[josm-dev] JOSM 6763 released !

[Vincent Privat]

Version 6763 of JOSM has just been released as new tested version, the
first of 2014 :)

This is a pretty *big* release, both in numbers (261 commits, 153 tickets
!) and features:

* major enhancements
  * Presets:
    * Refactorization by introducing `<chunk id="X">` and `<reference
ref="X"/>`
    * Extension by introducing `<preset_link preset_name="..." />` to add a
link to another preset
  * Upload window - `source`: add `knowledge`, `survey` to selection,
compute value from layers
  * MapCSS: syntax improvements:
    * Regular expression support for key conditions
    * Comparison of two key values (`[key1 = *key2]`)
    * New `set class` instruction and `.class` selector
    * New spatial "element of" (`inner ∈ outer`)
    * New crossing operator (`area ⧉ area`)
    * New `unconnected` pseudo class for nodes without parent way
    * Add option to include colour preferences of external styles
    * Determine opacity/transparency of a color using `alpha()`
  * Validator:
    * New MapCSS-based tag checker/fixer
    * Centralized service for custom Tagchecker
  * Better zoom to selection/conflict when the objects in question are small
  * Prompt dialogs: more "do not show again..." choices
  * Add "Search for objects by preset" action (Shift-F3)
  * `wayselector` plugin integrated into main program
* minor enhancements
  * Initialize default center view of map to last download location instead
of (0,0)
  * Remote control:
    * New arguments `changeset_comment` and `changeset_source` to
`load_and_zoom` handler to add changeset tags
    * Add command description to usage page
  * History dialog: UI tuning, shortcuts for up/down arrow keys
  * Advanced object info: add "Center of bounding box", and "Centroid" for
ways
  * Colour coding of conflicting tags/memberships in way combining dialog
  * Improvements of proxy support and error handling
  * Make Unix web browsers configurable via `browser.unix` property
  * Presets/Map styles:
    * Update of presets for `man_made=surveillance`, `place_of_worship`,
`artwork`, `railway`, `power=substation`, `boundary=political`, `surface`,
`amenity=charging_station`, `amenity=parking*`, `barrier`/`entrance`
    * Addition of `natural=sand`, `building=construction`,
`railway=switch`, `boundary=postal_code`
    * Replacement of `emergency=aed` by `emergency=defibrillator`
    * Display `capacity` as a name complement for labels
    * Display `highway=road` differently
  * Tools - Create/Update Multipolygon:
    * Update multipolygon if a multipolygon relation is selected
    * Remap keyboard shortcut to `Ctrl-B` and `Ctrl-Shift-B`
  * Validator:
    * Verify links on highways
    * Check ways with duplicate way segments
    * Detect crossing `barrier`, `landuse`, `natural`, `boundary`
    * Validate `:lanes` and `:conditional` tags
    * Validate nodes inside polygons with the same values
    * Many test improvements
* sub-minor enhancements:
  * Allow to build JOSM from a git mirror clone
  * Make dynamic buttons features disabled by default
  * Distinguish number of conflicts on nodes, ways and relations
  * Unicode normalization and multiple whitespace removal in tags
  * Allow to enable debug log messages by command-line argument `--debug`

Summarized changelog:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Changelog#a2014-01-27:Stablereleaser6763milestone:14.01

Complete changelog:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/log/josm/?action=stop_on_copy&mode=stop_on_copy&rev=6763&stop_rev=6503&limit=300&verbose=on

Milestone view (need login): https://josm.openstreetmap.de/milestone/14.01

Special thanks to Simon who did most of the major features :)