I wouldn't normally bother to blog about an update to an existing module, but this has an incompatible change.

Previously, if you tried to create a Number::Phone object but didn't have a module installed that knew about the numbering plan of the country that number was in, then the constructor would fail and return undef. This was silly. Now, it returns a minimal object that knows what country the number is in and not a lot else.

My mad experiment in CPAN mirrors has grown a couple of new tentacles. Previously it could be a perl-X.Y.Z-specific mirror, such as the CP5.6.2an, or an OS-specific mirror such as the cpMSWin32an. Now it can combine the two such as in the CP5.8.8-irixAN and all of those can also be combined with a date/time to only include stuff that was already on the CPAN as at that time, such as at the CP2000AN.

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