1 Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3
3 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
4 AR, BH, BY, CI, CN, GH, KR, KW, LU, ME, NZ, SB, WS
5 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 64 (en)
6 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
7 86 (en, zh), 1418 (en), 1438 (en), 1450 (en), 1514 (en), 1819 (en)
8 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
9 225 (en), 233 (en), 677 (en), 973 (en)
11 Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2
13 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
14 BD, BH, EH, GH, IN, JM, LU, MA, MY, NF, NG, PK, SB, TT, TZ
15 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 352 (en, fr)
16 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1876 (en)
17 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
18 60 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 212 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 352 (en), 677 (en)
20 Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1
22 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
23 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
24 BI, CM, ID, IR, KR, LA, NP, TG, TH, TO
25 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 237 (en)
26 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
27 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
28 237 (en), 257 (en), 856 (en), 977 (en)
30 Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0
32 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be
33 removed in an upcoming release.
35 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
36 AR, AU, CC, CI, CX, DZ, EE, IN, KZ, MC, SB, TJ, TT
37 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MC
38 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 34 (en, es), 54 (en)
39 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
40 7 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 677 (en), 967 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)
42 Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1
44 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
45 AC, AU, CR, DE, IL, MR, NO, SA, SR, UG
46 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CR
47 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
48 61 (en), 256 (en), 506 (en), 597 (en), 966 (en), 972 (en)
50 Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
52 - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
53 could belong to multiple countries
54 - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
56 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
57 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
58 AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
59 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
60 1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
61 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
62 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
63 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
64 27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
65 254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)
67 Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
69 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
70 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
71 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
72 27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)
74 Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
76 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
77 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
78 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)
80 Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
82 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
83 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
86 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
87 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
88 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
89 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
90 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
91 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
92 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
93 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
94 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
97 Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
99 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
100 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
101 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
102 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
103 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
104 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
105 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
106 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
107 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
108 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
110 May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
112 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
113 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
114 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
115 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
118 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
119 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
120 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
122 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
123 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
124 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
125 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
126 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
127 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
128 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
129 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
132 Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
134 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
135 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
136 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
137 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
138 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
139 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
140 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
143 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
144 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
145 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
147 Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
149 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
150 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
151 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
152 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
153 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
154 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
155 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
157 Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
159 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
160 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
161 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
162 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
163 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
164 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
165 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
167 Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
169 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
170 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
171 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
172 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
173 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
174 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
176 Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
178 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
179 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
180 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
181 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
182 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
183 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
184 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
185 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
186 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
188 Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
190 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
191 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
192 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
193 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
194 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
195 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
196 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
197 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
201 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
202 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
204 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
205 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
206 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
207 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
208 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
209 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
210 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
211 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
212 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
213 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
214 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
215 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
216 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
217 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
219 Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
221 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
222 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
223 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
224 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
225 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
226 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
227 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
228 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
229 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
230 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
232 Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
234 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
235 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
236 if it's safe to display to the user.
240 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
241 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
242 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
244 - Added the time zone mapping file.
248 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
249 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
250 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
252 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
253 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
254 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
255 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
256 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
257 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
258 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
260 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
262 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
263 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
265 Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
267 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
269 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
271 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
273 Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
275 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
276 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
279 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
281 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
283 Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
285 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
286 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
287 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
288 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
289 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
290 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
291 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
294 Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
296 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
297 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
298 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
299 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
300 at the moment and subject to change.
302 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
303 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
304 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
305 not properly formatted.
306 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
308 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
309 grouping when extracting phone numbers
311 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
312 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
313 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
314 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
315 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
316 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
317 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
318 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
319 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
322 Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
324 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
325 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
326 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
327 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
328 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
329 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
330 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
332 Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
333 * Metadata/code changes:
334 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
335 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
336 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
339 Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
341 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
342 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
344 Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
346 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
347 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
348 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
349 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
350 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
351 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
352 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
353 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
355 Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
357 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
359 Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
361 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
362 formatting rule, such as China.
364 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
365 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
366 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
367 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
368 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
370 May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
372 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
373 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
374 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
375 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
377 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
378 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
379 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
380 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
382 Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
384 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
386 Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
388 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
389 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
390 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
391 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
393 Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
395 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
396 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
399 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
400 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
401 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
402 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
403 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
405 Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
407 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
408 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
409 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
410 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
412 Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
414 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
416 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
418 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
421 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
422 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
423 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
424 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
426 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
428 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
429 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
430 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
432 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
434 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
435 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
436 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
438 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
440 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
441 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
442 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
443 [https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/issues/202]
444 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
445 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
446 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
447 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
449 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
450 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
451 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
453 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
455 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
457 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
459 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
460 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
461 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
463 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
465 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
466 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
468 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
470 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
472 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
474 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
475 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
476 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
478 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
480 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
482 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
483 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
484 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
486 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
488 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
489 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
490 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
491 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
493 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
496 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
497 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
499 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
501 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
502 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
507 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
509 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
511 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
512 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
514 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
516 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
519 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
520 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
521 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
522 * Functionality changes:
523 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
524 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
526 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
528 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
529 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
531 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
532 * Metadata update only:
533 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
535 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
536 * Metadata update only:
538 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
540 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
541 * Metadata update only:
542 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
544 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
545 * Metadata update only:
546 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
547 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
549 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
550 * Metadata update only:
551 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
552 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
553 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
555 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
556 * Functionality changes
557 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
558 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
560 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
562 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
563 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
564 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
565 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
567 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
569 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
571 - 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,
572 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
573 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
574 base class which handles this.
576 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
578 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
579 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
581 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
583 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
584 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
585 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
587 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
588 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
589 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
590 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
592 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
594 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
595 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
597 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
600 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
601 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
602 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
603 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
605 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
607 - Support for Voicemail numbers
608 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
609 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
610 of all invalid numbers.
613 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
615 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
617 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
618 removing national prefix for some numbers.
619 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
620 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
621 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
623 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
626 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
628 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
630 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
631 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
632 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
633 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
634 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
637 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
638 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
640 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
641 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
643 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
645 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
647 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
648 invalid by the library.
649 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
651 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
655 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
656 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
657 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
658 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
659 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
660 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
661 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
662 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
663 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
665 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
667 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
668 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
669 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
670 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
673 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
674 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
675 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
676 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
678 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
680 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
681 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
682 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
683 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
686 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
687 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
688 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
690 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
691 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
692 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
694 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
696 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
697 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
698 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
699 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
700 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
701 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
702 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
703 stored as part of the number.
704 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
705 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
706 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
709 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
710 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
711 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
712 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
713 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
714 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
715 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
719 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
720 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
723 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
724 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
728 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
731 - Added phone number area mapping files for
734 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
736 - IT in English and Italian
738 - TR in English and Turkish
739 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
740 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
744 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
745 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
747 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
748 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
751 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
752 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
753 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
757 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
758 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
759 marked as a phone numbers.
760 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
761 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
763 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
767 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
768 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
769 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
770 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
772 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
773 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
777 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
778 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
780 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
781 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
782 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
783 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
787 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
788 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
789 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
791 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
792 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
793 * Minor documentation updates
797 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
798 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
799 for that country code are possible.
801 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
802 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
803 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
804 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
808 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
809 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
810 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
811 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
813 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
814 (calling) codes and region codes.
815 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
816 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
817 library is based around region codes.
818 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
820 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
825 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
829 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
830 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
831 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
832 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
833 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
834 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
836 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
837 - Fixing several lint errors
838 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
839 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
841 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
843 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
844 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
849 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
853 - Adding support for AC
857 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
861 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
862 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
863 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
864 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
865 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
866 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
869 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
870 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
871 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
872 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
876 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
880 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
885 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
886 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
887 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
888 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
889 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
890 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
892 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
893 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
894 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
895 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
896 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
897 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
898 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
899 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
900 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
901 possible carrier prefixes
906 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
910 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
911 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
912 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
917 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
921 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
922 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
924 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
926 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
929 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
933 - Added new phone number type: pager
935 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
937 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
938 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
941 * Bug fix on KZ metadata.
945 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
946 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
947 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
948 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
953 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
954 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
956 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
957 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
958 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
961 * Further improve startup performance
962 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
963 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
964 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
968 * Improve startup performance
969 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
970 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
971 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
973 - Same change also applied to unittests
978 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
981 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
982 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#