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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.

Major enhancements:
- Fix #21533: Native Apple Silicon support (macOS installation files are "universal binaries")
Medium enhancements:
- Fix #23550: Fix an issue when deserializing a PBF blob (patch by giora.kosoi, modified)
Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
- Fix #23604: Fix warning for osmose with building:part and sport
- Fix #9304: Check for intersecting roads on different layers
- Fix #23596: Warn on name=Bâtiment (French for building) on buildings
- Fix #23350: Add amenity=bicycle_wash (patch by mcliquid)
- Fix #23177: Change ref:gnis to gnis:feature_id and add validation rules for tags that were functionally the same
More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.03

Major enhancements:
- Fix #22810: OSM OAuth 1.0a/Basic auth deprecation and removal -- remove OAuth 1.0 from JOSM
- JOSM now requires Java 11 or later to finish startup
Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
- Fix #23361: Add mouth as an optional role for waterway relations (patch by hhtznr)
- Add turning_circle tag (a subkey for highway=turning_circle) (patch by guylamar2006, see https://github.com/JOSM/josm/pull/137)
- Fix #23148: Remove fenced from deprecation warnings (fenced is no longer deprecated as of 2023-06-14)
More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.02

Medium enhancements:
- Fix #23397: Improve the results of partial validations
More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.01

Major enhancements:
- Fix #23227: Use the appropriate Bing layer -- notably, there may be some quality differences, and the imagery may be newer or older than what would be seen on the previously used Bing imagery layer
Medium enhancements:
- Fix #23290: Validate the regions a tag is expected to be in (patch by Sarabjeet108, modified)
Minor enhancements
- Fix #23399: Simplify way crashes by significantly improving the performance of simplifying many ways
Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
- Fix #23302: Create a preference for address duplicate detection to include buildings and POIs (patch by zyphlar, modified)
- Fix #23308: Fix a false positive for "Water area inside water area" validation (patch by gaben, modified)
- Fix #23067: Don't warn on unisex, female, and male tag combinations for shop=hairdresser
- Fix #23339: Improve preset for charging stations (patch by dbrgn)
- Fix #22546: Warn about floating railway switches and crossing (patch by Famlam)
More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 23.12