+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
* 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
+ * 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