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.

2016-05-30: Stable release r10301 (16.05)

• major enhancements
  • Big rework of core code regarding i.a. layer management by michael2402 as part of GSoC 2016 (r10271, r10273, r10274, r10277:10279, r10281:10283, r10286:10289)
  • Possibility to add validator tests with a plugin (based on patch by darya) as part of GSoC 2016 (r10297)
• medium enhancements
  • Better Java 9 compatibility (r10178, r10208:10210, r10257:10260, r10262, r10264, r10265, r10267, r10269, r10270, r10276, r10289)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • Add/improve/fix: adjust zoom dependend font size (r10177), ignore splitted roundabouts in roundabout validation test (r10204), warn about service=yes and warn about service=drive_through (replace by drive-through) (r10229), warn about uncommon values of key service (r10230, r10249), don't warn about a amenity=car_wash node connected to a way (r10231), warn about "Unconnected waterway or wrong way flow" (r10232, r10251), add tactile_paving combo to more presets (r10233), don't warn about highway=services|rest_area + addr:postcode (r10272), don't warn about leisure=slipway connected to highways (r10272), warn about leisure=yes (r10272)
  • Adapt GPX color scale bar to system of measurement for velocity (r10175, r10186)
  • Make width of field showing name of object under cursor dynamic to display more text (r10191)
  • New cursor icons for Parallel Way Action (r10220)
  • Improved Bug reports (r10226, r10285)
  • Unbind Z shortcut from "Zoom mode" and make it visible in expert mode only (r10241)
  • 85 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.05

2016-05-03: Stable release r10168 (16.04)

• major enhancements
  • New layer filters (opacity/colorfulness/gamma/sharpness) (r10011, r10012, r10142, r10148)
• medium enhancements
  • Better Java 9 compatibility (r10048, r10049, r10052, r10056:10061, r10064, r10065)
  • Improved Bug reports (r10055, r10062, r10063, r10067, r10138, r10158, r10163 thanks to michael2402 for providing this and other patches)
  • New nicer map slider (r10078)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • add/improve/fix: warning for too large buildings (r9985), Warn about note=fixme|Fixme|FIXME (r10004), leisure=bird_hide (r10005), display name and ref at highway=motorway_junction (r10015), replace exit_to by destination and destination:ref (r10017), wetland=wet_meadow,string_bog,saltern (r10022), validator warning for pois connected to a highway (r10026, r10030, r10037, r10071 thanks to naoliv for providing this and other patches), deprecate type=noise_barrier in favor of wall=noise_barrier, validator warning for connecting nodes between power lines and non-related features (r10028), public transport validation (r10036), remove smoothness warning for amenity=bicycle_parking (r10068), disable long segment validator warning for ferry ways (r10080), address interpolation validation (r10084), add route=horse (r10086, r10090), display rails with service=spur|yard|siding|crossover with shorter dashes (r10091), change access=public to access=yes in presets (r10094), deprecate amenity=public_building add building=public (r10095, r10096), change vending=news_papers to =newspapers and =SIM-cards to =SIM_cards (r10100), display waterway=* and natural=water with intermittent=yes as dashed line (r10110), add a preset link to the "Building" Preset to some amenities/leisures (r10111), add operator to recycling container preset (r10119), remove icon for highway=incline and highway=incline_steep (r10120), add height to waterfall preset (r10128), Validate that stop position lies on public transport route (r10141), sport warning (r10146)
  • Make filled area of validation layer transparent (r10009)
  • Sort members of new multipolygons (r10010)
  • Increase display time for styles and presets tooltips (r10024)
  • Ability to copy coordinates from History dialog (r10053)
  • Include root certificates to support TLS connections to servers signed by StartSSL and Let's Encrypt (r9995, r10083)
  • Allow shorter changeset comments before showing a warning message when comment contains Chinese characters (r10097)
  • 128 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.04

2016-03-13: Stable release r9979 (hotfix)

• major enhancements
  • (final) fix unexpected reversions of modified objects by downloading area again (r9979)
• medium enhancements
  • drop XML mappaint support (r9965)
• minor enhancements
  • 14 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages

2016-03-11: Stable release r9963 (hotfix)

• major enhancements
  • fix OAuth-Problems (r9904, r9913, r9960)
  • (incomplete) fix unexpected reversions of modified objects by downloading area again (r9961)
• medium enhancements
  • Orthogonalize objects based on selected nodes (r9925, r9928)
  • Allow to ignore keys/tags from recent tags (r9940)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • add/improve/fix/remove: substation validation (r9903), group similar validation results (r9921, r9922), public transport route member validation (r9931:9933, r9936:9938)
  • Compute multipolygon area (r9950:9952)
  • 45 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages

2016-02-28: Stable release r9900 (16.02)

• major enhancements
  • Drag and Drop support for relation editor (r9368, r9369, r9379, r9388, r9711, r9891)
  • History dialog: show old and new coordinate on map (r9441, r9453, r9483)
  • Extended projection support (#12186, r9333, r9346, r9419, r9431, r9532, r9549, r9558:9560, r9565, r9567, r9568, r9577:9581, r9597, r9598, r9600, r9608, r9609, r9612, r9630, r9636, r9735, r9790, r9796, r9806, r9809, r9844)
  • New button to refresh relation in relation editor (r9657, r9665, r9666, r9669); thanks to kolesar for providing this and a lot other nice patches!
  • Automatic snap zoom to default resolution of background (r9818, r9820, r9825, r9830, r9840)
• 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)
  • New arrow on edit relation button lists recent relations (r9668, r9700, r9705, r9722)
  • Imagery related improvements (r9340, r9391, r9396, r9414, r9610, r9613, r9617, r9619, r9620, r9628, r9642, r9664, r9682, r9731, r9755, r9756, r9768, r9807, r9826, r9860, r9864, r9887:9889, r9897, r9899)
• minor enhancements
  • Presets/Map styles/Validator:
    • add/improve/fix/remove: denomination=spiritist (r9361, r9729), 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,insulator and building=transformer_tower (r9433), power=cable_distribution_cabinet (r9434), natural=cliff (r9456), power=* (r9494, r9495, r9500, r9895), emergency group and new items emergency=ambulance_station,fire_hose,water_tank,emergency=assembly_point,siren (r9523), waterway=canal,ditch,wadi (r9538, r9552), Validate correct traffic flow at roundabouts (r9540), unnecessary motor_vehicle=yes warning (r9541), shop=cosmetics,perfumery (r9550), sport=* (r9561), cycleway:left/right=shared_lane (r9566), man_made=crane (r9589), amenity=swimming_pool (r9593), golf (icons by tumsi)(r9640, r9641, r9650, r9654), location:transition=yes (r9643), amenity=ice_cream (r9651), amenity=water_point (r9651), cuisine (r9652), craft (r9681, r9892), office area style (r9681), leisure=swimming_pool (r9690), shop=houseware (r9718), incline (r9723), traffic_calming (r9724), man_made=silo (r9725), maxheight=default|none (r9736), building:levels (r9737), multiple spaces in tag values (r9744), leisure=park (r9745), keys ending with a number (r9747, r9836), usage (r9794), "style for outer way mismatches polygon" warning (r9834), sport=ice_skatingsport=roller_skating (r9835), "lit on suspicious object" warning (r9837), missing/wrong railway=crossing|level_crossing validator warning (r9839), validate size of islands/islets (r9843), leisure=fitness_station (r9851), route=foot (r9852), Group opening hours tests (r9886), xxxx (r99), deprecated tags validator warnings (r9551), multipolygon validation (r9553, r9582:9584, r9900), untagged nodes outside of downloaded area (r9604), allow closedway for some more highway presets (r9554), deprecate some tags (r9435)
    • New icons for whole power group, water items and waypoint items; thanks to zermes for providing the new icons! (r9423, r9506, r9513, r9550)
  • Move "Search menu items" to Help menu (r9347, r9389, r9390, r9410)
  • MapCSS: basic support for :selected pseudoclass (r9341)
  • MapCSS: character classes in regexp: \p{...} (r9857)
  • New preset type "multipolygon" (r9574, r9587, r9588, r9615, r9632, r9638)
  • Show notification about relations when unglueing (r9387)
  • Conflict Dialog: add user and changeset (r9468)
  • Conflict resolution: add actions "Resolve to my/their versions" in popup menu (only in expert mode) (r9440, r9452, r9482)
  • History Dialog: indicate the number of changeset comments (r9526)
  • History Dialog: only color code the changed part (r9450)
  • Allow to stop downloading GPS data and keep the downloaded part (r9509)
  • Upload dialog: allow select another user open changeset (r9519)
  • Changeset manager: allow to download objects from a changeset (r9521)
  • Default filename when saving layer (r9670)
  • OAuth improvements (r9350, r9352, r9355, r9356, r9374)
  • Improvements to dialog to set number of recently added tags (r9683)
  • Options to updated and hide items from list of recently added tags (r9743)
  • Improvements to Gpx/image correlation (r9726, r9727, r9739:9742)
  • Fix sorting when copying/pasting relation members (r9710)
  • Extend Save Layers dialog for more layer types; thanks to holgermappt for providing this patch! (r9751)
  • Advanced preferences: display default entries consistently (r9821)
  • Option to reverse zoom with mouse wheel (r9824)
  • Press Tab only once to jump from upload comment field to source field (r9463)
  • Choose color with double-click in color preferences (r9686)
  • Allow copying note text from toggle dialog (r9858)
  • Allow to increase decimal places in statusbar (r9862, r9863, r9885)
  • More tests for validity of Styles and Presets at Jenkins. Check for errors if you make changes to your styles/presets, which are integrated in JOSM. (r9400)
  • Comparison between ​​GitHub project Editor Imagery Index and JOSM imagery lists (r9340, r9505, r9515, r9516, r9518, r9653, r9658, r9662)
  • 362 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

• JOSM related changes in the ​osm svn
• There is a similar changelog for plugins, which is no longer updated.