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= 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 [/log SVN log messages].

== 30.01.2012: Stable release r4878
* major enhancements
  * [[Help/Action/Draw|drawing action]] allows to draw segments with discrete angles (e.g., 30/45°; r4767, r4781), context menu for "Angle" status panel (r4803)
  * [[Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy|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)
  * [[Help/Dialog/Properties|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 [[Help/Menu/Imagery|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)
  * [[Help/Preferences/RemoteControl|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)
  * 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)

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