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.

2024-12-04: Stable release 19265 (24.11)

• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • New multiline and normalize attributes. multiline indicates that a key value may have newline (\n) characters and defaults to false while normalize indicates that whitespace should be trimmed and condensed and defaults to true.
  • Add advertising=totem
  • Fix #23932: Add cycleway:*:buffer (patch by huntertur)
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.11

2024-10-31: Stable release 19253 (24.10)

• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Remove landuse=paddy from ignore list
  • Add/ignore popular tags:
    • Add fountain and some miscellaneous tags for drinking water.
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.10

2024-10-02: Stable release 19230 (24.09)

• Medium enhancements:
  • Various performance enhancements/fixes
• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Fix #23770: Deprecate cycleway=opposite* family (patch by Famlam)
  • Add/ignore popular tags
    • Add
      • flood_prone=yes -- usually used to indicate if a road may be flooded after a heavy rain
      • managed -- usually used on wetlands, woods, fells, and heaths
      • sidewalk:{both|left|right} -- already have validator rules, just adds them to presets. Note that sidewalk and sidewalk:both are similar, but sidewalk=separate is unspecific as to the side of the sidewalk.
    • Ignore
      • admin_type:PH -- highly localized to the Phillippines
      • residential:condomonium -- deprecated, wiki suggests residential=apartments + condo=*
      • sidewalk: This is replaced by sidewalk:both, but is still valid tagging
      • motor_vehicle=agricultural;forestry -- this is covered by standard access tagging
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.09

2024-09-02: Stable release 19207 (24.08)

• Major enhancements:
  • Fix #11487: Have josm render data to tiles (experimental, Expert mode only). See r19176 for details.
• Medium enhancements:
  • Fix #21856: Split way: Wrong position of new member in PTv2 relation splitting a loop
• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Fix #23251: Crossing preset: Change label for crossing_ref
  • Fix #23290: Exclude incomplete relations from region checks
  • Fix #23298: Improper warning for aerialway=zip_line
  • Fix #21801: Add railway junction check for missing switches and crossings (patch by gaben)
  • Fix #21333: Extend SharpAngles test to railways
  • Add/ignore documented popular tags:
    • Add
      • ​office=financial
      • ​emergency=life_ring
      • ​emergency=lifeguard (fixes #22852)
      • ​man_made=cairn
      • ​leaf_type=palm
      • ​entrance=secondary
      • ​surface=stone
      • ​surface=woodchips
      • ​bicycle=customers
      • ​building=container
      • ​parking_space=charging
      • ​cycleway:left:lane=exclusive
      • ​cycleway:right:lane=exclusive
      • ​cycleway:both:lane=exclusive
      • ​crossing=informal
      • ​wall=concrete
      • ​frontage_road=yes
      • ​barrier=wicket_gate
      • ​highway=emergency_bay
      • ​service=slipway
      • ​amenity=music_school
      • ​amenity=vehicle_inspection
      • ​amenity=social_centre
      • ​amenity=trolley_bay
      • ​shop=craft
      • ​shop=agrarian
      • ​climbing=route_bottom and ​climbing=route_top
      • ​toilets:access=customers
    • Ignored
      • ​valley=balka -- seems to be done primarily by one or two people, highly concentrated in Russia.
      • ​meadow=meadow_orchard -- similar to ​orchard=meadow_orchard, which we also ignore.
      • ​natural=landform and ​landform=esker -- primarily from canvec import
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.08

2024-08-01: Stable release 19160 (24.07)

• Medium enhancements:
  • Fix #23721: If Microsoft Bing API is down, JOSM will freeze indefinitely
• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Fix #23621: Check for trees that are too big (patch by gaben and Famlam)
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.07

2024-07-06: Stable release 19128 (24.06)

• Major enhancements:
  • Fix #23728: First geotagged image not fully selected
• Cleanup of Java code as a followup after the switch to Java 11
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.06

2024-06-04: Stable release 19096 (24.05)

• Major enhancements:
  • Fix #23707: Remove basic auth for openstreetmap.org
• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Fix #23652 Wrong warning for elevator
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.05

2024-05-02: Stable release 19067 (24.04)

• Medium enhancements:
  • Fix #23641: When mapping a forest inside a forest and make that inner, the inner landuse=forest tag is removed
  • See #23627: support language keys not following the naming of languages in JOSM, allow more than one language specific code
• Add/improve/fix/change Internal Presets, Map Paint Style and Validation rules
  • Fix #21881: Add a check for loops in directional waterways
• More minor bug fixes, enhancements, stability improvements, translation updates, code improvements and code documentation, see SVN log messages of milestone 24.04

2024-04-10: Stable release 19039 (24.03)

• 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

2024-03-18: Stable release 19017 (24.02)

• 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

2024-02-06: Stable release 18969 (24.01)

• 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

2024-01-17: Stable release 18940 (23.12)

• 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

Older stable releases

• Changelog/2023: Releases from r18623 to r18905
• Changelog/2022: Releases from r18361 to r18622
• Changelog/2021: Releases from r17429 to r18360
• Changelog/2020: Releases from r15629 to r17428
• Changelog/2019: Releases from r14261 to r15628
• Changelog/2018: Releases from r13266 to r14260
• 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.