2 * fix potential SQL injection issue for 'nominatim admin --collect-os-info'
3 * PHP frontend: fix on-the-fly lookup of postcode areas near boundaries
4 * Python frontend: improve handling of viewbox
5 * Python frontend: correct deployment instructions
8 * reintroduce result rematching
9 * improve search of multi-part names
10 * fix accidentally switched meaning of --reverse-only and --search-only in
14 * fix failing importance recalculation command
15 * fix merging of linked names into unnamed boundaries
16 * fix a number of corner cases with interpolation splitting resulting in
18 * fix failure in website generation when password contains curly brackets
19 * fix broken use of ST_Project in PostGIS 3.4
20 * new NOMINATIM_SEARCH_WITHIN_COUNTRIES setting to restrict reverse lookups
21 to known countries (thanks @alfmarcua)
22 * allow negative OSM IDs (thanks @alfmarcua)
23 * disallow import of Tiger data in a frozen DB
24 * avoid UPDATE to change settings to be compatible with r/o DBs (thanks @t-tomek)
25 * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.9.2
26 * reorganise osm2pgsql flex style and make it the default
27 * exclude names ending in :wikipedia from indexing
28 * no longer accept comma as a list separator in name tags
29 * process forward dependencies on update to catch updates in geometries
31 * fix handling of isolated silent letters during transliteration
32 * no longer assign postcodes to large linear features like rivers
33 * introduce nominatim.paths module for finding data and libraries
34 * documentation layout changed to material theme
35 * new documentation section for library
36 * various smaller fixes to existing documentation
37 (thanks @woodpeck, @bloom256, @biswajit-k)
38 * updates to vagrant install scripts, drop support for Ubunut 18
40 * removed obsolete configuration variables from env.defaults
41 * add script for generating a taginfo description (thanks @biswajit-k)
42 * modernize Python code around BDD test and add testing of Python frontend
43 * lots of new BDD tests for API output
47 * fix deletion handling for 'nominatim add-data'
48 * adapt place_force_delete() to new deletion handling
49 * flex style: avoid dropping of postcode areas
50 * fix update errors on address interpolation handling
54 * extend flex-style library to fully support all default styles
55 * fix handling of Hebrew aleph
56 * do not assign postcodes to rivers
57 * fix string matching in PHP code
58 * update osm2pgsql (various updates to flex)
59 * fix slow query when deleting places on update
60 * fix CLI details query
61 * fix recalculation of importance values
62 * fix polygon simplification in reverse results
63 * add class/type information to reverse geocodejson result
64 * minor improvements to default tokenizer configuration
65 * various smaller fixes to documentation
69 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
73 * add experimental support for osm2pgsql flex style
74 * introduce secondary importance value to be retrieved from a raster data file
75 (currently still unused, to replace address importance, thanks to @tareqpi)
76 * add new report tool `nominatim admin --collect-os-info`
77 (thanks @micahcochran, @tareqpi)
78 * reorganise index to improve lookup performance and size
79 * run index creation after import in parallel
80 * run ANALYZE more selectively to speed up continuation of indexing
81 * fix crash on update when addr:interpolation receives an illegal value
82 * fix minimum number of retrieved results to be at least 10
83 * fix search for combinations of special term + name (e.g Hotel Bellevue)
84 * do not return interpolations without a parent street on reverse search
85 * improve invalidation of linked places on updates
86 * fix address parsing for interpolation lines
87 * make sure socket timeouts are respected during replication
88 (working around a bug in some versions of pyosmium)
89 * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.7.1
90 * add support for PostgreSQL 15
91 * typing fixes to work with latest type annotations from typeshed
92 * smaller improvements to documentation (thanks to @mausch)
96 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
100 * switch to ICU tokenizer as default
101 * add housenumber normalization and support optional spaces during search
102 * add postcode format checking and support optional spaces during search
103 * add function for cleaning housenumbers in word table
104 * add updates/deletion of country names imported from OSM
105 * linked places no longer overwrite names from a place permanently
106 * move default country name configuration into yaml file (thanks @tareqpi)
107 * more compact layout for interpolation and TIGER tables
108 * introduce mutations to ICU tokenizer (used for German umlauts)
109 * support reinitializing a full project directory with refresh --website
110 * fix various issues with linked places on updates
111 * add support for external sanitizers and token analyzers
112 * add CLI commands for forced indexing
113 * add CLI command for version report
114 * add offline import mode
115 * change geocodejson to return a feature class in the 'type' field
116 * add ISO3166-2 to address output (thanks @I70l0teN4ik)
117 * improve parsing and matching of addr: tags
118 * support relations as street members of associatedStreet
119 * better ranking for address results from TIGER data
120 * adapt rank classification to changed tag usage in OSM
121 * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.6.0
122 * add typing information to Python code
123 * improve unit test coverage
124 * reorganise and speed up code for BDD tests, drop support for scenes
125 * move PHP unit tests to PHP 9.5
126 * extensive typo fixes in documentation (thanks @woodpeck,@StephanGeorg,
127 @amandasaurus, @nslxndr, @stefkiourk, @Luflosi, @kianmeng)
128 * drop official support for installation on CentOS
129 * add installation instructions for Ubuntu 22.04
130 * add support for PHP8
131 * add setup instructions for updates and systemd
132 * drop support for PostgreSQL 9.5
136 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
140 * fix initialisation error in replication script
141 * ICU tokenizer: avoid any special characters in word tokens
142 * better error message when API php script does not exist
143 * fix quoting of house numbers in SQL queries
144 * small fixes and improvements in search query parsing
145 * add documentation for moving the database to a different machine
149 * refactor name token computation and introduce ICU tokenizer
150 * name processing now happens in the indexer outside the DB
151 * reorganizes abbreviation handling and moves it to the indexing phases
152 * adds preprocessing of names
153 * add country-specific ranking for Spain, Slovakia
154 * partially switch to using SP-GIST indexes
155 * better updating of dependent addresses for name changes in streets
156 * remove unused/broken tables for external housenumbers
157 * move external postcodes to CSV format and no longer save them in tables
158 (adds support for postcodes for arbitrary countries)
159 * remove postcode helper entries from placex (thanks @AntoJvlt)
160 * change required format for TIGER data to CSV
161 * move configuration of default languages from wiki into config file
162 * expect customized configuration files in project directory by default
163 * disable search API for reverse-only import (thanks @darkshredder)
164 * port most of maintenance/import code to Python and remove PHP utils
165 * add catch-up mode for replication
166 * add updating of special phrases (thanks @AntoJvlt)
167 * add support for special phrases in CSV files (thanks @AntoJvlt)
168 * switch to case-independent matching between place and boundary names
169 * remove disabling of reverse query parsing
170 * minor tweaks to search algorithm to avoid more false positives
171 * major overhaul of the administrator and developer documentation
172 * add security disclosure policy
173 * add testing of installation scripts via CI
174 * drop support for Python < 3.6 and Postgresql < 9.5
178 * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
182 * fix database check for reverse-only imports
183 * do not error out in status API result when import date is missing
184 * add array_key_last function for PHP < 7.3 (thanks to @woodpeck)
185 * fix more url when server name is unknown (thanks to @mogita)
186 * commit changes to replication log table
190 * fix smaller issues with special phrases import (thanks @AntoJvlt)
191 * add index to speed up continued indexing during import
192 * fix index on location_property_tiger(parent_place_id) (thanks @changpingc)
193 * make sure Python code is backward-compatible with Python 3.5
194 * various documentation fixes
198 * switch to dotenv for configuration file
199 * introduce 'make install' (reorganising most of the code)
200 * introduce nominatim tool as replacement for various php scripts
201 * introduce project directories and allow multiple installations from same build
202 * clean up BDD tests: drop nose, reorganise step code
203 * simplify test database for API BDD tests and autoinstall database
204 * port most of the code for command-line tools to Python
205 (thanks to @darkshredder and @AntoJvlt)
206 * add tests for all tooling
207 * replace pyosmium-get-changes with custom internal implementation using
209 * improve search for queries with housenumber and partial terms
210 * add database versioning
211 * use jinja2 for preprocessing SQL files
212 * introduce automatic migrations
213 * reverse fix preference of interpolations over housenumbers
214 * parallelize indexing of postcodes
215 * add non-key indexes to speed up housenumber + street searches
216 * switch housenumber field in placex to save transliterated names
220 * add full support for searching by and displaying of addr:* tags
221 * improve address output for large-area objects
222 * better use of country names from OSM data for search and display
223 * better debug output for reverse call
224 * add support for addr:place links without an place equivalent in OSM
225 * improve finding postcodes with normalisation artefacts
226 * batch object to index for rank 30, avoiding a wrap-around of transaction
228 * introduce dynamic address rank computation for administrative boundaries
229 depending on linked objects and their place in the admin level hierarchy
230 * add country-specific address ranking for Indonesia, Russia, Belgium and
231 the Netherlands (thanks @hendrikmoree)
232 * make sure wikidata/wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
233 * make POIs searchable by name and housenumber (thanks @joy-yyd)
234 * reverse geocoding now ignores places without an address rank (rivers etc.)
235 * installation of a webserver is no longer mandatory, for development
236 use the php internal webserver via 'make serve
237 * reduce the influence of place nodes in addresses
238 * drop support for the unspecific is_in tag
239 * various minor tweaks to supplied styles
240 * move HTML web frontend into its own project
241 * move scripts for processing external data sources into separate directories
242 * introduce separate configuration for website (thanks @krahulreddy)
243 * update documentation, in particular, clean up development docs
244 * update osm2pgsql to 1.4.0
248 * ensure that wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
249 * reinstate verbosity for indexing during updates
250 * make house number reappear in display name on named POIs
251 * introduce batch processing in indexer to avoid transaction ID overrun
252 * increase splitting for large geometries to improve indexing speed
253 * remove deprecated get_magic_quotes_gpc() function
254 * make sure that all postcodes have an entry in word and are thus searchable
255 * remove use of ST_Covers in conjunction woth ST_Intersects,
256 causes bad query planning and slow updates in Postgis3
261 * disable jit and parallel processing in PostgreSQL for osm2pgsql
262 * update libosmium to 2.15.6 (fixes an issue with processing hanging
263 on large multipolygons)
267 * structured select on HTML search page
268 * new PHP Nominatim\Shell class to wrap shell escaping
269 * remove polygon parameter from all API calls
270 * improve handling of postcode areas
271 * reorganise place linking algorithm, now using wikidata tag as well
272 * remove linkees from search_name and larger_area tables
273 * introduce country-specific address ranks
274 * reorganise rank address computation
275 * cleanup of partition function
276 * improve parenting for large POIs
277 * add support for Postgresql 12 and Postgis 3
278 * add earlier cleanup when --drop is given, to reduce memory usage
279 * remove use of place_id in URLs
280 * replace C nominatim indexer with a simpler Python implementation
281 * split up the huge sql/functions.sql file
282 * move osm2pgsql tests to osm2pgsql
283 * add new extratags style which imports all tags from OSM
284 * add new script for checking the import after completion
285 * update osm2pgsql, reducing memory usage
286 * use new wikipedia importance and add processing of wikidata tags
287 * add search form for details page
288 * use ExtraDataPath for country_grid table
289 * remove short_name from list of names to be displayed
290 * split up CMakeFile, so that all parts can be built separately
291 * update installation instructions for CentOS and Ubuntu
292 * add script for importing/updating multiple country extracts
293 * various documentation improvements
297 * fix security bug in /details endpoint where user input was not
302 * update osm2pgsql to fix hans during updates and lost address numbers
307 * increase required version for PostgreSQL(9.3), PostGIS(2.2) and PHP(7.0)
308 * better error reporting for out-of-memory errors
309 * exclude postcode ranges separated by colon from centre point calculation
310 * update osm2pgsql, better handling of imports without flatnode file
311 * switch to more efficient algorithm for word set computation
312 * use only boundries for country and state parts of addresses
313 * improve updates of addresses with housenumbers and interpolations
314 * remove country from place_addressline table and use country_code instead
315 * optimise indexes on search_name partition tables
316 * improve searching of attached streets for large objects like airports
317 * drop support for python 2
318 * new scripts for importing Wikidata for importance
319 * create and drop indexes concurrently to not clash with auto vacuum
320 * various documentation improvements
325 * zoom 17 in reverse now zooms in on minor streets
326 * fix use of postcode relations in address
327 * support for housenumber 0 on interpolations
328 * replace database abstraction DB with PDO and switch to using exceptions
329 * exclude line features at rank 30 from reverse geocoding
330 * remove self-reference and country from place_addressline
331 * make json output more readable (less escaping)
332 * update conversion scripts for postcodes
333 * scripts in utils/ are no longer executable (always use scripts in build dir)
334 * remove Natural Earth country fallback (OSM is complete enough)
335 * make rank assignments configurable
336 * allow accept languages with underscore
337 * new reverse-only import mode (without search index table)
338 * rely on boundaries only for states and countries
339 * update osm2pgsql, now using a configurable style
340 * provide multiple import styles
341 * improve search when house number and postcodes are dropped
342 * overhaul of setup code
343 * add support for PHPUnit 6
344 * update test database
345 * various documentation improvements
349 * complete rewrite of reverse search algorithm
350 * add new geojson and geocodejson output formats
351 * add simple export script to exprot addresses to CSV
352 * remove is_in terms from address computation
353 * remove unused search_name_country tables
354 * various smaller fixes to query parsing
355 * convert Tokens and token types to class types
356 * correctly handle update when boundary object type is changed
357 * improve debug output for /search endpoint
358 * update to latest osm2pgsql and leaflet.js
359 * overhaul of /details endpoint:
360 * new class parameter when using osmtype/osmid parameters
361 * permalink to instance-independent osmtype/osmid parameter format
362 * new json output format
363 * update CentOS vagrant machine to use SELinux
364 * add vagrant scripts for Ubuntu 18.04
365 * fix build process for BSD
366 * enable running the database on a different host than the setup scripts
367 * allow to configure use of custom PHP binaries (PHP_BIN)
368 * extensive coding style improvements to PHP code
369 * more PHP unit tests for new classes
370 * increase coverage for API tests
371 * add documentation for API
375 * rework postcode handling and introduce location_postcode table
376 * make setup less verbose and print a summary in the end
377 * setup: error out when web site user does not exist
378 * add more API tests to complete code coverage
379 * reinstate key-value amenity search (special term [key=value])
380 * fix detection of coordinates in query
381 * various smaller tweaks to ranking of search interpretations
382 * complete overhaul of PHP frontend code using OOP
383 * add address rank to details page
384 * update Tiger scripts for 2017 data and clean up unused code
385 * various bug fixes and improvements to UI
386 * improve reverse geocoding performance close to coasts
387 * more PHP style cleanup (quoting)
388 * allow unnamed road in reverse geocoding to avoid too far off results
389 * add function to recalculate counts for full-word search term
390 * add function to check if new updates are available
391 * update documentation and switch to mkdocs for generating HTML
395 * fix bug in geometry building algorithm in osm2pgsql
396 * fix typos in build instructions
400 * move to cmake build system
401 * various fixes to HTML output
402 * reverse endpoint now can return geometries
403 * add support for PHP7
404 * move to on-the-fly computation of interpolations
405 * improve handling of linked places (updating)
406 * improve test framework:
407 * replace lettuce with behave
408 * use smaller database for API tests
409 * drop support for postgres < 9.1, postgis < 2.0 and PHP < 5.4
410 * make external data use optional (useful for imports without US)
411 * detect postgres and postgis versions automatically
412 * clean up query logging and remove unused tables
413 * move installation documentation into this repo
414 * add self-documenting vagrant scripts
415 * remove --create-website, recommend to use website directory in build
416 * add accessor functions for URL parameters and improve erro checking
417 * remove IP blocking and rate-limiting code
418 * enable CI via travis
419 * reformatting for more consistent coding style
420 * make country search term creation part of setup
421 * update country names and country grid
422 * handle roads that cross boundaries better
423 * keep full information on address tags
424 * update to refactored osm2pgsql which use libosmium based types
425 * switch from osmosis to pyosmium for updates
426 * be more strict when matching against special search terms
427 * handle postcode entries with mutliple values correctly
431 * reverse geocoding includes looking up housenumbers from Tiger data
432 * added parameter to return simplified geometries
433 * new lookup call for getting address information for OSM objects
434 * new namedetails and extratags parameters that expose the name and extratags
435 fields of the placex table
441 * drop support for postgres 8.4
442 * rewrite address interpolation
443 * switch to C++ version of osm2pgsql and rewrite tag filtering
444 * support for bridge:name and tunnel:name, man_made, junction
445 * drop way-node index (reduces database size by about 15%)
446 * add support for configuring tablespaces and webserver user
447 * better evaluation of search queries in right-to-left notation
448 * improve house number search for streets with many duplicate entries
449 * code cleanup (remove unused functions and tables)
453 * further improve ordering of results
454 * support for more lat/lon formats in search-as-reverse
455 * fix handling of GB postcodes
456 * new functional test suite
457 * support for waterway relations
458 * inherit postcodes from street to poi
459 * fix housenumber normalisation to find non-latin house numbers
460 * take viewbox into account for ordering of results
461 * pois may now inherit address tags from surrounding buildings
462 * improve what objects may participate in an address
463 * clean up handled class/type combinations to current OSM usage
468 * correct database rights for www-data
469 * add timestamps for update output
470 * load postgis via extension for postgis >= 2.0
471 * remove non-admin boundaries from addresses
472 * further improve ordering of results with same importance
473 * merge addr:postcode tags into object addresses
474 * include rank and importance in reverse geocode output
475 * replace ST_Line_Interpolate_Point with ST_LineInterpolatePoint
477 * update osm2pgsql to latest version
478 * properly detect changes of admin_level
479 * remove landuses when name is removed
484 * update to openlayers 2.12 (now custom built)
485 * update fallback OSM boundaries
486 * add support for postgresql 9.2/9.3 and postgis 2.x
487 * add structured queries
488 * add options for polygon output in various formats
489 (geojson, svg, kml, postgis text)
490 * maintenance functions for deleting objects and updating regions
491 (plcae_force_update/place_force_delete)
492 * web view for polygons that need deleting
493 * rate limiting using memcache
494 * improve layout of details page
495 * add support for boundary:postal_code
497 * improve parenting of POIs
498 * support for extract daily diffs from Geofabrik
499 * support for addresses without a street
500 (addr:place and conscription number house numbers)
501 * improve layout of word and search_name_* tables
502 * support for US ZIP+4 codes
503 * refactoring of front-end PHP code
504 * lots of smaller bug fixes
508 * delete outdated entries from location_area_country
509 * remove remaining uses of INTEGER, to allow node ids larger than 2^31