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. Changes of Plugins are not listed here.

2016-02-??: Stable release r9??? (16.02)

• major enhancements
  • Drag and Drop support for relation editor (r9368, r9369, r9379, r9388)
  • History dialog: show old and new coordinate on map (r9441, r9453)
• medium enhancements
  • Mappaint: Selected nodes are now bigger and filled (r9451)
  • Remember user input when upload dialog is closed (r9462)
  • Preset dialog: display the related key in a tooltip (r9360, r9467)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • add/improve/fix: denomination=spiritist (r9361), barrier=jersey_barrier (r9362), amenity=studio (r9363, r9418), trees (r9364, r9393), location (r9367), "highway link is not linked" test (r9381, r9397), tag checker auto-fixing (r9382), destination in roundabouts (r9386), building=* (r9392), traffic_sign=countrycode:signcode (r9415), shop=tobacco (r9420), seasonal=yes (r9425), power=portal, power=insulator and building=transformer_tower (r9433), power=cable_distribution_cabinet (r9434), natural=cliff (r9456), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), xxxx (r94), deprecate some tags (r9435),
    • New icons for whole power group; big thanks to zermes for providing the new icons! (r9423)
  • Move "Search menu items" to Help menu (r9347, r9389, r9390, r9410)
  • mapcss: basic support for :selected pseudoclass (r9341)
  • Show notification about relations when unglueing (r9387)
  • Conflict resolution: add expert actions "Resolve to my/their versions" in popup menu (only in expert mode) (r9440, r9452)
  • History Dialog: only color code the changed part (r9450)
  • Imagery related improvements (r9340, r9391, r9396, r9414)
  • Projection related additions and improvements (r9333, r9346, r9419, r9431)
  • OAuth improvements (r9350, r9352, r9355, r9356, r9374)
  • Press Tab only once to jump from upload comment field to source field (r9463)
  • More tests for validity of Styles and Presets at Jenkins (r9400)
  • 87 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.02

2016-01-06: Stable release r9329 (16.01)

• major enhancements
  • Fix memory leak from previous tested version (r9298)
• medium enhancements
  • Unglue: ask the user about tags/membership (r9292, r9315)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • add/improve/fix: social_facility (r9285), diaper (r9287), maxspeed:hgv (r9288), culvert (r9294), entrance=staircase (r9302), tourism=wilderness_hut (r9302), tourism fill color (r9302), turn restriction validation (r9236, r9244), power validation (r9321)
    • New icons for whole health group, whole railway group and whole minor ways group; big thanks to zermes for providing the new icons! (r9286, r9306, r9307)
  • Improve display of icons (increase svg icons, square toolbar buttons) (r9251:9253, r9275, r9281)
  • Obtain icons from presets for nodes/relations in selection/relation list/editor (r9265)
  • Improve gpx speed coloring (r9234)
  • Change default color of waypoints and GPS tracks to magenta (r9248)
  • Relation list: re-filter after zooming (r9264)
  • Fix preference file backup system (r9311, r9312)
  • Small OAuth adjustments (r9300, r9301, r9313)
  • Possibility to download from mirror with all download action (r9241, r9242)
  • 71 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.01

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2015: Releases from r7907 to r9229
• Changelog/2014: Releases from r6763 to r7906
• Changelog/2013: Releases from r5697 to r6502
• Changelog/2012: Releases from r4878 to r5608

See also

There is a similar changelog for plugins, which is no longer updated.