[OSRM-talk] OSRM 5.18.0 (and 5.17.0)

[Patrick Niklaus]

Hey,

the brand new OSRM 5.18.0 features exiting new features like being
able to return the distance values in the `table` plugin. There are
also various memory usage improvements for MLD and a completely
rewritten file storage layer. Thanks to all the contributor of this
release!

I noticed we never send a release email for 5.17 so I included the
changelog here as well.

Cheers,
Patrick

Changes from 5.17.0:

- Features:
  - ADDED: `table` plugin now optionally returns `distance` matrix as
part of response #4990
  - ADDED: New optional parameter `annotations` for `table` that
accepts `distance`, `duration`, or both `distance,duration` as values
#4990
- Infrastructure:
   - ADDED: Updated libosmium and added protozero and vtzero libraries #5037
   - CHANGED: Use vtzero library in tile plugin #4686
- Profile:
   - ADDED: Bicycle profile now returns classes for ferry and tunnel
routes. #5054
   - ADDED: Bicycle profile allows to exclude ferry routes (default to
not enabled) #5054

Changes from 5.16.0:

  - Changes from 5.16.0:
    - Bugfixes:
      - FIXED: deduplication of route steps when waypoints are used #4909
      - FIXED: Use smaller range for U-turn angles in map-matching #4920
      - FIXED: Remove the last short annotation segment in
`trimShortSegments` #4946
      - FIXED: Properly calculate annotations for speeds, durations
and distances when waypoints are used with mapmatching #4949
      - FIXED: Don't apply unimplemented SH and PH conditions in
OpeningHours and add inversed date ranges #4992
      - FIXED: integer overflow in `DynamicGraph::Renumber` #5021
    - Profile:
      - CHANGED: Handle oneways in get_forward_backward_by_key #4929
      - FIXED: Do not route against oneway road if there is a cycleway
in the wrong direction; also review bike profile #4943
      - CHANGED: Make cyclability weighting of the bike profile prefer
safer routes more strongly #5015
    - Guidance:
      - CHANGED: Don't use obviousness for links bifurcations #4929
      - FIXED: Adjust Straight direction modifiers of side roads in
driveway handler #4929
      - CHANGED: Added post process logic to collapse segregated turn
instructions #4925
      - ADDED: Maneuver relation now supports `straight` as a direction #4995
      - FIXED: Support spelling maneuver relation with British spelling #4950
    - Tools:
      - ADDED: `osrm-routed` accepts a new property `--memory_file` to
store memory in a file on disk. #4881
      - ADDED: `osrm-datastore` accepts a new parameter
`--dataset-name` to select the name of the dataset. #4982
      - ADDED: `osrm-datastore` accepts a new parameter `--list` to
list all datasets loaded into memory. #4982
      - ADDED: `osrm-datastore` accepts a new parameter
`--only-metric` to only reload the data that can be updated by a
weight update (reduces memory for traffic updates). #5002
      - ADDED: `osrm-routed` accepts a new parameter `--dataset-name`
to select the shared-memory dataset to use. #4982
    - NodeJS:
      - ADDED: `OSRM` object accepts a new option `memory_file` that
stores the memory in a file on disk. #4881
      - ADDED: `OSRM` object accepts a new option `dataset_name` to
select the shared-memory dataset. #4982
    - Internals
      - CHANGED: Updated segregated intersection identification #4845 #4968
      - REMOVED: Remove `.timestamp` file since it was unused #4960
    - Documentation:
      - ADDED: Add documentation about OSM node ids in nearest service
response #4436
    - Performance
      - FIXED: Speed up response time when lots of legs exist and
geojson is used with `steps=true` #4936
      - FIXED: Return iterators instead of vectors in datafacade_base
functions #4969
    - Misc:
      - ADDED: expose name for datasource annotations as metadata #4973