1Mar 25, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.4 2* Metadata changes: 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) 9 10Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3 11* Metadata changes: 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) 19 20Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2 21* Metadata changes: 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) 28 29Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1 30* Metadata changes: 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) 38 39Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0 40* Code changes: 41 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be 42 removed in an upcoming release. 43* Metadata changes: 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) 50 51Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1 52* Metadata changes: 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) 58 59Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3 60* Code changes: 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. 64* Metadata changes: 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) 75 76Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2 77* Metadata changes: 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) 82 83Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1 84* Metadata changes: 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) 88 89Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2 90* Code changes: 91 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text. 92 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix 93 94* Metadata changes: 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), 104 996 (en) 105 106Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1 107* Metadata changes: 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) 118 119May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1 120* Code changes: 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. 125 126* Metadata changes: 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, 130 TW, UZ, VA, VC 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), 139 1767 (en) 140 141Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0 142* Code changes: 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 150 CONTRIBUTORS file. 151* Metadata changes: 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) 155 156Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4 157* Metadata changes: 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) 165 166Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3 167* Metadata changes: 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) 175 176Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2 177* Metadata changes: 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) 184 185Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1 186* Metadata changes: 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) 196 197Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9 198* Code changes: 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 207 calling code. 208 209* Metadata changes: 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, 212 UG 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) 227 228Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8 229* Metadata changes: 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) 240 241Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7 242* Code changes: 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. 246 247Oct 7, 2013: 248* Code changes: 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. 252* Metadata changes: 253 - Added the time zone mapping file. 254 255Sep 30, 2013: 256* Code changes: 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. 260* Metadata changes: 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. 268 269Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6 270* Code changes: 271 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from 272 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix. 273 274Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5 275* Code changes: 276 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper. 277 278Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4 279* Metadata changes: 280 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability. 281 282Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3 283* Code changes: 284 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader. 285 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode 286 correctly. 287 288Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2 289* Code changes: 290 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken. 291 292Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1 293* Metadata changes: 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): 301 966 (ar, en), 1 (en) 302 303Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8 304* Code changes: 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. 310 - Bug fixes: 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 316 them 317 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict 318 grouping when extracting phone numbers 319* Metadata changes: 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): 329 GA, JM, MH, VE 330 331Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2 332* Metadata changes: 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 340 341Aug 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 346 in half. 347 348Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7 349* Code changes: 350 - Improve phone number extraction recall. 351 - Add support for loading short number metadata. 352 353Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2 354* Metadata changes: 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) 363 364Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1 365* Code changes: 366 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency. 367 368Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6 369* Code changes: 370 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix 371 formatting rule, such as China. 372* Metadata changes: 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 378 379May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5 380* Code changes: 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. 385* Metadata changes: 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) 390 391Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2 392* Metadata changes: 393 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US 394 395Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1 396* Metadata changes: 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) 401 402Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4 403* Code changes: 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. 406 407* Metadata changes: 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) 413 414Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2 415* Metadata changes: 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) 420 421Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1 422* Metadata changes: 423 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA 424 425Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3 426* Code changes: 427 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a 428 mobile 429* Metadata changes: 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) 434 435Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2 436* Metadata changes: 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) 440 441Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1 442* Metadata changes: 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) 446 447Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2 448* Code changes: 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] 457* Metadata changes: 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) 461 462Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4 463* Metadata changes: 464 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US 465 466Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3 467* Metadata changes: 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) 471 472Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2 473* Bug fix: 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. 476 477Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1 478* Code changes: 479 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing. 480 481Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1 482* Code changes: 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. 486* Metadata changes: 487 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF 488 489Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3 490* Metadata changes: 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) 494 495Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2 496* Metadata changes: 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) 501 502July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1 503* Metadata changes 504 - CL, DE ,IN, KR, US 505 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91. 506 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE). 507 508July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0 509* Code changes: 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 512 punctuation 513* Metadata changes 514 - IL, GA 515* Other 516 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be. 517 518July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1 519* Metadata changes 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) 522 523June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9 524* Bug fix 525 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally. 526* Metadata changes 527 - BF, CZ, ES, KW 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 534 specified. 535 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD) 536* Testing changes: 537 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities 538 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil 539 540June 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 543 544June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4 545* Metadata update only: 546 - AE, RO 547 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium) 548 549May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3 550* Metadata update only: 551 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL 552 553May 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) 557 558May 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 563 564April 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" 568 part 569 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino 570* Metadata changes 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. 575 576March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7 577* Bug fixes 578 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing 579* Metadata changes 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. 584 585February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6 586* Bug fixes 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 589 punctuation 590 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only 591 WARNINGS 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 595* Metadata changes 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. 600 601January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5 602* Code changes 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 605 in. 606 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE. 607 608* Metadata changes 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 613 614December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4 615* Code changes 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. 620 621* Metadata changes 622 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ 623 624November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3 625* Code changes 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 631 number. 632 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region. 633 634* Metadata changes 635 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK 636 637November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2 638* Code changes 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. 644 645* Metadata changes 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 648 and added this 649 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG 650 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten) 651 652October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1 653* Code changes 654 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is 655 omitted. 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 659 emergency numbers. 660 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to 661 16). 662 663* Metadata changes 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 673 674October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0 675* Code changes 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 680 681* Metadata changes 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 686 687September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9 688* Code changes 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. 693 694* Metadata changes 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, 698 ZA, ZM 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 702 703August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8 704* Code changes 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. 716 717* Metadata changes 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 725 726July 5th, 2011 727* Code changes 728 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies. 729 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests. 730 731* Metadata changes 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. 734 735June 29th, 2011 736* Code changes 737 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43 738 739* Metadata changes 740 - Added phone number area mapping files for 741 - JP in Japanese 742 - FR in French 743 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese 744 - RU in English 745 - IT in English and Italian 746 - PT in Portuguese 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 750 751June 14th, 2011 752* Code changes 753 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests. 754 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary 755 files. 756 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate 757 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo. 758 759* Metadata changes 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. 763 764June 10th, 2011 765* Code changes: 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. 771* Metadata changes: 772 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA 773 774May 24th, 2011 775* Code changes: 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. 780* Metadata changes: 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 783 784May 9th, 2011 785* Code changes: 786 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber 787 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder 788* Metadata changes 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 793 794Apr 26th, 2011 795* Code changes: 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). 799* Metadata changes: 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 803 804Apr 11th, 2011 805* Bug fixes: 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. 809* Metadata changes: 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 814 815Mar 31st, 2011 816* New functionality: 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). 821* Code changes: 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. 828* Metadata changes: 829 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA 830 - New country: ME 831 832Mar 22nd, 2011 833* Metadata changes: 834 - New mobile-number pattern for AU 835 836Mar 10th, 2011 837* New functionality: 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). 844* Code changes: 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 849 invalid region code 850 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU 851* Metadata changes: 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 854 - New country: SH 855 856Mar 10th, 2011 857* Code changes: 858 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine. 859 860Mar 7th, 2011 861* Metadata changes: 862 - Adding support for AC 863 864Feb 11th, 2011 865* Metadata changes: 866 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE. 867 868Feb 9th, 2011 869* Code changes: 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 876 Accessible Numbers. 877* Metadata changes: 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 882 883Jan 31st, 2011 884* Code changes: 885 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class 886 887Jan 28th, 2011 888* Code changes: 889 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in 890 reg-ex matches. 891 892Jan 20th, 2011 893* Code improvements: 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 900* Metadata changes: 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 911 912Jan 3rd, 2011 913* Metadata changes: 914 - Updates to JE 915 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE 916 917November 25th, 2010 918* Metadata changes: 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. 922 - Updated comments. 923 924October 22nd, 2010 925* Metadata changes: 926 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE 927 928October 15th, 2010 929* Code improvements: 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 932 source XML file 933 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class 934* Metadata changes: 935 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE, 936 TT, ZW 937* Bug fixes: 938 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception 939 940September 4th, 2010 941* Code improvement: 942 - Added new phone number type: pager 943* Metadata change: 944 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU 945* Bug fixes: 946 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition() 947 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number 948 949September 1st, 2010 950* Bug fix on KZ metadata. 951 952August 17th, 2010 953* Code improvement: 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 958 files. 959 960August 16th, 2010 961* Bug fixes 962 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format. 963 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format. 964* Metadata change: 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 968 969August 4th, 2010 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. 974 975July 31th, 2010 976 977* 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 981 startup 982 - Same change also applied to unittests 983 984July 30th, 2010 985* Metadata change: 986 - new country: TL 987 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN 988 989* Code improvement 990 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter 991 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910# 992