Bump countries from 5.6.0 to 8.1.0

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Bumps countries from 5.6.0 to 8.1.0.

Release notes

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8.1.0

What's Changed

• Update Romania standard VAT from 19% to 21% + single reduced rate to 11% (Aug 1st 2025 change) by @​jarthod in countries/countries#930
• Remove CP code from FR translations. Fixes #928 by @​pmor in countries/countries#932
• Add iso_short_name_lower_case attribute as an alternative to #907 by @​pmor in countries/countries#915
• Allow locales to be set with strings. Fixes #916 by @​pmor in countries/countries#931
• Add #pluck support by @​pmor in countries/countries#933
• Fix misuse of File.join with nested array by @​marksmith in countries/countries#936
• Adds translations in Bulgarian for MK, CZ, CV, SZ by @​kirichkov in countries/countries#935
• Update BG to EUR (effective 1 Jan 26) by @​pmor in countries/countries#940
• Update vatican nationality by @​pmor in countries/countries#941
• Add ruby 4.0.0 to test matrix and update gems by @​pmor in countries/countries#942

New Contributors

• @​marksmith made their first contribution in countries/countries#936
• @​kirichkov made their first contribution in countries/countries#935

Full Changelog: countries/countries@v8.0.4...v8.0.5

8.0.4

What's Changed

• Add the old iso_short_names as unofficial_names. Fixes #923 by @​pmor in countries/countries#926
• Revert removal of empty keys from country data files. by @​pmor in countries/countries#927

Full Changelog: countries/countries@v8.0.3...v8.0.4

8.0.3

What's Changed

• fix: change french name of France subdivisions by @​Bertrand-Bichat in countries/countries#919
• fix: add guard clause to check if matches is nil by @​ratheeshaditya in countries/countries#917
• Update Estonia standard VAT from 22% to 24% (July 1st 2025 change) by @​jarthod in countries/countries#922

New Contributors

• @​Bertrand-Bichat made their first contribution in countries/countries#919
• @​ratheeshaditya made their first contribution in countries/countries#917

Full Changelog: countries/countries@v8.0.2...v8.0.3

8.0.2

What's Changed

• fix: iso short names by @​sabify in countries/countries#907
• Fix error when searching ISO3166::Country[nil]. Fixes #912 by @​pmor in countries/countries#913

Full Changelog: countries/countries@v8.0.1...v8.0.2

8.0.1

What's Changed

• Fix error in collect_countries_with and update specs by @​pmor in countries/countries#911

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Changelog

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8.1.0 (2026/01/02 09:14 +00:00)

• Update Romania standard VAT from 19% to 21% + single reduced rate to 11% (Aug 1st 2025 change) by @​jarthod in countries/countries#930
• Remove CP code from FR translations. Fixes #928 by @​pmor in countries/countries#932
• Add iso_short_name_lower_case attribute as an alternative to #907 by @​pmor in countries/countries#915
• Allow locales to be set with strings. Fixes #916 by @​pmor in countries/countries#931
• Add #pluck support by @​pmor in countries/countries#933
• Fix misuse of File.join with nested array by @​marksmith in countries/countries#936
• Adds translations in Bulgarian for MK, CZ, CV, SZ by @​kirichkov in countries/countries#935
• Update BG to EUR (effective 1 Jan 26) by @​pmor in countries/countries#940
• Update vatican nationality by @​pmor in countries/countries#941
• Add ruby 4.0.0 to test matrix and update gems by @​pmor in countries/countries#942

8.0.4 (2025/08/30 14:36 +00:00)

• Add the old iso_short_names as unofficial_names. Fixes #923 by @​pmor in countries/countries#926
• Revert removal of empty keys from country data files. by @​pmor in countries/countries#927

8.0.3 (2025/07/11 14:25 +00:00)

• fix: change french name of France subdivisions by @​Bertrand-Bichat in countries/countries#919
• fix: add guard clause to check if matches is nil by @​ratheeshaditya in countries/countries#917
• Update Estonia standard VAT from 22% to 24% (July 1st 2025 change) by @​jarthod in countries/countries#922

8.0.2 (2025/06/01 13:30 +00:00)

• fix: iso short names by @​sabify in countries/countries#907
• Fix error when searching ISO3166::Country[nil]. Fixes #912 by @​pmor in countries/countries#913

8.0.1 (2025/05/31 15:34 +00:00)

• Fix error in collect_countries_with and update specs by @​pmor in countries/countries#911

8.0.0 (2025/05/31 14:35 +00:00)

Breaking Changes

• Drop support for Ruby 3.1 (EOL 2025-03-26) by @​pmor in countries/countries#909

• Experiment with symbol-keyed translation hashes to reduce string allocations by @​pmor in countries/countries#884

  This is a potentially breaking change because some translation-related methods return the translation hashes, which now have symbol keys instead of string keys

• Find correct subdivision when searching for Washington by @​hieuk09 in countries/countries#900

  This is a potentially breaking change because the behaviour of find_subdivision_by_name has changed to fix countries/countries#888

What's Changed

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Upgrade guide

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Upgrading to 4.2 and 5.x

In release 4.2 the #name attribute was deprecated in favour of #iso_short_name and we added the #iso_long_name attribute, to make it clear that these attributes use the ISO3166 names, and are not the "common names" most people might expect, eg: The ISO name for "United Kingdom" is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", but if you're building a dropdown box to select a country, you're likely expecting to see "United Kingdom" instead.

"Common names" in English have been available in the translation data, via #translation('en'). As of release 4.2, a shortcut method has been added for simplicity, #common_name, which delegates to #translation('en').

For additional clarity, the #names method, which was an alias to #unofficial_names has also been deprecated, together with the finder methods that use name or names attributes.

The #name and #names attributes, and corresponding finder methods were removed in 5.0.

The replacement finders added in 5.0 are:

• #find_by_name => #find_by_any_name - Searches all the name attributes, same as before
• #find_by_names => #find_by_unofficial_names
• #find_*_by_name => #find_*_by_any_name
• #find_*_by_names => #find_*_by_unofficial_names

With the addition of the new name attributes, there are now also the following finders:

• #find_by_common_name/#find_*_by_common_name
• #find_by_iso_short_name/#find_*_by_iso_short_name
• #find_by_iso_long_name/#find_*_by_iso_long_name

For translated country names, we use data originally sourced from pkg-isocodes, via the i18n_data gem, and these generally correspond to the expected "common names". Some corrections have been applied to these localized names. The methods to access translated names have not been changed.

The 5.0 release removed support for Ruby 2.5 (EOL 2021-03-01) and 2.6 (EOL 2022-03-31)

Upgrading to 5.1

In release 5.1 a type attribute was added to the subdivisions object, to allow filtering the collection of subdivisions.

• Country#subdivision_types returns a list of subdivision types for that country (lowercase, snake_cased)
• #subdivisions_of_types(types) accepts an array of subdivision types and returns the subdivisions for those types

The #states method is deprecated to avoid confusion, as this method is an alias to #subdivisions and returns all subdivisions, regardless of type.

To get a list of state subdivisions (something that was not possible before 5.1), use subdivisions_of_types(['state'])

Please note that the subdivision types are obtained from ISO data, and each country defines its own subdivision types, eg: state, district, region, municipality and many others types exist.

Upgrading to 7.0

In release 7.0, the long-deprecated #states method has been removed. More information above (Upgrading to 5.1)

Commits

• 8c026f5 Bump version, update CHANGELOG and cache
• 6d05a34 Merge pull request #942 from countries/ruby-4
• 3c827e3 Add ruby 4.0.0 to test matrix and update gems
• c9474b8 Merge pull request #941 from countries/update-vatican-nationality
• 87a8f56 Merge pull request #940 from countries/update_BG_to_EUR
• 0999e7b Cache update needed to validate specs
• 16d6108 Update spec
• 1cdc06f Change Vatican nationality to Vatican Citizen over Italian
• 33bf18d Update BG to EUR (effective 1 Jan 26)
• 89a1041 Merge pull request #935 from simplicitybg/bg-translations-update
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