1 Apr 23, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.5
3 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
4 AF, AS, BD, BE, CA, CI, IN, JM, KH, LI, LU, MU, NE, PL
5 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE, LI
6 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
7 86 (en, zh), 358 (en, fi, se)
8 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
9 32 (en), 93 (en), 225 (en), 227 (en), 855 (en), 1684 (en), 1876 (en)
11 Mar 25, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.4
13 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CA, HU, IL, JO, LU, SG, SL, US
14 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI
15 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
16 1220 (en), 1628 (en), 1629 (en)
17 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
18 65 (en), 232 (en), 972 (en)
20 Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3
22 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
23 AR, BH, BY, CI, CN, GH, KR, KW, LU, ME, NZ, SB, WS
24 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 64 (en)
25 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
26 86 (en, zh), 1418 (en), 1438 (en), 1450 (en), 1514 (en), 1819 (en)
27 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
28 225 (en), 233 (en), 677 (en), 973 (en)
30 Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2
32 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
33 BD, BH, EH, GH, IN, JM, LU, MA, MY, NF, NG, PK, SB, TT, TZ
34 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 352 (en, fr)
35 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1876 (en)
36 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
37 60 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 212 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 352 (en), 677 (en)
39 Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1
41 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
42 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
43 BI, CM, ID, IR, KR, LA, NP, TG, TH, TO
44 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 237 (en)
45 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
46 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
47 237 (en), 257 (en), 856 (en), 977 (en)
49 Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0
51 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be
52 removed in an upcoming release.
54 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
55 AR, AU, CC, CI, CX, DZ, EE, IN, KZ, MC, SB, TJ, TT
56 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MC
57 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 34 (en, es), 54 (en)
58 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
59 7 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 677 (en), 967 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)
61 Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1
63 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
64 AC, AU, CR, DE, IL, MR, NO, SA, SR, UG
65 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CR
66 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
67 61 (en), 256 (en), 506 (en), 597 (en), 966 (en), 972 (en)
69 Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
71 - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
72 could belong to multiple countries
73 - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
75 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
76 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
77 AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
78 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
79 1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
80 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
81 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
82 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
83 27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
84 254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)
86 Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
88 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
89 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
90 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
91 27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)
93 Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
95 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
96 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
97 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)
99 Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
101 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
102 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
105 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
106 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
107 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
108 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
109 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
110 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
111 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
112 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
113 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
116 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
118 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
119 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
120 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
121 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
122 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
123 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
124 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
125 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
126 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
127 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
129 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
131 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
132 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
133 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
134 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
137 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
138 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
139 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
141 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
142 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
143 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
144 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
145 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
146 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
147 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
148 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
151 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
153 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
154 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
155 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
156 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
157 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
158 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
159 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
162 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
163 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
164 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
166 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
168 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
169 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
170 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
171 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
172 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
173 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
174 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
176 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
178 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
179 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
180 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
181 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
182 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
183 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
184 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
186 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
188 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
189 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
190 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
191 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
192 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
193 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
195 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
197 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
198 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
199 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
200 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
201 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
202 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
203 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
204 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
205 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
207 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
209 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
210 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
211 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
212 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
213 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
214 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
215 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
216 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
220 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
221 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
223 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
224 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
225 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
226 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
227 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
228 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
229 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
230 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
231 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
232 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
233 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
234 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
235 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
236 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
238 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
240 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
241 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
242 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
243 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
244 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
245 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
246 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
247 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
248 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
249 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
251 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
253 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
254 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
255 if it's safe to display to the user.
259 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
260 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
261 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
263 - Added the time zone mapping file.
267 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
268 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
269 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
271 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
272 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
273 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
274 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
275 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
276 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
277 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
279 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
281 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
282 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
284 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
286 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
288 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
290 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
292 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
294 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
295 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
298 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
300 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
302 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
304 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
305 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
306 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
307 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
308 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
309 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
310 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
313 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
315 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
316 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
317 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
318 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
319 at the moment and subject to change.
321 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
322 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
323 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
324 not properly formatted.
325 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
327 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
328 grouping when extracting phone numbers
330 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
331 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
332 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
333 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
334 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
335 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
336 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
337 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
338 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
341 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
343 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
344 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
345 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
346 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
347 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
348 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
349 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
351 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
352 * Metadata/code changes:
353 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
354 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
355 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
358 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
360 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
361 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
363 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
365 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
366 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
367 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
368 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
369 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
370 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
371 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
372 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
374 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
376 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
378 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
380 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
381 formatting rule, such as China.
383 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
384 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
385 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
386 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
387 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
389 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
391 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
392 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
393 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
394 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
396 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
397 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
398 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
399 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
401 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
403 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
405 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
407 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
408 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
409 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
410 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
412 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
414 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
415 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
418 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
419 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
420 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
421 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
422 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
424 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
426 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
427 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
428 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
429 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
431 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
433 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
435 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
437 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
440 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
441 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
442 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
443 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
445 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
447 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
448 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
449 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
451 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
453 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
454 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
455 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
457 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
459 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
460 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
461 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
462 [https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/issues/202]
463 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
464 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
465 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
466 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
468 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
469 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
470 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
472 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
474 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
476 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
478 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
479 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
480 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
482 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
484 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
485 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
487 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
489 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
491 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
493 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
494 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
495 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
497 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
499 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
501 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
502 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
503 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
505 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
507 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
508 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
509 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
510 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
512 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
515 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
516 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
518 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
520 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
521 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
526 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
528 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
530 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
531 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
533 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
535 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
538 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
539 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
540 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
541 * Functionality changes:
542 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
543 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
545 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
547 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
548 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
550 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
551 * Metadata update only:
552 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
554 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
555 * Metadata update only:
557 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
559 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
560 * Metadata update only:
561 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
563 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
564 * Metadata update only:
565 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
566 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
568 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
569 * Metadata update only:
570 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
571 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
572 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
574 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
575 * Functionality changes
576 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
577 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
579 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
581 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
582 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
583 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
584 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
586 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
588 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
590 - 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,
591 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
592 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
593 base class which handles this.
595 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
597 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
598 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
600 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
602 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
603 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
604 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
606 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
607 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
608 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
609 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
611 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
613 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
614 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
616 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
619 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
620 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
621 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
622 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
624 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
626 - Support for Voicemail numbers
627 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
628 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
629 of all invalid numbers.
632 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
634 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
636 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
637 removing national prefix for some numbers.
638 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
639 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
640 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
642 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
645 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
647 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
649 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
650 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
651 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
652 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
653 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
656 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
657 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
659 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
660 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
662 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
664 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
666 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
667 invalid by the library.
668 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
670 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
674 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
675 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
676 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
677 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
678 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
679 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
680 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
681 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
682 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
684 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
686 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
687 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
688 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
689 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
692 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
693 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
694 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
695 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
697 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
699 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
700 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
701 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
702 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
705 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
706 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
707 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
709 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
710 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
711 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
713 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
715 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
716 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
717 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
718 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
719 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
720 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
721 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
722 stored as part of the number.
723 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
724 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
725 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
728 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
729 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
730 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
731 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
732 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
733 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
734 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
738 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
739 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
742 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
743 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
747 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
750 - Added phone number area mapping files for
753 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
755 - IT in English and Italian
757 - TR in English and Turkish
758 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
759 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
763 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
764 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
766 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
767 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
770 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
771 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
772 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
776 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
777 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
778 marked as a phone numbers.
779 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
780 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
782 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
786 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
787 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
788 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
789 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
791 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
792 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
796 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
797 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
799 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
800 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
801 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
802 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
806 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
807 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
808 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
810 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
811 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
812 * Minor documentation updates
816 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
817 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
818 for that country code are possible.
820 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
821 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
822 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
823 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
827 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
828 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
829 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
830 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
832 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
833 (calling) codes and region codes.
834 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
835 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
836 library is based around region codes.
837 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
839 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
844 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
848 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
849 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
850 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
851 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
852 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
853 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
855 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
856 - Fixing several lint errors
857 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
858 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
860 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
862 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
863 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
868 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
872 - Adding support for AC
876 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
880 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
881 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
882 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
883 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
884 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
885 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
888 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
889 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
890 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
891 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
895 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
899 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
904 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
905 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
906 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
907 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
908 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
909 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
911 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
912 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
913 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
914 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
915 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
916 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
917 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
918 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
919 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
920 possible carrier prefixes
925 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
929 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
930 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
931 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
936 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
940 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
941 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
943 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
945 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
948 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
952 - Added new phone number type: pager
954 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
956 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
957 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
960 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
964 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
965 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
966 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
967 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
972 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
973 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
975 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
976 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
977 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
980 * Further improve startup performance
981 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
982 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
983 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
987 * Improve startup performance
988 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
989 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
990 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
992 - Same change also applied to unittests
997 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
1000 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
1001 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#