+4.2.0
+
+ * add experimental support for osm2pgsql flex style
+ * introduce secondary importance value to be retrieved from a raster data file
+ (currently still unused, to replace address importance, thanks to @tareqpi)
+ * add new report tool `nominatim admin --collect-os-info`
+ (thanks @micahcochran, @tareqpi)
+ * reorganise index to improve lookup performance and size
+ * run index creation after import in parallel
+ * run ANALYZE more selectively to speed up continuation of indexing
+ * fix crash on update when addr:interpolation receives an illegal value
+ * fix minimum number of retrieved results to be at least 10
+ * fix search for combinations of special term + name (e.g Hotel Bellevue)
+ * do not return interpolations without a parent street on reverse search
+ * improve invalidation of linked places on updates
+ * fix address parsing for interpolation lines
+ * make sure socket timeouts are respected during replication
+ (working around a bug in some versions of pyosmium)
+ * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.7.1
+ * add support for PostgreSQL 15
+ * typing fixes to work with latest type annotations from typeshed
+ * smaller improvements to documentation (thanks to @mausch)
+
+4.1.0
+
+ * switch to ICU tokenizer as default
+ * add housenumber normalization and support optional spaces during search
+ * add postcode format checking and support optional spaces during search
+ * add function for cleaning housenumbers in word table
+ * add updates/deletion of country names imported from OSM
+ * linked places no longer overwrite names from a place permanently
+ * move default country name configuration into yaml file (thanks @tareqpi)
+ * more compact layout for interpolation and TIGER tables
+ * introduce mutations to ICU tokenizer (used for German umlauts)
+ * support reinitializing a full project directory with refresh --website
+ * fix various issues with linked places on updates
+ * add support for external sanitizers and token analyzers
+ * add CLI commands for forced indexing
+ * add CLI command for version report
+ * add offline import mode
+ * change geocodejson to return a feature class in the 'type' field
+ * add ISO3166-2 to address output (thanks @I70l0teN4ik)
+ * improve parsing and matching of addr: tags
+ * support relations as street members of associatedStreet
+ * better ranking for address results from TIGER data
+ * adapt rank classification to changed tag usage in OSM
+ * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.6.0
+ * add typing information to Python code
+ * improve unit test coverage
+ * reorganise and speed up code for BDD tests, drop support for scenes
+ * move PHP unit tests to PHP 9.5
+ * extensive typo fixes in documentation (thanks @woodpeck,@StephanGeorg,
+ @amandasaurus, @nslxndr, @stefkiourk, @Luflosi, @kianmeng)
+ * drop official support for installation on CentOS
+ * add installation instructions for Ubuntu 22.04
+ * add support for PHP8
+ * add setup instructions for updates and systemd
+ * drop support for PostgreSQL 9.5
+
+4.0.1
+
+ * fix initialisation error in replication script
+ * ICU tokenizer: avoid any special characters in word tokens
+ * better error message when API php script does not exist
+ * fix quoting of house numbers in SQL queries
+ * small fixes and improvements in search query parsing
+ * add documentation for moving the database to a different machine
+
+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
+