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  1. 2017-12-31: Stable release 13265 (17.12)
  2. 2017-11-26: Stable release 13170 (17.11)
  3. 2017-10-29: Stable release 13053 (17.10)
  4. 2017-10-03: Stable release 12921 (17.09)
  5. 2017-09-02: Stable release 12712 (17.08)
  6. 2017-07-30: Stable release 12545 (17.07)
  7. 2017-07-02: Stable release 12450 (17.06)
  8. 2017-05-29: Stable release 12275 (17.05)
  9. 2017-05-02: Stable release 12039 (17.04)
  10. 2017-04-02: Stable release 11826 (17.03)
  11. 2017-02-27: Stable release 11639 (17.02)
  12. 2017-02-02: Stable release 11526 (hotfix)
  13. 2017-01-30: Stable release 11514 (17.01)
  14. Older stable releases
  15. See also

Changelog 2017

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

  • This list contains mainly only enhancements and changes.
  • Bug fixes are mostly not listed here (although a major part of the changes of each release cycle are bug fixes). See the link to the SVN log messages 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.
  • There are also JOSM related changes in the ​osm trac which are not listed here as well.

2017-12-31: Stable release 13265 (17.12)

  • major enhancements
    • Remove a lot of deprecated code (#15310)
    • Export route relation to GPX file or convert to a new GPX layer (r13210)
    • Display tile URL as clickable link in "show tile info" + add expert menu entries "Get tile status" (/status) and "Force tile rendering" (/dirty) for tiles from *.tile.openstreetmap.org (r13214)
  • medium enhancements
    • Fix major autocompletion bug (r13190)
  • minor enhancements
    • Relation editor: handle double click in child and referring browsers the same way (r13171)
    • Geo image loading: do ram constraint checking; do not use bilinear scaling when image is dragged (r13191)
    • New property upload.changeset.hashtags to disable automatic changeset hashtags (r13198)
    • Display "Abstract" field of WMS layers (r13199)
    • Remote Control: add new keyword currentselection for parameter select in LoadAndZoomHandler (r13212)
    • Keep order of tags added by 'addtags=' query parameter (13258)
    • Make columns in AddTagsDialog sortable (r13259)
    • Do not filter selected way nodes in draw mode (r13229)
    • Parse error message sent by Tomcat in case of WMS tile loading error (r13230)
    • Remember confirmations of command actions (r13241)
    • Open Location: new expert combobox to choose whether to zoom on downloaded data (like in download dialog)(r13261)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Add direction help image to viewpoint preset (r13183)
      • Add waste combo to waste presets (r13184)
      • Warn about turn restrictions on ways (r13217)
      • Don't display building=1 and building=y and add a warning with autofix for them (r13218)
      • Limit display of cycleway=opposite to ways with oneway=* except oneway=no (r13255)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.12

2017-11-26: Stable release 13170 (17.11)

  • major enhancements
  • medium enhancements
    • Support changeset hashtags: hashtags changeset tag, extracted from comment at upload, or set by remote control through new changeset_hashtags parameter (r13109)
    • Autosave note layer (r13114)
    • Make geoimage feature more configurable through prefs: adjustable max zoom, zoom-step, click zooming with mouse buttons (e.g. if a mouse wheel is not present) (r13127)
  • minor enhancements
    • Correlate GPX with image: fix incorrect drop-down list initialization after using "try again" button + smarter selection of initial GPX track (r13056)
    • ImageEntry: Copy isNewGpsData in applyTmp() (r13060)
    • Use HTTPS to communicate with OSM dev servers (r13098)
    • Trace request body for HTTP POST, PUT and DELETE (r13099)
    • Add new property wmts.capabilities.cache.max_age to configure the delay after which WMTS capabilities are considered stale (r13119)
    • Highlight menu items search results (r13134)
    • Display length of way in status bar even without selection panel (r13141)
    • Remove coordinates from nodes in validator and selection dialogs by default (r13142)
    • Update coordinates in status bar when the map is moved with the keyboard (r13143, r13154)
    • Don't suggest to upload/save "modified" layers with 0 objects (r13161)
    • Display UTM zone in node info panel (r13167)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Warn about unconnected highway=milestone and railway=milestone (r13074)
      • Suggest to remove payment:cash if tagged together with payment:coins and payment:notes at one object (r13075)
      • Add a few cuisine values (r13081)
      • Draw administrative boundaries only if boundary=administrative is tagged; add a warning for usage on nodes (r13083)
      • Warn about boundary=administrative without admin_level (r13084)
      • Improve Campsite preset (r13085)
      • Warn about bare tourism=attraction (r13086)
      • Make kerb spikes in mappaint style smaller (r13091)
      • Add parent_osm_id for mapcss (r13094)
      • Limit male/female/unisex test to hairdressers (r13102)
      • Improve mappaint by layering highways (r13125)
      • Don't warn about unclosed natural=gully (r13138)
      • Don't warn about overlapping ways for abandoned buildings (r13153)
      • Don't set foot=yes and bicycle=yes by default on nodal barriers (r13155)
      • Make coastline a bit more visible (r13156)
      • Add direction combo box to viewpoint preset (r13163)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.11

2017-10-29: Stable release 13053 (17.10)

  • major enhancements
    • Display already downloaded areas in the download window and at the minimap and improve the layer chooser button (r12927, r12955)
    • Add button that selects the relation from the relation editor (r12933)
  • medium enhancements
    • Add advanced option to scale the menu font (gui.scale.menu.font) (r12923)
    • Display modified colors in the preferences bold (r12953)
    • Allow plugins to modify the changeset tags before upload (r13028)
    • Antialiased text and better resize quality when viewing photos (r13038)
    • Include WhoDidIt in changeset history (r13041)
    • Allow both dot and comma decimal separator everywhere possible for user-entered values (r13050)
  • minor enhancements
    • Let Overpass Query Wizard show newest entry instead of oldest (r12977)
    • Include imagery_offset_database in default plugins embedded by Windows installer (r12979, r13054:13055)
    • Display SubSeconds on picture's information overlay (r13042)
    • Remember position of "Adjust Imagery Offset" dialog (r13047)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Adapt title of preset dialog when "create relation" is the only choice (r12926)
      • Don't overwrite street_cabinet values by validator auto fix (r12930)
      • Override digit group separator to be consistent across languages with ISO 80000-1 (r12931)
      • Improve power=switch preset (r12934)
      • Warn about self-intersecting rings formed by multiple ways (r12941)
      • Add fuel:adblue (Diesel Exhaust Fluid: AdBlue/AUS32) to amenity=fuel preset (r12956, r13006)
      • Review use of min_age/max_age on presets (r12957)
      • Relation checker: Do not raise an error for incomplete ways for which we expect them to be closed, as we cannot know (r12976)
      • Overlapping areas test takes layer tag into account (r12986)
      • Add light_rail stop position (r12991)
      • Add cemetery=grave and historic=tomb (r12993, r13052)
      • Add "pole with switch" preset + new power icon & new validation rules (r12997, r13000)
      • Add place=quarter (r12998)
      • Fine tune some validator rules (r13005)
      • Don't warn about tourism nodes on way end nodes (r13006)
      • Add landuse=salt_pond (r13008)
      • Support conditional syntax for turn restrictions (r13017)
      • Allow man_made=bridge bridge:structure=* combination (r13026)
      • Improve layer validator messages (r13027)
      • Remove false validator warning for special maxspeed and maxspeed:direction combinations (r13032)
      • Include meters as a valid unit for distance (r13035)
      • Better link for Combined and Segregated Foot- and Cycleways (r13045)
      • Update old power validation rule (r13049)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.10

2017-10-03: Stable release 12921 (17.09)

First 12914 was released as stable version, then due to two major bugs 12921 was released as a hotfix for this milestone.

  • major enhancements
    • Add links to external changeset viewers to the History and Changeset windows (r12871, r12888)
    • Allow users to request feedback when uploading by adding the review_requested=yes changeset tag (r12719)
    • Automatically use a proper node count when creating circles depending on the diameter (r12837, r12879)
    • Extend command line interface: commands (#15273)
  • medium enhancements
    • Support Overpass Turbo extended shortcuts: {{center}}, {{date:string}}, {{geocodeId:name}}, {{geocodeBbox:name}}, {{geocodeCoords:name}} (r12714)
    • Fix blurry GUI-icons and map view for Java 9 HiDPI mode (r12722, r12723)
  • minor enhancements
    • Support for compiling without JavaFX (r12715, r12774)
    • Refactoring for possible future modularization (e.g. standalone validator, #15182, #15229)
    • Support URLs with other protocol than http or https for plugin sites (r12794)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Update bay description (r12768)
      • Add sidewalk=separate (r12771)
      • Warn when route=bicycle relation uses bicycle=use_sidepath ways (r12773)
      • Warn about some highway tags used on ways instead of nodes (r12775)
      • Don't warn about street name contains ss for "strasser" (r12815)
      • Limit roundabout validation test to waynodes all in downloaded area (r12864)
      • Avoid false positive missing railway crossing warnig for combined railway highway ways (r12895)
      • Demote "Area style on outer way" valdiator test from Error to Warning level (r12905)
      • Add crop=grape to vineyard preset (r12915)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.09

2017-09-02: Stable release 12712 (17.08)

  • major enhancements
  • medium enhancements
    • Add possibility to add more download sources to the Download window (r12652:12655, r12706)
    • Refacturing for possible future modularization (e.g. standalone validator, #15182)
  • minor enhancements
    • Add support for xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xxZ date format for ArcGIS-exported osm data (r12589)
    • Save raster-image filter settings (color Saturation, Brightness, Sharpness) in session files (r12594)
    • Save imagery layer zoom level in session file (r12604)
    • Increase home location zoom level to 15 to allow direct download in urban areas (r12606)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Warn if ferry route way is not properly connected (r12572)
      • Don't warn about bridge and tunnel on ferry routes (r12572)
      • Don't warn about unknown noref=yes (r12572)
      • Warn for objects at null island (except the weather buoy, r12572)
      • Don't warn about unknown amenity=childcare (r12572)
      • Don't warn about missing railway=crossing|level_crossing for questionable cases e.g. when the highway changes from residential to footway at the railway crossing node (r12595).
      • Add industrial=* combo to landuse=industrial preset (r12611)
      • Add shop=charity (r12612)
      • Add social_facility=nursing_home (r12613)
      • Paint building=roof and building=* + wall=no a bit lighter like building:part=* (r12616)
      • Don't warn about missing bridge=movable when man_made=bridge is present at bridge:movable (r12677)
      • Don't warn when bridge or tunnel is used in combination with man_made=goods_conveyor (r12704)
      • Warning about highway=motorway_junction on ways (r12708)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.08

2017-07-30: Stable release 12545 (17.07)

First 12542 was released as stable version, then due to a major validator bug 12545 was released as a hotfix for this milestone.

  • major enhancements
    • Adjust the search dialog to allow to search for tags that use a preset. (Patch by bafonins, r12464)
    • Add "home location" bookmark (if set in OSM user settings) + last 15 changesets bookmarks (r12495)
  • minor enhancements
    • Support WMS endpoint in Imagery -> Rectified Image (r12469)
    • Add provinces of China and India to internal boundaries database (patch by westnordost, r12484)
    • Remember projection choice sub-preferences (e.g. last selected UTM zone) across sessions (not just when changing the default projection) (r12485)
    • Remember projection when session is saved to a .jos/.joz file (r12486)
    • Make shortcuts using up/down/left/right arrows reassignable (r12497)
    • Add new at(lat,lon) MapCSS selector function (r12514)
    • New API to manipulate primitives id counter (r12536)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Ignore source:proposed:lanes tag in lanes test (r12461)
      • Allow maxspeed on aerialway=zip_line (r12473)
      • Allow ranges in direction key (r12493)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.07

2017-07-02: Stable release 12450 (17.06)

First 12443 was released as stable version, then due to a major rendering bug of dashed lines 12450 was released as a hotfix for this milestone.

  • major enhancements
  • medium enhancements
    • The projection automatically resets to the default mercator projection after a restart. The default projection can be changed in the projection settings with the new "Set as default" button (expert mode only). (r12306)
    • Add support for NMEA files containing GLONASS, Galileo or Beidu data (r12421)
  • minor enhancements
    • Improve the layout of the search dialog (patch by bafonins, r12333, r12344, r12345)
    • CombineWayAction: Allow merging ways that are not in the current edit data set (r12356)
    • geojson export: use Polygon only for closed ways (r12439)
    • Add support import *.jpeg images (r12286)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • "Similarly named ways" test: detect accent and case variations for strings of same length (r12283)
      • Allow addr:neighbourhood as assignment additional to addr:street and addr:place (r12311)
      • Improve roundabout/links validator test (r12312)
      • Add service=* multiselect for shop=car_repair preset (r12324)
      • Add genus/species/taxon to natural=tree_row preset (r12325)
      • Sort craft presets: food group, apartment/house group, other "soft"/art craft group, other "hard" craft group (r12404)
      • Warn if object is tagged with access only (r12416)
      • Add airmark=beacon and ​aeroway=navigationaid and improve icon of ​man_made=beacon (r12417)
      • Improve highway=road warning message (r12418)
      • Refine internal database of national borders (patch by Tobias Zwick, #14833)
      • Add entrance=home (r12436)
      • Use man_made=surveillance only on nodes (r12440)
      • Add man_made=cross (r12446)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.06

2017-05-29: Stable release 12275 (17.05)

  • medium enhancements
    • Handling imagery offsets when reprojecting (r12084, r12085, r12093)
    • Download dialog also supports URL containing .../#zoom/lat/lon (r12090)
    • Don't draw direction arrows on short selection segments (r12154, r12185)
    • Ask Windows/macOS users to update their version of Java when it expires (i.e when the built-in JRE expiration date is passed, about 4 months after release, 1 month after Java should have asked to update by itself). (r12219, r12238)
  • minor enhancements
    • Fix an old bug where points in the wrong layer may be moved (r12053)
    • Improve layout of conflict dialog (r12043, r12044, r12046, r12047)
    • Relation editor: Make button tool bars scroll if the window is too small to show all of them. (r12080)
    • Allow to override toolbar image and toolbar name for presets (r12142)
    • Make Imagery offset work in WGS 84 (r12149)
    • Support WMTS Dimensions (r12224)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Add shop=cheese (r12083)
      • Avoid false positive connection warning with building=no (r12089)
      • Don't warn for missing ref if explizit noref=yes is set (r12194)
      • Don't warn that amenity=weighbridge is connected to a highway (r12201)
      • Test for proper "ele" values (patch by naoliv, r12215)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.05

2017-05-02: Stable release 12039 (17.04)

  • major enhancements
    • Support reprojection (warping) of imagery layer which allows to combine sources with different projections (#7427)
  • medium enhancements
    • Add support for multiple Overpass API output formats (r11916)
    • Add support for variable role names in preset/validator using regexp (level_0, level_1, ...) (r11989)
  • minor enhancements
    • Drop StartCom certificate (r11903)
    • Add a link to the wiki in imagery preferences (r11959)
    • Allow to minimize/maximize the help window (r12004)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Improve MultipolygonTest (r11837)
      • Add leisure and amenity to multipolygon naming (r11900)
      • Drop support of deprecated outer-way-style multipolygons (r11908, r12026)
      • Allow advertising=column as area (r11976)
      • Add self_service to car wash (r11976)
      • Make memorial values searchable (r11979)
      • Limit class warning to ways (r11985)
      • Add type=building relation (r11989)
      • Add a warning about potentially erroneous movement of existing nodes (r12032, r12037)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.04

2017-04-02: Stable release 11826 (17.03)

  • major enhancements
    • Completely prevent the upload of a layer with "upload=never" in the osm file (r11709)
    • Add (expert) option to not zoom to the new downloaded data (r11658, r11743, r11774, r11784)
  • medium enhancements
  • minor enhancements
    • Installation via snapcraft (r11794, r11823)
    • Sort by default in order [relations, ways, nodes] in selection dialog (r11680)
    • Add dates to imagery entries
    • WMTS: make it possible to switch between 2 supported projections (r11788:11790)
    • WMTS: don't show layer selection dialog if there is only one layer with one tile matrix set that matches the current projection (r11791)
    • WMTS: show layer title, not layer identifier in layer selection dialog (r11792)
    • WMTS: add mimetypes jpgpng and png8 (used by ESRI and geoserver) (r11798, r11824)
    • Fine tune preselection in Add Tag window for partial datasets (r11804)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Allow negative .5 increments in level tag (r11640)
      • New lottery icon (patch by naoliv, r11663)
      • Don't raise warning "water without natural=water" for natural=strait and natural=bay, remove autofix (r11687)
      • Do not hack default opacity into fill-color property. Use a fill-opacity default of ~.2 instead, so that style authors can overwrite it more easily and the behaviour is more predictable. (r11700)
      • Allow leisure=fitness_centre as physical feature for sport tags (r11732)
      • Add building attached to road as a validation warning (r11736)
      • Restrict "Coastline inside water" test to closed ways (r11744)
      • Improve Wikipedia tag validators (patch by nyurik, r11756, r11771, r11800)
      • Increase important multipolygon problems to error level, better separate output of boundary and multipolygon (r11782)
      • Remove some useless validator warnings regarding unknown relation types (r11783)
      • Add site_type=tumulus,megalith,fortification,settlement,necropolis,city values to historic=archaeological_site preset (r11787)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.03

2017-02-27: Stable release 11639 (17.02)

  • major enhancements
    • Improve gps heatmap mode: add point cloud mode, overlay gain adjustment, limitation of visibility and two more color schemas (r11566 patch by kidelo)
    • Allow to select mirror servers of layers in the imagery preferences (r11570)
  • medium enhancements
    • Automatically remove imagery entries in the users list, which are no longer available in the wiki source (r11527, r11528)
    • Improve Overpass wizard geocoding Nominatim interpretation (r11560)
    • Add date and eli-best fields to imagery definition and display them as tooltip in the imagery preferences, the Imagery menu and the toolbar (r11570, r11575, r11612, r11625)
    • Automatic tag conflict resolution of source for French cadastre and Canadian CanVec (r11606, patch from Tyndare)
  • minor enhancements
    • Rotation angle for Transverse Mercator projection (r11549)
    • Improve plugin list import function (r11563)
    • Automatic close all changesets, if upload includes >10000 changes and therefore creates several changesets (r11618)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Don't warn about odd number of lanes without lanes:forward|backward in roundabouts (r11529)
      • Add female/male/unisex to shower preset (r11547)
      • Add castle_type to castle preset (r11547)
      • Don't warn about addr:postcode together with place=* (r11547)
      • Update vending values: remove public_transport_plans, add coffee, deprecate photos and photo in favor of amenity=vending_booth, add it to presets and mappaint style (r11583)
      • Draw unclosed tourism=attraction ways unfilled (r11584)
      • Add amenity=internet_cafe to presets and mappaint style (r11585, r11588)
      • Allow leisure=bowling_alley as physical feature for sport tags (r11591)
      • Update opening_hours validation (r11592, r11595, r11597)
      • Define tags which are areas more precisely (r11600)
      • Ignore keys starting with description: like description:de in unknown value test (r11605, r11608)
      • Improve performance of "Way connected to Area" test and fixing duplicate nodes (r11627:11630, r11632:11634)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.02

2017-02-02: Stable release 11526 (hotfix)

2017-01-30: Stable release 11514 (17.01)

  • major enhancements
  • medium enhancements
    • GeoImageLayer: Improvements of display of selected photo in the map (r11434, r11484, r11514 patch by holgermappt)
  • minor enhancements
    • Add continous integration test for differences to the Editor Layer Index database (r11426)
    • Dockerfile and scripts to start tests under Docker for Windows and Linux. This makes easier to run tests on Windows-based development environment (r11442)
    • Add search option to find deleted objects e.g. to purge them (r11446)
    • Replace recursive filter parsing by iterative approach to avoid StackOverflowError for very long filters (~3000 logical operators)(r11447)
    • Do not translate relation roles (r11466, r11475)
    • Robustness against invalid timestamps in GPX files (r11486)
    • Allow file:// URL for command-line argument --load-preferences (r11509)
    • Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules:
      • Warn about highway=track without tracktype (info level)(r11428)
      • Remove warning when an highway is also a natural=ridge (r11429, patch by LeTopographeFou)
      • Don't warn about width + natural=stone combination (r11430)
      • Don't autofix "Missing power tower/pole within power line" (r11432)
      • Make Straße/Strasse validator test country specific and raise to error level (r11439)
      • Fix self-intersecting way test (r11441, patch by GerdP)
      • Add addr:unit to Address tagging preset (r11463, patch by MikeN)
      • Warn about aeroway=aerodrome|helipad + area=yes (r11476)
      • Warn about values of area different from yes and no or used on nodes (r11476, r11477)
      • Remove warning with leisure=fitness_station + sport=fitness (r11497)
      • Add 'surface' combobox to runway preset (r11497)
      • Displaying oneway direction arrows of aerialways according to wiki, don't display them if oneway=no is set (r11499, r11501)
      • Don't warn about aerialway oneway combination (r11513)
      • Verify for improper usage of type=multipolygon in nodes and ways (r11500)
    • A lot more minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of Milestone 17.01

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