1 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
3 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present
7 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime
8 Communications, Oration Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
9 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
10 * Functionality changes:
11 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing
13 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra
15 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
17 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
18 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
20 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
21 * Metadata update only:
22 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
24 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
25 * Metadata update only:
27 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
29 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
30 * Metadata update only:
31 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
33 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
34 * Metadata update only:
35 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
36 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
38 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
39 * Metadata update only:
40 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
41 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
42 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
44 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
45 * Functionality changes
46 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
47 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
49 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
51 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
52 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
53 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
54 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
56 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
58 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
60 - 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,
61 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
62 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
63 base class which handles this.
65 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
67 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
68 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
70 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
72 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
73 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
74 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
76 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
77 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (CuraƧao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
78 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
79 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
81 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
83 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
84 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
86 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
89 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
90 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
91 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
92 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
94 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
96 - Support for Voicemail numbers
97 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
98 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
99 of all invalid numbers.
102 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
104 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
106 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
107 removing national prefix for some numbers.
108 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
109 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
110 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
112 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
115 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
117 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
119 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
120 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present
121 when matching national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it
122 is explicitly marked in the metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to
123 leniency level VALID and higher.
124 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
127 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
128 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are
129 commonly written without one and added this
130 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
131 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
133 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
135 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone
136 numbers where the "~" is omitted.
137 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number
138 is considered as invalid by the library.
139 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as
140 short codes and emergency numbers.
141 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
145 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK,
147 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
148 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
149 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
150 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
151 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
152 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
153 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
154 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
156 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
158 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in
159 such a way that the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is
160 impossible, for example for numbers that cannot be internationally dialled,
161 then an empty string is returned.
162 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
165 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
166 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
167 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
168 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
170 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
172 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
173 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
174 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
175 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage
179 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
180 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
181 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
183 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
184 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
185 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
187 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
189 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
190 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
191 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING
192 levels, numbers followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match,
193 multiple numbers separated by phone-number punctuation will now match. ", "
194 is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only when
195 parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not
197 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored
198 anymore, but will be stored as part of the number.
199 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes
200 the validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
201 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
204 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
205 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
206 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
207 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
208 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
209 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
210 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
214 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
215 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
218 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
219 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
223 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
226 - Added phone number area mapping files for
229 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
231 - IT in English and Italian
233 - TR in English and Turkish
234 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
235 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
239 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
240 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
242 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
243 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
246 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
247 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
248 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
252 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
253 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
254 marked as a phone numbers.
255 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
256 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
258 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
262 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
263 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
264 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
265 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
267 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
268 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
272 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
273 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
275 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
276 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
277 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
278 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
282 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
283 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
284 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
286 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
287 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
288 * Minor documentation updates
292 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
293 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
294 for that country code are possible.
296 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
297 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
298 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
299 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
303 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
304 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
305 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
306 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
308 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
309 (calling) codes and region codes.
310 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
311 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
312 library is based around region codes.
313 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
315 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
320 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
324 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
325 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
326 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
327 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
328 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
329 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
331 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
332 - Fixing several lint errors
333 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
334 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
336 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
338 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
339 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
344 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
348 - Adding support for AC
352 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
356 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
357 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
358 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
359 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
360 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
361 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
364 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
365 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
366 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
367 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
371 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
375 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
380 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
381 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
382 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
383 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
384 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
385 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
387 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
388 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
389 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
390 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
391 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
392 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
393 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
394 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
395 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
396 possible carrier prefixes
401 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
405 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
406 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
407 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
412 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
416 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
417 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
419 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
421 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
424 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
428 - Added new phone number type: pager
430 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
432 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
433 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
436 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
440 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
441 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
442 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
443 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
448 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
449 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
451 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
452 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
453 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
456 * Further improve startup performance
457 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
458 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code
459 and loading it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
463 * Improve startup performance
464 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
465 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
466 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code,
467 and load it at startup
468 - Same change also applied to unittests
473 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
476 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
477 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#