 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
35 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
37 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
39 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
40 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present
41 when matching national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it
42 is explicitly marked in the metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to
43 leniency level VALID and higher.
44 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
47 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
48 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are
49 commonly written without one and added this
50 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
51 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
53 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
55 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone
56 numbers where the "~" is omitted.
57 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number
58 is considered as invalid by the library.
59 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as
60 short codes and emergency numbers.
61 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
65 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK,
67 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
68 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
69 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
70 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
71 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
72 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
73 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
74 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
76 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
78 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in
79 such a way that the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is
80 impossible, for example for numbers that cannot be internationally dialled,
81 then an empty string is returned.
82 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
85 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
86 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
87 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
88 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
90 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
92 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
93 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
94 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
95 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage
99 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
100 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
101 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
103 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
104 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
105 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
107 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
109 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
110 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
111 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING
112 levels, numbers followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match,
113 multiple numbers separated by phone-number punctuation will now match. ", "
114 is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only when
115 parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not
117 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored
118 anymore, but will be stored as part of the number.
119 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes
120 the validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
121 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
124 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
125 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
126 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
127 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
128 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
129 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
130 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
134 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
135 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
138 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
139 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
143 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
146 - Added phone number area mapping files for
149 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
151 - IT in English and Italian
153 - TR in English and Turkish
154 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
155 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
159 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
160 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
162 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
163 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
166 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
167 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
168 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
172 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
173 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
174 marked as a phone numbers.
175 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
176 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
178 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
182 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
183 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
184 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
185 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
187 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
188 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
192 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
193 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
195 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
196 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
197 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
198 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
202 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
203 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
204 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
206 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
207 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
208 * Minor documentation updates
212 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
213 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
214 for that country code are possible.
216 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
217 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
218 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
219 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
223 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
224 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
225 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
226 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
228 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
229 (calling) codes and region codes.
230 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
231 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
232 library is based around region codes.
233 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
235 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
240 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
244 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
245 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
246 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
247 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
248 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
249 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
251 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
252 - Fixing several lint errors
253 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
254 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
256 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
258 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
259 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
264 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
268 - Adding support for AC
272 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
276 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
277 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
278 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
279 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
280 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
281 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
284 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
285 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
286 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
287 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
291 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
295 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
300 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
301 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
302 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
303 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
304 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
305 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
307 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
308 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
309 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
310 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
311 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
312 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
313 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
314 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
315 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
316 possible carrier prefixes
321 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
325 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
326 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
327 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
332 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
336 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
337 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
339 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
341 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
344 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
348 - Added new phone number type: pager
350 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
352 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
353 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
356 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
360 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
361 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
362 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
363 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
368 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
369 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
371 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
372 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
373 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
376 * Further improve startup performance
377 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
378 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code
379 and loading it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
383 * Improve startup performance
384 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
385 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
386 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code,
387 and load it at startup
388 - Same change also applied to unittests
393 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
396 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
397 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#