v8.1.0

Hi all,

Please find the new JARs on the maven site here.

The new release contains metadata changes and some code changes. Upgrading to the latest release is always encouraged since phone number information changes often!

New functionality in this release:

• New API in ShortNumberUtil to calculate whether a short number is carrier specific or not for a particular region (isCarrierSpecificForRegion). This API should be preferred over the old isCarrierSpecific API, which did not take region into account.

We consider a number to be carrier-specific if it connects to a different endpoint or does not connect at all, depending on the caller's carrier. With the new API a short number that is valid in multiple regions that share a country calling code (e.g. Bermuda and the United States, both of which use the country calling code 1) will now return whether it is carrier-specific or not for the particular region passed in - since it may, for example, be carrier-specific in Bermuda, but not in the United States.

Full details in the release notes.

Note if you take advantage of this new functionality by changing your code, it will not necessarily be trivially easy to roll back to a previous version.

Thanks to all those who contributed by providing issue reports!

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