[Geocoding] Nominatim 2.3 release announcement

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi,

we are happy to announce the release of a new stable version 2.3 of
Nominatim.

There are two new features that are most notable for users of the
search engine: there is now support for waterway relations, which improves
searching for rivers, and POIs like shops and restaurants now
can inherit their address from the building they are in. 

Next to that a lot of smaller bugs have been fixed and further tweaks
to the search algorithm allow for improved ordering of results. This
release also marks the arrival of a functional test suite for
Nominatim.

The new release is available at

http://www.nominatim.org/release/Nominatim-2.3.0.tar.bz2

Installation instructions are at the usual place at

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation

Users of Nominatim 2.1 or newer may update to this release while
keeping their current database. Detailed instructions for updating can be
found in the release notes:

https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/wiki/Release-Notes-2.3.0

If you are running a version older than 2.1, a full database reimport is
required.


Regards

Sarah