1 Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3 2 * Code changes: 3 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a 4 mobile 5 * Metadata changes: 6 - Updated metadata for region code(s): 7 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM 8 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl) 9 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh) 10 11 Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2 12 * Metadata changes: 13 - New metadata for region code(s): EH 14 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO 15 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en) 16 17 Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1 18 * Metadata changes: 19 - Updated metadata for region code(s): 20 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU 21 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en) 22 23 Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2 24 * Code changes: 25 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method. 26 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method. 27 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes() 28 [http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/detail?id=202] 29 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary 30 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able 31 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this 32 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first] 33 * Metadata changes: 34 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA 35 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles) 36 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en) 37 38 Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4 39 * Metadata changes: 40 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US 41 42 Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3 43 * Metadata changes: 44 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY 45 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979 46 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en) 47 48 Sep 11, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.2 49 * Bug fix: 50 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national 51 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain. 52 53 Sep 5, 2010: libphonenumber-5.1.1 54 * Code changes: 55 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing. 56 57 Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1 58 * Code changes: 59 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in 60 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate. 61 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter. 62 * Metadata changes: 63 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF 64 65 Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3 66 * Metadata changes: 67 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43 68 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL 69 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa) 70 71 Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2 72 * Metadata changes: 73 - Updated metadata for region code(s): 74 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ 75 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en) 76 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en) 77 78 July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1 79 * Metadata changes 80 - CL, DE ,IN, KR, US 81 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91. 82 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE). 83 84 July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0 85 * Code changes: 86 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers. 87 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no 88 punctuation 89 * Metadata changes 90 - IL, GA 91 * Other 92 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be. 93 94 July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1 95 * Metadata changes 96 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882 97 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG) 98 99 June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9 100 * Bug fix 101 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally. 102 * Metadata changes 103 - BF, CZ, ES, KW 104 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration 105 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya) 106 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245 107 * Functionality changes: 108 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2. 109 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters 110 specified. 111 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD) 112 * Testing changes: 113 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities 114 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil 115 116 June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5 117 * Metadata update only: 118 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS 119 120 June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4 121 * Metadata update only: 122 - AE, RO 123 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium) 124 125 May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3 126 * Metadata update only: 127 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL 128 129 May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2 130 * Metadata update only: 131 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH 132 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng) 133 134 May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1 135 * Metadata update only: 136 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM 137 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat) 138 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes 139 140 April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8 141 * Functionality changes 142 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:" 143 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context" 144 part 145 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino 146 * Metadata changes 147 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO, 148 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW 149 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86 150 * Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher. 151 152 March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7 153 * Bug fixes 154 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing 155 * Metadata changes 156 - 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, 157 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ 158 * Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common 159 base class which handles this. 160 161 February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6 162 * Bug fixes 163 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work 164 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with 165 punctuation 166 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only 167 WARNINGS 168 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE 169 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works 170 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers 171 * Metadata changes 172 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN 173 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) 174 * Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more 175 descriptive and to reduce code duplication. 176 177 January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5 178 * Code changes 179 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800). 180 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed 181 in. 182 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE. 183 184 * Metadata changes 185 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ, 186 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US 187 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979 188 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US 189 190 December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4 191 * Code changes 192 - Support for Voicemail numbers 193 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers 194 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead 195 of all invalid numbers. 196 197 * Metadata changes 198 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ 199 200 November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3 201 * Code changes 202 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly 203 removing national prefix for some numbers. 204 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'. 205 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers. 206 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a 207 number. 208 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region. 209 210 * Metadata changes 211 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK 212 213 November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2 214 * Code changes 215 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method 216 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching 217 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the 218 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher. 219 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in. 220 221 * Metadata changes 222 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries 223 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one 224 and added this 225 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG 226 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten) 227 228 October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1 229 * Code changes 230 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is 231 omitted. 232 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as 233 invalid by the library. 234 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and 235 emergency numbers. 236 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to 237 16). 238 239 * Metadata changes 240 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS 241 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA, 242 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, 243 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY, 244 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB, 245 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG, 246 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, 247 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW, 248 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW 249 250 October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0 251 * Code changes 252 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that 253 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers 254 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned. 255 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding 256 257 * Metadata changes 258 - Collecting data for emergency numbers 259 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ 260 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES, 261 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ 262 263 September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9 264 * Code changes 265 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD. 266 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +. 267 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number. 268 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies. 269 270 * Metadata changes 271 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ, 272 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX, 273 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE, 274 ZA, ZM 275 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA, 276 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM 277 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE 278 279 August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8 280 * Code changes 281 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers 282 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input 283 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers 284 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number 285 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only 286 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise. 287 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be 288 stored as part of the number. 289 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the 290 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it. 291 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files. 292 293 * Metadata changes 294 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH, 295 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA 296 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM, 297 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK, 298 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW 299 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US 300 - Revised sorting of geocoding data 301 302 July 5th, 2011 303 * Code changes 304 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies. 305 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests. 306 307 * Metadata changes 308 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes. 309 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada. 310 311 June 29th, 2011 312 * Code changes 313 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43 314 315 * Metadata changes 316 - Added phone number area mapping files for 317 - JP in Japanese 318 - FR in French 319 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese 320 - RU in English 321 - IT in English and Italian 322 - PT in Portuguese 323 - TR in English and Turkish 324 - CH in English, German, French and Italian 325 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK 326 327 June 14th, 2011 328 * Code changes 329 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests. 330 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary 331 files. 332 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate 333 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo. 334 335 * Metadata changes 336 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL 337 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean, 338 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese. 339 340 June 10th, 2011 341 * Code changes: 342 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers 343 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be 344 marked as a phone numbers. 345 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset 346 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour. 347 * Metadata changes: 348 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA 349 350 May 24th, 2011 351 * Code changes: 352 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable. 353 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers 354 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the 355 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later. 356 * Metadata changes: 357 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU 358 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI 359 360 May 9th, 2011 361 * Code changes: 362 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber 363 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder 364 * Metadata changes 365 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so 366 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF 367 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM, 368 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM 369 370 Apr 26th, 2011 371 * Code changes: 372 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number. 373 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters 374 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers). 375 * Metadata changes: 376 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV. 377 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US. 378 * Minor documentation updates 379 380 Apr 11th, 2011 381 * Bug fixes: 382 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher. 383 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions 384 for that country code are possible. 385 * Metadata changes: 386 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR, 387 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI 388 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV 389 * Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter 390 391 Mar 31st, 2011 392 * New functionality: 393 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format. 394 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number 395 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1 396 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia). 397 * Code changes: 398 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country 399 (calling) codes and region codes. 400 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: == 401 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the 402 library is based around region codes. 403 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method. 404 * Metadata changes: 405 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA 406 - New country: ME 407 408 Mar 22nd, 2011 409 * Metadata changes: 410 - New mobile-number pattern for AU 411 412 Mar 10th, 2011 413 * New functionality: 414 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing, 415 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode). 416 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput 417 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first 418 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate 419 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006). 420 * Code changes: 421 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants 422 - Fixing several lint errors 423 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode 424 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an 425 invalid region code 426 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU 427 * Metadata changes: 428 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW, 429 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE 430 - New country: SH 431 432 Mar 10th, 2011 433 * Code changes: 434 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine. 435 436 Mar 7th, 2011 437 * Metadata changes: 438 - Adding support for AC 439 440 Feb 11th, 2011 441 * Metadata changes: 442 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE. 443 444 Feb 9th, 2011 445 * Code changes: 446 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as 447 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH. 448 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! == 449 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one 450 or other of the numbers provided do not match. 451 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally 452 Accessible Numbers. 453 * Metadata changes: 454 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG, 455 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US 456 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM 457 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries 458 459 Jan 31st, 2011 460 * Code changes: 461 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class 462 463 Jan 28th, 2011 464 * Code changes: 465 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in 466 reg-ex matches. 467 468 Jan 20th, 2011 469 * Code improvements: 470 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException. 471 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing. 472 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation. 473 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or 474 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +. 475 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function 476 * Metadata changes: 477 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that 478 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been 479 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as 480 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges. 481 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR, 482 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW 483 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD 484 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB 485 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle 486 possible carrier prefixes 487 488 Jan 3rd, 2011 489 * Metadata changes: 490 - Updates to JE 491 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE 492 493 November 25th, 2010 494 * Metadata changes: 495 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM, 496 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI. 497 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability. 498 - Updated comments. 499 500 October 22nd, 2010 501 * Metadata changes: 502 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE 503 504 October 15th, 2010 505 * Code improvements: 506 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol 507 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the 508 source XML file 509 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class 510 * Metadata changes: 511 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE, 512 TT, ZW 513 * Bug fixes: 514 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception 515 516 September 4th, 2010 517 * Code improvement: 518 - Added new phone number type: pager 519 * Metadata change: 520 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU 521 * Bug fixes: 522 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition() 523 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number 524 525 September 1st, 2010 526 * Bug fix on KZ metadata. 527 528 August 17th, 2010 529 * Code improvement: 530 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and 531 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java 532 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java 533 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate 534 files. 535 536 August 16th, 2010 537 * Bug fixes 538 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format. 539 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format. 540 * Metadata change: 541 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS 542 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries. 543 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE 544 545 August 4th, 2010 546 * Further improve startup performance 547 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup. 548 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading 549 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil. 550 551 July 31th, 2010 552 553 * Improve startup performance 554 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region 555 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed 556 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at 557 startup 558 - Same change also applied to unittests 559 560 July 30th, 2010 561 * Metadata change: 562 - new country: TL 563 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN 564 565 * Code improvement 566 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter 567 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910# 568
