v8.0.0

Hi all,

Please find the new JARs on the maven site here.

Warning: this release may break your code unless you update your code at the same time, as it has the following breaking 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.

Special note:

• This is our last release of the year. We'll aim to resume releases in the second week of January.

Full details in the release notes.

Thanks to all those who contributed by providing issue reports!

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