[josm-dev] JOSM 6763 released !

[Martin Vonwald]

Thanks to all the developers and contributors for their great work!


2014-01-28 Vincent Privat <vincent at josm.openstreetmap.de>

> 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 :)
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