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.

Development version

• 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)
  • Upload window - source: add knowledge, survey to selection, compute value from layers (r6565, r6567, r6590)
  • 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)
  • Validator/Tagchecker:
    • New MapCSS-based tag checker/fixer (r6506, r6511:6513, r6529, r6532, r6534, r6537:6538, r6548, r6550:6553, r6583:6584, r6601)
  • Better zoom to selection/conflict when the objects in question are small (r6608)
  • Prompt dialogs: more "do not show again..." choices (r6594:6596)
  • 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), shortcuts for up/down arrow keys (r6520)
  • Advanced object info: add "Center of bounding box", and "Centroid" for ways (r6566)
  • Proxy support improvements (r6523:6525, r6602)
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • Update of presets for man_made=surveillance (r6505), place_of_worship (r6508)
    • Addition of natural=sand (r6576)
    • Display capacity as a name complement for labels (r6541)
  • Tools:
    • Create/Update Multipolygon: updates multipolygon if a multipolygon relation is selected (r6564, r6569, r6597, r6600)
  • Validator:
    • Verify links on highways (r6573)
    • Check and fix ways with duplicate way segments (r6574)
    • Detect crossing barrier, landuse, natural, boundary (r6581)
    • Validate :lanes (r6592, r6598, r6606) and :conditional tags (r6605)
    • Test improvements (r6503-r6504, r6510, r6515:6516, r6518, r6526:6527, r6533, r6549, r6556, r6563, r6568, r6575, r6579:6580, r6591, r6593, r6604)
• sub-minor enhancements:
  • Allow to build JOSM from a git mirror clone (r6540, r6545, r6585)
  • Distinguish number of conflicts on nodes, ways and relations (r6555)

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2013: Releases from r5697 to r6502
• Changelog/2012: Releases from r4878 to r5608