v9.0

New Quests

• Track type: What is the surface firmness of this track? (#959) by @ENT8R
• Underground building: Is this building completely underground? (#912)
• Traffic signals sounds: Are there sound signals for the blind here? (#1268, #574) by @matkoniecz
• Traffic signals button: Do these traffic lights have a button to request green light? (#1269, #574) by @matkoniecz
• Motorcycle parking capacity: How many motorcycles can be parked here? (#1181)
• Motorcycle parking covered: Is this motorcycle parking covered (protected from rain)?

Disabled Quests

• Disabled the max speed quest by default. You can re-enable it in the settings. Rationale and discussion: #1281

Enhanced Quests

• Max height: do not ask for pedestrian streets (#1261)
• Building levels:
  • also ask for cabins (#1248)
  • remember the last chosen values and offer to prefill the form with it
• Wheelchair: Add some more places to ask for wheelchair access
• Opening hours: Add some more places to ask for opening hours

Enhancements

• The app now deletes cached unsolved quests downloaded more than one month ago (#766)
• When exiting the quest details, return view position to where it was before (fixes #1257)
• Quest markers for some quests are now shown at the end of the street rather than the center (#733)

Fixes

• Opening hours quest: use "," instead of ";" to separate opening hours rules whose time extend to another day (#1292)

v9.0-beta1

New Quests

• Track type: What is the surface firmness of this track? (#959) by @ENT8R
• Underground building: Is this building completely underground? (#912)
• Traffic signals sounds: Are there sound signals for the blind here? (#1268, #574) by @matkoniecz
• Traffic signals button: Do these traffic lights have a button to request green light? (#1269, #574) by @matkoniecz
• Motorcycle parking capacity: How many motorcycles can be parked here? (#1181)
• Motorcycle parking covered: Is this motorcycle parking covered (protected from rain)?

Disabled Quests

• Disabled the max speed quest by default. You can re-enable it in the settings. Rationale and discussion: #1281

Enhanced Quests

• Max height: do not ask for pedestrian streets (#1261)
• Building levels:
  • also ask for cabins (#1248)
  • remember the last chosen values and offer to prefill the form with it
• Wheelchair: Add some more places to ask for wheelchair access
• Opening hours: Add some more places to ask for opening hours

Enhancements

• The app now deletes cached unsolved quests downloaded more than one month ago (#766)
• When exiting the quest details, return view position to where it was before (fixes #1257)
• Quest markers for some quests are now shown at the end of the street rather than the center (#733)

v8.4

New Translation

Galician by Iván Seoane

Enhancements

• use a better jpeg quality for photo upload (80 instead of 60)
• show tunnels semi-transparently on the map
• show barriers/gates on the map
• indicate the direction of one-way streets on the map
• render private/semi-private roads differently on the map
• make algorithm that decides how to interpret the weekdays given on a opening hours plate more intuitive

Fixes

• do not trigger automatic upload if not authorized yet (fixes #1253)
• avoid outputting lat/long coordinates in scientific notation because Overpass-API cannot parse this
• fix max height quest did not show for height restrictors and parking entrances (fixes #1245)

v8.3

New Translation

Asturian by Víctor Suárez

Enhancements

• Wheelchair quest: Also ask for arts centres (#1235) by @matkoniecz
• Tactile paving quest: Exclude crossings not for pedestrians (#1238) by @matkoniecz
• Cycleway segregation quest: do not ask for areas
• Oneway quest: Also ask for private roads that are still accessible on foot
• Maxspeed quest: do not ask for areas
• Maxheight quest: only consider heights lower than 1.9m as unusual
• Opening hours quest: Enhancement on the form
  • make all weekday rows deletable, months rows vanish when the last weekday row is deleted
  • require to insert first weekdays after changing to months mode (if no weekdays were specified before)
• Road name quest: do not ask for areas
• improve layout support for RTL languages (Arabic, Persian, ...)

Fixes

• Opening hours quest: if the phone's locale is on Arabic, do not use Arabic numbers for tagging opening hours times (#1234)
• fix IllegalArgumentException on Android Oreo and up when trying to auto-upload changes on application start

v8.2

Enhancements

• update translations
• performance improvements on cold start of the app (around 1 second less)
• in Spain, offer to add Asturian to street sign
• do not show maxspeed quests for roads that are tagged with zone:traffic
• do not show building level quest for underground buildings and man_made
• make the (other answers) context menu also look like a speech bubble (#1211)

Fixes

• fix black boxes sometimes being displayed in place of quest icons (#850)
• workaround bug in Android 5.0.x that results in a crash when rotating device to landscape mode
• workaround crash in AppCompat library for Android 7.x that results in a crash when tapping on a underlined in red word (because of the spellchecker)
• fix various possible exceptions when uploading

v8.1

• Building type quest: clarify that buildings constructed to house restaurants & co should also be tagged as retail (#1204)
• do not show quests for elements longer than 500m because users cannot be expected to survey such long ways (#1207)
• Performance improvement on rotating the screen (portrait / landscape) - should happen now almost instantaneously (#1217)
• fix detection in which country the user is located (#1215)
• auto upload also triggers whenever app comes back into foreground or the user creates a note (fixes #1206)

v8.0

UX Enhancements

• Redesign quest forms and dialogs to a new look (this is quite huge) (#1158)
• when leaving a note, it is done in the bottom sheet instead of in a dialog now so that you can still see the quest geometry
• solve performance problems when downloading quests (especially housenumbers and building types)
• only play sound effects when system setting for that is enabled (fixes #1187) and in "media" instead of "notification" stream (#1167)
• In notes, shortcut the link to the element to https://osm.org/way/... for better readability of notes left by SC users (#1178)
• tapping on the quest title now toggles expanding the quest to full size and back
• it is now again possible to attach photos to notes
• add "deselect all" button in the quest selection screen (#1203)

Quests

• new Railway crossing: How is this railway crossing protected?
• Redesign note discussion quest (new: avatars displayed also) to make it look like a chat
• Surface and building type quest: When tapping to expand a category, the view scrolls down to show the expanded items
• Cycleway quest: Exclude motorroads

Other & Bugfixes

• StreetComplete is now ready for GDPR-related changes made to the OSM api
• solve quest upload problem for quests on relations when phone locale is set to a Turkic language

v8.0-beta1

UX Enhancements

• Redesign quest forms and dialogs to a new look (this is quite huge) (#1158)
• when leaving a note, it is done in the bottom sheet instead of in a dialog now so that you can still see the quest geometry
• solve performance problems when downloading quests (especially housenumbers and building types)
• only play sound effects when system setting for that is enabled (fixes #1187) and in "media" instead of "notification" stream (#1167)
• In notes, shortcut the link to the element to https://osm.org/way/... for better readability of notes left by SC users (#1178)
• tapping on the quest title now toggles expanding the quest to full size and back
• it is now again possible to attach photos to notes

Quests

• new Railway crossing: How is this railway crossing protected?
• Redesign note discussion quest (new: avatars displayed also) to make it look like a chat
• Surface and building type quest: When tapping to expand a category, the view scrolls down to show the expanded items

Other & Bugfixes

• StreetComplete is now ready for GDPR-related changes made to the OSM api
• solve quest upload problem for quests on relations when phone locale is set to a Turkic language

v7.1

Prepare for map server maintenance. After that, the shown map will be current and loads faster.

v7.0

Un-Features:

• disabled support to put photos into notes, because framapic.org service has discontinued until further notice. (see #1161)
• expect hiccups and/or old maps being displayed in the coming week as the tileserver goes into maintenance and tiles from nextzen are displayed instead

New Quests:

• Playground access: Is this playground publicly accessible? (#1134) by @matkoniecz
• Max height: What is the height limit of this tunnel/parking entrance/height restrictor? (#960, #399, #421, #447) by @ENT8R
• Cycleway segregation: "How are the footway and cycleway laid out here?" (#527, #1135) by @matkoniecz

Enhanced Quests:

• Building type: Added toilets and sport centres to selectable building types (#1124, #1125)
• Max speed:
  • Added pictograms for living street signs in Portugal, France and Israel, added pictogram for slow zones in Israel and speed limit signs in general for Iceland, Sweden and Finland
  • Can now also add living streets in Israel and Azerbaijan and slow zones in Mauritius
  • Redesigned to force the user to make a deliberate choice to either specify what is written on the sign or state that there is no sign. Also, beautified the input for specifying slow zones (#1085, #1149)
• Road name: Detecting more abbreviations in Portuguese (#1143) by @xendez
• Housenumber:
  • Disabled for Italy (#714)
  • The app will not suggest that an input like "5,5a,6" may be wrong
• Postbox collection times: Allow marking the postbox as having no signed collection times (#1118, #1076 ) by @matkoniecz
• Opening hours: Allow marking a shop as having no signed opening hours (#1118) by @matkoniecz
• Any quest with selection of images: The last choices are remembered and displayed as first items (#1072, #73, #826)

Small Enhancements and Fixes:

• Orchard quest used to tag produce=tomatoe. Corrected to produce=tomato (#1171)
• Increase number of quests that are downloaded in one go (#1091)
• Undoing quests now removed quests that are no longer applicable because of that (#1131, #746)
• Fix crash on attaching a photo (#1144)
• Fix some quests were wrongly displayed as being disabled in France (#1150)
• Fix an error when downloading the oneway quest for roads tagged as areas
• Added a nice animation when solving a quest (amongst others #944)
• Better feedback when manually uploading changes, do only show the upload-button when autosync is off
• Show the blinking cursor within the housenumber, speed limit etc. input field signs (#1154)
• When exiting the quest details, always zoom back to the previous zoom (#965)
• The app will not automatically open the next quest for the element for which the user just answered the quest any more