v2.42.0

[tyrasd]

📣 Release Highlights

• highway=tracks are now rendered using different styles depending on the mapped tracktype:
  
• Background layers are grouped together when they look like yearly variants of the same source:
  
• You can now use the circularize operation also on a set of multiple ways when they form a closed loop:
  
• The follow operation (F key) is now more useful in more situations, e.g. when mapping a new area along a set of connected (e.g. landuse) areas:
  

📰 News

• Update id-tagging-schema to version 7, allowing to add more detailed information to be defined for presets and fields, adding pinhead icon set, and unlocking additional functionality to be implemented for presets in the future (switch to id-tagging-schema v7 #12358)

✨ Usability & Accessibility

• Render highway=track using different styles depending on the tracktype (Add track grade-based styling #12392, thanks @RudyTheDev)
• Display radio field options in a two-column layout if there is insufficient space for them in a single line (introduce two-column layout for radio fields #12455)
• Add dedicated pattern for landuse=flowerbed features (Add flowerbed flower pattern #12458, thanks @RudyTheDev)
• Apply most recently used preset when immediately pressing Enter in the preset list (Allow quick reuse of preset by allowing <enter> to select the first in the preset list also when no other characters were typed #12526)
• Prioritize parent relations of connected features in relation membership dropdown list (feat: Prioritize parent relations of connected features in relation dropdown menu #11896, thanks @bhavyaKhatri2703)
• Link *:wikidata tags to wikidata in suggested tag upgrade list (Link wikidata when NSI proposes to add brand:wikidata= #12531)
• Group related background layers when they look like yearly variants of the same source (group background layers with multiple (e.g. yearly) variants #12561)
• Render cemetery section areas with a thinner outline to easier select underlying cemetery area (Cemetery sectors #12569)

✂️ Operations

• Allow circularize operation also when multiple selected ways form a closed loop (allow circularizing of a multiple unclosed ways forming a loop #12457)
• Allow follow operation in more situations (e.g. when there are multiple coincident ways to follow) (allow follow ways if there are already two ways sharing the same nodes #9340, thanks @jguddas), or when appending a line from its start node (Follow tool does not work correctly when a line is continued from it's starting point #9734)

✅ Validation

• Show which field (or tag) produced an invalid URL validation message (show field label (or tag key) in invalid URL validation message #12449)
• Fix false positive in oneway road detection when secondary oneway tags (like piste:type=downhill) are present (One-way road unreachable or no outlet warning when ski trail and road share a way #8724)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix radio fields being always in single line mode when feature was selected while sidebar was collapsed (Collapse radio fields only after labels are loaded #12454)
• Fix undo and remove buttons for multiCombo fields (Fix multi-combo field remove and undo buttons not working #12406, thanks @RudyTheDev)
• Fix a crash when cancelling drawing a line while hovering other features with a directionalCombo field (Crash after cancelling line #12467)
• Prevent duplicate values from being added to 'semiCombo' fields when there is whitespace surrounding the semicolon (fix semiCombo adding duplicate values due to weird whitespace #12623)
• Make sure rendering of truncated address labels does not result in broken unicode characters (Avoid splitting surrogate pairs when shortening address labels #12511, thanks @greymoth-jp)
• Do not select start/end vertex of an area or closed way multiple times when selecting all vertices of a way using the keyboard shortcut (Fix child node selection of ways repeating node selection #12586, thanks @RudyTheDev)
• Fix vertices of multipolygons not being movable in some special circumstances (fix multipolygon nodes unable to be moved #10120, thanks @k-yle)
• Fix minor bugs with the country and language input fields (fix minor bugs with the country and language input field #12652, thanks @k-yle)
• Fix a condition where a modified node was falsely categorized as deleted in the changeset summary when it was changed from a point to a vertex geometry (Node wrongly marked as deleted when connected to a way and changed #12709)

🌏 Localization

• Improve some edge cases of rendering of mixed right-to-left and left-to-right text (Direction of overlay and underly imagery entries #8713)
• When labelling features, match locale codes like zh-CN to name tags like name:zh-Hans (consider name:* tags with the full locale code when labelling features #10911, thanks @k-yle)
• The autocomplete for changeset comments now supports mobile devices, and keyboard layouts with dead keys or IME popups (don't autocomplete while isComposing #12565, thanks @k-yle)

🚀 Presets

• For radio fields: show "unknown" values (that don't match one of the specified radio options) as a temporary placeholder raw value option (radio fields should show tags that are set to an "invalid" value #12082)
• Show tooltips with tag values (and descriptions if available) for options of radio and check fields (thanks @bhavyaKhatri2703)

🔨 Development

• Fix unit tests failing with nodejs v26 (Fix tests for node 26 #12401, thanks @brianstrauch)
• Remove the unused lane parsing code, which was left over from an unfinished lane editor and was not reachable from any preset (Delete the unused lane parsing code #12664, thanks @wantaekchoi)
• Converted a number of source code files from javascript to typescript (thanks @k-yle)

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