1 Mar 25, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.4
3 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CA, HU, IL, JO, LU, SG, SL, US
4 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI
5 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
6 1220 (en), 1628 (en), 1629 (en)
7 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
8 65 (en), 232 (en), 972 (en)
10 Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3
12 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
13 AR, BH, BY, CI, CN, GH, KR, KW, LU, ME, NZ, SB, WS
14 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 64 (en)
15 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
16 86 (en, zh), 1418 (en), 1438 (en), 1450 (en), 1514 (en), 1819 (en)
17 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
18 225 (en), 233 (en), 677 (en), 973 (en)
20 Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2
22 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
23 BD, BH, EH, GH, IN, JM, LU, MA, MY, NF, NG, PK, SB, TT, TZ
24 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 352 (en, fr)
25 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1876 (en)
26 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
27 60 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 212 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 352 (en), 677 (en)
29 Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1
31 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
32 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
33 BI, CM, ID, IR, KR, LA, NP, TG, TH, TO
34 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 237 (en)
35 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
36 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
37 237 (en), 257 (en), 856 (en), 977 (en)
39 Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0
41 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be
42 removed in an upcoming release.
44 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
45 AR, AU, CC, CI, CX, DZ, EE, IN, KZ, MC, SB, TJ, TT
46 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MC
47 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 34 (en, es), 54 (en)
48 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
49 7 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 677 (en), 967 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)
51 Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1
53 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
54 AC, AU, CR, DE, IL, MR, NO, SA, SR, UG
55 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CR
56 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
57 61 (en), 256 (en), 506 (en), 597 (en), 966 (en), 972 (en)
59 Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
61 - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
62 could belong to multiple countries
63 - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
65 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
66 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
67 AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
68 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
69 1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
70 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
71 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
72 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
73 27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
74 254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)
76 Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
78 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
79 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
80 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
81 27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)
83 Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
85 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
86 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
87 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)
89 Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
91 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
92 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
95 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
96 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
97 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
98 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
99 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
100 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
101 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
102 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
103 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
106 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
108 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
109 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
110 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
111 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
112 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
113 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
114 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
115 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
116 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
117 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
119 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
121 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
122 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
123 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
124 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
127 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
128 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
129 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
131 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
132 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
133 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
134 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
135 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
136 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
137 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
138 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
141 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
143 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
144 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
145 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
146 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
147 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
148 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
149 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
152 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
153 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
154 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
156 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
158 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
159 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
160 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
161 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
162 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
163 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
164 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
166 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
168 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
169 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
170 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
171 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
172 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
173 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
174 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
176 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
178 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
179 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
180 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
181 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
182 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
183 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
185 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
187 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
188 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
189 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
190 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
191 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
192 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
193 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
194 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
195 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
197 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
199 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
200 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
201 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
202 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
203 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
204 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
205 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
206 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
210 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
211 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
213 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
214 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
215 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
216 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
217 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
218 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
219 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
220 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
221 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
222 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
223 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
224 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
225 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
226 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
228 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
230 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
231 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
232 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
233 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
234 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
235 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
236 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
237 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
238 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
239 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
241 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
243 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
244 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
245 if it's safe to display to the user.
249 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
250 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
251 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
253 - Added the time zone mapping file.
257 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
258 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
259 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
261 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
262 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
263 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
264 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
265 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
266 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
267 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
269 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
271 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
272 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
274 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
276 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
278 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
280 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
282 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
284 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
285 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
288 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
290 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
292 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
294 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
295 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
296 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
297 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
298 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
299 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
300 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
303 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
305 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
306 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
307 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
308 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
309 at the moment and subject to change.
311 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
312 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
313 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
314 not properly formatted.
315 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
317 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
318 grouping when extracting phone numbers
320 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
321 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
322 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
323 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
324 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
325 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
326 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
327 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
328 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
331 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
333 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
334 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
335 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
336 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
337 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
338 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
339 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
341 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
342 * Metadata/code changes:
343 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
344 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
345 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
348 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
350 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
351 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
353 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
355 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
356 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
357 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
358 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
359 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
360 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
361 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
362 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
364 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
366 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
368 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
370 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
371 formatting rule, such as China.
373 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
374 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
375 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
376 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
377 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
379 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
381 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
382 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
383 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
384 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
386 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
387 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
388 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
389 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
391 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
393 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
395 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
397 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
398 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
399 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
400 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
402 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
404 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
405 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
408 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
409 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
410 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
411 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
412 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
414 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
416 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
417 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
418 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
419 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
421 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
423 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
425 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
427 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
430 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
431 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
432 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
433 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
435 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
437 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
438 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
439 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
441 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
443 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
444 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
445 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
447 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
449 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
450 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
451 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
452 [https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/issues/202]
453 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
454 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
455 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
456 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
458 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
459 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
460 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
462 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
464 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
466 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
468 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
469 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
470 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
472 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
474 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
475 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
477 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
479 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
481 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
483 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
484 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
485 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
487 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
489 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
491 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
492 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
493 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
495 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
497 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
498 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
499 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
500 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
502 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
505 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
506 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
508 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
510 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
511 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
516 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
518 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
520 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
521 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
523 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
525 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
528 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
529 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
530 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
531 * Functionality changes:
532 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
533 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
535 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
537 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
538 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
540 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
541 * Metadata update only:
542 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
544 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
545 * Metadata update only:
547 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
549 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
550 * Metadata update only:
551 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
553 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
554 * Metadata update only:
555 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
556 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
558 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
559 * Metadata update only:
560 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
561 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
562 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
564 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
565 * Functionality changes
566 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
567 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
569 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
571 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
572 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
573 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
574 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
576 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
578 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
580 - 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,
581 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
582 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
583 base class which handles this.
585 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
587 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
588 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
590 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
592 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
593 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
594 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
596 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
597 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
598 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
599 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
601 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
603 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
604 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
606 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
609 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
610 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
611 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
612 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
614 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
616 - Support for Voicemail numbers
617 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
618 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
619 of all invalid numbers.
622 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
624 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
626 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
627 removing national prefix for some numbers.
628 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
629 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
630 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
632 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
635 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
637 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
639 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
640 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
641 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
642 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
643 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
646 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
647 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
649 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
650 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
652 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
654 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
656 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
657 invalid by the library.
658 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
660 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
664 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
665 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
666 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
667 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
668 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
669 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
670 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
671 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
672 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
674 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
676 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
677 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
678 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
679 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
682 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
683 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
684 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
685 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
687 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
689 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
690 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
691 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
692 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
695 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
696 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
697 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
699 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
700 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
701 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
703 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
705 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
706 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
707 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
708 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
709 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
710 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
711 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
712 stored as part of the number.
713 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
714 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
715 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
718 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
719 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
720 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
721 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
722 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
723 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
724 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
728 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
729 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
732 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
733 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
737 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
740 - Added phone number area mapping files for
743 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
745 - IT in English and Italian
747 - TR in English and Turkish
748 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
749 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
753 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
754 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
756 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
757 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
760 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
761 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
762 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
766 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
767 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
768 marked as a phone numbers.
769 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
770 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
772 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
776 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
777 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
778 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
779 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
781 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
782 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
786 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
787 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
789 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
790 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
791 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
792 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
796 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
797 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
798 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
800 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
801 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
802 * Minor documentation updates
806 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
807 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
808 for that country code are possible.
810 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
811 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
812 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
813 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
817 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
818 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
819 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
820 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
822 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
823 (calling) codes and region codes.
824 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
825 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
826 library is based around region codes.
827 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
829 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
834 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
838 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
839 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
840 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
841 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
842 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
843 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
845 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
846 - Fixing several lint errors
847 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
848 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
850 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
852 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
853 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
858 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
862 - Adding support for AC
866 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
870 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
871 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
872 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
873 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
874 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
875 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
878 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
879 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
880 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
881 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
885 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
889 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
894 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
895 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
896 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
897 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
898 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
899 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
901 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
902 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
903 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
904 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
905 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
906 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
907 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
908 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
909 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
910 possible carrier prefixes
915 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
919 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
920 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
921 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
926 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
930 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
931 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
933 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
935 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
938 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
942 - Added new phone number type: pager
944 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
946 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
947 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
950 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
954 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
955 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
956 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
957 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
962 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
963 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
965 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
966 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
967 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
970 * Further improve startup performance
971 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
972 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
973 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
977 * Improve startup performance
978 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
979 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
980 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
982 - Same change also applied to unittests
987 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
990 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
991 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#