+4.0.0
+
+ * refactor name token computation and introduce ICU tokenizer
+ * name processing now happens in the indexer outside the DB
+ * reorganizes abbreviation handling and moves it to the indexing phases
+ * adds preprocessing of names
+ * add country-specific ranking for Spain, Slovakia
+ * partially switch to using SP-GIST indexes
+ * better updating of dependent addresses for name changes in streets
+ * remove unused/broken tables for external housenumbers
+ * move external postcodes to CSV format and no longer save them in tables
+ (adds support for postcodes for arbitrary countries)
+ * remove postcode helper entries from placex (thanks @AntoJvlt)
+ * change required format for TIGER data to CSV
+ * move configuration of default languages from wiki into config file
+ * expect customized configuration files in project directory by default
+ * disable search API for reverse-only import (thanks @darkshredder)
+ * port most of maintenance/import code to Python and remove PHP utils
+ * add catch-up mode for replication
+ * add updating of special phrases (thanks @AntoJvlt)
+ * add support for special phrases in CSV files (thanks @AntoJvlt)
+ * switch to case-independent matching between place and boundary names
+ * remove disabling of reverse query parsing
+ * minor tweaks to search algorithm to avoid more false positives
+ * major overhaul of the administrator and developer documentation
+ * add security disclosure policy
+ * add testing of installation scripts via CI
+ * drop support for Python < 3.6 and Postgresql < 9.5
+
+3.7.2
+
+ * fix database check for reverse-only imports
+ * do not error out in status API result when import date is missing
+ * add array_key_last function for PHP < 7.3 (thanks to @woodpeck)
+ * fix more url when server name is unknown (thanks to @mogita)
+ * commit changes to replication log table
+
+3.7.1
+
+ * fix smaller issues with special phrases import (thanks @AntoJvlt)
+ * add index to speed up continued indexing during import
+ * fix index on location_property_tiger(parent_place_id) (thanks @changpingc)
+ * make sure Python code is backward-compatible with Python 3.5
+ * various documentation fixes
+
+3.7.0
+
+ * switch to dotenv for configuration file
+ * introduce 'make install' (reorganising most of the code)
+ * introduce nominatim tool as replacement for various php scripts
+ * introduce project directories and allow multiple installations from same build
+ * clean up BDD tests: drop nose, reorganise step code
+ * simplify test database for API BDD tests and autoinstall database
+ * port most of the code for command-line tools to Python
+ (thanks to @darkshredder and @AntoJvlt)
+ * add tests for all tooling
+ * replace pyosmium-get-changes with custom internal implementation using
+ pyosmium
+ * improve search for queries with housenumber and partial terms
+ * add database versioning
+ * use jinja2 for preprocessing SQL files
+ * introduce automatic migrations
+ * reverse fix preference of interpolations over housenumbers
+ * parallelize indexing of postcodes
+ * add non-key indexes to speed up housenumber + street searches
+ * switch housenumber field in placex to save transliterated names
+
+3.6.0
+
+ * add full support for searching by and displaying of addr:* tags
+ * improve address output for large-area objects
+ * better use of country names from OSM data for search and display
+ * better debug output for reverse call
+ * add support for addr:place links without an place equivalent in OSM
+ * improve finding postcodes with normalisation artefacts
+ * batch object to index for rank 30, avoiding a wrap-around of transaction
+ IDs in PostgreSQL
+ * introduce dynamic address rank computation for administrative boundaries
+ depending on linked objects and their place in the admin level hierarchy
+ * add country-specific address ranking for Indonesia, Russia, Belgium and
+ the Netherlands (thanks @hendrikmoree)
+ * make sure wikidata/wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
+ * make POIs searchable by name and housenumber (thanks @joy-yyd)
+ * reverse geocoding now ignores places without an address rank (rivers etc.)
+ * installation of a webserver is no longer mandatory, for development
+ use the php internal webserver via 'make serve
+ * reduce the influence of place nodes in addresses
+ * drop support for the unspecific is_in tag
+ * various minor tweaks to supplied styles
+ * move HTML web frontend into its own project
+ * move scripts for processing external data sources into separate directories
+ * introduce separate configuration for website (thanks @krahulreddy)
+ * update documentation, in particular, clean up development docs
+ * update osm2pgsql to 1.4.0
+
+3.5.2
+
+ * ensure that wikipedia tags are imported for all styles
+ * reinstate verbosity for indexing during updates
+ * make house number reappear in display name on named POIs
+ * introduce batch processing in indexer to avoid transaction ID overrun
+ * increase splitting for large geometries to improve indexing speed
+ * remove deprecated get_magic_quotes_gpc() function
+ * make sure that all postcodes have an entry in word and are thus searchable
+ * remove use of ST_Covers in conjunction woth ST_Intersects,
+ causes bad query planning and slow updates in Postgis3
+ * update osm2pgsql
+
+3.5.1
+
+ * disable jit and parallel processing in PostgreSQL for osm2pgsql
+ * update libosmium to 2.15.6 (fixes an issue with processing hanging
+ on large multipolygons)
+
+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 memory 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