1Sep 16, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.11
2Metadata changes:
3 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
4   IN, KE, LR, MM, MR, NA, NE, PT, RO, SO, TZ, US
5 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CF, CG, ER, KP, NE, SO
6 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CD, NO, PT
7 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1854 (en)
8 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 264 (en)
9 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
10   40 (en), 91 (en), 95 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 252 (en), 254 (en), 255 (en),
11   509 (en)
12
13Aug 31, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.10
14Metadata changes:
15 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
16   AU, BY, CR, DZ, EH, ES, HK, HT, IN, JO, MN, MU, ST, TD, TT, ZW
17 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HK, KR
18 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 263 (en)
19 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 509 (en), 976 (en)
20 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
21   41 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 230 (en), 235 (en), 239 (en)
22
23Aug 03, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.9
24Metadata changes:
25 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AR, IN, MX, PL, SZ, YT, ZW
26 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MX, ZW
27 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 263 (en)
28
29Jul 14, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.8
30Metadata changes:
31 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
32   AC, BS, BW, CL, DE, DZ, HN, HR, IL, IN, IT, JO, KY, MA, NP, PL, SH, SL, TM,
33   UA, VA
34 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HR
35 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 56 (en, es)
36 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
37   49 (en), 212 (en), 232 (en), 267 (en), 380 (en), 385 (en), 962 (en),
38   972 (en), 977 (en), 993 (en)
39- Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.
40
41Jun 24, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.7
42Metadata changes:
43 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
44   AC, BF, BG, CG, CM, FR, IL, IN, JP, KW, LB, LI, SB, SD, SH, TT
45 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): GY, SB
46 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 592 (en)
47 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
48   86 (en, zh), 226 (en), 290 (en, fr)
49 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 592 (en), 689 (en)
50 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
51   7 (en), 60 (en), 91 (en), 237 (en), 242 (en), 249 (en), 359 (en), 961 (en),
52   1868 (en)
53- Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.
54
55May 29, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.6
56Metadata changes:
57 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
58   BB, BR, CR, ID, IL, JO, KW, LK, LU, MD, MM, MV, MY, PH, PK, SC, SE
59 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE, LK, US
60 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
61   60 (en), 63 (en), 92 (en), 94 (en), 95 (en), 248 (en), 373 (en), 960 (en),
62   972 (en), 1246 (en)
63
64Apr 24, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.5
65* Metadata changes:
66 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
67   AF, AS, BD, BE, CA, CI, ID, IN, JM, KH, LI, LU, MU, NE, PL
68 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE, LI
69 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
70   62 (en), 86 (en, zh), 358 (en, fi, se)
71 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
72   32 (en), 93 (en), 225 (en), 227 (en), 855 (en), 1684 (en), 1876 (en)
73
74Mar 25, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.4
75* Metadata changes:
76 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CA, HU, IL, JO, LU, SG, SL, US
77 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI
78 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
79   1220 (en), 1628 (en), 1629 (en)
80 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
81   65 (en), 232 (en), 972 (en)
82
83Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3
84* Metadata changes:
85 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
86   AR, BH, BY, CI, CN, GH, KR, KW, LU, ME, NZ, SB, WS
87 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 64 (en)
88 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
89   86 (en, zh), 1418 (en), 1438 (en), 1450 (en), 1514 (en), 1819 (en)
90 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
91   225 (en), 233 (en), 677 (en), 973 (en)
92
93Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2
94* Metadata changes:
95 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
96   BD, BH, EH, GH, IN, JM, LU, MA, MY, NF, NG, PK, SB, TT, TZ
97 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 352 (en, fr)
98 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1876 (en)
99 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
100   60 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 212 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 352 (en), 677 (en)
101
102Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1
103* Metadata changes:
104 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
105 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
106   BI, CM, ID, IR, KR, LA, NP, TG, TH, TO
107 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 237 (en)
108 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
109 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
110   237 (en), 257 (en), 856 (en), 977 (en)
111
112Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0
113* Code changes:
114 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be
115   removed in an upcoming release.
116* Metadata changes:
117 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
118   AR, AU, CC, CI, CX, DZ, EE, IN, KZ, MC, SB, TJ, TT
119 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MC
120 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 34 (en, es), 54 (en)
121 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
122   7 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 677 (en), 967 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)
123
124Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1
125* Metadata changes:
126 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
127   AC, AU, CR, DE, IL, MR, NO, SA, SR, UG
128 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CR
129 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
130   61 (en), 256 (en), 506 (en), 597 (en), 966 (en), 972 (en)
131
132Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
133* Code changes:
134  - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
135    could belong to multiple countries
136  - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
137* Metadata changes:
138 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
139 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
140   AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
141 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
142   1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
143 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
144 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
145 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
146   27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
147   254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)
148
149Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
150* Metadata changes:
151 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
152 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
153 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
154   27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)
155
156Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
157* Metadata changes:
158 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
159 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
160 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)
161
162Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
163* Code changes:
164 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
165 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix
166
167* Metadata changes:
168 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
169 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
170   AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
171 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
172 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
173 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
174 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
175 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
176   92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
177   996 (en)
178
179Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
180* Metadata changes:
181 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
182   AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
183   KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
184 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
185 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
186 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
187   33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
188 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
189 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
190   63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)
191
192May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
193* Code changes:
194 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
195   alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
196 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
197   formatting patterns incorrectly applied.
198
199* Metadata changes:
200 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
201   AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
202   IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
203   TW, UZ, VA, VC
204 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
205 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
206 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
207   32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
208 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
209   1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
210 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
211   66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
212   1767 (en)
213
214Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
215* Code changes:
216 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
217 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
218   side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
219 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
220   national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
221   countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
222 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
223   CONTRIBUTORS file.
224* Metadata changes:
225 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
226 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
227 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)
228
229Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
230* Metadata changes:
231 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
232   883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
233 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
234 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
235 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
236   48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
237   267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)
238
239Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
240* Metadata changes:
241 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
242   BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
243 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
244 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
245 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
246 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
247   55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)
248
249Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
250* Metadata changes:
251 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
252 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
253 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
254   AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
255   MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
256 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)
257
258Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
259* Metadata changes:
260 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
261 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
262   BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
263 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
264 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
265   27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
266 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
267 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
268   212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)
269
270Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
271* Code changes:
272 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
273   to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
274   supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
275 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
276 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
277 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
278 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
279 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
280   calling code.
281
282* Metadata changes:
283 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
284   AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
285   UG
286 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
287 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
288   AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
289   CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
290   JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
291 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
292   257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
293 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
294   264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
295 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
296   375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
297 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
298   57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
299   686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)
300
301Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
302* Metadata changes:
303 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
304   350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
305 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
306   31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
307 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
308   AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
309 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
310 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
311 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
312   20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)
313
314Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
315* Code changes:
316  - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
317  - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
318                    if it's safe to display to the user.
319
320Oct 7, 2013:
321* Code changes:
322  - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
323  - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
324  - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
325* Metadata changes:
326  - Added the time zone mapping file.
327
328Sep 30, 2013:
329* Code changes:
330  - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
331  - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
332  - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
333* Metadata changes:
334  - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
335    CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
336    ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
337    LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
338    NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
339    BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
340    YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.
341
342Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
343* Code changes:
344  - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
345    geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.
346
347Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
348* Code changes:
349  - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.
350
351Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
352* Metadata changes:
353 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.
354
355Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
356* Code changes:
357  - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
358  - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
359             correctly.
360
361Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
362* Code changes:
363  - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.
364
365Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
366* Metadata changes:
367 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
368 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
369   AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
370 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
371 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
372   AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
373 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
374   966 (ar, en), 1 (en)
375
376Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
377* Code changes:
378 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
379   deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
380 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
381   isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
382   at the moment and subject to change.
383 - Bug fixes:
384    -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
385    -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
386       have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
387       not properly formatted.
388    -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
389       them
390    -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
391       grouping when extracting phone numbers
392* Metadata changes:
393 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
394   30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
395 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
396 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
397 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
398   AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
399 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
400   AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
401 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
402   GA, JM, MH, VE
403
404Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
405* Metadata changes:
406 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
407   352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
408 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
409   AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
410 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
411 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
412   CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH
413
414Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
415* Metadata/code changes:
416 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
417   generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
418   data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
419   in half.
420
421Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
422* Code changes:
423 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
424 - Add support for loading short number metadata.
425
426Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
427* Metadata changes:
428 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
429 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
430 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
431   BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
432   NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
433 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
434 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
435   49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)
436
437Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
438* Code changes:
439 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.
440
441Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
442* Code changes:
443 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
444   formatting rule, such as China.
445* Metadata changes:
446 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
447 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
448 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
449   AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
450   ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT
451
452May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
453* Code changes:
454 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
455   Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
456   metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
457 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
458* Metadata changes:
459 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
460 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
461   AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
462 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)
463
464Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
465* Metadata changes:
466 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US
467
468Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
469* Metadata changes:
470 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
471 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
472 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
473   98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)
474
475Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
476* Code changes:
477 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
478   number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.
479
480* Metadata changes:
481 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
482   BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
483 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
484 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
485   82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)
486
487Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
488* Metadata changes:
489 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
490   BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
491 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
492   375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)
493
494Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
495* Metadata changes:
496 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA
497
498Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
499* Code changes:
500 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
501   mobile
502* Metadata changes:
503 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
504   BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
505 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
506 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)
507
508Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
509* Metadata changes:
510 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
511 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
512 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)
513
514Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
515* Metadata changes:
516 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
517   AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
518 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)
519
520Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
521* Code changes:
522 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
523 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
524 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
525   [https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/issues/202]
526 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
527   [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
528   to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
529   library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
530* Metadata changes:
531 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
532 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
533 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)
534
535Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
536* Metadata changes:
537 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US
538
539Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
540* Metadata changes:
541 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
542 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
543 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)
544
545Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2
546* Bug fix:
547 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
548   format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.
549
550Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1
551* Code changes:
552  - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.
553
554Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
555* Code changes:
556 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
557   national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
558 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
559* Metadata changes:
560 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF
561
562Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
563* Metadata changes:
564 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
565 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
566 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)
567
568Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
569* Metadata changes:
570 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
571   BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
572 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
573 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)
574
575July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
576* Metadata changes
577 - CL, DE ,IN, KR, US
578 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
579 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).
580
581July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
582* Code changes:
583 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
584 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
585   punctuation
586* Metadata changes
587 - IL, GA
588* Other
589 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.
590
591July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
592* Metadata changes
593 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
594 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)
595
596June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
597* Bug fix
598 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
599* Metadata changes
600 - BF, CZ, ES, KW
601 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
602   Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
603 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
604* Functionality changes:
605 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
606 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
607   specified.
608 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
609* Testing changes:
610 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
611 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil
612
613June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
614* Metadata update only:
615 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS
616
617June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
618* Metadata update only:
619 - AE, RO
620 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)
621
622May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
623* Metadata update only:
624 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL
625
626May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
627* Metadata update only:
628 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
629 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)
630
631May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
632* Metadata update only:
633 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
634 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
635 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes
636
637April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
638* Functionality changes
639 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
640 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
641   part
642 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
643* Metadata changes
644 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
645   SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
646 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
647* Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.
648
649March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
650* Bug fixes
651 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
652* Metadata changes
653 - 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,
654   MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
655* Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
656  base class which handles this.
657
658February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
659* Bug fixes
660 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
661 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
662   punctuation
663 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
664   WARNINGS
665 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
666 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
667 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
668* Metadata changes
669 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
670 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
671* Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
672  descriptive and to reduce code duplication.
673
674January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
675* Code changes
676 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
677 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
678   in.
679 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.
680
681* Metadata changes
682 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
683   PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
684 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
685 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US
686
687December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
688* Code changes
689 - Support for Voicemail numbers
690 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
691 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
692   of all invalid numbers.
693
694* Metadata changes
695 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ
696
697November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
698* Code changes
699 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
700   removing national prefix for some numbers.
701 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
702 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
703 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
704   number.
705 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.
706
707* Metadata changes
708 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK
709
710November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
711* Code changes
712 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
713 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
714   national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
715   metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
716 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.
717
718* Metadata changes
719 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
720 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
721   and added this
722 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
723 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)
724
725October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
726* Code changes
727 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
728   omitted.
729 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
730   invalid by the library.
731 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
732   emergency numbers.
733 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
734   16).
735
736* Metadata changes
737 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
738 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
739   BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
740   DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
741   HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
742   LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
743   NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
744   SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
745   UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW
746
747October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
748* Code changes
749 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
750   the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
751   that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
752 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding
753
754* Metadata changes
755 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
756 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
757 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
758   FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ
759
760September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
761* Code changes
762 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
763 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
764 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
765 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.
766
767* Metadata changes
768 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
769   GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
770   MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
771   ZA, ZM
772 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
773   MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
774 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE
775
776August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
777* Code changes
778 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
779 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
780 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
781   followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
782   punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
783   when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
784 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
785   stored as part of the number.
786 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
787   validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
788 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.
789
790* Metadata changes
791 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
792   LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
793 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
794   GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
795   SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
796 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
797 - Revised sorting of geocoding data
798
799July 5th, 2011
800* Code changes
801 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
802 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.
803
804* Metadata changes
805 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
806 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.
807
808June 29th, 2011
809* Code changes
810 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43
811
812* Metadata changes
813 - Added phone number area mapping files for
814   - JP in Japanese
815   - FR in French
816   - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
817   - RU in English
818   - IT in English and Italian
819   - PT in Portuguese
820   - TR in English and Turkish
821   - CH in English, German, French and Italian
822 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK
823
824June 14th, 2011
825* Code changes
826 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
827 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
828   files.
829 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
830   PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.
831
832* Metadata changes
833 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
834   and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
835   Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.
836
837June 10th, 2011
838* Code changes:
839 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
840   surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
841   marked as a phone numbers.
842 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
843 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
844* Metadata changes:
845 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA
846
847May 24th, 2011
848* Code changes:
849 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
850 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
851 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
852   region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
853* Metadata changes:
854 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
855 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI
856
857May 9th, 2011
858* Code changes:
859 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
860 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
861* Metadata changes
862 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
863 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
864 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
865   KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM
866
867Apr 26th, 2011
868* Code changes:
869 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
870 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
871   (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
872* Metadata changes:
873 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
874 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
875* Minor documentation updates
876
877Apr 11th, 2011
878* Bug fixes:
879 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
880 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
881   for that country code are possible.
882* Metadata changes:
883 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
884   MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
885 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
886* Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter
887
888Mar 31st, 2011
889* New functionality:
890 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
891 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
892 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
893   800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
894* Code changes:
895 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
896   (calling) codes and region codes.
897 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
898 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
899   library is based around region codes.
900 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
901* Metadata changes:
902 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
903 - New country: ME
904
905Mar 22nd, 2011
906* Metadata changes:
907 - New mobile-number pattern for AU
908
909Mar 10th, 2011
910* New functionality:
911 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
912   falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
913 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
914 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
915   version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
916   endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
917* Code changes:
918 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
919 - Fixing several lint errors
920 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
921 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
922   invalid region code
923 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
924* Metadata changes:
925 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
926   LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
927 - New country: SH
928
929Mar 10th, 2011
930* Code changes:
931  - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.
932
933Mar 7th, 2011
934* Metadata changes:
935 - Adding support for AC
936
937Feb 11th, 2011
938* Metadata changes:
939 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.
940
941Feb 9th, 2011
942* Code changes:
943  - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
944    an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
945    == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
946      This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
947      or other of the numbers provided do not match.
948  - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
949    Accessible Numbers.
950* Metadata changes:
951  - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
952    IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
953  - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
954  - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries
955
956Jan 31st, 2011
957* Code changes:
958  - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class
959
960Jan 28th, 2011
961* Code changes:
962  - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
963    reg-ex matches.
964
965Jan 20th, 2011
966* Code improvements:
967  - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
968  - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
969  - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
970  - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
971    with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
972  - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
973* Metadata changes:
974  - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
975    "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes.  No code-support for these has been
976    introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
977    area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
978  - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
979    DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
980  - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
981  - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
982  - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
983    possible carrier prefixes
984
985Jan 3rd, 2011
986* Metadata changes:
987  - Updates to JE
988  - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE
989
990November 25th, 2010
991* Metadata changes:
992  - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
993    GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
994  - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
995  - Updated comments.
996
997October 22nd, 2010
998* Metadata changes:
999  - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE
1000
1001October 15th, 2010
1002* Code improvements:
1003  - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
1004  - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
1005    source XML file
1006  - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
1007* Metadata changes:
1008  - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
1009    TT, ZW
1010* Bug fixes:
1011  - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception
1012
1013September 4th, 2010
1014* Code improvement:
1015  - Added new phone number type: pager
1016* Metadata change:
1017  - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
1018* Bug fixes:
1019  - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
1020  - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number
1021
1022September 1st, 2010
1023* Bug fix on KZ metadata.
1024
1025August 17th, 2010
1026* Code improvement:
1027  - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
1028    BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
1029  - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
1030  - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
1031    files.
1032
1033August 16th, 2010
1034* Bug fixes
1035  - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
1036  - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
1037* Metadata change:
1038  - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
1039  - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
1040  - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE
1041
1042August 4th, 2010
1043* Further improve startup performance
1044  - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
1045  - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
1046    it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.
1047
1048July 31th, 2010
1049
1050* Improve startup performance
1051  - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
1052  - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
1053  - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
1054    startup
1055  - Same change also applied to unittests
1056
1057July 30th, 2010
1058* Metadata change:
1059  - new country: TL
1060  - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
1061
1062* Code improvement
1063  - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
1064  - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#
1065