release_notes.txt

May 19, 2020: v8.12.4
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BR, CC, CX, HK, MM, PH, PL, TN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FI, GB, TH
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1242 (en), 1867 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 61 (en), 63 (en), 95 (en), 216 (en), 852 (en, zh)

May 06, 2020: v8.12.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, AU, CC, CX, GB, GG, GR, JE, MY, SG, SL, SR, TH
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, AU
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 61 (en), 66 (en, th)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 61 (en), 65 (en), 232 (en), 597 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Apr 22, 2020: v8.12.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AL, AR, AU, CC, CX, ET, GE, GH, JM, JP, LA, MM, NZ, QA, SG, ZA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 995 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 54 (en), 64 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 64 (en), 65 (en), 95 (en), 995 (en), 1876 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Mar 30, 2020: v8.12.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, BB, BD, BM, BS, BW, CA, CL, DM, DO, GB, GD, GU, IL, IR, JM, JO,
 KN, KY, KZ, LC, MA, MC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NZ, PE, PH, PR, PW, SG, SS, SX, TC,
 TT, US, VC, VG, VI, VN
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SS
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 63 (en), 1340 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 44 (en), 56 (en, es), 212 (en, fr), 234 (en), 880 (en),
 1242 (en), 1345 (en), 1659 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 1340 (en), 1659 (en), 1664 (en), 1670 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 51 (en), 56 (en), 63 (en), 84 (en), 98 (en, fa), 211 (en),
 234 (en), 267 (en), 972 (en), 976 (en), 1246 (en), 1264 (en), 1268 (en),
 1284 (en), 1345 (en), 1441 (en), 1649 (en), 1684 (en), 1758 (en), 1767 (en),
 1784 (en), 1868 (en), 1869 (en), 1876 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Mar 18, 2020: v8.12.0
Code changes:
 - [JS only] Updates some closure annotations in `phonenumberutil.js` to indicate non-nullable parameters
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 800, 808, 881, 882, 979, AR, AZ, CL, CN, HK, HN, JO, JP, KE, KP, LA, LR, MK,
 ML, MN, MV, MY, MZ, NP, NZ, PS, SV, SY, TT, TZ, UZ, YE
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AC, JO, MK, MN, NP, SV, TZ
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 850 (en), 963 (en), 967 (en), 970 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 389 (en), 504 (en), 962 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 247 (en), 500 (en), 504 (en), 850 (en), 881 (en), 882 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 56 (en), 60 (en), 64 (en), 86 (en, zh), 223 (en), 231 (en), 258 (en),
 267 (en), 389 (en), 503 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 856 (en), 960 (en),
 962 (en), 963 (en), 964 (en), 970 (en), 992 (en), 994 (en), 998 (en),
 1868 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Mar 02, 2020: v8.11.5
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 595
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AD, BE, BQ, BW, CA, CI, CM, CR, EC, EE, EG, FM, FO, GL, GN, IL, KI, LK, LT,
 ME, MO, MT, MW, NE, NF, NR, OM, PA, PF, PG, PK, PY, RO, RW, SC, SD, SG, SK,
 SL, SO, TL, TM, TO, TV, UG, VE, VU, WS, ZM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 GN, KI, LK, LT, OM, PK, RO, RW, SH, TM, TR, WS
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 92 (en), 236 (en), 593 (en), 595 (en), 598 (en), 670 (en), 672 (en),
 678 (en), 685 (en), 689 (en), 690 (en), 993 (en), 1367 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 43 (en), 58 (en, es), 94 (en), 221 (en), 224 (en), 225 (en), 233 (en),
 252 (en), 264 (en), 290 (en, fr), 352 (de, en), 370 (en), 374 (en, hy, ru),
 421 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 246 (en), 266 (en), 290 (en), 291 (en), 377 (en), 378 (en), 672 (en),
 676 (en), 681 (en), 683 (en), 687 (en), 690 (en), 691 (en), 692 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 40 (en), 43 (en), 48 (en), 65 (en), 92 (en), 222 (en), 225 (en), 227 (en),
 229 (en), 230 (en), 232 (en), 233 (en), 236 (en), 256 (en), 265 (en),
 267 (en), 268 (en), 298 (en), 370 (en), 372 (en), 376 (en), 381 (en),
 383 (en), 421 (en), 502 (en), 506 (en), 507 (en), 592 (en), 593 (en),
 598 (en), 599 (en), 670 (en), 674 (en), 675 (en), 678 (en), 685 (en),
 686 (en), 853 (en), 968 (en), 972 (en), 993 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Feb 12, 2020: v8.11.4
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AZ, BJ, CL, ET, GB, MA, MM, PW, RE, SG
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 680 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 56 (en), 95 (en), 229 (en), 262 (en), 680 (en), 994 (en)

Jan 28, 2020: v8.11.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): GB, GG, JE, MM, MU, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1659 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jan 14, 2020: v8.11.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, CA, EH, GM, KR, MA, ML, NG, NZ, SE, SG, TJ, TR, TT
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1672 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 65 (en), 212 (en), 220 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Dec 10, 2019: v8.11.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, DO, DZ, FR, GA, GE, GI, IL, KW, LB, MA, RO, SG, ZA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 33 (en, fr), 54 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 33 (en), 36 (en), 65 (en), 213 (en), 961 (en), 972 (en), 995 (en)

Nov 26, 2019: v8.11.0
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 91
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AL, AR, AX, AZ, BA, BE, BH, BI, BL, BN, CK, CO, CU, CV, DK, EH, ET, FI,
 FR, GA, GB, GF, GH, GI, GP, GR, HR, IE, IN, IR, IS, JO, KG, KM, KR, KW, LI,
 LY, MA, MD, MF, MM, MQ, NO, PT, QA, RE, SG, TW, YT, ZM, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AW, BE, CN, CO, DE, ET, GR, KR, MD, NO, PT, SG, TW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 386 (en), 673 (en), 679 (en), 682 (en), 971 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 34 (en, es), 46 (en), 47 (en), 91 (en), 216 (en), 218 (en), 241 (en),
 251 (en), 353 (en), 354 (en), 886 (en, zh), 996 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 46 (en), 82 (en, ko), 218 (en), 501 (en), 682 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 30 (en), 31 (en), 32 (en), 34 (en), 39 (en), 41 (en), 44 (en), 45 (en),
 47 (en), 49 (en), 53 (en), 55 (en), 57 (en), 65 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en),
 95 (en), 98 (en, fa), 212 (en), 226 (en), 233 (en), 235 (en), 237 (en),
 241 (en), 242 (en), 243 (en), 262 (en), 297 (en), 350 (en), 351 (en),
 353 (en), 354 (en), 358 (en), 359 (en), 373 (en), 385 (en), 386 (en),
 420 (en), 423 (en), 508 (en), 590 (en), 673 (en), 855 (en), 886 (en),
 966 (en), 973 (en), 974 (en), 994 (en), 996 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Nov 13, 2019: v8.10.23
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AL, AR, XK
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 383 (en)

Oct 29, 2019: v8.10.22
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): DM, DO, MM, OM, VN, ZM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): GR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 95 (en), 260 (en), 968 (en)

Oct 16, 2019: v8.10.21
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, CI, HN, KW, MM, MY, SG, SI, TJ, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (en), 95 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 65 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 386 (en), 992 (en)

Oct 02, 2019: v8.10.20
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BO, CC, CX, DM, GM, HN, PH, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1341 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Sep 17, 2019: v8.10.19
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): EH, GE, GR, HU, IL, IR, MA, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): ET
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1689 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 31 (en), 995 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Sep 03, 2019: v8.10.18
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BR, HU, KG, KR, MV, SG, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR, IL
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 65 (en), 996 (en)

Aug 15, 2019: v8.10.17
Metadata changes:
 - MX numbering authority has changed dialling patterns to be more
 uniform i.e additional domestic (01 and 044) and international
 mobile tokens (1) are abolished now. The parsing and formatting
 changes were done as part of this release. We recommend to
 follow the steps mentioned in our announcement for same:
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/libphonenumber-discuss/pecTIo_HpVE
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AM, MM, MX
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): TH
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 95 (en), 374 (en, ru)
For users who depend on JavaScript port:
 - Please patch in PR #2380 to fix AYTF output that otherwise
 swallows the entered old mobile token (1) at the last step.
Code changes:
 - AsYouTypeFormatter changed to ensure that the output never adds new digits or swallows digits.
 - MX mobile token no longer returned by getCountryMobileToken

Aug 01, 2019: v8.10.16
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, CC, CL, CX, GB, IL, KW, MK, NE, TJ, TT, TW, VI
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 56 (en), 61 (en), 65 (en), 227 (en), 972 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)

Jul 15, 2019: v8.10.15
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AM, BG, EH, IR, IT, MA, MM, MT, SL, TO, UG, VA, VN
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 676 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 95 (en), 212 (en, fr), 232 (en), 374 (en, hy, ru)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 95 (en), 212 (en), 232 (en), 256 (en), 356 (en)

Jun 13, 2019: v8.10.14
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, BJ, BR, IM, KE, KZ, MN, MX, PH, RE, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 55 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 44 (en), 63 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 254 (en), 262 (en),
 976 (en)

May 29, 2019: v8.10.13
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AU, CC, CI, CX, DE, HK
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 61 (en), 225 (en)

May 10, 2019: v8.10.12
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CL, HK, MU, NE
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 230 (en)

Apr 30, 2019: v8.10.11
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CU, EH, MA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CU
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 53 (en)

Apr 15, 2019: v8.10.10
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BW, CL, DE, ET, IN, NG, PF, TW, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 251 (en), 267 (en), 886 (en, zh, zh_Hant)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 234 (en), 689 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Apr 02, 2019: v8.10.9
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 380, 44, 49
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AU, BD, CC, CN, CX, EC, ID, PE
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 51 (en), 593 (en)

Mar 19, 2019: v8.10.8
* Code changes
 - Making the application of alternate formats when finding phone numbers in
 text in strict-grouping and exact-match mode depend on the leading digits
 for each rule. This was always assumed but never actually done. This means
 that the false positive rate will decrease but also that more valid numbers
 are skipped. A subsequent CL will update patterns to increase recall.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 255, 27, 31, 34, 351, 352, 358, 359, 36, 372, 380, 381, 385, 39, 43, 44, 49,
 506, 52, 54, 55, 595, 61, 62, 64, 66, 675, 676, 679, 7, 81, 84, 856, 90, 91,
 94, 95, 971, 972, 995
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AC, AU, CC, CN, CX, EH, GE, JM, JP, KE, KG, MA, NO, PH, SJ, UA, UZ, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): TW
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1658 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 65 (en), 380 (en, uk), 996 (en), 1876 (en)

Mar 06, 2019: v8.10.7
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BD, BH, HN, MM, PH, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 90 (en, tr), 95 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 63 (en), 64 (en)

Feb 21, 2019: v8.10.6
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 CN, IR, JM, KE, KR, KZ, LI, VN
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en, zh)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 423 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Feb 06, 2019: v8.10.5
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AE, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BE, BG, BM, BO, BR, BS, BT, BW,
 BY, CG, CH, CL, CO, DE, DM, DZ, ES, FI, FR, GB, GD, GE, GR, GU, HN, HR, IE,
 IL, IN, IT, JM, JO, JP, KG, KN, KP, KR, KY, LC, LI, LK, LT, LU, MA, MC, MD,
 MG, MM, MP, MS, MU, MV, MW, MX, MY, NA, NC, NE, NF, NL, NO, NZ, PE, PH, PL,
 PY, RO, RU, SA, SB, SC, SE, SG, SI, SK, SM, SN, SO, SR, SX, TC, TJ, TM, TO,
 TR, TT, TZ, UG, UY, VC, VG, VI, VN, XK, ZM, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR, TH
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 54 (en), 55 (en, pt)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 55 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jan 24, 2019: v8.10.4
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, AT, BH, BI, CL, CN, CW, CZ, DE, FI, FM, HK, KR, LA, LU, ML, NC, NE, PA,
 SB, TT, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, KR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 54 (en, es), 686 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 254 (en), 507 (en), 599 (en), 880 (en)

Jan 08, 2019: v8.10.3
Code changes:
 - Better documentation for getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode to emphasise that
 not every number has one.
 - Removed unused code in the AsYouTypeFormatter: We no longer have numbers in
 formatting matching patterns, only \d.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 EG, GM, HK, LR, MM, NG, SD, UZ, VN, VU
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 249 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 95 (en), 220 (en), 231 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 965 (ar)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Dec 06, 2018: v8.10.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 882, AE, AL, AR, BD, BR, CN, ID, IN, JM, LK, MG, MU, MX, OM, SI, UA, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IN, MG, MX, SI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (en, es), 261 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 66 (en), 91 (en), 386 (en), 968 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Nov 21, 2018: v8.10.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AE, AL, AT, AX, BW, BY, CC, CL, CN, CX, DE, FI, FR, GB, GG, HN, IM, IN, IR,
 JE, LA, LI, LT, MM, MN, MY, NZ, PK, SE, SK, SM, UZ, VN, ZM, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AT, AX, BY, CF, CL, DE, ER, FI, FM, FR, GA, IN, IR, LI, LT, MM, MN, MY, NE,
 NZ, OM, PK, SE, SM, UZ, ZA, ZM, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 33 (en), 43 (de, en), 49 (en), 52 (en), 60 (en), 64 (en), 91 (en), 263 (en),
 358 (en, sv), 370 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 44 (en), 56 (en), 60 (en), 64 (en), 84 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 95 (en),
 98 (en, fa), 260 (en), 267 (en), 358 (en), 370 (en), 423 (en), 976 (en),
 998 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Oct 31, 2018: v8.10.0
Code changes:
 - AsYouTypeFormatter changed to better choose between rules when dialling
 locally; previously we used the international rules when the national prefix
 was present since this would exclude the local-only rules. However, there are
 some numbers that are not internationally diallable that *do* use the
 national prefix, and this logic precluded formatting them correctly.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BB, BD, BO, CC, CO, CR, CU, CX, EC, EG, ER, ET, FO, GB, GE, GG, GH, GQ,
 HR, HU, IE, IL, IM, IN, IQ, JE, KE, KG, KH, KI, KP, KZ, LA, LI, LK, LR, LU,
 LY, MC, ME, MK, ML, MM, MU, NE, NF, NG, NO, NP, PE, PF, PG, PH, PL, PS, PY,
 RS, RU, SA, SD, SE, SI, SJ, SL, SO, SY, TJ, TM, TR, TW, UA, UG, UY, VA, VE,
 VN, VU, YE, ZM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BB, BD, BO, CC, CO, CR, CU, CX, EC, EG, ER, ET, FO, GB, GE, GG, GH, HR,
 HU, IE, IL, IM, IQ, JE, KE, KG, KH, KI, KP, KZ, LA, LK, LU, LY, ME, MK, ML,
 MU, NE, NF, NG, NO, NP, PE, PF, PG, PH, PL, PS, PY, RS, RU, SA, SD, SI, SJ,
 SL, SO, SY, TJ, TR, TW, UA, UG, UY, VE, YE
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 44 (en), 47 (en), 58 (en, es), 61 (en), 90 (en, tr), 94 (en),
 218 (en), 223 (en), 227 (en), 230 (en), 233 (en), 240 (en), 249 (en),
 251 (en), 252 (en), 254 (en), 352 (de, en, fr), 380 (en, uk), 382 (en),
 675 (en), 880 (en), 886 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 992 (en), 996 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 44 (en), 51 (en), 57 (en), 61 (en), 63 (en), 90 (en), 223 (en),
 230 (en), 232 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 240 (en), 252 (en), 254 (en),
 256 (en), 260 (en), 352 (en), 385 (en), 386 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en),
 593 (en), 595 (en), 886 (en), 963 (en), 972 (en), 992 (en), 995 (en),
 996 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Oct 16, 2018: v8.9.16
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AO, BA, BB, BG, BM, BS, BT, CA, CN, DM, DO, GD, GU, HN, ID, IL, JM, KE,
 KR, KY, LC, MP, TT, US, VG, VI
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AC, AG, AI, AO, AS, BA, BB, BG, BH, BM, BS, BT, CA, CH, DM, DO, EE, GD, GI,
 GU, ID, IS, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP, MS, PR, SX, TC, TH, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 62 (en), 244 (en, pt), 247 (en), 359 (bg, en), 387 (bs, en, sr), 1 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 380 (uk)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 62 (en), 91 (en), 387 (en), 975 (en), 1 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Oct 03, 2018: v8.9.15
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AE, AF, AL, AM, AX, AZ, BE, CD, CH, CL, EH, FI, GQ, HN, JO, JP, LB, LR, MW,
 NL, OM, RE, RO, SE, TZ, VA, YT, ZA, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AE, AF, AL, AM, AZ
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 263 (en), 355 (en), 374 (en, hy, ru), 380 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 32 (en), 84 (en), 240 (en), 374 (en, ru), 994 (en)

Sep 18, 2018: v8.9.14
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AO, EE, HN, IL, IN, MY, SB, UG, VN
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 IN, RO, SB, TZ
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Sep 05, 2018: v8.9.13
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BD, BE, CZ, KR, MU, NA, NL, PG, VN
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 32 (en), 60 (en), 62 (en), 84 (en), 241 (en), 264 (en), 357 (en), 675 (en),
 678 (en), 973 (en)

Aug 21, 2018: v8.9.12
Code changes:
 - Support Russian extension character "доб" as a valid one while parsing
 the numbers.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BD, CC, CL, CX, FR, GI, IN, MY, NL, SA, US, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MY
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1640 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 880 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 33 (en), 84 (en), 91 (en), 350 (en), 880 (en)

Jul 25, 2018: v8.9.11
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, CC, CX, HK, IT, KE, KW, MM, NL, LU, VA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 HK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1975 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 39 (en, it)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 254 (en), 351 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant)

Jul 10, 2018: v8.9.10
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AT, GB, IN, KE, MM, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): EE, IN, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 254 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jun 26, 2018: v8.9.9
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): KG, NU, SE, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL, AR, EE, FR, NU, ZW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 996 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (es)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 58 (en), 996 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jun 13, 2018: v8.9.8
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, BB, BL, BM, BS, CA, CI, DM, DO, GD, GF, GP, GU, IL, JM, KN, KY,
 LC, MF, MP, MQ, MS, PR, SE, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AL, AU, FR, KE, NZ, TH, UA, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 385 (en), 880 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 225 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 225 (en), 380 (en), 385 (en), 886 (en), 972 (en)

May 29, 2018: v8.9.7
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AX, BI, FI, HK, IR, ME, MO, NL, RE, UG, YT
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, ME, PM, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 60 (en), 380 (uk), 382 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 267 (en), 380 (en), 504 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 257 (en), 262 (en), 380 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 853 (en)

May 15, 2018: v8.9.6
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): IL, IN, NO, TR
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, TR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1445 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1345 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 972 (en), 1869 (en)

May 02, 2018: v8.9.5
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AD, AR, EC, FR, HK, IN, KG, LA, ML, PA, SD, SL, TH, TN, US, VI, WS
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HK, WS
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1820 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 54 (en, es)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 30 (en), 91 (en), 93 (fa), 223 (en), 232 (en), 249 (en), 374 (ru), 685 (en),
 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 995 (en), 996 (en), 1649 (en)

Apr 17, 2018: v8.9.4
Code changes:
 - Update formatNumberForMobileDialing() to return international format instead of national format for Uzbek phone numbers.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AM, BR, CN, EC, GE, IN, IS, MX, MY, NE, PA, PY, SZ, TO, VC, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BD
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 268 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 354 (en), 507 (en), 593 (en), 595 (en), 995 (en), 1268 (en),
 1284 (en)

Apr 04, 2018: v8.9.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AM, BE, BF, CG, DE, EH, GP, IN, IR, KE, MA, ML, MV, TG, TR, TV
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 688 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 223 (en), 226 (en), 254 (en), 385 (en)

Mar 13, 2018: v8.9.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CA, IN, KG, PA, SL
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 232 (en), 996 (en)

Mar 06, 2018: v8.9.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CL, FR, HK, IN, MU, MY
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 225 (en), 230 (en)

Feb 20, 2018: v8.9.0
Code changes:
 - Ported ShortNumberInfo to Javascript.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BD, BJ, CI, CN, IN, KW, SD, TG, TR, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1279 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 90 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 228 (en), 229 (en), 249 (en), 976 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Feb 06, 2018: v8.8.11
Metadata changes:
 - New phone metadata for region code(s): XK
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BE, CV, ET, GW, HK, IN, MW, TT
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): XK
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IS, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 383 (en, sq, sr)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 383 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 32 (en), 91 (en), 238 (en), 245 (en), 251 (en)

Jan 23, 2018: v8.8.10
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BJ, DE, HK, IN, IR, MM, MY, PW, SA, SI
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 680 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 966 (ar, en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 34 (en), 680 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 41 (en), 91 (en), 95 (en), 98 (en, fa), 229 (en), 250 (en), 381 (en),
 386 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant)

Jan 09, 2018: v8.8.9
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, AX, BA, BB, BL, BM, BS, CA, CC, CN, CX, DM, DO, FI, FJ, GD, GF,
 GP, GR, GU, HK, ID, IN, IS, JM, KN, KY, LC, MF, MK, MP, MQ, MS, NL, NP, NZ,
 PM, PR, RE, RO, SX, TC, TG, TT, US, VC, VG, VI, YT, ZM, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): GB, GG, JE, ZW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 387 (bs, en, hr, sr)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 31 (en, nl), 61 (en), 263 (en), 381 (sr)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 502 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 30 (en), 40 (en), 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 91 (en), 228 (en), 262 (en),
 354 (en), 355 (en), 359 (en), 386 (en), 387 (en), 389 (en), 508 (en),
 590 (en), 594 (en), 596 (en), 977 (en)

Dec 06, 2017: v8.8.8
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): JM, MY
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): US, ZA
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa)

Nov 28, 2017: v8.8.7
Build changes:
 - C++ library can now be built as 32- and 64-bit RPMs (#643).
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AX, CC, CX, EH, FI, GU, HK, IN, IR, MA, SM, ZM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AU, HR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 27 (en), 91 (en), 212 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant)

Nov 14, 2017: v8.8.6
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 34, 62, 91, 94, 971, 972
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AE, AR, AU, BB, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CC, CL, CW, CX, DE, EC, EG, ET, GB, GE,
 GG, GP, HK, HR, ID, IE, IL, IN, JO, KH, LK, LU, LV, LY, MG, MO, MR, MY, NL,
 NR, OM, PH, PK, PM, PS, RE, RU, RW, SA, SE, SG, SH, SK, SM, TH, TJ, UZ, VN,
 ZM, ZW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 61 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 20 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 674 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 61 (en), 91 (en), 234 (en), 593 (en), 1246 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Oct 30, 2017: v8.8.5
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AW, CA, CN, MV, NL, TR, UG
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): TR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 297 (en)

Oct 16, 2017: v8.8.4
Build changes:
 - C++ geocoding build tools now use readdir, since readdir_r is deprecated.
 - Update the protobuf-java dependency used to build the C++ metadata from 2.5.0
 to 3.0.0. This is an internal change and does not affect the users of the
 library.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AL, BS, FJ, JM, PH, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KZ
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1726 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1242 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 20 (en), 679 (en), 1242 (en)

Oct 03, 2017: v8.8.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BS, FJ, IR, KR
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 380 (en), 381 (en), 679 (en), 1242 (en)

Sep 19, 2017: v8.8.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 CA, CR, EG, FI, HN, IS, KM, KR, LU, MV, PA, TW, UG, US, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IE, IR, KE, TR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1223 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 84 (en, vi)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 20 (en)

Sep 05, 2017: v8.8.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AL, AR, AT, AU, AX, AZ, BO, BR, CN, CO, DE, EG, FI, GB, GL, GW, ID, IE, IL,
 IM, IN, JP, KI, KR, KW, LB, LI, LU, MV, MW, NA, NE, NG, PK, PY, SE, SI, SK,
 SO, SR, TJ, TW, UA, UG, US, VN, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 380 (en), 1838 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 84 (en, vi), 686 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 380 (en), 597 (en), 686 (en)

Aug 21, 2017: v8.8.0
Code changes:
 - Improve parsing logic to be smarter about national-prefix detection &
 stripping based on possible-lengths (IS_POSSIBLE_LOCAL_ONLY and
 INVALID_LENGTH). Enables e.g. adding Iran short-codes starting with "096"
 without the need to hack IR's national prefix parsing config.
 - Logging changes: Don't log client-provided phone numbers.
 - Add constants for C++ PhoneNumberUtil enums' max values.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AX, BF, BG, DM, EG, FI, IN, IR, KY, KZ, LC, MT, NI, PL, RU, SZ, TH, US, VC
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BA, IR, PL, RU, TH, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (es), 1986 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (en), 268 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1345 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 20 (en), 226 (en), 268 (en), 356 (en), 505 (en), 1441 (en), 1758 (en),
 1767 (en), 1784 (en)

Aug 02, 2017: v8.7.1
Code changes:
 - Documentation fix for getNumberType
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AM, BJ, BO, CL, EE, EG, GD, HK, IN, KE, KW, LK, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BJ, EE, EG, IN, KW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1564 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1268 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 56 (en), 254 (en), 374 (en), 852 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 1473 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jul 18, 2017: v8.7.0
Code changes:
 - New method getSupportedCallingCodes() API to return all the calling codes
 that the library considers valid, both for geographical and non-geographical
 entities.
 - Added isSmsServiceForRegion(PhoneNumber, RegionCode) API in C++ and Java
 short number info libraries. An SMS service is where the primary or only
 intended usage is to receive and/or send text messages (SMSs). This includes
 MMS as MMS numbers downgrade to SMS if the other party isn't MMS-capable. The
 is_sms_service metadata is also serialized for the first time. JS is not
 affected because it doesn't have short numbers.
 - Documentation update for private variables VALID_PUNCTUATION and
 SINGLE_INTERNATIONAL_PREFIX, also renaming the latter from
 UNIQUE_INTERNATIONAL_PREFIX.
 - [Java only] Changing public APIs that take in strings representing phone
 numbers or parts of phone numbers to take in CharSequence instead. Updating
 some of the internal methods to do the same. This affects ShortNumberInfo and
 PhoneNumberUtil, namely the following methods:
 - parse & parseAndKeepRawInput
 - formatWithCarrierCode & formatWithPreferredCarrierCode
 - isNumberMatch
 - isPossibleNumber
 - isAlphaNumber
 - normalizeDigitsOnly & normalizeDiallableCharsOnly
 - [C++ only] Removing most of the "using std::*" statements in
 phonenumberutil.h file, leaving only using std::string. Changing the .cc and
 test files to prefix "std::" where this was missing.
Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 856
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, FI, GG, HK, IM, JE, KG, LA, MX, MY, PS, SA, VN, ZW
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): PS
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): TR, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 52 (en), 976 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en, vi), 223 (en), 358 (en, fi, sv)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 40 (en), 44 (en), 91 (en), 226 (en), 966 (en), 996 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jul 04, 2017: v8.6.0
Code changes:
 - Removing leading_zero_possible from the metadata and all the places it is
 referenced in the build and prod code. Will be removed from the metadata
 proto itself in a subsequent release. This should not affect users of the
 library - the only place it was used was FormatInOriginalFormat, and only
 initially to try and avoid modifying the input number by removing/adding
 digits inadvertently. Now this is checked at the end of the method anyway.
 However slight formatting differences with this method on invalid numbers
 starting with 0s may be noticed in some countries.
 - Bug fix for Javascript: getNationalSignificantNumber used to print the string
 "null" for empty phone number objects, now it returns an empty string.
 - Updated the documentation for the isNumberGeographical API.
 - Small comment improvements for parse() method to point users at
 parseAndKeepRawInput().
 - Added a new enum for CountryCodeSource called UNSPECIFIED. This is used as a
 default value, and will be returned if someone calls parse() and then
 getCountryCodeSource() on the result. If users want an actual value for this
 then they should call parseAndKeepRawInput() instead; the values that were
 previously returned after calling this method will not change.
 - Deletion of the possible number pattern in the phonemetadata.proto file and
 all generated code. This has not been used for a long time.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AU, IL, IM, IN, KE, MM, PM, UA
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 508 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 95 (en), 254 (en), 972 (en)

Jun 20, 2017: v8.5.2
Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 64
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AL, AX, BR, CM, FI, GE, GI, IE, IN, IR, JO, LA, LR, MK, NZ, PK, SI, TL, UA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IR, TH, ZA
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 503 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 213 (en), 386 (en), 389 (en), 509 (en), 995 (en)

Jun 06, 2017: v8.5.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BA, BL, GB, GF, GP, GU, KW, MF, PG, PL, RE, VN, YT, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IR, PG
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en, vi), 263 (en), 675 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 262 (en), 590 (en), 594 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 48 (en), 387 (en), 675 (en), 1 (en)

May 23, 2017: v8.5.0
Code changes:
 - Add canBeInternationallyDialled() public API in Java and C++ PhoneNumberUtil.
 This was already in JS.
Build changes:
 - When compiling binary metadata from XML metadata, we no longer set the
 national number pattern to "NA" for non-existent data.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BF, GB, IL, IM, MQ, SL, US, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BO, BR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1 (en), 84 (en, vi)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 596 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 232 (en), 972 (en)

May 10, 2017: v8.4.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AX, BF, CG, FI, GG, GH, GI, IM, IR, JE, JM, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AX, BR, FI, GI, HK
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 84 (en), 233 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 233 (en), 358 (en), 1876 (en)

Apr 25, 2017: v8.4.2
Code changes:
 - Small fix for possible out-of-bounds exception on RFC3966 input where no
 phone context was actually provided.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BF, ET, IN, KE, LU, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KE
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 91 (en), 226 (en), 251 (en), 254 (en), 352 (en)

Apr 11, 2017: v8.4.1
Code changes:
 - Changing isPossibleWithReason to return the enums INVALID_LENGTH and
 IS_POSSIBLE_LOCAL_ONLY, where these apply. isPossibleNumber continues to
 consider IS_POSSIBLE or IS_POSSIBLE_LOCAL_ONLY numbers as possible to dial.
 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/libphonenumber-discuss/sPhYzdzFCmg/6tYsS1f6DgAJ
 - Doc updates for getRegionCodeForNumber to clarify that it does not
 work for short-codes or invalid numbers.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AL, CI, CL, DE, HT, IL, MP, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CZ, DE
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 84 (en, vi)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 93 (en), 225 (en), 509 (en), 972 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Mar 28, 2017: v8.4.0
Code changes:
 - Doc changes to update references to ISO country codes to CLDR region codes,
 which are what we actually use. Notice in some of the mapper files the
 country code is still the ISO one, because it's used as part of a description
 of a language only (e.g. zh-TW vs zh-CN). Edited the language comments there
 since they can be two *or* three letters (c.f. fil for filipino). Also edited
 the comment for leadingDigits at the territory level in the
 phonemetadata.proto file.
 - New API methods: isPossibleNumberForType and
 isPossibleNumberForTypeWithReason, along with getSupportedTypesForRegion and
 getSupportedTypesForNonGeoEntity. These allow you to query which types (e.g.
 Mobile) exist for a particular region, and work out if a number is possible
 for that type (this is a simple length check) rather than for the region as a
 whole.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BF, FJ, GB, HK, HT, IN, RO
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR, IN, RO, TR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (hi, iw, tr)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 226 (en), 509 (en), 593 (en), 679 (en)

Mar 14, 2017: v8.3.3
Code changes:
 - Doc fix for PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder to explain the cases where an empty
 string might be returned.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BQ, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, ES, GD, GU, HK, HR, IN, JM,
 JO, KN, KY, LC, ME, MP, MS, MX, PH, PR, SR, SX, TC, TH, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): ES, HR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 34 (en, es), 84 (vi), 91 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 264 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 55 (en), 63 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 233 (en), 599 (en)

Feb 28, 2017: v8.3.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BS, CI, HT, IL, IN, IS, KE, SK
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KE
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 225 (en), 254 (en), 354 (en), 509 (en), 1242 (en)

Feb 20, 2017: v8.3.1
Code changes:
 - Making getNationalSignificantNumber more robust in the face of malicious
 input. This now ignores the number_of_leading_zeros if they are less than
 zero.
Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 39
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BS, VN
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 62 (en, id), 84 (en), 374 (en, hy)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 91 (en), 1242 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Feb 14, 2017: v8.3.0
Code changes:
 - Added two new enum values to ValidationResult - IS_POSSIBLE_LOCAL_ONLY and
 INVALID_LENGTH. Added more documentation to the existing values; see the
 javadoc for when these are going to be used. Note that the API for
 IsPossibleNumberWithReason has not yet been changed to return these values.
 IS_POSSIBLE_LOCAL_ONLY will be returned for some values which currently
 return IS_POSSIBLE, and INVALID_LENGTH will be returned for some values which
 currently return TOO_LONG.
 - Fix for isNumberMatch to ignore the numberOfLeadingZeros field when comparing
 numbers unless hasItalianLeadingZero is true, and to consider default values
 to match the same value when explicitly set for these two fields. This fix
 shouldn't be needed for anyone correctly creating phone numbers using "parse"
 as recommended.
 - C++ only: Fix for ExactlySameAs when comparing phone numbers to include
 comparison of the number_of_leading_zeros field.
 - C++ only: Updating maximum length for NSN to be 17 (matches Java and JS)
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): IN, MU, RE, TG, TJ, TT, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 218 (en), 972 (iw), 1283 (en), 1442 (en), 1458 (en), 1470 (en), 1475 (en),
 1531 (en), 1534 (en), 1539 (en), 1680 (en), 1681 (en), 1762 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 1206 (en), 1253 (en), 1360 (en), 1425 (en), 1509 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 57 (en), 91 (en), 297 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)

Feb 02, 2017: v8.2.0
Code changes:
 - Made normalizeDiallableCharsOnly() API in PhoneNumberUtil (Java) public. This
 method is already public in the C++ implementation. It has also now been
 added to the Javascript implementation.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 91
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, AX, BY, BZ, FR, GY, IN, MC, NA, SJ, TG, TT, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HR, TG
 - Armenia geocoding data that is in Armenian language is moved to right language
 code (hy).
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 374 (en, ru)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en)

Jan 25, 2017: v8.1.0
Code changes:
 - Introduced new isCarrierSpecificForRegion() API in ShortNumberInfo class.
 This determines whether the provided short code is carrier-specific or
 not when dialed from the given region.
Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 52
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 62
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, DJ, GB, GG, GH, ID, IM, IN, JE, MA, MQ, MZ, RO, ZA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): ZA
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 93 (en, fa), 233 (en), 253 (en), 258 (en)

Jan 11, 2017: v8.0.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BR, CI, CL, CN, CR, DE, FR, GB, GW, HN, IL, IN, KM, KZ, NG, PG, SC, SK, SO,
 TT, UA, ZA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BH, BR, SK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 675 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en, ru), 86 (en, zh), 252 (en), 374 (en), 504 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 44 (en), 269 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en), 62 (en), 86 (en, zh, zh_Hant), 91 (en), 225 (en), 234 (en), 245 (en),
 252 (en)

Dec 07, 2016: v8.0.0
Code changes:
 - Deleted deprecated methods in ShortNumberInfo that work on strings, instead
 of phone number objects. These have been marked deprecated for months. Any
 users of these methods should call PhoneNumberUtil.parse first to create a
 PhoneNumber object, and pass this in.
 - Support semicolon as extension character while parsing phone numbers. This
 is not applicable when you are trying to find the phone numbers.
 - Updated JavaScript to throw an error rather than a string. As a result, users
 doing custom behavior depending on the value of the error must now compare
 to the value of e.message.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AM, BD, BR, CI, ES, IN, KI, KR, LI, MC, MM, TZ
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI, MV, MY
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 227 (en), 240 (en), 255 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 95 (en), 686 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 423 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 90 (en), 91 (en), 95 (en), 255 (en), 374 (en, ru)

Nov 23, 2016: v7.7.5
Code changes:
 - Removing all references to possible_number_pattern other than the proto
 buffer itself (and derived files, or hand-crafted files based on it.) This
 information is no longer present in the binary.
 - Refactored metadata loading and removed synchronization for all kinds of
 metadata. Clients may experience quicker loading of alternate formats and
 short number metadata, but no change is required for callers of the library.
 - Reduced visibility of `public` internal API
 `PhoneNumberUtil.createInstance(MetadataSource)` to `private`. MetadataSource
 and all its implementations are non-public so this should not affect public
 usage of the library.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BB, BD, ES, HN, IN, KR, KW, MC, NL, PH, PK, SH, TW, VG, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AG, AM, AR, AW, AZ, BD, BM, BQ, BW, CD, CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, GD, GE, GN,
 GT, GY, HN, HT, IE, IN, IQ, JM, JO, KE, KG, KH, KW, LV, NO, SG, SV, UY
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 504 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 886 (en), 1284 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 63 (en), 92 (en)

Nov 09, 2016: v7.7.4
GitHub project changes:
 - Changed tag to vX.Y.Z from libphonenumber-X.Y.Z; this may affect ports and
 derived projects.
Metadata structure changes in XML file:
 - Mobile and Fixed-Line blocks are no longer assumed to inherit missing data
 from the GeneralDesc, but are treated like every other phone number type.
 This means that for the non-geographical country codes, like +800, the
 example number has been moved from generalDesc to the relevant number types,
 and the code in getExampleNumberForNonGeoEntity has been changed to look at
 these sub-types for an example number.
 This also means that the "NA" and "-1" blocks present in the metadata to
 indicate that no mobile or fixed-line numbers appear for the entity have been
 removed.
 There should no longer be an exampleNumber at the generalDesc level, but it
 should be present at every PhoneNumberDesc with data.
Code changes:
 - Using new possibleLengthInfo to decide whether a short number is the right
 length or not. This could result in more specific results; whereas before, a
 number from length 3 to length 6 may have been deemed possible, now we may
 exclude a number of length 5.
 - Add hash (#) as a diallable character. Numbers with # in them will no longer
 have formatting applied in formatInOriginalFormat, and
 normalizeDiallableCharsOnly now retains the # symbol.
 - getExampleNumberForNonGeoEntity has been changed to look at the specific
 number types, not just the generalDesc, for the example numbers; this is a
 necessary change after the metadata structure change detailed above.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AD, AE, IN, IR, MU, MV, NG, PG
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): NL, SN
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 960 (en), 1249 (en), 1343 (en), 1579 (en), 1581 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 1782 (en), 1867 (en), 1902 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 234 (en), 971 (en)

Oct 26, 2016: libphonenumber-7.7.3
Internal changes:
 - Fixed Phonemetadata.java not to merge from a NumberFormat's unset bool
 national_prefix_optional_when_formatting.
 - Added MetadataFilter, an internal API which is under development and subject
 to backwards-incompatible changes without notice or guarantees.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 882, AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BR, BS, CA, DM, DO, GD, GU, HU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ,
 LC, MP, MS, PR, SX, TC, TR, TT, UG, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): UY
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1463 (en), 358 (sv)
 - Removed geocoding data for country calling code(s): 358 (se)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en, ru)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 256 (en), 1876 (en)

Oct 06, 2016: libphonenumber-7.7.2
Code changes:
 - Stop setting empty preferred_domestic_carrier_code, and if we are passed such
 a number then treat the empty field as if unset.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CL, FR, KE, MU, NG
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 EC, EE, EG, EH, ER, ES, ET, FI, FJ, FK, FM, FO, FR, OM, PA, PE, PF, PG, PH,
 PK, PL, PM, PR, PT, PW, PY, QA, RE, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SB, SC, SD, SE, SG,
 SH, SI, SJ, SK, SL, SM, SN, SO, SR, ST, SV, SX, SY, SZ, TC, TD, TG, TH, TJ,
 TL, TM, TN, TO, TR, TT, TV, TW, TZ, UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VC, VE, VG, VI,
 VN, VU, WF, WS, YE, YT, ZA, ZM, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 56 (en, es)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 230 (en), 234 (en), 254 (en)

Sep 27, 2016: libphonenumber-7.7.1
Build changes:
 - OSGi support added to Manifest information when building jar (#1300)
 - BuildMetadataJsonFromXml changed to output possible lengths for JS build
 - Fix geocoding file generation to handle language codes that are not just
 two letters long properly and to process filenames in the same order.
Code changes:
 - Switching the internal implementation of isPossible and related functions
 to use the new possibleLengths metadata. This affects a lot of countries,
 making isPossible more restrictive as more precise data is available. It
 also affects parsing ambiguous and invalid numbers, as we decide whether
 to strip a possible national prefix (1) or country code based on the length
 of the number and whether it is possible before or after this.
 - Formatting, naming (LOGGER -> logger) and comment tweaks to follow style
 guide
 - Removal of unneeded canBeGeocoded method in the
 PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper.java, using phoneNumberUtil instead
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 800, 808, 870, 878, 881, 882, 883, 888, 979, AG, AM, BD, BF, CL, CO, EC, ET,
 GB, GG, GH, IN, LR, MD, MQ, SH, SN, TA, TH, TR
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AC, AD, AE, AF, AG, AI, AL, AM, AO, AR, AS, AT, AU, AW, AX, AZ, BA, BB, BD,
 BE, BF, BG, BH, BI, BJ, BL, BM, BN, BO, BQ, BR, BS, BT, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CC,
 CD, CF, CG, CH, CI, CK, CL, CM, CN, CO, CR, CU, CV, CW, CX, CY, CZ, DE, DJ,
 DK, DM, DO, DZ, MD
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 593 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 49 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 90 (en), 91 (en), 226 (en), 231 (en), 373 (en),
 852 (zh_Hant)

Sep 19, 2016: libphonenumber-7.7.0
Code changes:
 - Removed the dependency on protobuf (protobuf-javanano) from the Java library,
 resurrecting
 java/libphonenumber/src/com/google/i18n/phonenumbers/Phonemetadata.java
 which was present until libphonenumber-7.1.1.
 Does not affect the C++ or JavaScript libraries.

Sep 07, 2016: libphonenumber-7.6.1
Code changes:
 - Phonemetadata.java has two more fields to represent possible lengths of phone
 numbers. Changed BuildMetadataFromXml (and the resultant jar) to alter the way
 that metadata about possible-lengths information is consumed when constructing
 metadata to populate these.
 Discussion list email:
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/libphonenumber-discuss/75TOpTFVi08
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AM, AX, BY, CD, FI, IN, KR, MA, NA, NL, PK, SY
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR, GB, NL, NZ
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 82 (pl, pt, ro, ru, sl, sr, uk, vi)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 91 (en), 243 (en), 963 (en)

Aug 24, 2016: libphonenumber-7.6.0
Code changes:
 - Refactored metadata loading and closed all streams after loading.
 - Made isNumberGeographical public, and changed the geocoder to
 use this when checking whether to give a detailed answer or country-level
 only.
Build changes:
 - Use protobuf-javanano 3.0.0-alpha-7 from Maven Central.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): EH, ET, JM, MA, SK, SN, SY, ZM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): ZA
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 212 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (zh, zh_Hant), 852 (zh, zh_Hant), 963 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en), 212 (en), 251 (en), 421 (en)
 - Deleted unsupported SingleFilePhoneNumberMetadataProto

Aug 10, 2016: libphonenumber-7.5.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CO, IN, ME
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IN
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 382 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en)

Jul 27, 2016: libphonenumber-7.5.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 595
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BD, BG, CI, IN, PY, TJ
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): IN
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 82 (bg, ca, el, es, fi, hi, hu, iw, ja, tr)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 44 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 374 (ru)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 374 (en), 992 (en)

Jul 22, 2016: libphonenumber-7.5.0
Code changes:
 - Simplify concurrent metadata loading in MultiFileMetadataSourceImpl and
 reduce points of contention.

Jul 14, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.5
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CN, HN, IN, KW, LV, TC
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AE, BR, GB, ZA
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 93 (fa), 992 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 98 (en, fa), 371 (en), 504 (en), 1 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en)

Jun 29, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.4
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AZ, BH, HN, IN, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR, IN, SK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 994 (en),
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 504 (en), 1 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 973 (en), 994 (en)

Jun 15, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.3
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 HK, HN, IN, KN, KW, SK, SN, TH, TZ
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, NO
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 93 (en), 504 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 93 (fa), 98 (fa)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 66 (en), 91 (en), 255 (en), 421 (en)

Jun 01, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.2
Code changes:
 - Make C++ code forward compatible with an upcoming RE2 change.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AE, BZ, GU, IN, KR
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 501 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 971 (en), 1671 (en)

May 18, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): FR, IL, KR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 972 (en)

May 11, 2016: libphonenumber-7.4.0
Maven changes:
 - Repackage protobuf runtime dependency to prevent conflicts with clients'
 protobuf dependencies. Backwards-compatible, so no changes needed for clients
 who could use the previous release, but enables those with their own protobuf
 dependencies to use this and future releases without workarounds.

May 03, 2016: libphonenumber-7.3.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BR, ET, IN, KH, ML, NO, SB, TJ, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CA, ML, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 223 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 55 (en, pt), 1 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 61 (en), 91 (en), 223 (en), 251 (en), 677 (en), 992 (en)

Apr 20, 2016: libphonenumber-7.3.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): DE, DJ, IL, IN, KH
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 855 (en), 972 (en)

Apr 05, 2016: libphonenumber-7.3.0
Code changes:
 - Added java/pending_code_changes.txt for contributors to track code changes
 between releases.
 - Reduced minimum required version of cmake to 2.8.
 - Added cmake installation instructions for Mac.
 - Added getExampleNumberForType that doesn't take in a region, and
 getInvalidExampleNumber
 - Improvements to javadoc for parse method
 - Update isNumberGeographical to return true for geographical mobile numbers.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BJ, BZ, CI, ET, GQ, KE, KW, ML, NO, OM, VN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KE
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 251 (en), 254 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 84 (en), 225 (en), 229 (en), 254 (en), 968 (en)

Mar 21, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.8
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CL, CN, FO, KE, SE, SO
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FO
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en, zh)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en), 252 (en), 254 (en)

Mar 09, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.7
Code changes:
 - Update nationalPrefixOptionalWhenFormatting documentation.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CN, IN, MO, TK
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 853 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Feb 25, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.6
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): DJ, MA, NA, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KR
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1380 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 212 (en)

Feb 10, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.5
Code changes:
 - Fix two places in demo where NPEs can occur on bad input.
 - Fix an IllegalStateException when getMetadataForNonGeographicalRegion is
 called with a country calling code which isn't a non-geographic entity.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP, MS, PR,
 SE, SK, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 46 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 251 (en)

Jan 28, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.4
 - First release to automatically remove obsolete geocoding files
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BW, CA, CI, CK, GM, IN, NA, NG, PG, TD, TM
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): PT
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1825 (en)
 - Removed geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 1726 (en), 1730 (en), 1838 (en), 1851 (en), 1888 (en), 225 (fr), 242 (fr),
 269 (fr), 238(pt), 55 (pt)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 91 (en), 225 (en), 234 (en), 235 (en), 675 (en), 993 (en)

Jan 08, 2016: libphonenumber-7.2.3
Backwards-incompatible code changes:
 - Removed deprecated ShortNumberUtil.java
Other code changes:
 - Updated the demo:
 added short number support;
 added permalink;
 added direct link to file an issue
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BR, CC, CR, CW, CX, ET, HN, KR, SI, TV, WF
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, HR, HU, IT, KR, LV, TV
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 688 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 61 (en), 251 (en), 506 (en), 599 (en)

Dec 15, 2015: libphonenumber-7.2.2
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AT, BD, BR, CC, CX, CY, FI, ID, IS, KI, MM, TN, VC
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AT, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, FI, GB, GR, ID, IE, IS, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, RO,
 SI, SK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 216 (en), 354 (en), 357 (en), 686 (en)

Nov 11, 2015: libphonenumber-7.2.1
 - Fix to libphonenumber-7.2.0
Metadata changes: None

Nov 10, 2015: libphonenumber-7.2.0
* Broken, do not use *
Code changes:
 - Phonemetadata now generated as nanoproto
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BI, BT, IL, MN, MO, NP, RU, SK, VG
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BT, DK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 972 (en), 975 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 853 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 45 (en), 257 (en), 421 (en), 964 (en), 972 (en), 975 (en), 976 (en)
 - Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Oct 29, 2015: libphonenumber-7.1.1
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AT, BB, BR, GW, ID, MD, OM, SO, TT
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BB, NO
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 968 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 245 (en, pt)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 62 (en), 245 (en), 252 (en), 373 (en), 968 (en), 1246 (en)

Oct 08, 2015: libphonenumber-7.1.0
API changes:
 - New MetadataSource implementation that reads from a single metadata file with
 all regions' phone number metadata.
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BR, BS, HT, IR, KW, MC, PA, VU
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 98 (en), 678 (en), 880 (en)

Sep 16, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.11
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 IN, KE, LR, MM, MR, NA, NE, PT, RO, SO, TZ, US
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CF, CG, ER, KP, NE, SO
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CD, NO, PT
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1854 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 264 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 40 (en), 91 (en), 95 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 252 (en), 254 (en), 255 (en),
 509 (en)

Aug 31, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.10
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BY, CR, DZ, EH, ES, HK, HT, IN, JO, MN, MU, ST, TD, TT, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HK, KR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 263 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 509 (en), 976 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 41 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 230 (en), 235 (en), 239 (en)

Aug 03, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.9
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AR, IN, MX, PL, SZ, YT, ZW
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MX, ZW
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 263 (en)

Jul 14, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.8
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AC, BS, BW, CL, DE, DZ, HN, HR, IL, IN, IT, JO, KY, MA, NP, PL, SH, SL, TM,
 UA, VA
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): HR
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 56 (en, es)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 49 (en), 212 (en), 232 (en), 267 (en), 380 (en), 385 (en), 962 (en),
 972 (en), 977 (en), 993 (en)
- Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

Jun 24, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.7
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AC, BF, BG, CG, CM, FR, IL, IN, JP, KW, LB, LI, SB, SD, SH, TT
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): GY, SB
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 592 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en, zh), 226 (en), 290 (en, fr)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 592 (en), 689 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en), 60 (en), 91 (en), 237 (en), 242 (en), 249 (en), 359 (en), 961 (en),
 1868 (en)
- Updated / refreshed time zone meta data.

May 29, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.6
Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BB, BR, CR, ID, IL, JO, KW, LK, LU, MD, MM, MV, MY, PH, PK, SC, SE
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE, LK, US
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 63 (en), 92 (en), 94 (en), 95 (en), 248 (en), 373 (en), 960 (en),
 972 (en), 1246 (en)

Apr 24, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.5
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AS, BD, BE, CA, CI, ID, IN, JM, KH, LI, LU, MU, NE, PL
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BE, LI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 62 (en), 86 (en, zh), 358 (en, fi, se)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 32 (en), 93 (en), 225 (en), 227 (en), 855 (en), 1684 (en), 1876 (en)

Mar 25, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.4
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): CA, HU, IL, JO, LU, SG, SL, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 1220 (en), 1628 (en), 1629 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 65 (en), 232 (en), 972 (en)

Mar 02, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.3
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, BH, BY, CI, CN, GH, KR, KW, LU, ME, NZ, SB, WS
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 64 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 86 (en, zh), 1418 (en), 1438 (en), 1450 (en), 1514 (en), 1819 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 225 (en), 233 (en), 677 (en), 973 (en)

Jan 09, 2015: libphonenumber-7.0.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BD, BH, EH, GH, IN, JM, LU, MA, MY, NF, NG, PK, SB, TT, TZ
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 91 (en), 352 (en, fr)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1876 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 60 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 212 (en), 233 (en), 234 (en), 352 (en), 677 (en)

Nov 25, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0.1
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 676
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BI, CM, ID, IR, KR, LA, NP, TG, TH, TO
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 237 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 237 (en), 257 (en), 856 (en), 977 (en)

Oct 29, 2014: libphonenumber-7.0
* Code changes:
 - New APIs for ShortNumberInfo. The old APIs have been deprecated and will be
 removed in an upcoming release.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, AU, CC, CI, CX, DZ, EE, IN, KZ, MC, SB, TJ, TT
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): MC
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 34 (en, es), 54 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 7 (en), 61 (en), 91 (en), 225 (en), 677 (en), 967 (en), 992 (en), 1868 (en)

Oct 13, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AC, AU, CR, DE, IL, MR, NO, SA, SR, UG
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CR
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 61 (en), 256 (en), 506 (en), 597 (en), 966 (en), 972 (en)

Sep 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.3
* Code changes:
 - Changing the offline geocoder to not return any country at all if the number
 could belong to multiple countries
 - Removing obsolete code that treated countries with no metadata as valid.
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 54, 91
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AM, AR, BR, CA, CL, IL, IN, IR, IS, KE, NI, PF, SB, SN, TH, TN, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 1782 (en), 1929 (en), 1930 (en), 1938 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en, fa)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 354 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 56 (en), 66 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 98 (en), 216 (en), 221 (en),
 254 (en), 374 (en), 505 (en), 677 (en), 972 (en)

Aug 21, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BN, CL, CO, DK, IN, SB, SO
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, SA, US
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 57 (en), 91 (en), 252 (en), 677 (en)

Jul 28, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): BW, LB, MD, PA, PF, VI, ZM
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 507 (en), 961 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 267 (en), 373 (en)

Jun 30, 2014: libphonenumber-6.2
* Code changes:
 - Better exclusion of dates when matching phone numbers from text.
 - Handle phone input in RFC3966 with missing tel: prefix

* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 95
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, CN, EH, FJ, IN, JP, KE, KG, KW, MA, MM, PG, PK, SN, SO
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): SN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): FR, KE
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 254 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 95 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 92 (en), 93 (en), 212 (en), 221 (en), 254 (en), 675 (en), 679 (en), 965 (en),
 996 (en)

Jun 06, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CN, CR, DM, DO, DZ, FR, GD, GU, IN, JM,
 KH, KN, KW, KY, LC, MN, MP, MS, NG, NI, PH, PR, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AL
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1346 (en), 1959 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 33 (en, fr), 352 (de, en, fr), 355 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 505 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 63 (en), 91 (en), 93 (en), 234 (en)

May 08, 2014: libphonenumber-6.1
* Code changes:
 - Adding MetadataLoader support to allow custom metadata loading from
 alternative sources (should have no visible impact to users).
 - Fixing bug where digits could be lost in as-you-type formatting and
 formatting patterns incorrectly applied.

* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, BF, BR, BS, CL, CN, CO, CR, DE, DM, EC, EG, FR, GA, GD, GH, HU, ID, IL,
 IN, JP, KH, KI, KN, LA, LC, LR, ML, MU, MX, MZ, NA, NE, PF, PL, RU, SM, TH,
 TW, UZ, VA, VC
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): BI, CR, PL, TH
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (de), 1242 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 32 (en, nl), 55 (en), 56 (en, es), 86 (en, zh)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 1758 (en), 1784 (en), 1869 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 66 (en), 86 (en), 227 (en), 231 (en), 233 (en), 258 (en), 1473 (en),
 1767 (en)

Feb 25, 2014: libphonenumber-6.0
* Code changes:
 - Better support for detecting phone numbers in text that are beside each other
 - Change to how Japanese numbers beginning with "00" are modelled, with the
 side-effect that the maximum possible number length has been extended by 1.
 - Handle StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in the AsYouTypeFormatter when the
 national prefix that was extracted was not found in the prefix. This affected
 countries with very long carrier codes, such as Korea.
 - Removal of some of the author attributions - contributions to be tracked in
 CONTRIBUTORS file.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s): AS, BR, KW, LU
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 1684 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 352 (en)

Feb 07, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.4
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 883, BF, BJ, BW, CL, CR, DZ, FR, GD, IN, JP, MD, NG, NZ, PK, PL, SY, UY, VU
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): LV, MD
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 373 (en), 1473 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 48 (en), 49 (en), 91 (en), 92 (en), 213 (en), 226 (en), 229 (en), 234 (en),
 267 (en), 389 (en), 506 (en), 598 (en)

Jan 21, 2014: libphonenumber-5.9.3
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, BH, BR, CN, GR, IN, MY, PA, TN, US
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): CN
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 1364 (en), 1725 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 86 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 55 (en), 226 (en), 973 (en)

Dec 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.2
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 255, 27, 381, 506
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AG, AI, AS, BB, BF, BM, BS, CA, CR, DM, DO, EC, GD, GU, JM, KN, KY, LC, MP,
 MS, PR, SO, SX, TC, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s): 226 (en)

Dec 13, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9.1
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 505, 679
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 BF, CI, EG, EH, FJ, IN, KI, MA, MT, NG, NI, SI, SN, SR, TT
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): KI
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 27 (en), 226 (en), 1 (en)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s): 356 (en), 677 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 212 (en), 221 (en), 225 (en), 226 (en), 234 (en), 597 (en), 1 (en)

Nov 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.9
* Code changes:
 - Adding support for numbers with multiple Italian leading zeros, by adding a field
 to the phone number proto to allow an arbitrary number of leading zeros, and
 supporting this when parsing, validating and formatting.
 - Adding more functionality to ShortNumberInfo -> such as getExpectedCostForRegion.
 - Fix for parsing short numbers that start with the national prefix.
 - Updating formatNumberForMobileDialing to work with short numbers.
 - Stop finding Israeli 4-digit "star" numbers in text when no star is in fact present.
 - Bug fix for finding phone numbers where the area code was also part of the country
 calling code.

* Metadata changes:
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BQ, BY, CI, CO, CW, GN, HN, IN, JO, KI, KW, MG, MK, MM, NA, PK, TC, TM,
 UG
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): CD, GN
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AF, AG, AI, AM, AR, AS, AW, AZ, BD, BH, BI, BM, BO, BQ, BT, BW, BY, CA, CH,
 CI, CM, CO, CW, DZ, FJ, GD, GE, GH, GT, GY, HN, HT, ID, IE, IM, IN, IQ, JM,
 JO, KE, KG, KH, KI, KW, KZ, LR, SV
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 257 (en), 389 (en), 599 (en), 686 (en), 962 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 264 (en), 375 (be, en, ru)
 - New carrier data for country calling code(s):
 375 (be, ru), 389 (en), 599 (en), 965 (ar)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 57 (en), 61 (en), 92 (en), 225 (en), 256 (en), 257 (en), 261 (en), 375 (en),
 686 (en), 962 (en), 965 (en)

Oct 10, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.8
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 350, 358, 36, 66, 84, 94, 995
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 31, 359, 372, 49, 62, 7
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, BD, BE, BF, BR, CO, CR, FI, GI, GM, IS, MU
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s): AR, BE, ES, GI, PG, US
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 220 (en)
 - Updated carrier data for country calling code(s):
 20 (en), 220 (en), 224 (en), 230 (en), 852 (en)

Oct 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.7
* Code changes:
 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - isMobileNumberPortableRegion.
 - Carrier mapper: Updated API and added a getSafeDisplayName method that only returns the carrier
 if it's safe to display to the user.

Oct 7, 2013:
* Code changes:
 - Added PhoneNumberToTimeZonesMapper including unittests to the geocoder maven project.
 - Added build rules for generating the binary time zones mapping file from the text file.
 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate time zone mapping.
* Metadata changes:
 - Added the time zone mapping file.

Sep 30, 2013:
* Code changes:
 - Added PhoneNumberToCarrierMapper including unittests.
 - Added build rules for generating binary carrier mapping files from text files.
 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java (the appengine demo) to incorporate carrier mapping.
* Metadata changes:
 - Added carrier mapping files for some NANPA countries, EG, SS, MA, DZ, TN, GM, SN, MR, ML, GN,
 CI, BF, NE, TG, BJ, MU, LR, SL, GH, NG, TD, CF, CM, CV, ST, GQ, GA, CG, CD, AO, GW, SC, SD, RW,
 ET, SO, DJ, KE, TZ, UG, BI, MZ, ZM, MG, ZW, MW, BW, SZ, ZA, AW, FO, GL, GR, NL, BE, FR, GI, PT,
 LU, IE, AL, CY, FI, BG, HU, LT, EE, AM, BY, AD, UA, RS, HR, SI, BA, IT, RO, CH, CZ, SK, AT, DK,
 NO, PL, DE, BZ, CR, PE, CU, AR, BR, CL, CO, VE, BO, PY, SR, UY, MY, AU, ID, PH, NZ, SG, TH, TL,
 BN, PG, TO, VU, FJ, WS, KI, RU, VN, HK, KH, LA, CN, BD, TR, IN, PK, AF, LK, MV, JO, IQ, KW, SA,
 YE, OM, PS, AE, IL, BH, QA, BT, NP, IR, TJ, TM, AZ, GE, KG and UZ in English.

Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.6
* Code changes:
 - Restructured the geocoder binary generation code, moving the classes under tools/ from
 geocoding/ to buildtools/ and renaming AreaCode to PhonePrefix.

Sep 23, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.5
* Code changes:
 - Restructured the geocoder, moving the utility classes to a new module internal/prefixmapper.

Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.4
* Metadata changes:
 - Adding a token to indicate which countries have mobile portability.

Sep 20, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.3
* Code changes:
 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder: Moved utility functionality to PrefixFileReader.
 - Bug fix: Argentinian (and other countries with mobile tokens) mobile numbers now geocode
 correctly.

Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.2
* Code changes:
 - New method in the PhoneNumberUtil API - getCountryMobileToken.

Sep 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8.1
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 675
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AO, AU, BF, BW, CA, CH, CI, CN, DE, FR, MA, MR, MU, NI, PG, SA, SE, US, VI
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): IQ
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 AU, BR, DO, EG, FR, GH, ID, IL, JM, KE, KZ, LR, MW, NG, NI, SA, SE, SL, TZ, US, UZ
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 966 (ar, en), 1 (en)

Sep 2, 2013: libphonenumber-5.8
* Code changes:
 - Renamed ShortNumberUtil to ShortNumberInfo -> the former class is now deprecated and will be
 deleted in a later release. At the moment it just delegates to ShortNumberInfo.
 - New methods in the ShortNumberInfo API - isCarrierSpecific, singleton interface,
 isPossibleShortNumber, isValidShortNumber, getShortNumberCost. Note this is an experimental API
 at the moment and subject to change.
 - Bug fixes:
 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: 3-digit numbers can be formatted as a group where appropriate
 -- AsYouTypeFormatting: Countries with an optional national prefix were considered before to
 have always entered it, resulting in bugs where numbers without the national prefix were
 not properly formatted.
 -- Numbers in Chile that overlap with emergency numbers are no longer marked as connecting to
 them
 -- Not requiring the NDC to be alone for countries where there is no national prefix in strict
 grouping when extracting phone numbers
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 30, 31, 385, 58, 62, 63, 971, 972
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43, 44, 49
 - Moved emergency phone number data to the ShortNumberMetadata.xml file
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AT, EG, ML, NC, NL, SA
 - New short number metadata for region code(s):
 AR, CL, CO, ES, MX, NC
 - Emergency metadata fixes for region code(s):
 GA, JM, MH, VE

Aug 09, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.2
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s):
 352, 359, 372, 373, 375, 595, 7, 855
 - Updated phone metadata for region code(s):
 AR, BF, BH, BR, BY, CH, CM, CN, GE, GW, HN, JM, KH, LT, LU, MU, NP, RO, SO
 - New short number metadata for region code(s): BR
 - Updated short number metadata for region code(s):
 CH, FJ, GB, GG, IM, IT, JE, SH

Aug 8, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7.1
* Metadata/code changes:
 - Change to the way the metadata is built; now only parts of the proto that are relevant will be
 generated. This means short-code data won't be generated for the normal protos, and fixed-line
 data won't be generated for short-number protos. This cuts the metadata binary size approximately
 in half.

Jul 17, 2013: libphonenumber-5.7
* Code changes:
 - Improve phone number extraction recall.
 - Add support for loading short number metadata.

Jul 16, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49, 61
 - New metadata for region code(s): TA
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 BF, BH, BI, BJ, BR, CR, EH, GA, GE, GN, GU, IL, IN, IR, KH, KW, KZ, MA, MT,
 NA, NE, NL, PH, RO, SH, SO, TK
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 47 (en), 82 (ar)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 49 (en), 98 (en, fa), 241 (en)

Jul 12, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6.1
* Code changes:
 - Rename all instances of PhoneNumberMetadata to PhoneNumberMetadata for consistency.

Jun 05, 2013: libphonenumber-5.6
* Code changes:
 - Fix for as-you-type-formatting bug affecting countries with no national prefix
 formatting rule, such as China.
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 351
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 AS, BG, BH, BJ, BL, CD, CI, DE, DZ, EH, FJ, GF, GP, IN, KH, KZ, MA, MD, MF,
 ML, MY, NG, PT, PY, TC, TJ, TT

May 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.5
* Code changes:
 - Changed internal initialization code and made more fields final.
 Note that we now throw an exception if an attempt is made to set the
 metadata more than once (which should only happen during testing).
 - Fix problem with formatNumberForMobileDialing for HU and CL.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 49
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 AM, BF, BR, CR, DE, MA, MG, MM, SA, TL, UA
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, en, ru)

Apr 19, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, GA, IN, KR, MV, PH, SO, UA, US

Mar 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BH, CR, EC, IR, MG, PF, TD, TN
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 374 (am, ru)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 98 (en, fa), 358 (en, se), 374 (en)

Mar 07, 2013: libphonenumber-5.4
* Code changes:
 - Switch formatNumberForMobileDialing to prefer national format to international format when the
 number is dialed from the same region the phone number is from.

* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 BF, CD, CN, CZ, GN, IR, JP, KR, KW, LR, NZ, TT, UG, ZW
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 82 (cs)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 82 (en, fr, ko, zh, zh_Hant), 98 (en, fa), 263 (en)

Feb 11, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 BD, BE, BY, CA, EH, GR, IE, IN, IS, LI, MA, MU, PT, SE, SG, TL
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s):
 375 (be, en, ru), 1 (en)

Jan 25, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): CN, DK, EH, GN, KH, KW, MA, MY, PA

Jan 08, 2013: libphonenumber-5.3
* Code changes:
 - Handling UAN numbers in Argentina better when dialling them locally from a
 mobile
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 BE, BW, CL, CN, CO, EH, KW, MA, ML, NG, PL, SY, ZA, ZM
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 32 (en, fr, nl)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 27 (en), 86 (en, zh)

Dec 06, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.2
* Metadata changes:
 - New metadata for region code(s): EH
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BR, CL, CR, IN, MA, PG, PK, RO
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 241 (en)

Nov 26, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2.1
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 AE, AW, BF, CN, DE, JO, KE, KH, LT, MM, MU, NG, RW, SR, TR, VU
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 359 (bg, en)

Oct 10, 2012: libphonenumber-5.2
* Code changes:
 - Adds isNumberGeographical() method.
 - Adds getRegionCodesForCountryCode() method.
 - Fixing issue with getSupportedGlobalNetworkCallingCodes()
 [https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/issues/202]
 - Ensures that returned collections are unmodifiable where necessary
 [there is a very slight risk that this may break existing users who were relying on being able
 to modify these collections, but doing so would be breaking lots of other assumptions that this
 library makes - if you need to modify any affected collections you must copy them first]
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): DE, GR, HR, OM, SB, ZA
 - Removed metadata for region code: AN (Netherlands Antilles)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 30 (el, en)

Sep 27, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.4
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AU, EC, KH, LB, TN, US

Sep 17, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.3
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): EG, LA, LB, LI, PY
 - Updated metadata for non-geographical calling codes: 800, 808, 888, 979
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 98 (en), 1 (en)

Sep 11, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.2
* Bug fix:
 - Fixing regression in AsYouTypeFormatter where it no longer worked for numbers entered in national
 format for countries with no national prefix, e.g. Spain.

Sep 5, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1.1
* Code changes:
 - Added better logging/exception handling for catching cases where metadata is invalid/missing.

Sep 3, 2012: libphonenumber-5.1
* Code changes:
 - Inserting a space after the national prefix in the AsYouTypeFormatter when formatting numbers in
 national format, if the formatting rules for that country dictate that a space is appropriate.
 - Format emergency numbers and short-codes as a block in the AsYouTypeFormatter.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): BF, BG, DZ, GA, IT, JP, KW, PF

Aug 20, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.3
* Metadata changes:
 - New alternate formatting data for country calling code(s): 43
 - Updated metadata for region code(s): AT, BF, JO, NG, RU, SL
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 62 (en, id), 98 (fa)

Aug 07, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.2
* Metadata changes:
 - Updated metadata for region code(s):
 BF, CN, DJ, IL, JO, KH, KZ, MA, MT, MV, MY, NC, NG, SD, SK, SN, TL, UZ
 - New geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (ru), 98 (en)
 - Updated geocoding data for country calling code(s): 7 (en)

July 26th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0.1
* Metadata changes
 - CL, DE ,IN, KR, US
 - New geocoding data for country calling codes 40, 57, 66, 82, 91.
 - Fixed comments for 353 (IE).

July 12th, 2012: libphonenumber-5.0
* Code changes:
 - Support for alternate formats when finding phone numbers.
 - Allowing two-digit numbers to be parsed if they are entered in national-format with no
 punctuation
* Metadata changes
 - IL, GA
* Other
 - Reflowed this file to 100 char width to make it unambiguous as to what the standard should be.

July 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9.1
* Metadata changes
 - AR, BA, BF, CR, DE, EC, ES, KZ, MK, NC, NG, PF, SB, UZ, non-geo entity 882
 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 54 (AR) and 81 (JP), new data for 234 (NG)

June 21st, 2012: libphonenumber-4.9
* Bug fix
 - formatInOriginalFormat fixed not to add a star sign if it was not present originally.
* Metadata changes
 - BF, CZ, ES, KW
 - Non-geographical entities with calling code 882 (BebbiCell, Maritime Communications, Oration
 Technologies, Telespazio and Thuraya)
 - Geocoding data updates for country calling codes 221, 224, 226, 242, 244, 245
* Functionality changes:
 - Minimum allowed length for a national significant number (NSN) when parsing changed from 3 to 2.
 - Support parsing of RFC3966-formatted strings with an isdn-subaddress or extra parameters
 specified.
 - Allow soft hyphen to appear in phone numbers (\u00AD)
* Testing changes:
 - Add extra unit tests for non-geographical phone number entities
 - ExampleNumbersTest testEmergency tests now uses ShortNumberUtil

June 14th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.5
* Metadata update only:
 - AC, CR, DE, DK, IL, IN, IS, KH, LI, LR, MA, MD, MK, PA, SA, SG, SS

June 6th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.4
* Metadata update only:
 - AE, RO
 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 881 (Iridium)

May 30th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.3
* Metadata update only:
 - AN, ET, KW, MN, SX, TC, TL

May 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.2
* Metadata update only:
 - BH, CR, EE, JO, KW, LA, QA, SI, TH
 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 878 (VISIONng)

May 8th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8.1
* Metadata update only:
 - CA, CI, EG, HK, IN, IR, LB, MA, ME, MM
 - Non-geographical entity with calling code 870 (Inmarsat)
 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1 for new area codes

April 24th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.8
* Functionality changes
 - RFC format now outputs a number starting with "tel:"
 - Parsing support for numbers in RFC format that contain the country info in the "phone-context"
 part
 - Support for obtaining area codes for Italy, Vatican City, San Marino
* Metadata changes
 - AM, AO, AR, BE, BF, CD, EG, GH, GM, GN, IN, IR, IT, JO, LA, LC, MD, MS, NO, PA, PK, SI, SJ, SO,
 SY, TC, TN, UZ, VN, ZW
 - Geocoding updates for country calling codes 1, 20, 233, 31, 33, 352, 374, 54, 56, 86
* Refactoring of matching functions, including moving them to PhoneNumberMatcher.

March 16th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.7
* Bug fixes
 - Now return "too long" for input that is longer than 250 chars when parsing
* Metadata changes
 - 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,
 MK,NA,NE,NZ,SA,SB,SC,SE,SL,SN,UZ
* Refactoring of test classes so that tests requiring the test metadata to be loaded have a common
 base class which handles this.

February 9th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.6
* Bug fixes
 - Fix for formatByPattern to enable RFC formatting to work
 - Fix for RFC formatting to work even when the international formatting rule starts with
 punctuation
 - Logging consistency changes - some warnings are no longer printed, others have become only
 WARNINGS
 - Fix for isValidNumberForRegion potentially throwing a NPE
 - Parsing Israeli * numbers written in international format now works
 - PhoneNumberMatcher doesn't match timestamps as phone-numbers
* Metadata changes
 - Updates for AN, AX, BF, BJ, BR, BS, DJ, FI, IN, LV, MW, RS, SC, VN
 - New countries supported: SS (South Sudan), CW (Curaçao) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
* Refactoring of the private formatting functions in PhoneNumberUtil to ensure names are more
 descriptive and to reduce code duplication.

January 19th, 2012: libphonenumber-4.5
* Code changes
 - Support for non-geographical country calling codes (e.g. +800).
 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to not insert/remove/modify digits in the original number passed
 in.
 - Fix formatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars to not throw a NPE.

* Metadata changes
 - Updates for AR, BH, CI, CN, CR, DE, GA, IL, JO, JP, KE, KZ, LB, LK, LT, MV, MW, MZ, NA, NL, NZ,
 PL, RO, SA, SV, TM, UG, US
 - New country calling codes: 800, 808, 883, 888, 979
 - Geocoding data updates: AR, US

December 9th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.4
* Code changes
 - Support for Voicemail numbers
 - Support prefixes "xt" and "xtn" to indicate extensions of phone numbers
 - Change formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input for numbers with incorrect leading zeroes, instead
 of all invalid numbers.

* Metadata changes
 - Updates for AR, BD, CH, CI, IL, IR, IS, IT, JP, KW, LR, MM, NG, SA, SC, UZ

November 24th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.3
* Code changes
 - Fix the problems with AYTF crashing for longer numbers entered with +CountryCode, and incorrectly
 removing national prefix for some numbers.
 - Improve PhoneNumberMatcher to not match numbers ending with '%'.
 - Fix formatNumberForMobileDialing to handle Israeli star numbers, Peruvian and Colombian numbers.
 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use the raw input if we don't have a formatting pattern for a
 number.
 - Simple offline geocoding function which takes into account the user's region.

* Metadata changes
 - Updates for CR, GN, JP, KE, PL, SG, SR, SX, TH, TK

November 10th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.2
* Code changes
 - Providing an "exact match" isEmergencyNumber method
 - Improvement to PhoneNumberMatcher: requires national prefix to be present when matching
 national-format numbers, unless matching for a region where it is explicitly marked in the
 metadata that they may be omitted. Applies to leniency level VALID and higher.
 - Change formatNumberForMobileDialing not to modify the phoneNumber passed in.

* Metadata changes
 - Emergency numbers added for all remaining countries
 - Collected data on which numbers we format with a national prefix are commonly written without one
 and added this
 - Updates for AR, AT, BH, CZ, GR, IR, KM, LT, MX, PT, SE, SO, UG
 - Addition of SX (Sint Maarten)

October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1
* Code changes
 - Update code and metadata for countries with IDD "8~10" to accept phone numbers where the "~" is
 omitted.
 - Modify formatInOriginalFormat to use raw_input (when present) when the number is considered as
 invalid by the library.
 - Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and
 emergency numbers.
 - Increase the maximum phone-number length accepted when parsing (now set to
 16).

* Metadata changes
 - Updates: BF, BN, CN, DE, DK, DO, FR, IN, KI, KW, MC, MD, ML, PA, QA, SB, UK, WS
 - Emergency number information also added to: AE, AF, AL, AM, AR, AT, AU, BA,
 BB, BD, BE, BG, BH, BO, BR, BY, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK,
 DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, FJ, FO, FR, GB, GE, GF, GH, GI, GL, GR, GT, GY,
 HK, HN, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IS, IT, JM, JO, JP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LB,
 LK, LT, LU, LV, MA, MC, MD, ME, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MT, MU, MV, MX, MY, NG,
 NI, NL, NO, NP, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PM, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA,
 SB, SD, SE, SG, SI, SK, SL, SM, SR, SV, SY, TD, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW,
 UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VA, VE, VN, VU, ZA, ZM, ZW

October 6th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.0
* Code changes
 - New function formatNumberForMobileDialing, which attempts to format a number in such a way that
 the call can be connected from a mobile phone. If this is impossible, for example for numbers
 that cannot be internationally dialled, then an empty string is returned.
 - Fallback functionality to English for non-CJK languages for geocoding

* Metadata changes
 - Collecting data for emergency numbers
 - Updates: AR, AU, BR, CN, CZ, EG, GD, IE, IL, JM, KW, KH, SD, SO, TR, UG, UZ
 - Geocoding data changes: AO, AR, AT, BJ, BR, CD, CG, CI, CL, CN, CV, DE, ES,
 FR, GR, GW, HU, KM, MR, MZ, NL, PL, PT, SE, ST, SZ

September 13th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.9
* Code changes
 - Enable AsYouTypeFormatter to handle long IDD and NDD.
 - Allow the presence of an IDD following a +.
 - Fix formatting of phone numbers which contain only 0s in the national number.
 - Refactored some code in geocoding including AreaCodeMap and the storage strategies.

* Metadata changes
 - Updates: AM, BE, BH, BJ, BR, BT, BZ, CI, CL, CN, DE, DK, DM, DZ, EC, EG, FJ,
 GR, HR, HT, IN, IQ, IS, JM, KE, KG, KH, KR, LA, LB, LR, MA, MD, ML, MO, MX,
 MY, NE, NG, PG, PH, PK, PY, QA, SA, SD, SG, SN, TD, TG, TH, TN, TT, UG, YE,
 ZA, ZM
 - New geocoding data for: AC, CG, CU, CV, EG, ET, FI, FI, FI, GL, JP, KM, MA,
 MA, MU, MU, MU, MZ, RS, SH, SH, SL, SO, ST, TG, TG, TG, UG, ZM
 - Updated geocoding data for: AR, DE

August 11th, 2011: libphonenumber-3.8
* Code changes
 - Fix to demo to not throw null-ptr exceptions for invalid NANPA numbers
 - Fixed AYTF to not accept plus signs in the middle of input
 - PhoneNumberMatcher improvements - added STRICT_GROUPING and EXACT_GROUPING levels, numbers
 followed/preceded by a currency symbol will not match, multiple numbers separated by phone-number
 punctuation will now match. ", " is no longer accepted as an extension symbol when matching, only
 when parsing. "x" is only accepted as a carrier code or extension marker, not otherwise.
 - Changes to handling of leading zeroes - these will not be silently ignored anymore, but will be
 stored as part of the number.
 - PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder - new method to get the description of a number that assumes the
 validity of the number has already been checked and will not re-verify it.
 - Split geocoding US binary data into multiple files.

* Metadata changes
 - Updates: AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BF, BH, BY, CA, CN, CO, CR, HT, HU, IT, KG, KH,
 LB, LI, ME, NC, RS, SE, TT, US, VG, ZA
 - New geocoding data for: AL, AM, AO, BF, BJ, BW, CD, CI, CZ, DZ, EE, GH, GM,
 GN, GR, GW, HU, IS, KE, LK, LS, LT, LU, LV, MD, MG, MR, NA, PE, QN, SD, SK,
 SN, SZ, TN, VE, VN, ZA, ZW
 - Updated geocoding data for: GB, PT, US
 - Revised sorting of geocoding data

July 5th, 2011
* Code changes
 - Refactored AreaCodeMap to minimize binary and memory footprint by using 2 different strategies.
 - Refactored BuildMetadataFromXml.java and added unittests.

* Metadata changes
 - Regenerate binaries for all existing area code mapping data with smaller sizes.
 - Added city-level area code data mapping for US and Canada.

June 29th, 2011
* Code changes
 - Fixed issue 38, issue 39, issue 41 and issue 43

* Metadata changes
 - Added phone number area mapping files for
 - JP in Japanese
 - FR in French
 - TW in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
 - RU in English
 - IT in English and Italian
 - PT in Portuguese
 - TR in English and Turkish
 - CH in English, German, French and Italian
 - Updates: CR, GE, IT, JP, KW, MH, MP, MU, PE, PM, RW, TG, TJ, TK

June 14th, 2011
* Code changes
 - Added PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder, supporting classes and their unittests.
 - Added GenerateAreaCodeData to transform phone number area mapping files from text files to binary
 files.
 - Modified PhoneNumberParserServlet.java and phonenumberparser.jsp to incorporate
 PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoding in the appengine demo.

* Metadata changes
 - Added phone number area mapping files for NANPA countries and GB in English, NL in Dutch, AR, CL
 and ES in Spanish, AT and DE in German, SE in Swedish, BR in Portuguese, KR in English, Korean,
 Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and CN in Simplified Chinese.

June 10th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Fixes for PhoneNumberMatcher to be more restrictive in valid mode and not match numbers
 surrounded by Latin characters. This ensures, for example, the string abc123456789acg will not be
 marked as a phone numbers.
 - Enable PhoneNumberUtil to handle all digits, rather than a subset
 - Fix for AYTF issue36 and improvement for US AYTF behaviour.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates: BG, EG, ES, GH, PF, SC, SY, VA

May 24th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Phonenumber now implements Serializable.
 - findNumbers doesn't accept numbers with mis-matched brackets as phone-numbers
 - An offline phone number geocoder has been added. The current implementation just returns the
 region name for the phone number; more detailed geocoding will be added later.
* Metadata changes:
 - New countries: GF, KP, NC, PA, PF, PW, PY, SB, SR, TO, UY, VU
 - Updates: CY, CZ, ES, GB, GQ, JM, MQ, TN, VI

May 9th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Fixed potential for a null-ptr exception in getExampleNumber
 - Potential speed improvement with replacement of StringBuffer with StringBuilder
* Metadata changes
 - Changed way that international formats are specified to make it easier to do so
 - New countries: AX, CC, CX, WF
 - Updates: AM, AR, AU, AW, CN, CO, CR, DM, EC, ET, FI, FJ, GH, IN, JP, KE, KM,
 KN, LR, MD, MQ, MX, NP, PH, SC, SE, SM, SN, SY, UG, US, VC, VI, ZM

Apr 26th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Improved PhoneNumberMatcher for cases with other numbers before or after the phone number.
 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter not to use formatting rules containing non-formatting characters
 (e.g. '*' in Israeli star numbers).
* Metadata changes:
 - New countries: FJ, FM, GY, NF, NI, NR, TV.
 - Updates: AM, AZ, BF, BW, BZ, CI, CR, GB, GP, HK, JM, KH, LB, LY, MV, PE, PK, SZ, TJ, US.
* Minor documentation updates

Apr 11th, 2011
* Bug fixes:
 - Adding date exclusion pattern in PhoneNumberMatcher.
 - Fixing bug with selecting a suitable region for numbers with leading zeros where mutiple regions
 for that country code are possible.
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates: AG, AI, AS, BB, BM, BS, CA, DM, DO, ET, FO, GD, GE, GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, LC, MN, MP, MR,
 MS, NO, PR, TC, TR, TT, US, VC, VG, VI
 - New countries: CK, FK, GT, IO, KI, SJ, SV
* Documentation updates and some small refactoring to AsYouTypeFormatter

Mar 31st, 2011
* New functionality:
 - Can parse and format numbers in RFC-3966 format.
 - Added isAlphaNumber to check to see if a number is a "vanity" or "alpha" number
 - Can format a number made up of alpha-characters in an "out-of-country" format (e.g. 0011 1
 800-SIX-FLAG to dial an American alpha-number from Australia).
* Code changes:
 - Renamed private vars, private methods and fixed comments to try and differentiate between country
 (calling) codes and region codes.
 == Non-backwards-compatible API changes: ==
 - Renamed getSupportedCountries to getSupportedRegions, as this more accurately reflects that the
 library is based around region codes.
 - getNationalSignificantNumber is no longer a static method, but is instead an instance method.
* Metadata changes:
 - Bug-fixes and updates for AU, AZ, EE, FI, IN, JO, KW, KZ, MV, RU, RR, VA
 - New country: ME

Mar 22nd, 2011
* Metadata changes:
 - New mobile-number pattern for AU

Mar 10th, 2011
* New functionality:
 - New function to format a number with the preferred domestic carrier code used when parsing,
 falling back to a default calling code otherwise (formatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode).
 - We now store the preferred domestic carrier code used when the user calls parseAndKeepRawInput
 - New functionality to extract phone-numbers from text (findNumbers). This is just the first
 version - it does not extract ALPHA numbers such as 0800 CALL ME, or numbers where alternate
 endings are specified (such as 03-331 6005/6006).
* Code changes:
 - Tidying up the test file to use several pre-defined phone number constants
 - Fixing several lint errors
 - Added javadoc to formatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode
 - Fixed bug where a null pointer exception was thrown when getAsYouTypeFormatter was called with an
 invalid region code
 - Improved AsYouTypeFormatter to deal with countries with variable-length patterns such as LU
* Metadata changes:
 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: BF, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DK, FO, GE, KR, KW,
 LA, LU, MU, SC, SH, TR, VE
 - New country: SH

Mar 10th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - releasing the code to run the demo on localhost or appengine.

Mar 7th, 2011
* Metadata changes:
 - Adding support for AC

Feb 11th, 2011
* Metadata changes:
 - Update UAN number ranges for IM and JE.

Feb 9th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Better isNumberMatch method. This will now recognise numbers starting with a national prefix as
 an NSN_MATCH, instead of SHORT_NSN_MATCH.
 == Note Non-backwards-compatible API change here! ==
 This will no longer throw a NumberParseException - instead we will return NOT_A_NUMBER if one
 or other of the numbers provided do not match.
 - New number-type UAN now supported in the code. This represents Company Numbers or Universally
 Accessible Numbers.
* Metadata changes:
 - Bug-fixes and updates for the following countries: AG, AZ, BA, BE, CA, CU, ES, FI, GB, GD, GG,
 IE, IL, IM, IN, IR, IT, JE, JP, KR, KW, NG, NZ, PK, PS, PT, RU, SE, SG, SY, US
 - New countries: CO, LU, LY, MC, SM
 - Addition of "Personal Number" ranges to all NANPA countries

Jan 31st, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Introducing equals() and hashCode() methods for the Phonenumber.PhoneNumber class

Jan 28th, 2011
* Code changes:
 - Fixing critical bug with non-Android-compatible code. isEmpty() was being used and CANON_EQ in
 reg-ex matches.

Jan 20th, 2011
* Code improvements:
 - Handle null phone-numbers when parsing by throwing a NumberParseException.
 - Handle extension written with an accented "o", as per Spanish, when parsing.
 - Handle U+30FC dashes as phone-number punctuation.
 - Allow "ZZ" or null regions to be specified for numbers starting with a full-width "+" symbol, or
 with other characters (such as whitespace) before the leading +.
 - new getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode function
* Metadata changes:
 - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that
 "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes. No code-support for these has been
 introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as
 area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.
 - Data updates as per ITU notifications/bug fixes for the following countries: AM, BH, CD, CG, CR,
 DE, DJ, EE, GB, GN, HU, IE, JO, JP, LB, LR, MA, MK, MN, MR, NA, PG, SC, SG, SO, SZ, VN, ZA, ZW
 - Data added for the following countries: BZ, CU, EC, FO, GI, HN, HT, LK, MT, MV, NU, PS, SD
 - Indentation fixes in reg-exes for the following countries: BG, GB
 - Allow nationalPrefixForParsing to be specified for countries with no national prefix, to handle
 possible carrier prefixes

Jan 3rd, 2011
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates to JE
 - Updated comments for GB/GG/IM/JE

November 25th, 2010
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates to existing countries: AD, AG, AI, AN, AS, BB, BG, BM, BS, BW, CA, DM, DO, GD, GH, GM,
 GU, IN, JM, KN, KY, KZ, LB, LC, MP, MS, PR, SY, TC, TT, TZ, US, VC, VG, VI.
 - Reorganize reg-exes for better readability.
 - Updated comments.

October 22nd, 2010
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates to existing countries: AE, GB, GG, IM, JE

October 15th, 2010
* Code improvements:
 - Allowed parsing of numbers that start with "++" or a full-width "+" symbol
 - Allowed reg-exes for national and possible number patterns to have white space in them in the
 source XML file
 - Added a more useful toString method for the phone number proto class
* Metadata changes:
 - Updates to existing countries: AF, BF, BO, ES, GB, GG, IM, IS, JE, JE, JP, KR, PE, PT, RU, SE,
 TT, ZW
* Bug fixes:
 - Parsing empty strings with invalid region codes no longer throws a null pointer exception

September 4th, 2010
* Code improvement:
 - Added new phone number type: pager
* Metadata change:
 - update to existing country: GG, IM, JE, RS, RU
* Bug fixes:
 - ArrayOutOfBoundException in AsYouTypeFormatter.getRememberedPosition()
 - AsYouTypeFormatter for UK childline number

September 1st, 2010
* Bug fix on KZ metadata.

August 17th, 2010
* Code improvement:
 - Refactored BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java into BuildMetadataFromXml.java and
 BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java
 - Added BuildMetadataProtoFromXml.java and JSArrayBuilder.java
 - Refactored CountryCodeToRegionCodeMap and CountryCodeToRegionCodeMapForTesting into separate
 files.

August 16th, 2010
* Bug fixes
 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese geographical numbers entered in national format.
 - AsYouTypeFormatter for formatting Chinese 400/800 numbers entered in national format.
* Metadata change:
 - new countries: AM, AN, BH, GL, IS
 - adding national prefix 1 to all NANPA countries.
 - update to existing countries: BF, FR, UK, PK, RE

August 4th, 2010
* Further improve startup performance
 - Preload no country specific metadata at startup.
 - Stop creating the file containing mapping from country calling code to region code and loading
 it at startup; instead, do the initialization in PhoneNumberUtil.

July 31th, 2010

* Improve startup performance
 - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
 - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
 - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code, and load it at
 startup
 - Same change also applied to unittests

July 30th, 2010
* Metadata change:
 - new country: TL
 - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN

* Code improvement
 - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
 - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#