Faker

* 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)

* 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)

* 1 minor change:
* Fixed Ruby 1.8 compatibility

* 1 minor change:
* Removed ja locale because of parse errors

* 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)

* Rename ``pyint`` ``min`` and ``max`` to ``min_value`` and ``max_value``.
Thanks francoisfreitag.
* Remove some validations from Faker and delegate it to an external library,
``validators``. Thanks kingbuzzman.
* Add an "Invalid SSN" generator to the ``en_US`` SSN Provider.
Thanks darrylwhiting.
* Include "Praia" as street_prefix in ``pr_BR`` address Provider.
Thanks G5Olivieri.
* Loosen version restrictions on ``freezegun`` and ``random2``.
Thanks timokau.
* Add SSN provider for ``es_MX``. Thanks mrfunnyshoes.
* Add ``pwz`` generator for ``pl_PL``. Thanks torm89.
* Add ``date_of_birth`` and ``sex`` argument to ``pesel`` Provider (`pl_PL`).
Thanks torm89.
* Fix datetime parsing on environments with negative offsets.
Thanks bluesheeptoken.