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= Changelog

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

{{{#!comment
* major changes/enhancements
* minor enhancements
* sub-minor enhancements
* major bugs
}}}

== 2014-02-27: Stable release r6891 ([milestone:"14.02" 14.02])
* major changes/enhancements
  * Allow HTTPS access to OSM API (r6840, r6845, r6847, r6849, r6885)
  * Do not suggest to combine conflicting values in order to reduce the wrong usage of semicolon values (r6770, r6802)
* minor enhancements
  * Enable loading of `.osm.zip` files (r6882)
  * Verify for new versions of plugins on crashes (r6797)
  * GPX:
    * Allow to download compressed GPX tracks from osm.org/trace/ using "Download location" (r6803)
    * Use neutral track color if speed is zero (velocity mode) or time extent is very short (time mode, r6775)
  * History dialog: Show changeset `source` (r6827, r6836, r6864:6865)
  * MapCSS: Allow (named) colours with alpha (r6774)
  * Presets/Map styles:
    * Add `preset_name_label` attribute to `<item>` to automatically add "[preset name]" at the beginning of dialog (r6824, r6835)
    * Add `highway=raceway` (r6777), non-public-transport `route` relations (r6810:6813, r6817:6819), `shop=bookmaker|lottery` (r6855)
    * "Add to toolbar" in preset list context menu (F3-right click, r6844)
    * Rendering of `craft=painter|plumber|pottery|stonemason|tiler|window_construction` (r6820), `shop=gift` (r6888)
  * Remote Control: new `referrers` argument to `load_object` handler (r6782)
  * Validator:
    * Validate `population` (r6769)
    * Check and remove unnecessary `area=yes` (r6778), `building=no` (r6788)
    * Detect `sport`s without physical features (r6859:6861, r6877)
    * Sort results naturally (r6804)
* sub-minor enhancements
  * Make status bar background/foregound colors configurable (r6789)
  * Set HTTP `Accept` header to expected MIME types when downloading presets, styles, plugins (r6867:6868)
* major bugs
  * Sensible upload order of relations to be deleted (r6776, r6801, r6886)
  * Performance improvements (r6821:6823, r6834, r6841)

== 2014-01-29: Stable release r6767 ([milestone:"14.01 (hotfix)" 14.01 hotfix])
* major bugs:
  * Fix JSON support (r6764, r6767)
  * Fix validator translation files (r6766)

== 2014-01-27: Stable release r6763 ([milestone:14.01 14.01])
* major enhancements
  * Presets: 
    * Refactorization by introducing `<chunk id="X">` and `<reference ref="X"/>` (r6558:6559, r6562, r6570)
    * Extension by introducing `<preset_link preset_name="..." />` to add a link to another preset (r6572, r6618)
  * Upload window - `source`: add `knowledge`, `survey` to selection, compute value from layers (r6565, r6567, r6590, r6654)
  * MapCSS: syntax improvements:
    * Regular expression support for key conditions (r6547)
    * Comparison of two key values (`[key1 = *key2]`, r6554)
    * New `set class` instruction and `.class` selector (r6560:6561, r6601)
    * New spatial "element of" (`inner ∈ outer`, r6607, r6609)
    * New crossing operator (`area ⧉ area`, r6613)
    * New `unconnected` pseudo class for nodes without parent way (r6687)
    * Add option to include colour preferences of external styles (r6740)
    * Determine opacity/transparency of a color using `alpha()` (r6749)
  * Validator: 
    * New MapCSS-based tag checker/fixer (r6506, r6511:6513, r6529, r6532, r6534, r6537:6538, r6548, r6550:6553, r6583:6584, r6601, r6611:6613, r6629, r6636:6637, r6645, r6649:6651, r6675, r6677, r6681, r6720)
    * Centralized service for custom Tagchecker [[Rules|rules]] (r6666, r6670)
  * Better zoom to selection/conflict when the objects in question are small (r6608)
  * Prompt dialogs: more "do not show again..." choices (r6594:6596)
  * Add "Search for objects by preset" action (Shift-F3, r6738)
  * `wayselector` plugin integrated into main program (r6544)
* minor enhancements
  * Initialize default center view of map to last download location instead of (0,0) (r6509)
  * Remote control: 
    * New arguments `changeset_comment` and `changeset_source` to `load_and_zoom` handler to add changeset tags (r6517)
    * Add command description to usage page (r6536)
  * History dialog: UI tuning (r6519, r6743), shortcuts for up/down arrow keys (r6520)
  * Advanced object info: add "Center of bounding box", and "Centroid" for ways (r6566)
  * Colour coding of conflicting tags/memberships in way combining dialog (r6616)
  * Improvements of proxy support and error handling (r6523:6525, r6602, r6642:6643, r6714)
  * Make Unix web browsers configurable via `browser.unix` property (r6682)
  * Presets/Map styles:
    * Update of presets for `man_made=surveillance` (r6505), `place_of_worship` (r6508), `artwork` (r6620), `railway` (r6640), `power=substation` (r6657, r6662, r6673), `boundary=political` (r6678), `surface` (r6684), `amenity=charging_station` (r6697), `amenity=parking*` (r6701), `barrier`/`entrance` (r6703, r6705)
    * Addition of `natural=sand` (r6576), `building=construction` (r6646), `railway=switch` (r6668), `boundary=postal_code` (r6678)
    * Replacement of `emergency=aed` by `emergency=defibrillator` (r6658)
    * Display `capacity` as a name complement for labels (r6541)
    * Display `highway=road` differently (r6709)
  * Tools - Create/Update Multipolygon: 
    * Update multipolygon if a multipolygon relation is selected (r6564, r6569, r6597, r6600)
    * Remap keyboard shortcut to `Ctrl-B` and `Ctrl-Shift-B` (r6721)
  * Validator: 
    * Verify links on highways (r6573)
    * Check ways with duplicate way segments (r6574, r6619, r6693:6694, r6722)
    * Detect crossing `barrier`, `landuse`, `natural`, `boundary` (r6581, r6680)
    * Validate `:lanes` (r6592, r6598, r6606, r6647) and `:conditional` tags (r6605)
    * Validate nodes inside polygons with the same values (r6614, r6628, r6719)
    * Many test improvements (r6503-r6504, r6510, r6515:6516, r6518, r6526:6527, r6533, r6549, r6556, r6563, r6568, r6575, r6580, r6591, r6593, r6604, r6622, r6630, r6632:6633, r6638:6639, r6641, r6648, r6659, r6665, r6667, r6680, r6688:6689, r6691:6692, r6698, r6724, r6735, r6758:6760)
* sub-minor enhancements:
  * Allow to build JOSM from a git mirror clone (r6540, r6545, r6585)
  * Make dynamic buttons features disabled by default (r6727, r6752)
  * Distinguish number of conflicts on nodes, ways and relations (r6555)
  * Unicode normalization and multiple whitespace removal in tags (r6699:r6700)
  * Allow to enable debug log messages by command-line argument `--debug` (r6730)

== Older stable releases
  * [[Changelog/2013]]: Releases from r5697 to r6502
  * [[Changelog/2012]]: Releases from r4878 to r5608

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