v1.9.2

• Security Hardening

v1.9.1

• Add link to PHPStan extension to readme #1834 (finwe)
• Enhancement: Collect code coverage #1824 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Use all columns when running tests #1823 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Configure verbose output via phpunit.xml.dist #1822 (localheinz)
• Curly braces for arrays is deprecated in PHP 7.4 #1843 (wimg)
• Fix: Reduce visibility of setUp() and tearDown() #1821 (localheinz)
• Fix: Mark test classes as final #1820 (localheinz)
• Fix: Remove unnecessary class-level DocBlocks #1819 (localheinz)

v1.9.0

This will the last minor release in the 1.x cycle.

• Add all Iran's provinces land lines numbers #1806 (kingofnull)
• replace latin "B" to cyrillic "B" for uk_UA locale #1800 (FI-LIFE)
• Add elgentos/masquerade to third-party library list #1798 (erikhansen)
• Add link to Gravatar provider repository #1796 (ottaviano)
• Add mobileNumber() method for nb_NO #1788 (carestad)
• Enhancement: Slightly clean up Company provider #1783 (localheinz)
• Added some more information for autoloading in the readme #1780 (pimjansen)
• Enhancement: Add issue template for bug report #1779 (localheinz)
• Add hslColor to ColorProvider #1776 (icanhazstring)
• Enhancement: Consistently use composer package name for link content #1770 (localheinz)
• Add Correct Thai words for streets,soi etc names and add Thai First a… #1769 (pierrejoye)
• Enhancement: Assert that postcode generated by Austrian Address provider matches format #1766 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer #1763 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Assert that imageUrl can be used with gray flag #1762 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Introduce build and help targets #1761 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Disable Xdebug as early as possible #1758 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Clean up .gitattributes #1756 (localheinz)
• Enhancement: Reference phpunit.xsd as installed with composer #1755 (localheinz)
• add id_ID Color #1754 (cacing69)
• PHP 7.4 compatibility #1748 (pimjansen)
• Add lastName gender specific on ru_RU locale #1747 (aanfarhan)
• Update README - Add a new faker. #1731 (drupol)
• Add faker-eddy-malou third-party library #1717 (Metrakit)
• [de_DE] Company\JobTitle: list of common german job titles #1716 (amacado)
• Added 'red' to $safeColorNames #1701 (xfudox)
• [pt_PT/Address] Add abbreviature to 'travessa' and 'largo' #1606 (simaolemos)
• Fix method name for en_NZ provider in readme #1595 (gdhnz)
• Refactoring of the TextTest class #1590 (stevegrunwell)
• add gender variants for last name [lt_LT] #1586 (ikerasLT)
• add .id TLD #1566 (ad3n)
• Add Color provider to es_ES locale #1559 (juananruiz)
• Enhancement: Keep packages sorted in composer.json #1551 (localheinz)
• Portuguese providers for Companies and Internet #1537 (promatik)
• Improve Dutch company names #1529 (koole)
• Document randomDigitNot base formatter. #1514 (shawnlindstrom)
• Estonian names #1461 (much-rebel)
• add birthplace support for ID nik generator #1451 (mikk150)
• List of banks in Brazil added #1427 (diegohenicka)
• Remove last names from the male first names array (et_EE) #1799 (Mihkel100)
• Update out-of-date currency codes #1795 (Brindster)
• Floor is not always returning an int #1790 (pimjansen)
• typo #1789 (enumag)
• Added batch inserts for doctrine orm populate #1781 (pimjansen)
• FIx: Avoid deprecation warning in newer CakePHP version #1777 (icanhazstring)
• Fix: Consistently link to GitHub repositories #1774 (localheinz)
• Fix: Name of package #1772 (localheinz)
• Remove BV and HM country codes. #1767 (oliverpool)
• Fix: Remove sudo configuration #1760 (localheinz)
• Fix: Allow nightly builds to fail #1759 (localheinz)
• Fix: No need to update composer itself #1757 (localheinz)
• duplicate first name and last name removal #1729 (sagautam5)
• Fix-Isreal--Israel #1724 (GitEvil)
• fix(issue-1721): add phpdoc method and properties annotations for php… #1722 (lugus)
• Typo in function PHPDoc #1711 (Dzhuneyt)
• Fix: Add allowed type DateTime to param annotation #1697 (localheinz)
• Calling a non static method as static not allowed. #1696 (wilco-1985)
• Bug Fix en_SG mobile number generation #1658 (ziming)
• Update ja_JP Address Provider #1649 (atmngw)
• Fixed realText on ja_JP locale broken, /u missing #1634 (mihit)
• Removed comma and space from $firstNameMale for en_IN #1608 (phpspider)
• Prevent Transliterator class autoloading #1575 (MontealegreLuis)
• building numbers in Germany never start with a zero or are zero #1530 (fostam)
• Fixing sk_SK men last names set #1459 (pavoltanuska)
• Taiwan ID. The initial letter must be a capital letter. p->P #1434 (slawa-dev)
• Revert "Added 'red' to $safeColorNames" #1778 (fzaninotto)
• Added realText capability for fr_CA #1686 (bobanum)
• Add loremflickr.com Provider to the thrid parties #1683 (xvladxtremal)
• Add Undeclared Faker Instance to PhoneNumber Test in en_NG #1682 ([thearsalan](https://g...

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...

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](http...

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](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker/pull...

v1.5.0

• Added ability to print custom text on the images fetched by the Image provider #583 (fzaninotto)
• Fixed typos in Preuvian (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 Provid...

v1.4.0

New Features

• Added strict option to randomNumber to force number of digits (fzaninotto)
• Added slug provider (fzaninotto)
• Added firstname gender method to all Person providers (csanquer)
• Added local IP and MAC address providers (kielabokkie)
• Added default value to optional modifier (joshuajabbour)
• Added fileCopy to File provider to simulate file upload (stefanosala)
• Added Maximum Timestamp option to get always same unix timestamp when using a fixed seed (csanquer)
• Added ean barcode provider (nineinchnick)
• Added fullPath parameter to Image provider (stefanosala)
• Added randomElements provider (terite)
• Added realText provider for English and German, based on Markov Chains Generator (TimWolla)

New / Improved Locales

• Fixed typo in Slovak person names (cinan)
• Added tests for uk_UA providers (serge-kuharev)
• 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)
• 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)
• Fixed Portuguese phonenumbers have 9 digits (hugofonseca)
• Added pt_PT providers (hugofonseca)
• Added tin (NIF) generator for pt_PT provider (hugofonseca)
• Added pt_PT phone number provider (hugofonseca)
• 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)
• Added Montenegrian (me_ME) providers
• Added more Polish company formats (nineinchnick)
• Added Polish realText provider (nineinchnick)
• Added French realText provider (fzaninotto)
• Fixed missing data in en_US Address provider (Garbee)
• Added Bengali (bn_BD) providers (masnun)
• Added French Canadian (fr_CA) Address and Person providers (marcaube)
• Added Canadian English (en_CA) address and phone number providers (cviebrock)
• Fixed Polish (pl_PL) Person provider data (czogori)
• Added Hungarian (hu_HU) providers (sagikazarmark)
• Added 'kana' (ja_JP) name formatters (kzykhys)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed numerify() performance by making it 30% faster (fzaninotto)
• Fixed randomNumber usage duplicating numberBetween (fzaninotto)
• Fixed IDE insights for new local IP and MAC address providers (hugofonseca)
• Fixed typo in century list affecting the century provider (fzaninotto)
• Fixed dead code in text provider (hugofonseca)
• Fixed IDE insights for magic properties (hugofonseca)
• Fixed numberBetween max default value handling (fzaninotto)
• Fixed PSR-2 standards and add make task to force it on Travis (terite)
• Fixed phpdoc for DateTime magic methods (stof)
• Added doc about seeding with maximum timestamp using dateTime formatters (fzaninotto)
• Fixed remaining non-seedable random generators (terite)
• Fixed realText provider bootstrap slowness (fzaninotto)
• 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 warning on test file when short tags are on (bateller)
• Fixed Doctrine populator undefined index warning (dbojdo)
• Fixed typo in NullGenerator (mhanson01)
• Fixed Doctrine populator issue with one-to-one nullable relationship (jpetitcolas)
• Fixed duplicated Payment example in readme (Garbee)
• Added allow_failure for hhvm to travis-ci and test against php 5.5 (toin0u)

v1.3.0

New Features

• Added unique() modifier
• Added optional() modifier (weotch)
• Added Image generation powered by LoremPixel (weotch)
• Added IDE insights to allow better intellisense/phpStorm autocompletion (thallisphp)
• Added IBAN generator for every currently known locale that uses it (nineinchnick)
• Added Payment providers (creditCardType, creditCardNumber, creditCardExpirationDate, creditCardExpirationDateString) (pomaxa)
• Added Color provider with hexColor, rgbColor, rgbColorAsArray, rgbCssColor, safeColorName, and colorName formatters (lsv)

New / Improved Locales

• Added English (South Africa) (en_ZA) person, address, Internet and phone number providers (dmfaux)
• Added Spanish (es_ES) Internet provider (eusonlito)
• Added English Philippines (en_PH) address provider (kamote)
• Added Brazilian (pt_BR) email provider data (KennedyTedesco)
• 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 Romanian (ro_RO) address and person providers (calina-c)
• 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)
• Added Greek (el_GR) person, address, and phone number providers (georgeharito)
• Added Australian (en_AU) address, Internet, and phone number providers (rcuddy)
• Added French (fr_FR) phone number formats (vchabot)
• Added Japanese (ja_JP) person, address, Internet, phone number, and company providers (kumamidori)
• Added Russian (ru_RU) color providers, driver license and passport number formats (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)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed state generator in Australian (en_AU) provider (sebklaus)
• Fixed IDE insights for locale specific providers (ulrikjohansson)
• Fixed integer values overflowing on signed INTEGER columns on Doctrine populator (Thinkscape)
• Fixed spelling error in French (fr_FR) address provider (leihog)
• Fixed Italian (it_IT) email provider (garak)
• Fixed UK country code (pgscandeias)
• Fixed missing timezone with dateTimeBetween (baldurrensch)
• Fixed call to undefined method cardType in Payment (WMeldon)
• Fixed Doctrine populator to use ObjectManager instead of EntityManagerInterface (mgiustiniani)
• Fixed docblock for Provider\Base::unique() (pschultz)
• Fixed Propel column number guesser to use signed range of values (gunnarlium)
• Fixed phpDoc in Doctrine Entity populator (rogamoore)
• Fixed typo in the Person provider documentation (jtreminio)
• Fixed Russian (ru_RU) person format (alexshadow007)

Miscellaneous

• Added improvements based on SensioLabsInsights analysis
• Fixed Typos (pborelli)
• Added support for associative arrays in randomElement (aRn0D)

v1.2.0

New Features

• Added basic file provider (anroots)
• Added Generation of valid SIREN & SIRET codes to French providers (alexsegura)
• Added possibility to call methods on Doctrine entities, possibility to generate unique id (nenadalm)
• Added uuid provider (goatherd)

New Locales

• Added Armenian (hy_AM) provider (artash)
• Added Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) provider (oliveiraev)
• Added Danish (da_DK) providers (toin0u)
• Added Dutch (nl_NL) provider (WouterJ)
• Added en_CA address and phone numbers (cviebrock)
• Added Finnish (fi_FI) provider (drodil)
• Added icelandic provider (is_IS) (birkir)
• Added more fake data to the Italian providers (EmanueleMinotto)
• Added more fake data to ru_RU provider (rmrevin)
• Added more fake data to the Ukraininan providers (lysenkobv)
• Added new provider for fr_BE locale (jflefebvre)
• Added nl_BE provider (wimvds)
• Added Random Float provider (csanquer)
• Added safe email domain provider (csanquer)
• Added Spanish (es_ES) provider (ivannis)
• Added Turkish (tr_TR) Provider (faridmovsumov)
• Added Ukrainian (ua_UA) provider (rsvasilyev)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in Doctrine EntityPopulator (beberlei)
• Fixed bug in Faker\ORM\Doctrine\Populator (mmf-amarcos)
• Fixed composer.json (Seldaek)
• Fixed Doctrine populator to allow for the population of entity data that has associations to other entities (afishnamedsquish)
• Fixed encoding problems in nl_NL Address provider (Dynom)
• Fixed executable bit in some PHP files (siwinski)
• Fixed invalid UTF-8 sequence in domain provider with the Bulgarian provider (Dynom)
• Fixed latitude provider (rumpl)
• Fixed missing typehint in Base::__construct() (benja-M-1)
• Fixed prefixes typos in 'pl_PL' Person provider (krymen)
• Fixed safeEmail provider to be really safe (TimWolla)
• Fixed spaces appearing in generated emails (alchy58)
• Fixed the nl_NL Person provider (Dynom)
• Fixed typo in README (benja-M-1)
• Fixed unpredictability of fake data generated by Faker\Provider\Base::numberBetween() (goatherd)
• Fixed use of fourth argument on Doctrine addEntity (ecentinela)
• Fixed utf-8 bug with lowercase generators (toin0u)

Miscellaneous

• Documented alternative randomNumber usage (Seldaek)
• Cleaned up whitespaces (toin0u)
• Removed all requires and added the autoload definition to composer (Dynom)
• Updated locale provider to use a static locale list (spawn-guy)