Changelog

This page aims for providing user-friendly changelog for the stable releases of JOSM. Its granularity lies somewhere between the contents of StartupPage and the SVN log messages.

• This list contains mainly only enhancements and changes.
• Bug fixes are mostly not listed here. See the link to the SVN log messages at the end of each chapter to have a look at the fixed bugs.
• Changes of external resources (Presets, Map Paint Styles, Validator Rules and Plugins) are not listed here.
• There are also JOSM related changes in the ​osm trac which are not listed here as well.

2017-05-??: Stable release 12??? (17.06)

• major enhancements
  • ...
• medium enhancements
  • The projection automatically resets to the default mercator projection after a restart. The default can be changed in the projection settings with the new "Set as default" button (expert mode only). (r12306)
• minor enhancements
  • ...
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • "Similarly named ways" test: detect accent and case variations for strings of same length (r12283)
    • Add support import *.jpeg images (r12286)
    • Allow addr:neighbourhood as assignment additional to addr:street and addr:place (r12311)
    • Improve roundabout/links validator test (r12312)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.06

2017-05-29: Stable release 12275 (17.05)

• medium enhancements
  • Handling imagery offsets when reprojecting (r12084, r12085, r12093)
  • Download dialog also supports URL containing .../#zoom/lat/lon (r12090)
  • Don't draw direction arrows on short selection segments (r12154, r12185)
  • Ask Windows/macOS users to update their version of Java when it expires (i.e when the built-in JRE expiration date is passed, about 4 months after release, 1 month after Java should have asked to update by itself). (r12219, r12238)
• minor enhancements
  • Fix an old bug where points in the wrong layer may be moved (r12053)
  • Improve layout of conflict dialog (r12043, r12044, r12046, r12047)
  • Relation editor: Make button tool bars scroll if the window is too small to show all of them. (r12080)
  • Allow to override toolbar image and toolbar name for presets (r12142)
  • Make Imagery offset work in WGS 84 (r12149)
  • Support WMTS Dimensions (r12224)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Add shop=cheese (r12083)
    • Avoid false positive connection warning with building=no (r12089)
    • Don't warn for missing ref if explizit noref=yes is set (r12194)
    • Don't warn that amenity=weighbridge is connected to a highway (r12201)
    • Test for proper "ele" values (patch by naoliv, r12215)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.05

2017-05-02: Stable release 12039 (17.04)

• major enhancements
  • Support reprojection (warping) of imagery layer which allows to combine sources with different projections (#7427)
• medium enhancements
  • Add support for multiple Overpass API output formats (r11916)
  • Add support for variable role names in preset/validator using regexp (level_0, level_1, ...) (r11989)
• minor enhancements
  • Drop StartCom certificate (r11903)
  • Add a link to the wiki in imagery preferences (r11959)
  • Allow to minimize/maximize the help window (r12004)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Improve MultipolygonTest (r11837)
    • Add leisure and amenity to multipolygon naming (r11900)
    • Drop support of deprecated outer-way-style multipolygons (r11908, r12026)
    • Allow advertising=column as area (r11976)
    • Add self_service to car wash (r11976)
    • Make memorial values searchable (r11979)
    • Limit class warning to ways (r11985)
    • Add type=building relation (r11989)
    • Add a warning about potentially erroneous movement of existing nodes (r12032, r12037)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.04

2017-04-02: Stable release 11826 (17.03)

• major enhancements
  • Completely prevent the upload of a layer with "upload=never" in the osm file (r11709)
  • Add (expert) option to not zoom to the new downloaded data (r11658, r11743, r11774, r11784)
• medium enhancements
  • Dynamic NTV2 grids and support for Swissgrid CH1903 (r11642, r11644, r11648, r11660, r11661)
  • Basic support for icons on areas (r11670, r11671, r11718, r11719, r11722, r11748, r11760, r11761)
  • New mapcss area style icon-position: center, inside, line and text-position: inside(r11730, r11722)
  • New mapcss eval functions: upper, lower, trim and URL_decode (patch by nyurik, r11756)
• minor enhancements
  • Installation via snapcraft (r11794, r11823)
  • Sort by default in order [relations, ways, nodes] in selection dialog (r11680)
  • Add dates to imagery entries
  • WMTS: make it possible to switch between 2 supported projections (r11788:11790)
  • WMTS: don't show layer selection dialog if there is only one layer with one tile matrix set that matches the current projection (r11791)
  • WMTS: show layer title, not layer identifier in layer selection dialog (r11792)
  • WMTS: add mimetypes jpgpng and png8 (used by ESRI and geoserver) (r11798, r11824)
  • Fine tune preselection in Add Tag window for partial datasets (r11804)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Allow negative .5 increments in level tag (r11640)
    • New lottery icon (patch by naoliv, r11663)
    • Don't raise warning "water without natural=water" for natural=strait and natural=bay, remove autofix (r11687)
    • Do not hack default opacity into fill-color property. Use a fill-opacity default of ~.2 instead, so that style authors can overwrite it more easily and the behaviour is more predictable. (r11700)
    • Allow leisure=fitness_centre as physical feature for sport tags (r11732)
    • Add building attached to road as a validation warning (r11736)
    • Restrict "Coastline inside water" test to closed ways (r11744)
    • Improve Wikipedia tag validators (patch by nyurik, r11756, r11771, r11800)
    • Increase important multipolygon problems to error level, better separate output of boundary and multipolygon (r11782)
    • Remove some useless validator warnings regarding unknown relation types (r11783)
    • Add site_type=tumulus,megalith,fortification,settlement,necropolis,city values to historic=archaeological_site preset (r11787)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.03

2017-02-27: Stable release 11639 (17.02)

• major enhancements
  • Improve gps heatmap mode: add point cloud mode, overlay gain adjustment, limitation of visibility and two more color schemas (r11566 patch by kidelo)
  • Allow to select mirror servers of layers in the imagery preferences (r11570)
• medium enhancements
  • Automatically remove imagery entries in the users list, which are no longer available in the wiki source (r11527, r11528)
  • Improve Overpass wizard geocoding Nominatim interpretation (r11560)
  • Add date and eli-best fields to imagery definition and display them as tooltip in the imagery preferences, the Imagery menu and the toolbar (r11570, r11575, r11612, r11625)
  • Automatic tag conflict resolution of source for French cadastre and Canadian CanVec (r11606, patch from Tyndare)
• minor enhancements
  • Rotation angle for Transverse Mercator projection (r11549)
  • Improve plugin list import function (r11563)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Don't warn about odd number of lanes without lanes:forward|backward in roundabouts (r11529)
    • Add female/male/unisex to shower preset (r11547)
    • Add castle_type to castle preset (r11547)
    • Don't warn about addr:postcode together with place=* (r11547)
    • Update vending values: remove public_transport_plans, add coffee, deprecate photos and photo in favor of amenity=vending_booth, add it to presets and mappaint style (r11583)
    • Draw unclosed tourism=attraction ways unfilled (r11584)
    • Add amenity=internet_cafe to presets and mappaint style (r11585, r11588)
    • Allow leisure=bowling_alley as physical feature for sport tags (r11591)
    • Update opening_hours validation (r11592, r11595, r11597)
    • Define tags which are areas more precisely (r11600)
    • Ignore keys starting with description: like description:de in unknown value test (r11605, r11608)
    • Automatic close all changesets, if upload includes >10000 changes and therefore creates several changesets (r11618)
    • Improve performance of "Way connected to Area" test and fixing duplicate nodes (r11627:11630, r11632:11634)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.02

2017-02-02: Stable release 11526 (hotfix)

• SVN log messages of hotfix

2017-01-30: Stable release 11514 (17.01)

• major enhancements
  • Add heatmap mode for gps rendering (r11431, r11451, r11469, r11470, r11474, r11482, r11483, r11508 patch by kidelo)
• medium enhancements
  • GeoImageLayer: Improvements of display of selected photo in the map (r11434, r11484, r11514 patch by holgermappt)
• minor enhancements
  • Add continous integration test for differences to the Editor Layer Index database (r11426)
  • Dockerfile and scripts to start tests under Docker for Windows and Linux. This makes easier to run tests on Windows-based development environment (r11442)
  • Add search option to find deleted objects e.g. to purge them (r11446)
  • Replace recursive filter parsing by iterative approach to avoid StackOverflowError for very long filters (~3000 logical operators)(r11447)
  • Do not translate relation roles (r11466, r11475)
  • Robustness against invalid timestamps in GPX files (r11486)
  • Allow file:// URL for command-line argument --load-preferences (r11509)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Warn about highway=track without tracktype (info level)(r11428)
    • Remove warning when an highway is also a natural=ridge (r11429, patch by LeTopographeFou)
    • Don't warn about width + natural=stone combination (r11430)
    • Don't autofix "Missing power tower/pole within power line" (r11432)
    • Make Straße/Strasse validator test country specific and raise to error level (r11439)
    • Fix self-intersecting way test (r11441, patch by GerdP)
    • Add addr:unit to Address tagging preset (r11463, patch by MikeN)
    • Warn about aeroway=aerodrome|helipad + area=yes (r11476)
    • Warn about values of area different from yes and no or used on nodes (r11476, r11477)
    • Remove warning with leisure=fitness_station + sport=fitness (r11497)
    • Add 'surface' combobox to runway preset (r11497)
    • Displaying oneway direction arrows of aerialways according to wiki, don't display them if oneway=no is set (r11499, r11501)
    • Don't warn about aerialway oneway combination (r11513)
    • Verify for improper usage of type=multipolygon in nodes and ways (r11500)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.01

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2016: Releases from r9230 to r11425
• Changelog/2015: Releases from r7907 to r9229
• Changelog/2014: Releases from r6763 to r7906
• Changelog/2013: Releases from r5697 to r6502
• Changelog/2012: Releases from r4878 to r5608

See also

• JOSM related changes in the ​osm svn
• There is a similar changelog for plugins, which is no longer updated.