CHANGELOG

2018-07-12, v1.8.0

• Typo in readme \#1521 (jmhobbs)
• Replaced Hilll with Hill \#1516 (MarkVaughn)
• \[it\_IT\] Improve vat ID generated using official rules \#1508 (mavimo)
• \[hu\_HU\] Address: Fix unnecessary new line in string \#1507 (ntomka)
• add phone numer format \#1506 (Enosh-Yu)
• Fix typo in fr\_CA Provider \#1505 (ultreson)
• Add fake-car provider link \#1497 (pelmered)
• create `passthrough` function \#1493 (browner12)
• update Polish bank list \#1482 (IonBazan)
• Update the parameters to check if the setter is callable \#1470 (rossmitchell)
• Push the max date far into the future so the test can pass \#1469 (rossmitchell)
• Update Address.php \#1465 (Saibamen)
• Turkish identity number for tr\_TR \#1462 (aykutaras)
• Fixing rare iin with 13-digits. \#1450 (vadimonus)
• Fix Polish PESEL faker \#1449 (Dartui)
• Adds valid 08 number formats for fr\_FR \#1439 (ppelgrims)
• Add YouTube provider link \#1422 (aalaap)
• Update PHPDoc of the DateTime provider. \#1419 (tomzx)
• Normalize name of variable \#1412 (eaglewu)
• Added "blockchain" to en-us company provider catchPhrase method \#1411 (samoldenburg)
• Fix for Spot2 ORM EntityPopulator \#1408 (michal-borek)
• TH color name \#1404 (Naruedom)
• added Malaysia \[ms\_MY\] locale \#1403 (kenfai)
• Implementation of the function that generates Brazilian area codes fixed. \#1401 (jackmiras)
• VISA retired the 13 digit PAN moved to new cardParams \#1400 (hppycoder)
• Remove unused variable inside closure \#1395 (carusogabriel)
• .nz domain updates \#1393 (xurizaemon)
• Add licenceCode method in the to es\_ES person provider \#1392 (ffiguereo)
• allow `randomElements` to accept a Traversable object \#1389 (browner12)
• Doc: rg remove formatting \#1387 (emtudo)
• Add numbers with start 4 \#1386 (emtudo)
• update th\_TH mobile number format \#1385 (earthpyy)
• Translate country names for lv\_LV provider. \#1383 (ronaldsgailis)
• Clean elses \#1382 (carusogabriel)
• French vat formatter \#1381 (ppelgrims)
• Replaces rtrim with preg\_replace \#1380 (ppelgrims)
• Refactoring tests \#1375 (carusogabriel)
• Added link in readme to provider FakerRestaurant \#1374 (jzonta)
• Remove obsolete currency codes \#1373 (tpraxl)
• \[ru\_RU\] Updated countries and added source link \#1372 (ilyahoilik)
• Test against PHP 7.2 \#1371 (carusogabriel)
• Feature: nl\_BE text provider \#1370 (rauwebieten)
• default value for Payment::iban\(\) country code \#1369 (madmanmax)
• skip test failing on bigendian \#1365 (remicollet)
• Update Person.php \#1364 (majamusan)
• Prevent errors on private methods \#1363 (petecoop)
• adds rijksregisternummer \#1361 (ppelgrims)
• Add secondary address to fr\_FR provider \#1356 (nicodmf)
• Add company provider for tr\_TR \#1355 (yuks)
• nb\_NO provider updates \#1350 (alexqhj)
• only test available date range on 32-bit \#1348 (remicollet)
• Bump PHPUnit version for namespace compatibility \#1345 (carusogabriel)
• Use PSR-1 for PHPUnit TestCase \#1344 (carusogabriel)
• Fix FR\_fr 07 prefix mobile number generation \#1343 (svanpoeck)
• Update Text.php \#1339 (gulaandrij)
• Add two new company type in the Swiss Provider \#1336 (pvullioud)
• Change symbol 'minus' with code 226 to 'minus' with code 45 \#1333 (Negasus)
• \[sl\_SI\] Created provider for Company \#1331 (alesvaupotic)
• Update city name \#1328 (s9801077)
• Fix \#1305 realText in some cases breaks last character \#1326 (iamraccoon)
• Real Dutch postal codes \#1323 (ametad)
• Added male and female titles for the en\_ZA locale \#1321 (ViGouRCanberra)
• Add German Email Providers \#1320 (Stoffo)
• Fix "Resource temporarily unavailable" \#1319 (eberkund)
• Introduced the ability to specify a default timezone... \#1316 (telkins)
• South African licence codes \#1315 (royalmitten)
• Fix with incorrect name city. \#1309 (zzenmate)
• Fixed type-o in readme under section about Language specific formatters \#1302 (espenkn)
• Update Person.php \#1298 (yappkahowe)
• Allow children classes to access self::$suffix \#1296 (greg0ire)
• Fix with namespace payment provider for uk\_UA \#1293 (zzenmate)
• Update zh\_TW text provider \#1292 (s9801077)
• Fix CURL status code in ImageTest.php \#1290 (Sanfra1407)
• Tax Id for companies and new formats for es\_VE \#1287 (DIOHz0r)
• Added idNumber for nl\_NL \#1283 (artorozenga)
• Feature/en us company ein \#1273 (zachflower)

2017-08-15, v1.7.0

• Added more Ukrainian banks \#1271 (iamraccoon)
• Hotfix/failing unit tests \#1269 (zachflower)
• Lock Travis-CI environment to Ubuntu Precise \#1268 (zachflower)
• Added Ukrainian job title \#1267 (iamraccoon)
• Add compliant en\_US SSN generator \#1266 (zachflower)
• Added more Ukrainian streets and removed irrelevant names. Added more Ukrainian mobile formats \#1265 (iamraccoon)
• Add Internet Format for ja\_JP. \#1260 (itigoppo)
• rectify ISO 4217 codes \#1258 (eidng8)
• Corrected of grammar of Ukrainian middlenames and test added \#1257 (vladbuk)
• Update ISO 4217 active codes \#1251 (eidng8)
• Update Composer File \#1248 (vinkla)
• Set capitals to false \#1243 (Stichoza)
• Use static instead of self \#1242 (Stichoza)
• Add VAT french format \#1241 (baptistedonaux)
• Add swedish job titles \#1234 (vinkla)
• Name Simo shouldn't have comma in it \#1230 (simoheinonen)
• Fix: Add method annotation for ValidGenerator \#1223 (localheinz)
• Add real text for es\_ES \#1220 (driade)
• Fix spelling errors \#1218 (driade)
• Fix spelling errors \#1217 (driade)
• Fixes typo \#1212 (skullboner)
• Add Person::middleName for ru\_RU provider \#1209 (JustBlackBird)
• Fix creditCardDetails type hint \#1208 (jejung)
• Expand dictionaries for ru\_RU locale \#1206 (pwsdotru)
• Fix ng\_NG to en\_NG \#1205 (raphaeldealmeida)
• Add INN and KPP support for ru\_RU locale \#1204 (pwsdotru)
• Remove break line on pt\_PT Address format \#1203 (raphaeldealmeida)
• Fix syntax of phpdoc boolean property \#1198 (pavelkovar)
• add en\_HK provider \#1196 (miklcct)
• use secure https \#1186 (jpuck)
• Add PhoneNumberFormat for ja\_JP. \#1185 (itigoppo)
• Fix: Add class-level method annotations for DateTime provider \#1183 (localheinz)
• Add ar\_SA Color Provider \#1182 (alhoqbani)
• Added uk\_UA Payment provider with bank name generator \#1181 (spaghettimaster)
• Typos \#1177 (ankitpokhrel)
• Fix XML document example \#1176 (ankitpokhrel)
• Added Emoji to Miscellaneous \#1175 (thomasfdm)
• Typos and doc block fixes \#1170 (ankitpokhrel)
• Rewrote deprecated `each\(\)` usage \#1168 (hboomsma)
• Refactor text method to remove duplication \#1163 (ankitpokhrel)
• Generate valid individual identification numbers kk\_KZ \#1161 (YerlenZhubangaliyev)
• Added Address and Company \[fa\_IR\] \#1160 (thisissorna)
• Add Peruvian DNI generator \#1158 (jgwong)
• Removed double semicolon \#1154 (pjona)
• Add prefixes for nl\_NL \#1151 (hyperized)
• Separated male and female names for sr\_RS locale. \#1144 (bogdanpet)
• Add personal ID, VAT for zh\_TW \#1135 (Dagolin)
• Updating ninth digit on whole country \#1132 (gpressutto5)
• Indian states added to en\_IN locale \#1131 (jiveshsg)
• Add Text provider for ro\_MD \#1129 (wecerny)
• Add strict to randomNumber example \#1124 (leepownall)
• Say Eloquent is supported \#1123 (guidocella)
• Link Eloquent Populator \#1120 (guidocella)
• Removed dead code from Luhn.php \#1118 (Newman101)
• Improve Internet::transliterate performance \#1112 (dunglas)
• fix typo \#1109 (johannesnagl)
• \[cs\_CZ\] Fixed Czech phone numbers \#1108 (tomasbedrich)
• Update MasterCard BIN Range \#1103 (andysnell)
• Add biggest german cities \#1102 (Konafets)
• Change postal code format for ko\_KR \#1094 (coozplz)
• Introduced the ability to specify the timezone for dateTimeThis\*\(\) methods \#1090 (telkins)
• Fixed Issue \#1086 \#1088 (Newman101)
• \[ja\_JP\]kana of Japanese name by gender. \#1087 (itigoppo)
• Fix unused code \#1083 (borgogelli)
• Amended permissions for en\_GB AddressTest.php \#1071 (Newman101)
• Ensure unique IDs in randomHtml \#1068 (vlakoff)
• Updated \[de\_DE\] city names \#1067 (plxx)
• Update method signature in Generator phpdoc \#1066 (vlakoff)
• Add Thai providers \#1065 (tuwannu)
• \(Minor\) Fixed the default locale stated in the readme \#1064 (taylankasap)
• \[nl\_NL\] Make person provider behave more realistically \#1061 (curry684)
• Add allowDuplicates option to randomElements\(\) \#1060 (vlakoff)
• Docblocks: Add some missing @method tags \#1059 (Kurre)
• \[fi\_FI\] Improve phone number generator \#1054 (Kurre)
• Add personalIdentityNumber\(\) to fi\_FI/Person.php \#1053 (oittaa)
• Issue \#1041 \#1052 (daleattree)
• Update Text.php \#1051 (gulaandrij)
• Fix French phone numbers with 07 prefix \#1046 (fzaninotto)
• \[Generator.php\] mt\_rand\(\) changed in PHP 7.1 \#1045 (oittaa)
• Add 'FI' to Payment Provider \#1044 (oittaa)
• Added id number generator to Person Provider for the en\_ZA locale \#1039 (smithandre)
• \[Feature\] Add nigerian provider \#1030 (elchroy)
• \[pl\_PL\] Handle state. \#1029 (piotrooo)
• Fixed polish text - change '--' into '-'. \#1027 (piotrooo)
• Update Text.php \#1025 (gulaandrij)
• Adding Nationalized Citizens to DNI in Person.php \#1021 (celisflen-bers)
• Add nik to indonesia \#1019 (Nuffic)
• fix mb\_substr missing parameter error when generating japanese string with realText method \#1018 (horan-geeker)
• IBAN Formatters for New Locales \#1015 (okj579)
• German Bank Names \#1014 (okj579)
• Adding countries for pl\_PL provider \#1009 (mertcanesen)
• Adding Pattern Lab plugin to list of 3rd party libraries \#1008 (EvanLovely)
• Korea top 100 lastName \#1006 (tael)
• Use real Belgian postcodes instead of random number \#1004 (toonevdb)
• Add bankAccountNumber implementations \#1000 (akramfares)
• Generates a random NIR number \(fr\_FR\) \#997 (Ultim4T0m)
• \#989 Fix country typo \#996 (adriantombu)
• adding back CNP \#988 (the-noob)
• Fix phpunit tests fail on 64-bit systems \#982 \#983 (Powerhead13)
• Remove trailing dot in username if any \#975 (vlakoff)
• HTML Lorem \#971 (rudkjobing)
• Fix a mixup between male and female last names in Icelandic. \#970 (arthur-olafsson)
• Remove duplicate \#969 (mijgame)
• fix \[zh\_CN\]PhoneNumber illegal operator prefix \#966 (zhwei)
• es\_ES: Generate VAT Number \#964 (miguelgf)
• Update Image.php \#963 (gulaandrij)
• Remove cnp formatter from RO\_ro locale \(fails tests\) \#962 (fzaninotto)
• Adding valid en\_GB postcodes \#961 (the-noob)
• Adding Text for ro\_RO \#959 (the-noob)
• Minor: Fixed trailing space in DateTime provider \#956 (tifabien)
• Remove 'Stripper' from en\_US job titles \#954 (amcsi)
• fix 32bits issue \#953 (remicollet)
• Fix EAN8 checkSum generator \#951 (MatthieuMota)
• Fixed description and the use of early undocumented parameters. \#949 (andrey-helldar)
• Pushing new mobile prefixes in philippines \#944 (napoleon101392)
• Update Company.php \#943 (thiagotalma)
• Fix to Issue \#935 - German Locale \#936 (Newman101)
• el\_CY Locale \#930 (softius)
• Add phpdoc method dateTimeInInterval in Generator.php \#926 (KeithYeh)
• Harmonize fr\_\*\Company \#918 (Max13)
• Fix: fix invalid parameter of mb\_substr\(\) \#917 (tkawaji)
• kk\_KZ Company/person identification numbers unit tests \#916 (YerlenZhubangaliyev)
• ka\_GE: overall improvements to ka\_GE locale \#913 (hertzg)
• Fix: Do not pick a random float less than minimum \#909 (localheinz)
• Fix: Prefer dependencies installed from dist \#908 (localheinz)
• Add a building number with letter to German speaking locales. \#903 (markuspoerschke)
• \[RFR\] Remove parts of the hu\_HU address formatters \#902 (fzaninotto)
• use Luhn to calculate ar\_SA id numbers. \#875 (FooBarQuaxx)
• Fix Doctrine ODM Support \#489 (cbourgois)

2016-04-29, v1.6.0

• Remove parts of the Hungarian (hu\_HU) address formatters \#902 (fzaninotto)
• Renamed norwegian (nb\_NO) locale \#901 (fzaninotto)
• Improveed German (de\_DE) titles \#897 (christianbartels)
• Added VAT formatter to nl\_BE and fr\_BE providers \#896 (anvanza)
• Fixed provider namespace for Lithuanian (lt\_LT) \#894 (sanis)
• Removed unnecessary (and incompatible) license from Russian and Ukrainian (uk\_UA & ru\_RU) Text providers \#892 (Newman101)
• Improved `languageCode` formatted to include all ISO-639-1 standard codes \#889 (andrewnicols)
• Improved Hungarian provider \#883 (balping)
• Fixed typo in Austrian Person provider \#880 (xelan)
• Added Chines (zh\_CN) `catchPhrase` formatter \#878 (z-song)
• Added mention of Brazilian (pt\_BR) providers in readme \#877 (iget-master)
• Updated composer `require` section to allow PHP 7 in safer way \#874 (TomasVotruba)
• Added Greek (el\_GR) `mobilePhoneNumber` and `tollFreeNumber` formatters \#869 (sebdesign)
• Added Lorempixel check for `ImageTest.php` to avoid test fails when the service is offline \#866 (Newman101)
• Added Chinese (zh\_CN) Providers \#864 (z-song)
• Added unit tests for Canadian (en\_CA) provider \#862 (Newman101)
• Added Dutch BTW \(vat\) Number \#861 (LauLaman)
• Improved Australian (en\_AU) provider \#858 (Newman101)
• Added Propel2 ORM support \#852 (iTechDhaval)
• Added en\_IN unit test for `Address.php` \#849 (Newman101)
• Updated docs to clarify that `randomElements` does not repeat input elements \#848 (sustmi)
• Optimized Taiwanese (zh\_TW) `realText` provider \#844 (Newman101)
• Added more Iranian (fa\_IR) TLDs \#843 (VagrantStory)
• Added Hebrew (he\_IL) `country` formatter \#841 (yonirom)
• Documented `boolean` formatter \#840 (danieliancu)
• Fixed modifiers anchor readme \#838 (danieliancu)
• Added Dutch (nl\_NL) real text provider \#837 (endroid)
• Added `valid` modifier \#836 (fzaninotto)
• Added Iranian (fa\_IR) `PhoneNumber` provider \#833 (ghost)
• Add Brazilian (pt\_BR) `region` and `regionAbbr` formatters \#828 (francinaldo)
• Improved Austrian (de\_AT) names, states, and realtext \#826 (Findus23)
• Improved German (de\_DE) names \#825 (Findus23)
• Improved Latvian (lv\_LV) first names \#823 (veisis)
• Improved Latvian (lv\_LV) `phoneNumber` formatter \#822 (veisis)
• Updated phpDoc link to IBAN format reference in `Payment` provider \#821 (god107)
• Updated Sport ORM populator to populate values for numeric fields \#820 (urisavka)
• Updated Chinese (zh\_CN) operators' phone number prefix. \#819 (vistart)
• Optimized Spot ORM `EntityPopulator` \#817 (Newman101)
• Added Korean (ko\_KR) `realText` formatter \#815 (jdssem)
• Updated `imageUrl` formatter phpDoc \#814 (jonwurtzler)
• Optimized Taiwanese (zh\_TW) text provider \#809 (BePsvPT)
• Added strict comparison to Czech (cs\_CS) `birthNumber` formatter \#807 (Newman101)
• Added Greek (el\_GR) `realText` formatter \#805 (hootlex)
• Added Simplified Chinese \(zh\_CN\) `state` and `stateAbbr` formatters \#804 (zhanghuanchong)
• Update `Image` provider to allow generation of grayscale images \#801 (neutralrockets)
• Fixed Taiwanese (zh_TW) incorrect `mb_substr()` arguments \#799 (BePsvPT)
• Added Spot ORM populator \#796 (urisavka)
• Added Italian (it\_IT) `vatId` and `taxId` formatters \#790 (brainrepo)
• Added some fixes to Armenian (hy\_AM) locale \#788 (mhamlet)
• Removed duplicate entries in `toAscii()` transliteration table, used in `Internet` provider \#787 (vlakoff)
• Added Indian (en\_IN) providers \#785 (kartiksomani)
• Removed duplicate country names in various locales, removed non-random country arrays \#784 (fzaninotto)
• Improved Swiss (de\_CH) phone numbers \#782 (z38)
• Added Swiss (de\_CH) names \#781 (z38)
• Make capitalization of first word optional in Text Provider \#778 (LagunaJavier)
• Added Georgian (ka\_GE) providers \#777 (akalongman)
• Fix CakePHP populator \#776 (daniel-mueller)
• Added unit tests for `Address` provider in many locales \#775 \#773 \#772 \#767 \#765 \#764 \#758 \#756 \#747 \#741 (Newman101)
• Added `dbi` formatter to Spanish (es\_ES) Person provider \#763 (mikk150)
• Added South Africa (en\_ZA) locale \#761 (smithandre) \#760 (smithandre) \#759 (smithandre)
• Added E.164 phone number generator \#753 (daleattree)
• Fixed serialization issue in `unique` modifier \#749 (EmanueleMinotto)
• Added Switzerland (de\_CH, fr\_CH, it\_CH) providers \#739 (r3h6)
• Added PHPDocs, removed unused variable \#738 (daniel-mueller)
• Fixed building numbers to have non-zero first bumber \#737 (jmauerhan)
• Updated ninth digit for Brazilian cell phone numbers \#734 (igorsantos07)
• Simplified Factory code \#732 (vlakoff)
• Added mention of images-generator in readme \#731 (bruceheller)
• Optimize Internet::toAscii\(\) by using a static cache and translitteration \#730 \#729 \#725 \#724 (vlakoff)
• Added more English (en\_GB) Phone Number formats \#721 (nickwebcouk)
• Cleaned up `use` statements across the code \#719 (pomaxa)
• Fixed CackePHP populator \#718 (sdustinh)
• Cleaned up various phpmd notices \#715 (pomaxa)
• Added `Color` provider to Latvian (lv_LV) locale \#714 (pomaxa)
• Fixed bad randomization in Doctrine populator \#713 (pomaxa)
• Added Mongolian (mn\_MN) providers \#709 (selmonal)
• Improved Australian (en\_AU) `postcode` formatter \#703 (xfxf)
• Added support for asterisks in `bothify` and `optimize` \#701 (nineinchnick)
• Fixed important distinction between ORM and database framework in README?s reference to an external Faker provider for POMM that I have never even tested. Anyway, POMM is highly recommended if you are a Postgres fan, or if you want to please Grégoire and help him finish his lifelong project of listening to music on a hi-fi audio equipment he built from his own hands \#696 (chanmix51)
• Fixed example `text()` output in README \#694 (vlakoff)
• Added mention of CakePHP 2.x Seeder Plugin to readme \#691 (ravage84)
• Fixed invalid email bug for Korean (ko\_KR) \#690 (pearlc)
• Removed an invalid Dutch (nl\_NL) lastname that breaks email generator \#689 (SpaceK33z)
• Updated `numberBetween()` to be order agnostic \#683 (xfxf)
• Added several English (en\_US) bank-related formatters \#682 (okj579)
• Fixed `ipv4` formatter to avoid generating special purpose addresses \#681 (ravage84)
• Moved `intl` extension to `require-dev` in `composer.json` file \#680 (jaschweder)
• Added more Turkish (tr\_TR) phones number formats \#678 (Quanthir)
• Fixed primary Key warning in CakePHP ORM populator \#677 (davidyell)
• Added time zone support for provider methods returning DateTime instance \#675 (bishopb)
• Removed trailing spaces from some Argentinian (es\_AR) female first names \#674 (ivanmirson)
• Added Lithuanian (lt\_LT) locale \#673 (ekateiva)
• Added mention of Alice to readme \#665 (Seldaek)
• Fixed namespace in tests \#663 (localheinz)
• Fixed trailing spaces in `Color` provider \#662 (apsylone)
• Removed duplicate country names in Russian (ru\_RU) `Address` provider \#659 (nurolopher)
• Added `rgba` formatter to `Color` provider \#653 (apsylone)
• Fixed bad randomization in CakePHP populator \#648 (jadb)
• Updated phpunit configuration to better use colors \#643 (localheinz)
• Updated `makefile` to install dev dependencies by default \#642 (localheinz)
• Updated Travis configuration to cache dependencies between builds \#641 (localheinz)
• Added SVG badge to readme for displaying Travis build status \#640 (localheinz)
• Added Croatian (hr\_HR) locale \#638 (toniperic)
• Updated `dateTimeBetween` PHPDoc \#635 (theofidry)
• Add mention of Symfony2 bundles in readme \#634 (theofidry)
• Added Hebrew (he\_IL) locale \#633 (yonirom)
• Updated `seed` to accept non-integer seeds \#632 (theofidry)
• Added DocBlock to `Factory::create()` \#631 (tonynelson19)
• Added `jobTitle` generator \#630 (gregoryduckworth)
• Updated Chinese (zh\_CN) `Person` provider to generate more correct names \#628 (phoenixgao)
• Updated Brazilian (pt\_BR) `cellphone` formatter to make it more flexible \#623 (igorsantos07)
• Add Arabic for Saudi Arabia (ar\_SA) locale \#618 (ibrasho)
• Updated en\_US phone numbers \#615 (okj579)
• Fixed typos in variable names and exceptions \#614 (pborreli)
• Added a table of contents to the readme file. \#613 (camilopayan)
• Added Brazilian (es_BR) credit card formatters \#608 (igorsantos07)
• Updated `iban` formatter to be cross-locale \#607 (okj579)
• Improved ORM name guesser logic \#606 (watermanio)
• Fixed doc typo \#605 (igorsantos07)
• Removed executable bits \#593 (siwinski)
• Fixed `iban` generator \#590 (okj579)
• Added Philippines (en\_PH) `mobileNumber` formatter \#589 (lozadaOmr)
• Added support for min / max params in `latitude` and `longitude` formatters \#570 (actuallymab)
• Added Czech (cs_CZ) `birthNumber` formatter \#535 (tomasbedrich)
• Added `dateTimeInInterval` formatter \#526 (nicodmf)
• Updated `optional` and `boolean` apis to be more consistent \#513 (EmanueleMinotto)
• Added Greek (el\_GR) `Address` provider \#504 (drakakisgeo)

2015-05-29, v1.5.0

• Added ability to print custom text on the images fetched by the Image provider \#583 (fzaninotto)
• Fixed typos in Peruvian (es\_PE) Person provider \#581 \#580 (ysramirez)
• Added instructions for installing with composer to readme.md \#572 (totophe)
• Added Kazakh (kk\_KZ) locale \#569 (YerlenZhubangaliyev)
• Added Korean (ko\_KR) locale \#566 (pearlc)
• Fixed file provider to ignore unreadable and special files \#565 (svrnm)
• Fixed Dutch (nl\_NL) Address and Person providers \#560 (killerog)
• Fixed Dutch (nl\_NL) Person provider \#559 (pauledenburg)
• Added Russian (ru\_RU) Bank names provider \#553 (wizardjedi)
• Added mobile phone function in French (fr\_FR) provider \#552 (kletellier)
• Added phpdoc for new magic methods in Generator to help IntelliSense completion \#550 (stof)
• Fixed File provider bug 'The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory' \#547 (svrnm)
• Added new Brazilian (pt\_BR) Providers \#545 (igorsantos07)
• Fixed ability to seed the generator \#543 (schmengler)
• Added streetAddress formatter to Russian (ru\_RU) provider \#542 (ZAYEC77)
• Fixed Internet provider warning "Could not create transliterator"* \#541 (fonsecas72)
• Fixed Spanish for Argentina (es\_AR) Address provider \#540 (ivanmirson)
• Fixed region names in French for Belgium (fr\_BE) address provider \#536 (miclf)
• Fixed broken Doctrine2 link in README \#534 (JonathanKryza)
• Added link to faker-context Behat extension in readme \#532 (denheck)
• Added PHP 7.0 nightly to Travis build targets \#525 (TomasVotruba)
• Added Dutch (nl\_NL) color names \#523 (belendel)
• Fixed Chinese (zh\_CN) Address provider (remove Taipei) \#522 (asika32764)
• Fixed phonenumber formats in Dutch (nl\_NL) PhoneNumber provider \#521 (SpaceK33z)
• Fixed Russian (ru\_RU) Address provider \#518 (glagola)
• Added Italian (it\_IT) Text provider \#517 (endelwar)
• Added Norwegian (no\_NO) locale \#515 (phaza)
• Added VAT number to Bulgarian (bg\_BG) Payment provider \#512 (ronanguilloux)
• Fixed UserAgent provider outdated user agents \#511 (ajbdev)
• Fixed `image()` formatter to make it work with temp dir of any (decent) OS \#507 (ronanguilloux)
• Added Persian (fa\_IR) locale \#500 (zoli)
• Added Currency Code formatter \#497 (stelgenhof)
• Added VAT number to Belgium (be_BE) Payment provider \#495 (ronanguilloux)
• Fixed `imageUrl` formatter bug where it would always return the same image \#494 (fzaninotto)
• Added more Indonesian (id\_ID) providers \#493 (deerawan)
• Added Indonesian (id\_ID) locale \#492 (stoutZero)
• Fixed unique generator performance \#491 (ikwattro)
• Added transliterator to `email` and `username` \#490 (fzaninotto)
• Added Hungarian (hu\_HU) Text provider \#486 (lintaba)
• Fixed CakePHP Entity Popolator (some cases where no entities prev. inserted) \#483 (jadb)
• Added Color and DateTime Turkish (tr\_TR) Providers \#481 (behramcelen)
• Added Latvian (lv\_LV) `personalIdentityNumber` formatter \#472 (MatissJanis)
• Added VAT number to Austrian (at_AT) Payment provider \#470 (ronanguilloux)
• Fixed missing @return phpDoc in Payment provider \#469 (ronanguilloux)
• Added SWIFT/BIC payment type formatter to the Payment provider \#465 (ronanguilloux)
• Fixed small typo in Base provider exception \#460 (miclf)
• Added Georgian (ka\_Ge) locale \#457 (lperto)
• Added PSR-4 Autoloading \#455 (GrahamCampbell)
• Added Uganda (en_UG) locale \#454 (tharoldD)
• Added `regexify` formatter, generating a random string based on a regular expression \#453 (fzaninotto)
• Added shuffle formatter, to shuffle an array or a string \#452 (fzaninotto)
• Added ISBN-10 & ISBN-13 codes formatters to Barcode provider \#451 (gietos)
• Fixed Russian (ru\_RU) middle names (different for different genders) \#450 (gietos)
• Fixed Ukranian (uk\_UA) Person provider \#448 (aivus)
• Added Vietnamese (vi\_VN) locale \#447 (huy95)
• Added type hint to the Documentor constructor \#446 (JeroenDeDauw)
• Fixed Russian (ru\_RU) Person provider (joined names) \#445 (aivus)
• Added English (en\_GB) `mobileNumber` methods \#438 (daveblake)
• Added Traditional Chinese (zh\_TW) Realtext provider \#434 (tzhuan)
• Fixed first name in Spanish for Argentina (es\_AR) Person provider \#433 (fzaninotto)
• Fixed Canadian (en_CA) state abbreviation for Nunavut \#430 (julien-c)
• Added CakePHP ORM entity populator \#428 (jadb)
• Added Traditional Chinese (zh\_TW) locale \#427 (tzhuan)
• Fixed typo in Doctrine Populator phpDoc \#425 (ihsanudin)
• Added Chinese (zh_CN) Internet provider \#424 (Lisso-Me)
• Added Country ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code to the Miscellaneous provider\#422 (gido)
• Added English (en\_GB) Person provider \#421 (AlexCutts)
• Added missing tests for the Color Provider \#420 (bessl)
• Added Nepali (ne\_NP) locale \#419 (ankitpokhrel)
• Fixed latitude and longitude formatters bug (numeric value out of range for 32bits) \#416 (fzaninotto)
• Added a dedicated calculator Luhn calculator service \#414 (fzaninotto)
• Fixed Russian (ru_RU) Person provider (removed lowercase duplications) \#413 (Ragazzo)
• Fixed barcode formatter (improved speed, added tests) \#412 (fzaninotto)
• Added ipv4 and barcode formatters tests \#410 (bessl)
• Fixed typos in various comments blocks \#409 (bessl)
• Fixed InternetTest (replaced regex with PHP filter) \#406 (bessl)
• Added password formatter to the Internet provider\#402 (fzaninotto)
• Added Company and Internet Austrian (de\_AT) Providers \#400 (bessl)
• Added third-party libraries section in README \#399 (fzaninotto)
• Added Spanish for Venezuela (es\_VE) locale \#398 (DIOHz0r)
• Added PhoneNumber Autrian (de\_AT) Provider, and missing test for the 'locale' method. \#395 (bessl)
• Removed wrongly localized Lorem provider \#394 (fzaninotto)
• Fixed Miscellaneous provider (made the `locale` formatter static) \#390 (bessl)
• Added a unit test file for the Miscellaneous Provider \#389 (bessl)
• Added warning in README about using `rand()`` and the seed functions \#386 (paulvalla)
• Fixed French (fr\_FR) Person provider (Uppercased a first name) \#385 (netcarver)
• Added Russian (ru\_RU) and Ukrainian (uk\_UA) Text providers \#383 (terion-name)
• Added more street prefixes to French (fr\_FR) Address provider \#381 (ronanguilloux)
• Added PHP 5.6 to CI targets \#378 (GrahamCampbell)
• Fixed spaces remaining at the end of liine in various files \#377 (GrahamCampbell)
• Fixed UserAgent provider (added space before processor on linux platform) \#374 (TomK)
• Added Company generator for Russian (ru\_RU) locale \#371 (kix)
• Fixed Russian (ru\_RU) Color provider (uppercase letters) \#370 (semanser)
• Added more Polish (pl\_PL) phone numbers \#369 (piotrantosik)
• Fixed Ruby Faker link in readme \#368 (philsturgeon)
• Added more Japanese (ja\_JP) names in Person provider \#366 (kumamidori)
• Added Slovenian (sl\_SL) locale \#363 (alesf)
• Fixed German (de\_DE) Person provider (first names) \#362 (mikehaertl)
• Fixed Ukrainian (uk\_UA) Person providr (there is no such letter "?" in Ukrainian) \#359 (nazar-pc)
• Fixed Chinese (zh\_CN) PhoneNumber provider (the length of mobile phone number is 11) \#358 (byan)
• Added Arabic (ar_\JO) Locale \#357 (zrashwani)
• Fixed Czech (cs\_CZ) Person provider (missing lowercase in last name) \#355 (halaxa)
• Fixed French for Belgium (fr\_BE) Address Provider (doubled city names) \#354 (miclf)
• Added Biased Integer Provider \#332 (TimWolla)
• Added Swedish (sv\_SE) locale \#316 (ulrikjohansson)
• Added English for New Zealand (en\_NZ) locale \#283 (JasonMortonNZ)
• Added mention of external Provider for cron expressions to readme\#498 (swekaj)

2014-06-04, v1.4.0

• Fixed typo in Slovak person names (cinan)
• Added tests for uk_UA providers (serge-kuharev)
• Fixed numerify() performance by making it 30% faster (fzaninotto)
• Added strict option to randomNumber to force number of digits (fzaninotto)
• Fixed randomNumber usage duplicating numberBetween (fzaninotto)
• Fixed address provider for latvian language (MatissJA)
• Added Czech Republic (cs_CZ) address, company, datetime and text providers (Mikulas)
• Fixed da_DK Person provider data containing an 'unnamed' person (tolnem)
• Added slug provider (fzaninotto)
• Fixed IDE insights for new local IP and MAC address providers (hugofonseca)
• Added firstname gender method to all Person providers (csanquer)
• Fixed tr_TR email service, city name, person, and phone number formats (ogunkarakus)
• Fixed US_en state list (fzaninotto)
• Fixed en_US address provider so state abbr are ISO 3166 codes (Garbee)
• Added local IP and MAC address providers (kielabokkie)
• Fixed typo in century list affecting the century provider (fzaninotto)
• Added default value to optional modifier (joshuajabbour)
• Fixed Portuguese phonenumbers have 9 digits (hugofonseca)
• Added fileCopy to File provider to simulate file upload (stefanosala)
• Added pt_PT providers (hugofonseca)
• Fixed dead code in text provider (hugofonseca)
• Fixed IDE insights for magic properties (hugofonseca)
• Added tin (NIF) generator for pt_PT provider (hugofonseca)
• Fixed numberBetween max default value handling (fzaninotto)
• Added pt_PT phone number provider (hugofonseca)
• Fixed PSR-2 standards and add make task to force it on Travis (terite)
• Added new ro_RO Personal Numerical Code (CNP) and phone number providers (avataru)
• Fixed Internet provider for sk_SK locale (cinan)
• Fixed typo in en_ZA Internet provider (bjorntheart)
• Fixed phpdoc for DateTime magic methods (stof)
• Added doc about seeding with maximum timestamp using dateTime formatters (fzaninotto)
• Added Maximum Timestamp option to get always same unix timestamp when using a fixed seed (csanquer)
• Added Montenegrian (me_ME) providers (ognjenm)
• Added ean barcode provider (nineinchnick)
• Added fullPath parameter to Image provider (stefanosala)
• Added more Polish company formats (nineinchnick)
• Added Polish realText provider (nineinchnick)
• Fixed remaining non-seedable random generators (terite)
• Added randomElements provider (terite)
• Added French realText provider (fzaninotto)
• Fixed realText provider bootstrap slowness (fzaninotto)
• Added realText provider for English and German, based on Markov Chains Generator (TimWolla)
• Fixed address format in nl_NL provider (doenietzomoeilijk)
• Fixed potentially offensive word from last name list (joshuajabbour)
• Fixed reamde documentation about the optional modifier (cryode)
• Fixed Image provider and documentor routine (fzaninotto)
• Fixed IDE insights for methods (PedroTroller)
• Fixed missing data in en_US Address provider (Garbee)
• Added Bengali (bn_BD) providers (masnun)
• Fixed warning on test file when short tags are on (bateller)
• Fixed Doctrine populator undefined index warning (dbojdo)
• Added French Canadian (fr_CA) Address and Person providers (marcaube)
• Fixed typo in NullGenerator (mhanson01)
• Fixed Doctrine populator issue with one-to-one nullable relationship (jpetitcolas)
• Added Canadian English (en_CA) address and phone number providers (cviebrock)
• Fixed duplicated Payment example in readme (Garbee)
• Fixed Polish (pl_PL) Person provider data (czogori)
• Added Hungarian (hu_HU) providers (sagikazarmark)
• Added 'kana' (ja_JP) name formatters (kzykhys)
• Added allow_failure for hhvm to travis-ci and test against php 5.5 (toin0u)

2013-12-16, v1.3.0

• Fixed state generator in Australian (en_AU) provider (sebklaus)
• Fixed IDE insights for locale specific providers (ulrikjohansson)
• Added English (South Africa) (en_ZA) person, address, Internet and phone number providers (dmfaux)
• Fixed integer values overflowing on signed INTEGER columns on Doctrine populator (Thinkscape)
• Fixed spelling error in French (fr_FR) address provider (leihog)
• Added improvements based on SensioLabsInsights analysis
• Fixed Italian (it_IT) email provider (garak)
• Added Spanish (es_ES) Internet provider (eusonlito)
• Added English Philippines (en_PH) address provider (kamote)
• Added Brazilian (pt_BR) email provider data (KennedyTedesco)
• Fixed UK country code (pgscandeias)
• Added Peruvian (es_PE) person, address, phone number, and company providers (cslucano)
• Added Ukrainian (uk_UA) color provider (ruden)
• Fixed Ukrainian (uk_UA) namespace and email translitteration (ruden)
• Added Romanian (Moldova) (ro_MD) person, address, and phone number providers (AlexanderC)
• Added IBAN generator for every currently known locale that uses it (nineinchnick)
• Added Image generation powered by LoremPixel (weotch)
• Fixed missing timezone with dateTimeBetween (baldurrensch)
• Fixed call to undefined method cardType in Payment (WMeldon)
• Added Romanian (ro_RO) address and person providers (calina-c)
• Fixed Doctrine populator to use ObjectManager instead of EntityManagerInterface (mgiustiniani)
• Fixed docblock for Provider\Base::unique() (pschultz)
• Added Payment providers (creditCardType, creditCardNumber, creditCardExpirationDate, creditCardExpirationDateString) (pomaxa)
• Added unique() modifier
• Added IDE insights to allow better intellisense/phpStorm autocompletion (thallisphp)
• Added Polish (pl_PL) address provider, personal identity number and pesel number generator (nineinchnick)
• Added Turkish (tr_TR) address provider, and improved internet provider (hasandz)
• Fixed Propel column number guesser to use signed range of values (gunnarlium)
• Added Greek (el_GR) person, address, and phone number providers (georgeharito)
• Added Austrian (en_AU) address, Internet, and phone number providers (rcuddy)
• Fixed phpDoc in Doctrine Entity populator (rogamoore)
• Added French (fr_FR) phone number formats (vchabot)
• Added optional() modifier (weotch)
• Fixed typo in the Person provider documentation (jtreminio)
• Fixed Russian (ru_RU) person format (alexshadow007)
• Added Japanese (ja_JP) person, address, Internet, phone number, and company providers (kumamidori)
• Added color providers, driver license and passport number formats for the ru_RU locale (pomaxa)
• Added Latvian (lv_LV) person, address, Internet, and phone number providers (pomaxa)
• Added Brazilian (pt_BR) Internet provider (vjnrv)
• Added more Czech (cs_CZ) lastnames (petrkle)
• Added Chinese Simplified (zh_CN) person, address, Internet, and phone number providers (tlikai)
• Fixed Typos (pborelli)
• Added Color provider with hexColor, rgbColor, rgbColorAsArray, rgbCssColor, safeColorName, and colorName formatters (lsv)
• Added support for associative arrays in `randomElement` (aRn0D)

2013-06-09, v1.2.0

• Added new provider for fr_BE locale (jflefebvre)
• Updated locale provider to use a static locale list (spawn-guy)
• Fixed invalid UTF-8 sequence in domain provider with the Bulgarian provider (Dynom)
• Fixed the nl_NL Person provider (Dynom)
• Removed all requires and added the autoload definition to composer (Dynom)
• Fixed encoding problems in nl_NL Address provider (Dynom)
• Added icelandic provider (is_IS) (birkir)
• Added en_CA address and phone numbers (cviebrock)
• Updated safeEmail provider to be really safe (TimWolla)
• Documented alternative randomNumber usage (Seldaek)
• Added basic file provider (anroots)
• Fixed use of fourth argument on Doctrine addEntity (ecentinela)
• Added nl_BE provider (wimvds)
• Added Random Float provider (csanquer)
• Fixed bug in Faker\ORM\Doctrine\Populator (mmf-amarcos)
• Updated ru_RU provider (rmrevin)
• Added safe email domain provider (csanquer)
• Fixed latitude provider (rumpl)
• Fixed unpredictability of fake data generated by Faker\Provider\Base::numberBetween() (goatherd)
• Added uuid provider (goatherd)
• Added possibility to call methods on Doctrine entities, possibility to generate unique id (nenadalm)
• Fixed prefixes typos in 'pl_PL' Person provider (krymen)
• Added more fake data to the Ukraininan providers (lysenkobv)
• Added more fake data to the Italian providers (EmanueleMinotto)
• Fixed spaces appearing in generated emails (alchy58)
• Added Armenian (hy_AM) provider (artash)
• Added Generation of valid SIREN & SIRET codes to French providers (alexsegura)
• Added Dutch (nl_NL) provider (WouterJ)
• Fixed missing typehint in Base::__construct() (benja-M-1)
• Fixed typo in README (benja-M-1)
• Added Ukrainian (ua_UA) provider (rsvasilyev)
• Added Turkish (tr_TR) Provider (faridmovsumov)
• Fixed executable bit in some PHP files (siwinski)
• Added Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) provider (oliveiraev)
• Added Spanish (es_ES) provider (ivannis)
• Fixed Doctrine populator to allow for the population of entity data that has associations to other entities (afishnamedsquish)
• Added Danish (da_DK) providers (toin0u)
• Cleaned up whitespaces (toin0u)
• Fixed utf-8 bug with lowercase generators (toin0u)
• Fixed composer.json (Seldaek)
• Fixed bug in Doctrine EntityPopulator (beberlei)
• Added Finnish (fi_FI) provider (drodil)

2012-10-29, v1.1.0

• Updated text provider to return paragraphs as a string instead of array. Great for populating markdown textarea fields (Seldaek)
• Updated dateTimeBetween to accept DateTime instances (Seldaek)
• Added random number generator between a and b, simply like rand() (Seldaek)
• Fixed spaces in generated emails (blaugueux)
• Fixed Person provider in Russian locale (Isamashii)
• Added new UserAgent provider (blaugueux)
• Added locale generator to Miscellaneous provider (blaugueux)
• Added timezone generator to DateTime provider (blaugueux)
• Added new generators to French Address providers (departments, regions) (geoffrey-brier)
• Added new generators to French Company provider (catch phrase, SIREN, and SIRET numbers) (geoffrey-brier)
• Added state generator to German Address provider (Powerhamster)
• Added Slovak provider (bazo)
• Added latitude and longitude formatters to Address provider (fixe)
• Added Serbian provider (umpirsky)

2012-07-10, v1.0.0

• Initial Version