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.

2014-02-27: Stable release r6891 (14.02)

• major changes/enhancements
• minor enhancements
  • Do not suggest to combine conflicting values in order to reduce the wrong usage of semicolon values (r6770)
  • MapCSS: Allow (named) colours with alpha (r6774)
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • Add highway=raceway (r6777)
  • Validator:
    • Validate population (r6769)
    • Check and remove unnecessary area=yes (r6778)
• sub-minor enhancements
  • GpxLayer: use neutral track color if speed is zero (velocity mode) or time extent is very short (time mode, r6775)
• major bugs
  • Upload: Create a sensible upload order of relations to be deleted (r6776)

2014-01-29: Stable release r6767 (14.01 hotfix)

• major bugs:
  • Fix JSON support (r6764, r6767)
  • Fix validator translation files (r6766)

2014-01-27: Stable release r6763 (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 (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