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.

2015-02-22: Stable release r80XX (15.02)

• major enhancements
  • Font support on Windows - now displays the following scripts:
    • Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana (Win XP and later)
    • Ethiopic, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Oriya, Sinhala, Tibetan (Win Vista and later)
    • Burmese (Win 8)
    and a few more (r8006, r8014, r8015)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • improve: tourism=information (r7996), generator:source=geothermal (r7997), cinema (r7998), natural=rock (r8003), description (r8004), *=unknown (r8008, r8023), boundary (r8009, r8010), ramp, handrail (r8011), traffic_sign (r8012), wheelchair (r8013), historic=wayside_cross, historic=wayside_shrine (r8016), amenity=bicycle_repair_station (r8019), aeroway=parking_position (r8021), pole=transition, tower=transition (r8022), amenity=ranger_station (r8025), contact and address preset links (r8026), shop=hearing_aids (r8027), smoothness (r8028, r8039), barrier (r8040), highway=footway + cycleway=lane (r8042, r8046), addr:*=* together with highway, place or boundary (r8043, r8049), highway=footway + oneway=no (r8044), Style for inner way equals multipolygon (r8045), new turn restriction icon set, go back to old set via style settings (r8050), access preset link (r8052, r8055), shop=medical_supply (r8053), incomplete objects (r8054), parking, smoothness, intermittent (r8057), amenity=parking_space (r8058)

2015-02-01: Stable release r7995 (15.01)

• major enhancements
  • Show photo direction arrow for thumbnail (r7912)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • complete review across the whole preset menu, to make icons and supported geometries of preset/mappaint/validator/wiki more consistent
      • add to preset note, fixme and description (r7910), construction (r7926), bicycle_repair_station (r7928), highway=escape (r7979), brand=Eni,Socar (r7994)
      • fix validator for motorcycle_parking (r7919), sport withbuilding (r7922), aeroway=terminal (r7923), conifer (r7924), natural=peak + sport=climbing (r7925), place_of_worship without religion (r7929), noname=yes (r7932), multipolygons and boundaries (r7941), levels (r7969), unnamed roundabout (r7981)
      • fix aerialway (r7915), route (r7917, r7965, r7971, r7974), facilities (r7927), place (r7941, r7976, r7984, r7985), natural (r7942), associated street relations (r7947), shop (r7950, r7953), man_made, historic and bridge (r7960), power (r7967), highway=traffic_signal + crossing=no (r7968), farm_auxiliary, barn and farm (r7970), protect_class (r7972, r7973), water (r7975), transport (r7977, r7978), pharmacy (r7993)
  • Size check for source comments (r7995)
  • Proper selection state in selection dialog (r7949)
  • Usability for history dialog (r7933)
  • Regression and exception fixes

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2014: Releases from r6763 to r7906
• Changelog/2013: Releases from r5697 to r6502
• Changelog/2012: Releases from r4878 to r5608