v8.8.4

Hi all,

Please find the new JARs on the maven site here.

The new release contains mostly metadata changes. Thanks to all those who contributed by providing issue reports!
See detailed release notes.

Porters only:

These changes affect porters who build the C++ metadata themselves (e.g. cpp/src/phonenumbers/metadata.cc) using our build tools:

• Backwards-incompatible: the protobuf-java dependency used to build the C++ metadata changed from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0.
  • If you run mvn package from a directory above tools/java/cpp-build/pom.xml, you need to either install protoc such that the version is 3.0.0, or update the pom.xml in your clone to the version number you're using.
• Deprecation fix: C++ geocoding build tools now use readdir, since readdir_r is deprecated.

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