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.

2014-08-31: Stable release r7480 (14.08)

• major enhancements
  • Map styles:
    • better view on low zooms (shrink nodes, hide texts and icons, r7377:7378, r7382, r7389, r7421, r7428, r7454:7456, r7458, r7470)
    • unification of font rendering on all systems (new Droid font, r7383)
    • better label placement inside areas (ex: addr:housenumber on buildings, r7459)
    • display real speed limit on maxspeed nodes (r7383, r7385, r7387:7388)
    • display name of highway (r7386, r7439, r7457, r7471)
    • more prominent label for place (r7390)
    • user-settings for mapcss mappaint styles (r7450, r7454)
  • use N as a new shortcut for Move Node onto Way action (r7400)
  • add offline mode with new command line argument --offline=[josm_website|osm_api|all] (r7434, r7476)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • new icons for barrier=block (r7352), barrier=chain (r7362), natural=peak + tourism=viewpoint (r7460)
    • new styles for highway=track (r7354), embankment=yes (r7374), landuse=residential/garages (r7409), barrier (r7467)
    • new presets: man_made=embankment (r7374), natural=bare_rock/stone/ridge (r7381, r7446), place=farm (r7415, r7427)
    • updated presets: natural=water (r7355), power=generator (r7361), tunnel (r7373), sport=handball (r7380), tourism (r7384), addr:* (r7399, r7410, r7430:7431), bicycle=use_sidepath (r7465)
    • removed presets: natural=land (r7381, r7391)
  • Plugins:
    • openstreetbugs and nearclick plugins are deprecated (r7348, r7424)
    • core changes for better integration of notes plugin (r7358, r7451, r7474)
  • Validator:
    • Check MapCSS assertions in local rules (new option validator.check_assert_local_rules, r7356)
  • Improved performance of multipolygon computation (r7422:7423)
  • WMS: Improved exception handling. Proper message is now displayed on tiles (r7425)
• sub-minor enhancements
  • show undo/redo buffers state in "Command Stack" dialog (r7398)
  • ask for JOSM update in case of crash with old version (r7401, r7407)
  • add last error/warning messages to bug reports (r7420, r7442)
  • Linux: add .desktop and AppData files (r7403:7405)
  • OS X: use native look-and-feel by default (r7480)
• major bugs
  • Incomplete menus on small resolutions (r7452, r7463)
  • Text rendering issues on OS X (r7477:7478)

2014-07-29: Stable release r7347 (14.07)

• minor enhancements
  • New look-and-feel preference to display ​ISO 8601 dates globally (r7299, r7303, r7320)
  • Add colorbar for active GPX layer (r7319, r7323, r7340, r7345)
  • Remote Control:
    • improved certificate handling on Windows for https support (r7335:7338, r7342:7344, r7347)
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • XML style removed (r7330:7331, r7333)
    • new icon for amenity=charging_station (r7292)
    • add 10 shop=* (r7296), refactor shop subcategories (r7317)
    • add landuse=religious (r7311)
    • add highway=turning_loop (r7328, r7334)
• major bugs
  • Remove insecure certificate installed on Windows with previous version if Remote Control was enabled (r7335)

2014-07-04: Stable release r7287 (14.06)

• major changes/enhancements
  • Extrude action: add dual alignment mode (r7216, r7223, r7226, r7232, r7247)
  • Automatic reloading of local map paint styles and validator rules on file change (r7185, r7188:7189, r7275:7276)
  • Automatic update for imagery entries using id (r7186, r7203, r7242)
• minor enhancements
  • Allow setting shortcut for Move Node to Way (r7194)
  • Mac OSX: register JOSM package as .osm files editor (r7231, r7253, r7283, r7287)
  • Remote Control:
    • allow it to work from ​osm.org in https on Windows by installing JOSM certificate (r7206)
    • allow to select objects by a search expression in load_and_zoom/zoom handlers (r7251)
  • MapCSS:
    • add right- and left-hand traffic database, update roundabout icons (new pseudo-class-condition :righthandtraffic, r7193, r7199)
    • add number_of_tags expression to get number of tags, print and println to show debugging output (r7237)
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • use of new leaf_type and leaf_cycle keys in presets, deprecate old wood and type values (r7222, r7229, r7235)
    • add highway=elevator (r7261:7262)
    • better rendering of bridges, tunnels, highways, cycleways, turning circles (r7201:7202, r7241, r7255, r7257, r7259:7260, r7271)

2014-05-27: Stable release r7182 (14.05)

• major changes/enhancements
  • First release compatible only with Java 7 or later (r7001:7006, r7008, r7012, r7015, r7019:7022, r7028, r7030, r7033:7034, r7037, r7060, r7082:7084, r7086, r7089)
  • Code cleanup, drop deprecated features, improve unit tests (r7013:7014, r7016, r7023:7027, r7029, r7038, r7040, r7048:7051, r7063, r7068, r7070, r7075:7077, r7079, r7081, r7085:7088, r7090, r7092, r7095:7097, r7100:7101, r7109, r7117, r7119:7120, r7123, r7127:7128, r7133, r7140:7142, r7150:7151, r7163, r7167)
  • MapCSS:
    • Major performance improvements (r7054:7057, r7059, r7064:7066, r7069, r7073:7074, r7080, r7093, r7099, r7103, r7138)
    • Use MapCSS for the default map style (r7041:7042, r7139)
    • Add support for canvas{fill-color}, deprecate canvas{background-color} (r7110)
    • Add support for alpha info in color property (r7136)
    • Various improvements to default map style (r7044, r7147:7148, r7154:7157, r7159:7161, r7172:7173)
    • Deprecate use of length() for lists, use new function count() instead (r7162)
    • Add function any() according to MapCSS standard, deprecate coalesce() (r7164, r7168)
    • Add functions min() and max() according to standard (r7165, r7170)
    • Make greater-than sign optional in child selectors (r7166)
  • Add a Move Node onto Way action (opposite of Join Node to Way, r7131)
  • Add double-click selection mode (select polygons/multipolygons by a double-click inside, r7144:7146)
  • WMS: Improve support of transparent tiles (r7132, r7134, r7175)
• minor enhancements
  • Extrude mode: new parameter extrude.initial-move-threshold (to tune ignoring small movements, r7009, r7180)
  • Zoom: new parameter zoom_to_selection_min_size_in_meter to set the minimum dimension of the area (in meters) for the "zoom to selection" action (r7053)
  • Support josmdir:// URIs for files inside JOSM config directory (r7058)
  • Presets/Map styles:
    • Add landuse=plant_nursery (r7036), barrier=swing_gate (r7114, r7126)
    • Add new bridge types; drop icons for bridge= on nodes (r7116)
    • Add support for alternative_autocomplete_keys in presets, esp. auto-complete addr:street also from name (r7118)
    • Disable no value for some checkboxes in the preset dialog (r7171)
• sub-minor enhancements
  • Show distance in status line when 2 nodes are selected (r7010)
  • New command line option to enable debug level trace (r7043)
  • Add "call relation editor" to context menu of validator dialog (r7047)
  • Jumping to play head marker when playing next audio (r7094)

2014-04-25: Stable release r7000 (14.04)

• major changes/enhancements
  • Last release compatible with Java 6
• minor enhancements
  • Add Monte Mario Projection (Italy, r6954)
  • Change of system of measurement in map status (r6960)
  • MapCSS: proper @media support (r6970)
  • Add proxy.exceptions advanced parameter (localhost and 127.0.0.1 by default, r6971)
• major bugs
  • Fix encoding for systems not using UTF-8 as default (r6966, r6995)
  • Move Map on Mac OSX with Java 7 (r6988:6989, r6993, r7000)

2014-03-30: Stable release r6950 (14.03)

• major changes/enhancements
  • Enhancement of Align Nodes in Circle, Create Circle and Align Nodes in Line actions (r6892:6894, r6919, r6933:6934, r6942)
  • Access to OSM and JOSM websites in https by default (r6897:6898, r6900, r6905, r6917, r6920, r6946, r6950)
  • Remote control: listen also in https on port 8112 (r6941)
  • Make UI messages copy-able (r6901, r6911, r6925, r6932, r6935, r6944)
  • Ask Mac/Debian/Ubuntu users to update to Java 7 (r6943)
• minor enhancements
  • Add "Add/Edit/Delete" entries to tags/memberships contextual menus (r6939)
  • MapCSS:
    • Add support for @media expressions (r6896)
    • Add CRC32 checksum (r6899, r6908)
  • Validator:
    • Check addresses interpolation range/values (r6927, r6949)
    • Check wrong multiple values (r6928)
  • WMS: filter unsupported image formats, preselect jpeg or png (r6930)

2014-02-28: Stable release r6891 (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 sports 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 (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