Changelog

This portal 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 external resources (Presets, Map Paint Styles, Validator Rules and Plugins) are not listed here.

2016-10-??: Stable release r11??? (16.10)

• major enhancements
  • Evaluate extended Overpass queries bbox, geocodeArea (r11002, r11003)
  • New button to open a note in an external browser (r11030)
• medium enhancements
  • Allow non-default file formats with native file chooser (r11004)
  • Bugfixes related to recent major core changes (list)
  • Enhance and allow customization of tag mapping when converting GPX markers to OSM data (r11089)
  • Grouping and alphabetical ordering in validator tree (r11127, r11132, r11138, r11139, r11146)
• minor enhancements
  • Allow mouse wheel to change visibility slider value (r11055)
  • Warning on reversing ways with direction-dependent nodes (r11061, r11069)
  • Silently drop also converted_by (r11064, r11065)
  • Enhance supported URLs for downloading GPS data (r11073, r11124)
  • Option to draw segment order numbers on selected way (r11090)
  • Changeset manager: allow to download objects from a changeset (r11091)
  • Use restart text and icon in unsaved changes dialog (r11093)
  • Simplify Way Action for first node of closed way (patch by Tyndare,r11118)
  • Open conflict toggle dialog after creating conflict with relation manager (r11120)
  • Activate "Flush tile cache" menu item on ​file:/// TileSources (r11125)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • associatedStreet Relation validation (r10967)
    • Multipolygon role verification (r10981)
    • Coastline validation and performance improvement (patch by gpetermann_muenchen, r10991)
    • More validation of different number of lanes (r10995)
    • building=ruins and natural=shingle (r10996, r11034)
    • aeroway=holding_position (r11005)
    • ford=stepping_stones, new ford icon and improved ford dashes (r11010)
    • emergency_telephone_code for highway=emergency_access_point (r11025)
    • golf=bunker natural=beach combination validation (r11047)
    • Raise too large building and restriction or route on a node to error level (r11049)
    • Improve "waterway=weir together with bridge=yes" warning (r11074)
    • Warn about housenames looking like housenumbers and same values of both (r11075, r11077)
    • Don't set bicycle=yes by default for barrier=stile|turn_stile|kissing_gate (r11076)
    • Add warning about possibly missing building tag (info level) (r11080)
    • "Missing name:* translation" test: ignore name:etymology:wikidata (r11131)
    • Allow leisure=horse_riding as physical feature for sport=* (r11133)
    • Print the key with the uncommon character (r11133)
    • leisure=slipway node should be connected to a way (r11133)
    • lanes preset (r11133)
    • Detect all self-intersecting ways (patch by Gerd Petermann, r11136)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.10

2016-09-05: Stable release r10966 (16.08)

• major enhancements
  • Rework of core code (a lot by michael2402 as part of GSoC 2016: list)
  • New function "Download in current view" in File menu (r10816, r10848)
  • Paste object URLs from osm.org to download objects (r10881)
  • Support multiple projections (r10805)
• medium enhancements
  • Preset/Mappaint icon improvements: optimized and replaced png by svg for better view at standard and hidpi screens (r10808, r10810, r10813:10815, r10822, r10823, r10825, r10849, r10854, r10918)
  • Improve bug reports (r10796, r10819, r10868, r10902, r10929, r10933)
  • Support of multiple projections (r10805)
  • Load plugins from list (r10811)
  • Adjust GeoJSON export (r10817, r10852)
• minor enhancements
  • Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Add/improve/fix: landuse=aquaculture (r10798, r10799), leisure=beach_resort (r10822), water, basin and reservoir (r10860), piste mappaint (r10896), shop=pastry (r10897), deprecate shop=souvenir, update vending values, remove mappaint of highway=ford and shop=car_dealer (r10911), highway=ford (r10916), "Duplicate Node" test (r10924)
  • Fix search for incomplete relations (r10792)
  • Update user and timestamp of OSM objects after upload (r10818)
  • Improve handling of user names that have changed (r10841)
  • If an icon is rotated then the selection box is now rotated as well (r10842)
  • Fix display of imagery on low zoom and near 180° meridian (r10805, r10964)
  • Hatched texture (not downloaded area) now stays in place relative to map (r10806)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.08

2016-08-12: Stable release r10786 (16.07)

• major enhancements
  • Switch to Java 8 with code improvements (#11390)
  • Big rework of core code (a lot by michael2402 as part of GSoC 2016: list)
  • New function "Paste at source position" (r10766)
  • Support geo: URLs (r10630, r10635)
• medium enhancements
  • Preset/Mappaint icon improvements: optimized and replaced png by svg for better sharpness at standard and hidpi screens (r10565, r10566, r10573:10575, r10579, r10706, r10707, r10709, r10724, r10725, r10750, r10751, r10767)
  • Improve bug reports (r10585, r10649, r10659, r10720, r10734, r10777)
  • Improve performance of multipolygon validation, unconnected ways validation and relation sorting (r10683, r10684, r10700, r10776 patches by gpetermann_muenchen)
  • Group MapCSS tag checker tests (r10710)
  • "Select all" and "Search" now respects filters (r10711)
• minor enhancements
  • Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Add/improve/fix: "Crossing waterways" warning (r10528), "Unconnected waterway or wrong way flow" warning (r10530), "oneway with :forward/:backward" warning (r10535), gender in hairdresser preset and related validation (r10537), "water without natural=water" and landuse=pond warnings (r10538), leisure=fitness_centre (r10539, r10551), railway=funicular and vending=milk (r10540), government=* (r10544), opening_hours validation (r10550), natural=reef (r10676, r10707, r10709, r10724), craft=roofer icon (r10727), voltage values (r10770), postal_code (r10771)
  • Copy from the object history view (r10637)
  • Imagery cache improvements (r10534, r10536, r10545, r10558, r10562, r10652)
  • Don't duplicate layer names in the changeset source (r10669)
  • Counting the occurence of tags as base for prospective tag statistics (r10736)
  • Pressing enter in the wizard box creates the overpass query (r10782)
  • Set encoding of remote control error pages to UTF-8 and HTML-escape the localized messages (r10587 patch by floscher)
  • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.07

2016-07-12: Stable release r10526 (16.06)

• major enhancements
  • Last Java 7 version
  • Big rework of core code mainly by michael2402 as part of GSoC 2016 (r10332, r10340, r10342:10346, r10352:10355, r10363, r10364, r10367, r10371:10375, r10382, r10384, r10386, r10391, r10412, r10413, r10424, r10431, r10432, r10436, r10438, r10457, r10458, r10474:10476, r10465:10467, r10478:10484, r10486, r10487, r10490, r10491, r10494:10496, r10504, r10507, r10508, r10510, r10513, r10525)
  • Improve GUI for HiDPI screens mainly by strump (still work in progress) (r10356:10359, r10369, r10392, r10428, r10440:10447, r10452:10254)
• minor enhancements
  • Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Add/improve/fix: islet/island size warning (r10328), shop=organic warning (r10329), amenity=charging_station preset (r10330), amenity=ferry_terminal node connected to a highway (r10349), oneway warning (r10350), remove "openGeoDB:..." mappaint (r10351), cables, circuits and capacity presets and warnings (r10361), descriptions of tracktype values (r10366), natural=cave warning (r10376), long waterways with negative layer warning (r10388, r10419), Coastline inside water warning (r10389), intermittent-dashes for natural=water and waterway=riverbank multipolygons (r10419), unconnected waterway warning (r10422, r10427), public transport mappaint style and presets (r10429, r10439, r10449, r10450, r10501, r10502), icons in preset combos of entrance, crossing and shelter_type (r10437, r10500), deprecate name:botanical (r10451), remove empty node icons in mapview for barrier=fence|portcullis|drawbridge (r10451), location:transition instead of tower=transition and pole=transition (r10511, r10518), remove highway=crossing crossing=no combination (r10522)
  • 97 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 16.06

2016-06-05: Stable release r10327 (hotfix)

• major enhancements
  • Fix crash when exiting JOSM (r10325)
  • Fix crash when starting JOSM with Java 9 (r10322)
  • Fix problems with imagery cache (r10323)
• minor enhancements
  • Update surface values in presets (r10319)
  • Update route relation presets and fix missing relation type validator warning (r10320)
  • 21 more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages

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
  • Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • 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)
  • 86 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.