Changelog

This page provides an user-friendly changelog for the stable releases of JOSM. Its granularity lies between the contents of the StartupPage and the SVN log messages.

• This list contains mainly enhancements and changes.
• Bug fixes are seldom listed here (although a major part of each release are bug fixes). See the link SVN log messages of milestone YY.MM at the end of each chapter to search for fixed bugs.
• Changes of external resources (Presets, Map Paint Styles, Validator Rules, Imageries and Plugins) are not listed here.
• The JOSM related changes noted on ​osm trac are not listed here as well.

2019-02-??: Stable release 148?? (19.02)

• major enhancements
  • new language: Canadian English (en_CA: r14811, r14812)
• medium enhancements
  • add mapcss function gpx_distance() to get the distance to a gpx track (r14802)
• minor enhancements
  • gpx download improvements (r14761, r14762)
  • remember state of minimized docked panels when closing undocked panel (r14765)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • add wiki documented denominations >500 uses (r14767, r14773)
    • don't warn about "customer is not a valid restriction value" (r14767, r14774)
    • add crop=cereal (r14769)
    • fix typo in tidal generator preset: steam -> stream (r14780)
    • warn about place without name, various amenity without name or without operator, mountain_pass and peak without ele (r14798, r14799)
    • allows multiple values in URL validator (r14803)
    • deprecated amenity=sauna (r14804, r14815)
    • complain about shop=yes, except for amenity=fuel (r14805)
    • support rendering of boundary on relation ways for all boundary types not just administrative (r14806)
    • display leisure=track as line only (without fill color) by default. If area=yes is added or if it's a multipolygon, display the fill color. Warn about area=no on multipolygons (error level) (r14808)
    • deprecate natural=waterfall in favor of waterway=waterfall (r14814, r14815)
  • More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 19.02

2019-02-05: Stable release 14760 (19.01)

• major enhancements
  • When unglueing a node from a way, retain the history on the node which gets assigned the tags. (r14653, r14662)
  • Add tab with installation details in "About" popup (r14693, r14701, r14707)
• medium enhancements
  • Improved "Zoom to selection" behavior (r14628, r14734)
  • Allow to save active ValidatorLayer (r14667, r14668)
  • Make auto-resizing Tags table to fit content optional and disabled by default (r14677)
  • Display non default API URL in upload dialog (r14729)
• minor enhancements
  • Imagery Preferences: harmonize cache size units (r14631)
  • Imagery Preferences: collect all cache settings in the same tab (r14632)
  • Detect preset wiki languages automatically (r14646, r14647, r14660, r14664)
  • Status report: exclude file history, Overpass queries (r14671)
  • Add Help buttons to several windows (r14655:14658, r14742:14745)
  • Restore contextual menu of history dialog (r14676)
  • GenericRelationEditor: bind Ctrl+Enter to okay action (r14679)
  • Improve progressMonitor for internal osm (xml) importer (r14688)
  • ChildRelationBrowser: add popup menu (r14713)
  • Remove support for TagChecker configuration files i.e. tagchecker.cfg (r14727)
  • Improve progress bar of history browser (r14756)
  • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
    • Don't sort map_size values in information=map preset (r14621)
    • Add 22000 as a valid voltage value (r14645)
    • Add naming tags for relations: water/waterway/wetland (r14680)
    • Fine tune unknown tags warning (r14696, r14739, r14750, r14751)
    • Add Key:interval to presets (r14711, r14712)
    • Add traffic_calming=dip, sort traffic calming presets more logical like in the wiki (r14714)
    • Add type of zoo (r14715)
    • Validate correct Key:interval syntax (r14728)
    • Remove some false positve validator warnings of attraction=summer_toboggan (r14735)
  • More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 19.01

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2018: Releases from r13266 to r14620
• Changelog/2017: Releases from r11426 to r13265
• Changelog/2016: Releases from r9230 to r11425
• 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.