2.9.0

• added country names in Farsi; see #12; thanks Mehdi Khodayari!
• updated country names in various languages

2.8.2

• fixed missing flags as single JSON files; this fixes #77
• added missing region; see #79 - thanks RD-PINGEDPNG!
• updated country names in various languages

2.8.1

• updated country names for various languages

2.8.0

• added Croatian language; see #73; thanks to AppyxDaniel!

2.7.0

• added Serbian and Slovenian languages; see #73; thanks to AppyxDaniel!
• udpated Mauritania's flag; see #36
• fixed broken downloads for Chinese and Simplified Chinese languages; see #72; thanks to Roy!
• added typings for TypeScript users; see #70; thanks to Blake Fischer!

2.6.0

• added country names in Armenian, see #68; thanks Tigran Grigoryan!

2.5.1

• removed unused flag of Netherlands Antilles
• fixed #67; thanks Dennis Wueppelmann!

2.5.0

• added ISO 3166-2 codes; see #61; thanks to Alan Jones for providing the links; what we have at this point should be considered as a start - a lot of codes are missing (according to Wikipedia which says there are 5047 while our list has only 3607) and names are written in their anglicized version rather than local - this will have to be updated by the community
• added Esperanto language
• updated formatting and usage of PHP files; thanks to Jacek Karczmarczyk for suggesting - see #58

2.4.0

• added XML file format
• added combined lists; see #29
• aded a note about the fact that alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes are lowercase instead of uppercase as defined by ISO 3166-1; see #50
• fixed id of Sudan for Swedish language
• fixed broken SQL files
• changed folder structure in preparations for adding more data to the library; for now, countries moved to their own countries folder inside the data folder and the flags folder was moved inside the data folder

2.3.0

• flags are now available as JSON files with data uris; see #41
• fixed folder name for Estonian translations; see #52
• fixed a potential issue with the lists for German language by removing a soft-hyphen (\u00ad) from country names; see #54
• fixed broken download links for Basque