3.5.0
* structured select on HTML search page
* new PHP Nominatim\Shell class to wrap shell escaping
* remove polygon parameter from all API calls
* improve handling of postcode areas
* reorganise place linking algorithm, now using wikidata tag as well
* remove linkees from search_name and larger_area tables
* introduce country-specific address ranks
* reorganise rank address computation
* cleanup of partition function
* improve parenting for large POIs
* add support for Postgresql 12 and Postgis 3
* add earlier cleanup when --drop is given, to reduce meory usage
* remove use of place_id in URLs
* replace C nominatim indexer with a simpler Python implementation
* split up the huge sql/functions.sql file
* move osm2pgsql tests to osm2pgsql
* add new extratags style which imports all tags from OSM
* add new script for checking the import after completion
* update osm2pgsql, reducing memory usage
* use new wikipedia importance and add processing of wikidata tags
* add search form for details page
* use ExtraDataPath for country_grid table
* remove short_name from list of names to be displayed
* split up CMakeFile, so that all parts can be built separately
* update installation instructions for CentOS and Ubuntu
* add script for importing/updating multiple country extracts
* various documentation improvements
3.4.2
* fix security bug in /details endpoint where user input was not
properly sanitized
3.4.1
* update osm2pgsql to fix hans during updates and lost address numbers
during updates
3.4.0
* increase required version for PostgreSQL(9.3), PostGIS(2.2) and PHP(7.0)
* better error reporting for out-of-memory errors
* exclude postcode ranges separated by colon from centre point calculation
* update osm2pgsql, better handling of imports without flatnode file
* switch to more efficient algorithm for word set computation
* use only boundries for country and state parts of addresses
* improve updates of addresses with housenumbers and interpolations
* remove country from place_addressline table and use country_code instead
* optimise indexes on search_name partition tables
* improve searching of attached streets for large objects like airports
* drop support for python 2
* new scripts for importing Wikidata for importance
* create and drop indexes concurrently to not clash with auto vacuum
* various documentation improvements
3.3.0
* zoom 17 in reverse now zooms in on minor streets
* fix use of postcode relations in address
* support for housenumber 0 on interpolations
* replace database abstraction DB with PDO and switch to using exceptions
* exclude line features at rank 30 from reverse geocoding
* remove self-reference and country from place_addressline
* make json output more readable (less escaping)
* update conversion scripts for postcodes
* scripts in utils/ are no longer executable (always use scripts in build dir)
* remove Natural Earth country fallback (OSM is complete enough)
* make rank assignments configurable
* allow accept languages with underscore
* new reverse-only import mode (without search index table)
* rely on boundaries only for states and countries
* update osm2pgsql, now using a configurable style
* provide multiple import styles
* improve search when house number and postcodes are dropped
* overhaul of setup code
* add support for PHPUnit 6
* update test database
* various documentation improvements
3.2.0
* complete rewrite of reverse search algorithm
* add new geojson and geocodejson output formats
* add simple export script to exprot addresses to CSV
* remove is_in terms from address computation
* remove unused search_name_country tables
* various smaller fixes to query parsing
* convert Tokens and token types to class types
* correctly handle update when boundary object type is changed
* improve debug output for /search endpoint
* update to latest osm2pgsql and leaflet.js
* overhaul of /details endpoint:
* new class parameter when using osmtype/osmid parameters
* permalink to instance-independent osmtype/osmid parameter format
* new json output format
* update CentOS vagrant machine to use SELinux
* add vagrant scripts for Ubuntu 18.04
* fix build process for BSD
* enable running the database on a different host than the setup scripts
* allow to configure use of custom PHP binaries (PHP_BIN)
* extensive coding style improvements to PHP code
* more PHP unit tests for new classes
* increase coverage for API tests
* add documentation for API
3.1.0
* rework postcode handling and introduce location_postcode table
* make setup less verbose and print a summary in the end
* setup: error out when web site user does not exist
* add more API tests to complete code coverage
* reinstate key-value amenity search (special term [key=value])
* fix detection of coordinates in query
* various smaller tweaks to ranking of search interpretations
* complete overhaul of PHP frontend code using OOP
* add address rank to details page
* update Tiger scripts for 2017 data and clean up unused code
* various bug fixes and improvements to UI
* improve reverse geocoding performance close to coasts
* more PHP style cleanup (quoting)
* allow unnamed road in reverse geocoding to avoid too far off results
* add function to recalculate counts for full-word search term
* add function to check if new updates are available
* update documentation and switch to mkdocs for generating HTML
3.0.1
* fix bug in geometry building algorithm in osm2pgsql
* fix typos in build instructions
3.0.0
* move to cmake build system
* various fixes to HTML output
* reverse endpoint now can return geometries
* add support for PHP7
* move to on-the-fly computation of interpolations
* improve handling of linked places (updating)
* improve test framework:
* replace lettuce with behave
* use smaller database for API tests
* drop support for postgres < 9.1, postgis < 2.0 and PHP < 5.4
* make external data use optional (useful for imports without US)
* detect postgres and postgis versions automatically
* clean up query logging and remove unused tables
* move installation documentation into this repo
* add self-documenting vagrant scripts
* remove --create-website, recommend to use website directory in build
* add accessor functions for URL parameters and improve erro checking
* remove IP blocking and rate-limiting code
* enable CI via travis
* reformatting for more consistent coding style
* make country search term creation part of setup
* update country names and country grid
* handle roads that cross boundaries better
* keep full information on address tags
* update to refactored osm2pgsql which use libosmium based types
* switch from osmosis to pyosmium for updates
* be more strict when matching against special search terms
* handle postcode entries with mutliple values correctly
2.5
* reverse geocoding includes looking up housenumbers from Tiger data
* added parameter to return simplified geometries
* new lookup call for getting address information for OSM objects
* new namedetails and extratags parameters that expose the name and extratags
fields of the placex table
* mobile website
* reverse web view
2.4
* drop support for postgres 8.4
* rewrite address interpolation
* switch to C++ version of osm2pgsql and rewrite tag filtering
* support for bridge:name and tunnel:name, man_made, junction
* drop way-node index (reduces database size by about 15%)
* add support for configuring tablespaces and webserver user
* better evaluation of search queries in right-to-left notation
* improve house number search for streets with many duplicate entries
* code cleanup (remove unused functions and tables)
2.3
* further improve ordering of results
* support for more lat/lon formats in search-as-reverse
* fix handling of GB postcodes
* new functional test suite
* support for waterway relations
* inherit postcodes from street to poi
* fix housenumber normalisation to find non-latin house numbers
* take viewbox into account for ordering of results
* pois may now inherit address tags from surrounding buildings
* improve what objects may participate in an address
* clean up handled class/type combinations to current OSM usage
* lots of bug fixes
2.2
* correct database rights for www-data
* add timestamps for update output
* load postgis via extension for postgis >= 2.0
* remove non-admin boundaries from addresses
* further improve ordering of results with same importance
* merge addr:postcode tags into object addresses
* include rank and importance in reverse geocode output
* replace ST_Line_Interpolate_Point with ST_LineInterpolatePoint
(for postgis >= 2.1)
* update osm2pgsql to latest version
* properly detect changes of admin_level
* remove landuses when name is removed
* smaller fixes
2.1
* update to openlayers 2.12 (now custom built)
* update fallback OSM boundaries
* add support for postgresql 9.2/9.3 and postgis 2.x
* add structured queries
* add options for polygon output in various formats
(geojson, svg, kml, postgis text)
* maintenance functions for deleting objects and updating regions
(plcae_force_update/place_force_delete)
* web view for polygons that need deleting
* rate limiting using memcache
* improve layout of details page
* add support for boundary:postal_code
* full CORS support
* improve parenting of POIs
* support for extract daily diffs from Geofabrik
* support for addresses without a street
(addr:place and conscription number house numbers)
* improve layout of word and search_name_* tables
* support for US ZIP+4 codes
* refactoring of front-end PHP code
* lots of smaller bug fixes
2.0.1
* delete outdated entries from location_area_country
* remove remaining uses of INTEGER, to allow node ids larger than 2^31