Changelog

This wiki page aims for providing user-friendly changelog for the tested releases of JOSM. Its granularity lies somewhere between the contents of StartupPage and the SVN log messages. There is a similar changelog for plugins.

Latest development

• major changes/enhancements
• minor enhancements
• sub-minor enhancements
• major bugs

2012-05-01: Stable release r5207

• minor enhancements
  • make alternative search dialog default (r5198)
  • command line argument --load-preferences= to apply settings on JOSM start (r5201)
  • Allow MapCSS to style right and left side casings differently (r5206)
• sub-minor enhancements
  • Non-scrollable menu for Imagery offset (r5185)
  • remote control: increase the possible request size (from 1KiB to 1MiB) (r5189)
  • Style: icons for building entrances (r5190)
  • Angle snapping: show 30 instead of 330 (r5191)
  • Tagging presets: barrier=ditch (r5192), overtaking= (r5193), make use of new matching functionality (in road restrictions, buildings, addresses, contact information) (r5197)
  • add validation warning Superfluous turnrestriction as "to" way is oneway (r5199)
  • keys Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down, Enter, Spacebar work better in toggle dialogs; Enter and Spacebar = useful actions for list items (select, toggle, etc.) (r5200)

2012-04-14: Stable release r5181

• major changes/enhancements
  • Mechanism to modify JOSM settings and store files, advanced preferences dialog modifications + JavaScript configuration API + asynchronous file download task DownloadFileTask + function to export arbitrary preference keys to file (r5114)
  • Warn non-experts when combining ways with conflicting tags or ways being part of relations (r5132)
  • Several improvements in startup time: perform several initialization tasks in parallel (r5134), speedup XML parser r5135, speedup presets initialization by some caching (r5136), load preset icons in a background thread (r5139)
  • Add lasso selection mode (r5152)
• minor enhancements
  • Paste without mouse pointer in draw area should paste to center (r5052)
  • Add "Add selection to relation" to popup menu of relation toggle dialog (r5082)
  • Add Map Paint Styles to View menu (r5086, r5088)
  • Warning against misaligned imagery for new users (r5091)
  • Make target highlighting not feel sluggish (#7503)
  • Add "Select previous/next Gap" to relation editor as popup menu of the relation members (r5081)
  • Remote Control: add command for opening local files (e.g., /open_file?filename=... (r5085)
  • Remote Control: /load_object in combination with addtags (r5095, r5116)
  • Toggle edit toolbar (in View menu or in popup menu) (r5092)
  • Increase Readability of Available Presets/Styles (sort entries, tooltip as table, additional author/url in gray) (r5105)
  • Enhancements in plugin dependencies system (view "requires" in plugin prefs + auto selection of required plugins + alert when unselecting a plugin still required) (r5121)
  • Angle Snapping improvements: activation on A (Tab can be disabled, see #7438), better projections, show activation in status line (r5137)
  • tagging presets: allow to change the matching process (match=none|key|key!|keyvalue), remove delete_if_empty, default defaults to "", adapted comments in defaultpresets.xml, refactoring of the matching process (removes some duplicate code and some magical arithmetic) (r5155)
  • tagging presets: allow icons for individual combo items (use new <list_entry> element) (r5158)
• sub-minor enhancements
  • better label layout in VersionInfoPanel (r5050)
  • load map images in background, in case they are loaded over a network. Show temporary image in the meantime. (r5054)
  • improve alternative search dialog (adapt insert text, hand cursor if text can be inserted, differentiate labels from the rest) (r5063)
  • rework of projection code (r5065, r5066, r5067, r5071, r5072, r5073)
  • use closed way icon in relation editor (and conflict dialog) (r5077)
  • make toolbar popup menu more intuitive (also show popup menu on empty space) (r5079)
  • sort relations "naturally" (e.g., US 2 < US 10) (r5083)
  • presets/styles: Incorporate accepted keys organic, fair_trade; deprecate previously used shop=organic (r5080)
  • remove and deprecate bicycle_parking=sheffield (r5107)
  • update bicycle_parking preset (r5126)
  • Show opacity slider in the middle of the screen in case opacity button is hidden (r5127)
  • add style for entrance=* (r5133), power=transformer (r5148)
• major bugs
  • TaggingPresetSearch did not update type of selected objects and therefore showed possibly wrong presets (r5071)
  • API calls blocking, cancel not working, JOSM hangs (r5084)
• plugin changes

2012-03-07: Stable release r5047

• major changes/enhancements
  • cleanup of core+plugin shortcuts (r4916, r4926, r4942, …)
  • support for "upload prohibited" .osm files (<osm upload="false">, r5025)
• minor enhancements
  • RemoteControl: add option for "new layer" to preference dialog (r4883)
  • GeoJSON export (r4886)
  • allow to load remote .osm files (r4899)
  • provide Relation Editor shortcuts (r4905)
  • show tooltip in undo-menu which action will be undone/redone (r4908)
  • (insensitive) word-based search in shortcut prefs (r4909, r4914)
  • AngleSnapping mode: precize intersections, Tab key customizable, "Disable" option in context menu (r4917)
  • improve preferences dialog startup time (r4930, r4931, r4968, r4969)
  • compressed images, handling of 1-bit-alpha PNGs (r4938, r4939, r4940)
  • display distance of moved node in history window (r4990)
  • load OSM data just by dropping URL in main window (r4996), with or without "zoom" parameter (r5005, r5011)
  • faster relation selecting with middle- or Alt-clicking (r5016, #7314/#7317)
  • add Belgian Lambert 1972 and 2008 projections (r5022)
  • possibility to hide side buttons in toggle dialogs permanently, show actions from buttons in popup menu (r5028)
• major bugs
• plugin changes

2012-01-30: Stable release r4878

• major enhancements
  • drawing action allows to draw segments with discrete angles (e.g., 30/45°; r4767, r4781), context menu for "Angle" status panel (r4803)
  • ImproveWayAccuracy plugin has been added to core
• minor enhancements
  • add Lambert 93 projection (r4673, r4781)
  • presets: add amenity=parking_space, amenity=parking_entrance (r4676), building (r4744)
  • show warning message when deleting relations (r4677)
  • search: allow searching by modification time (r4679)
  • improve splash screen: show execution time of items, display more detailed information (r4681)
  • validator: add test Way connected to Area (r4682), typical tag combinations (derived from Taginfo; r4777)
  • user-friendly error message with failed precondition (HTTP 412) related to nodes still used by ways (r4691)
  • properties dialog: possibility to select and perform actions on several entries at once (r4697, r4773)
  • improve startup time by caching /capabilities (r4709)
  • individual icons for imagery background (r4713)
  • posibility to run please wait runnable tasks in background (r4718)
  • command to load and cache WMS background images along a gpx track in advance (r4745)
  • extend Jump to next/previous marker to georefimage layer and made it easily possible to add jumping to any layer where it makes sense (r4751)
  • add "Highlight target ways and nodes" in preferences (r4767)
  • command line option to set an arbitrary preference value on start. (e.g., --set=expert=true; r4789)
  • RemoteControl: new command /load_object to download objects by id; /add_way command to create a new way with certain coordinates; parameter new_layer for the /load_and_zoom command to load the data into a new layer (r4791, r4796, r4833, r4834, r4861)
  • add a "zoom to gap" functionality to the relation editor (r4792)
  • move cache files to ~/.josm/cache (r4810, r4812, r4813, r4818)
  • provide an option to automatically download elements after a reference error (r4816)
  • allow plugins to register search operators (r4817), map painting styles and tagging presets (r4839)
  • alternative search dialog for beta testing (enabled by setting dialog.search.new to true; r4832)
  • moved several commands to expert mode (r4828, r4835, r4840, r4841, r4843, r4844, r4849)
• major bugs
  • fix passing OSM auth information to wrong server (e.g., WMS server; r4690)
  • fix several shortcut conflicts, remap several shortcuts (r4711, r4850, DevelopersGuide/ShortcutsList)
  • starts extremely slow when osm api is offline, no read timeout for normal API connections (r4854, r4859)
• plugin changes