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+4.4.0
+ * add export to SQLite database and SQLite support for the frontend
+ * switch to Python frontend as the default frontend
+ * update to osm2pgsql 1.11.0
+ * add support for new osm2pgsql middle table format
+ * simplify geometry for large polygon objects not used in addresses
+ * various performance tweaks for search in Python frontend
+ * fix regression in search with categories where it was confused with near
+   search
+ * partially roll back use of SQLAlchemy lambda statements due to bugs
+   in SQLAchemy
+ * fix handling of timezones for timestamps from the database
+ * fix handling of full address searches in connection with a viewbox
+ * fix postcode computation of highway areas
+ * fix handling of timeout errors for Python <= 3.10
+ * fix address computation for postcode areas
+ * fix variable shadowing in osm2pgsql flex script, causing bugs with LuaJIT
+ * make sure extratags are always null when empty
+ * reduce importance of places without wikipedia reference
+ * improve performance of word count computations
+ * drop support for wikipedia tags with full URLs
+ * replace get_addressdata() SQL implementation with a Python function
+ * improve display name for non-address features
+ * fix postcode validation for postcodes with country code
+   (thanks @pawel-wroniszewski)
+ * add possibility to run imports without superuser database rights
+   (thanks @robbe-haesendonck)
+ * new CLI command for cleaning deleted relations (thanks @lujoh)
+ * add check for database version in the CLI check command
+ * updates to import styles ignoring more unused objects
+ * various typo fixes (thanks @kumarUjjawal)
+
+4.3.2
+ * fix potential SQL injection issue for 'nominatim admin --collect-os-info'
+ * PHP frontend: fix on-the-fly lookup of postcode areas near boundaries
+ * Python frontend: improve handling of viewbox
+ * Python frontend: correct deployment instructions
+
+4.3.1
+ * reintroduce result rematching
+ * improve search of multi-part names
+ * fix accidentally switched meaning of --reverse-only and --search-only in
+   warm command
+
+4.3.0
+ * fix failing importance recalculation command
+ * fix merging of linked names into unnamed boundaries
+ * fix a number of corner cases with interpolation splitting resulting in
+   invalid geometries
+ * fix failure in website generation when password contains curly brackets
+ * fix broken use of ST_Project in PostGIS 3.4
+ * new NOMINATIM_SEARCH_WITHIN_COUNTRIES setting to restrict reverse lookups
+   to known countries (thanks @alfmarcua)
+ * allow negative OSM IDs (thanks @alfmarcua)
+ * disallow import of Tiger data in a frozen DB
+ * avoid UPDATE to change settings to be compatible with r/o DBs (thanks @t-tomek)
+ * update bundled osm2pgsql to 1.9.2
+ * reorganise osm2pgsql flex style and make it the default
+ * exclude names ending in :wikipedia from indexing
+ * no longer accept comma as a list separator in name tags
+ * process forward dependencies on update to catch updates in geometries
+   of ways and relations
+ * fix handling of isolated silent letters during transliteration
+ * no longer assign postcodes to large linear features like rivers
+ * introduce nominatim.paths module for finding data and libraries
+ * documentation layout changed to material theme
+ * new documentation section for library
+ * various smaller fixes to existing documentation
+   (thanks @woodpeck, @bloom256, @biswajit-k)
+ * updates to vagrant install scripts, drop support for Ubuntu 18
+   (thanks @n-timofeev)
+ * removed obsolete configuration variables from env.defaults
+ * add script for generating a taginfo description (thanks @biswajit-k)
+ * modernize Python code around BDD test and add testing of Python frontend
+ * lots of new BDD tests for API output
+
+4.2.3
+
+ * fix deletion handling for 'nominatim add-data'
+ * adapt place_force_delete() to new deletion handling
+ * flex style: avoid dropping of postcode areas
+ * fix update errors on address interpolation handling
+
+4.2.2
+
+ * extend flex-style library to fully support all default styles
+ * fix handling of Hebrew aleph
+ * do not assign postcodes to rivers
+ * fix string matching in PHP code
+ * update osm2pgsql (various updates to flex)
+ * fix slow query when deleting places on update
+ * fix CLI details query
+ * fix recalculation of importance values
+ * fix polygon simplification in reverse results
+ * add class/type information to reverse geocodejson result
+ * minor improvements to default tokenizer configuration
+ * various smaller fixes to documentation
+
+4.2.1
+
+ * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
+
+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)
+
+4.1.1
+
+ * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
+
+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
+
+4.0.2
+
+ * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
+
+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
+
+3.7.3
+
+ * fix XSS vulnerability in debug view
+
+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 with 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 boundaries 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 export 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 error 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 multiple 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