What's Changed

• feat(water): per-cell water depth carving by @louis-e in #1054
• Fix PR Benchmark to measure the PR head by @louis-e in #1056
• Bake chunk lighting so generated worlds load lit by @louis-e in #1055
• feat(3d): add Christ the Redeemer manual-overlay model by @louis-e in #1062
• fix(overture): resolve STAC release dynamically via /catalog.json by @louis-e in #1063
• Feat/survival prep by @louis-e in #1065
• Feat/stadium archetype by @louis-e in #1069
• feat: aeroplanes on runways + marked, width-aware runways by @louis-e in #1072
• perf(world_editor): single-traversal write on the default no-override path by @rzmo in #1067
• refactor(world_editor): dedup set-if-absent write helpers by @louis-e in #1073
• perf(world_editor): parallelize Bedrock chunk encoding by @louis-e in #1074
• ci: add duplicate issue finder (comment-only) by @louis-e in #1075
• ci: harden + fix duplicate issue finder (sandbox tools) by @louis-e in #1077
• ci: issue bot — add grounded resolution hint by @louis-e in #1079
• ci: build a self-contained Linux AppImage in the release workflow by @louis-e in #1081
• Perf/large area scaling by @louis-e in #1095
• feat(gui): self-calibrating ETA, progress overhaul, --benchmark instrumentation by @louis-e in #1100
• chore(deps): bump serde_json from 1.0.149 to 1.0.150 by @dependabot[bot] in #1087
• build(deps): bump rusqlite from 0.33.0 to 0.40.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1085
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #1082
• build(deps): bump rfd from 0.16.0 to 0.17.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1084
• Batch elevation tile downloads to avoid stalling on large bboxes by @TonyD365 in #1060
• fix: drop overflowing corner-coordinate sums (i32 add-overflow crash) by @louis-e in #1101
• Feat/layered water beds underwater vegetation by @louis-e in #1102
• Bays and Marinas by @CrashLogger in #984
• Feat/parking visual upgrade by @louis-e in #1103
• feat(highways): scale road width with lane count by @louis-e in #1104
• fix(trees): always cap the trunk top with an apex leaf by @louis-e in #1105
• fix(water): don't snap the water level across a real cliff by @louis-e in #1106
• Feat/elevation snow line by @louis-e in #1107
• fix(datapack): support Minecraft 1.21.4 through 26.1.x by @louis-e in #1109
• feat(gui): add a subtle modern sheen animation to the progress bar by @louis-e in #1111
• fix(gui): stop false 'Not enough disk space' on a bogus 0-byte reading (#824) by @louis-e in #1113
• Prepare v2.9.0 release by @louis-e in #1112

New Contributors

• @rzmo made their first contribution in #1067
• @TonyD365 made their first contribution in #1060
• @CrashLogger made their first contribution in #984

What's Changed

• Feature/building rendering overhaul by @louis-e in #1010
• Resolve bridges into structures with approach-ramp detection by @louis-e in #1013
• Render rail bridges as proper structures and stop lifting unlabelled bridge decks by @louis-e in #1014
• Filter ignored OSM tags at parse time to reduce memory by @louis-e in #1015
• Use cumulative cell index for at-grade rail sleeper spacing by @louis-e in #1016
• Add bridge style rendering from bridge:structure / bridge tags by @louis-e in #1023
• Switch IGN France to HIGHRES (RGE ALTI) WMS layer by @louis-e in #1027
• Saturate Ground::slope subtraction by @louis-e in #1030
• Pin transitive nbtx to unblock cargo update by @louis-e in #1031
• Bump parquet from 53.4.1 to 58.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1005
• Bump geo from 0.32.0 to 0.33.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1002
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2 to 3 by @dependabot[bot] in #1001
• Extract CI Linux setup into a composite action by @louis-e in #1032
• Add release-notes modal with auto-open per new version by @louis-e in #1033
• Feat/osm water and bridge shoreline by @louis-e in #1037
• Feat/3dmr models by @louis-e in #1038
• Feat/openfreemap vector basemap by @louis-e in #1040
• Restore src/gui/locales/en.json as symlink to en-US.json by @louis-e in #1041
• Feat/wikidata 3d models by @louis-e in #1039
• Make cherry trees rarer and fix iron roof stair color by @louis-e in #1042
• Suppress outlines of building relations whose members are sub-relations by @louis-e in #1044
• Fetch type=building relations from Overpass (fixes #1011) by @louis-e in #1045
• Add experimental Luanti/Mineclonia world export (continues #808) by @louis-e in #1046
• Prepare v2.8.0 release by @louis-e in #1047

New Contributors

• @3rd3 made their first contribution in #808

What's Changed

• Better traffic lights by @luigi052005 in #901
• Add banner decorations for hospitals, tourism info boards, and fire hydrants by @louis-e in #906
• Park bench by @luigi052005 in #910
• Feature/subway tunnels by @louis-e in #918
• Revert Block.id from u16 to u8 to fix ~360MB memory regression by @louis-e in #919
• Add --benchmark flag to measure generation time without network latency by @louis-e in #922
• Bump rand from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3 in the cargo group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #927
• Redesign GUI: connected button block, settings modal improvements, and cleanup by @louis-e in #943
• Show world name on Start Generation button and clean up on fetch failure by @louis-e in #951
• Refactor overpass endpoint selection order by @louis-e in #956
• Add multi-source elevation pipeline with terrain improvements by @louis-e in #939
• Fix Overpass request user agent by @neonxsl in #961
• Bump README copyright range to 2026 by @louis-e in #964
• Restore wide-road pre-flatten performance via median caching + FNV map by @louis-e in #965
• Halve peak grid storage: f32 for elevation heights + water blend by @louis-e in #966
• Per-chunk ground-Y cache + recalibrate CI benchmark baseline by @louis-e in #967
• Auto-gable more building types, add roof synonyms, weeds on dirt by @louis-e in #973
• Fix USGS 3DEP seams by switching to a fixed global Mercator tile grid by @louis-e in #971
• Perf/arc floodfill cache by @louis-e in #963
• Reduce primary-provider retry budget to 3 attempts total by @louis-e in #975
• Rebase #882: unify surfaces and add multi-lane markings onto main by @louis-e in #974
• Extend build height via bundled datapack (Java) and behavior pack (Bedrock) by @louis-e in #976
• Bump rustls-webpki from 0.103.10 to 0.103.12 in the cargo group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #953
• Telemetry cleanup: fix UTF-8 panic, drop noise, sharpen signal by @louis-e in #977
• Revert accidental rand 0.9.3 -> 0.10.1 bump by @louis-e in #978
• feature: add amenity:drinking_water by @iluminatiftw in #931
• Hanging traffic signals by @luigi052005 in #920
• Fix cargo fmt by @louis-e in #979

New Contributors

• @luigi052005 made their first contribution in #901
• @neonxsl made their first contribution in #961
• @iluminatiftw made their first contribution in #931

What's Changed

• Fix server compatibility: use modern post-1.18 chunk format by @louis-e in #855
• Update landuse.rs by @BOBJOEx11g in #859
• Feature/building improvements by @louis-e in #872
• Prevent tree canopies from clipping into buildings by @xCipHanD in #861
• chore(deps): bump tauri from 2.10.2 to 2.10.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #867
• chore(deps): bump nbtx from 551c38a to bd28e77 by @dependabot[bot] in #866
• chore(deps): bump clap from 4.5.60 to 4.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #865
• chore(deps): bump rusty-leveldb from 3.0.3 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #864
• feat: expand landuse mappings for coastal, industrial, and rural areas by @BOBJOEx11g in #860
• Fix broken nbtx by @louis-e in #879
• Add map rotation feature with GUI slider and CLI support by @louis-e in #876
• Add Overture Maps building data integration by @louis-e in #886
• Added Slovenian localization by @anderlli0053 in #880
• Don't generate zebra crossings for unmarked crossings by @andersmmg in #877
• Replace black_concrete roads with scattered gray_concrete_powder/cyan_terracotta mix by @louis-e in #887
• Fix/height limit checkbox by @louis-e in #890
• Fix triangular artifacts from polygon clipping and open polyline flood fill by @louis-e in #891
• Fix map layout to fill window and reduce private.coffee timeout by @louis-e in #892
• Fix visual appearance of Utah State Capitol building by @louis-e in #894
• Add Improvements to README.md by @QuickMash in #826
• fix(railways): respect layer tag and use ascending rails on terrain slopes by @wabalabudabdab in #807
• fix: allow CLI to create new world in non-existent directory by @JasonOA888 in #800
• Reduce Gaussian blur to preserve mountain terrain detail by @louis-e in #896
• Implement tunnel=building_passage support by @louis-e in #895
• Prepare v2.6.0 release by @louis-e in #897

New Contributors

• @anderlli0053 made their first contribution in #880
• @andersmmg made their first contribution in #877
• @QuickMash made their first contribution in #826
• @wabalabudabdab made their first contribution in #807
• @JasonOA888 made their first contribution in #800

• Add spawn point CLI args and support disabling interior/roof/city-bou… by @louis-e in #772
• Add background video link to README by @louis-e in #773
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #765
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #766
• Bump geo from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #767
• Bump clap from 4.5.57 to 4.5.60 by @dependabot[bot] in #768
• Bump rusty-leveldb from 3.0.3 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #769
• Bump tempfile from 3.24.0 to 3.26.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #770
• Bump indicatif from 0.17.11 to 0.18.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #771
• Bump aws-lc-sys from 0.37.0 to 0.37.1 in the cargo group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #775
• fix: resolve breaking changes from geo 0.32 and rusty-leveldb 4 bumps by @louis-e in #783
• UI/remove zoom buttons by @louis-e in #785
• fix: guard against empty height_grid in fill_nan_values and filter_elevation_outliers by @louis-e in #786
• fix: handle StorageFull and I/O errors in Java world save instead of panicking by @louis-e in #787
• UI/area size warning levels by @louis-e in #788
• fix: elevation smoothing artifacts for small bboxes and search double fire by @louis-e in #789
• fix: show user-friendly error messages for Overpass API HTTP failures by @louis-e in #831
• Fix/elevation tile cache corruption by @louis-e in #832
• fix: set consistent User-Agent header on all HTTP clients by @louis-e in #834
• Fix/http client improvements by @louis-e in #835
• Feat/esa worldcover poc by @louis-e in #838
• memory-fix by @pingpongmury in #793
• Fix minor stuff by @louis-e in #847
• refactor: extract ground generation into dedicated module by @louis-e in #848
• perf: optimize bedrock save speed + fix block direction mappings by @louis-e in #850
• Update leisure.rs by @BOBJOEx11g in #839
• Add Japanese locale and language option by @AI-Avalon in #843
• Portuguese (Brazil) language support by @RenanOSX in #841
• Deleted duplicate comment by @summeringpainting in #806
• chore(deps): bump lz4_flex from 0.11.5 to 0.11.6 in the cargo group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #792
• Prepare v2.5.1 release by @louis-e in #852

New Contributors

• @pingpongmury made their first contribution in #793
• @BOBJOEx11g made their first contribution in #839
• @AI-Avalon made their first contribution in #843
• @RenanOSX made their first contribution in #841
• @summeringpainting made their first contribution in #806

What's Changed

• Minor fixes and improvements by @louis-e in #721
• set generate_features to 1 in level.dat nbt template by @amir16yp in #662
• Add recycling containers (and ability to add entities during world generation) by @wielandb in #675
• Change what trees are generated based on tag content by @wielandb in #676
• Improve saving by @louis-e in #730
• Add boundaries for city ground blocks by @louis-e in #731
• Copy coordinates on right click by @louis-e in #732
• More processors by @louis-e in #736
• Bump tauri-plugin-shell from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #734
• Bump bytes from 1.9.0 to 1.11.1 in the cargo group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #738
• Buildings improvement by @louis-e in #742
• Logic changes and fixes by @louis-e in #744
• security: Update time to 0.3.47 and reqwest to 0.13.2 (Dependabot fixes) by @louis-e in #745
• chore: merge all dependency upgrades and fix critical security vulnerability by @louis-e in #746
• Fixed nix flake by @MysaaJava in #689
• perf: reduce peak RAM via BlockStorage enum, flood fill bitmap, and ground generation optimization by @louis-e in #747
• Building parts by @louis-e in #748
• Fix building multipolygon ring assembly and roof rendering by @louis-e in #749
• Remove boundary relation support by @louis-e in #751
• Increase chances for building feature generation by @louis-e in #752
• Replace water inverse floodfill with scanline rasterization by @louis-e in #753
• Remove elevation warning telemetry msg by @louis-e in #754
• Prepare release v2.5.0 by @louis-e in #755
• Support multipolygon building holes and fix indoor highway bridges by @louis-e in #756

New Contributors

• @MysaaJava made their first contribution in #689

What's Changed

• Disable transparent flag by @louis-e in #661
• Fix world lock held during map preview generation by @louis-e in #663
• Allow only one bbox selection at a time by @louis-e in #664
• build(deps): bump rfd from 0.15.4 to 0.16.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #684
• build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 5 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #683
• build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #682
• fix: skip session lock for bedrock world generation by @louis-e in #685
• fix: clamp Y coords and ensure region dir exists by @louis-e in #686
• Disk space check by @louis-e in #687
• Prallelize AWS terrain tile downloads by @louis-e in #688
• Use Arc for WorldEditor ground reference by @louis-e in #690
• Stream OSM parsing and reduce cloning by @louis-e in #692
• Release memory on a few occasions by @louis-e in #694
• perf: improve ground generation cache locality by @louis-e in #695
• Add multithreaded precomputation of floodfill by @louis-e in #696
• Afterfixes for floodfill precomputation by @louis-e in #698
• Streaming save and memory reduction by @louis-e in #699
• Implement more realistic elevation by @louis-e in #702
• Send proper error for no internet by @louis-e in #703
• Fix spawn point Y coordinate update for longitude values outside ±90° by @Copilot in #660
• UI improvements by @louis-e in #707
• Add default spawn point by @louis-e in #708
• Add UI tooltips and move bbox info box by @louis-e in #710
• Lookup building footprint in tree generation by @louis-e in #711
• UI refactor by @louis-e in #712
• Revert sequential streaming saving since generation speed was affected by @louis-e in #714

What's Changed

• Crash telemetry collection by @louis-e in #630
• build(deps): bump geo from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #619
• build(deps): bump tokio from 1.47.0 to 1.48.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #618
• Fix no-default-features build by @louis-e in #638
• Reintroduce Sutherland-Hodgman Clipping Algorithm by @louis-e in #640
• Display map preview in GUI by @louis-e in #647
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #643
• build(deps): bump semver from 1.0.26 to 1.0.27 by @dependabot[bot] in #644
• Add date time in benchmark comment by @louis-e in #649
• Mock map preview emit for CLI builds by @louis-e in #650
• fix: correct disabled icon positions for 7-sprite 2x sheet by @louis-e in #651
• Bedrock support by @louis-e in #653
• Prepare release v2.4.0 by @louis-e in #654

• Update README.md by @sralmai in #532
• Add comprehensive taginfo.json for OSM tag documentation by @louis-e in #535
• Refine elements based on taginfo feedback by @louis-e in #555
• build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #553
• build(deps): bump tauri-build from 2.3.1 to 2.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #548
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #552
• build(deps): bump fastanvil from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #551
• build(deps): bump tempfile from 3.20.0 to 3.21.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #550
• build(deps): bump semver from 1.0.24 to 1.0.26 by @dependabot[bot] in #549
• Implement faulty elevation tile cache detection crash by @louis-e in #556
• Add rollercoasters by @louis-e in #557
• Replace entity blocks in building interior generation for lag reduction by @louis-e in #558
• fix dynmap, and maybe other things by @scd31 in #534
• Add latvian language by @freeutka in #536
• Nix development fix/improvements by @scd31 in #533
• Metadata by @scd31 in #563
• Clean up root directory by @louis-e in #566
• feat: add elevated highways with layer-based elevation by @louis-e in #561
• Temporarily disable benchmark workflow by @louis-e in #579
• Use manual % check since is_multiple_of() is unstable on stable Rust by @louis-e in #581
• Fix indentation by @louis-e in #582
• Fix rivers by @scd31 in #586
• build(deps): bump tempfile from 3.21.0 to 3.23.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #589
• build(deps): bump tauri from 2.7.0 to 2.8.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #590
• build(deps): bump fastnbt from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #592
• Fix ground crash by @louis-e in #626
• Fix stuck at 70% generation by @louis-e in #627
• Terrain only mode by @louis-e in #628
• Prepare release 2.3.1 by @louis-e in #629

• @sralmai made their first contribution in #532
• @freeutka made their first contribution in #536

• Buildings Overhaul by @louis-e in #465
• Migrate from Mapbox to AWS Terrain Tiles by @louis-e in #493
• Switch map provider from Mapbox to OSM by @louis-e in #456
• Add city search box to map with geocoding support by @louis-e in #496
• Implement wetlands by @Oleg4260 in #430
• Optimize ground generation + new natural elements by @Oleg4260 in #421
• Add support for more natural elements by @louis-e in #492
• Implement Sutherland-Hodgman algorithm for element clipping by @louis-e in #491
• Better waterway parsing by @louis-e in #494
• Castle materials by @louis-e in #529
• Make leaves persistent to stop hedges from decaying by @wielandb in #334
• Added ores generation in quarries + other changes by @Oleg4260 in #337
• Some improvements for the generation by @Oleg4260 in #403
• Minor improvements to farmland code by @Oleg4260 in #414
• Update barrier generation by @GMart in #466
• Update leisure and highway element processing by @GMart in #425
• Fix scaling of roads and building heights by @GMart in #444
• Minor element generation enhancements by @louis-e in #530
• Open up a map editing architecture in the workflow for transformation, and enables generating at non-origin by @XianlinSheng in #409
• Select spawn position using marker by @louis-e in #461
• Update spawn point Y coord according to terrain by @louis-e in #513
• Deprecate ground level input by @louis-e in #508
• Add map themes to settings by @louis-e in #512
• Implement #343: Allow window to be resizable by @louis-e in #528
• Add Discord button link to settings by @louis-e in #527
• Add new desktop icon by @louis-e in #462
• Add a XDG desktop file by @TheComputerGuy96 in #354
• GUI Settings refactored languages by @louis-e in #487
• Minor GUI Fixes by @louis-e in #506
• Add Arabic language by @Salmonings in #287
• Add translation for French (France) by @Phantomwise in #396
• Add Hungarian translation by @Xatresu in #346
• Update Chinese translation by @xCipHanD in #398
• Update Russian translation by @Denisskas in #324
• Update Polish translation by @krvstek in #317
• Update Lithuanian translation by @TheComputerGuy96 in #336
• Update Finnish translation by @HelleBenjamin in #411
• Remove winter mode as discussed in issues/415 by @louis-e in #422
• Add landuse for quarry and landfills + add one advice in FAQ by @Oleg4260 in #333
• Add man_made tagged elements by @louis-e in #495
• Refactor tree generation by @benjamin051000 in #335
• Change functions returning vecs to global arrays. by @benjamin051000 in #340
• Set terrain arg to store true. by @benjamin051000 in #374
• Formal BBox struct by @benjamin051000 in #377
• Simplify elevation retrieval in each element processor by @louis-e in #423
• Fixes for pull/423 by @Oleg4260 in #426
• Small data retrieval improvements by @akx in #446
• Data parsing fixes by @akx in #450
• Some overflow fixes by @akx in #451
• Terrain fixes by @akx in #452
• Elevation crop mapping fix by @louis-e in #505
• Fix expired mapbox token by @louis-e in #454
• Fix #486: Map not loading due to GPU driver conflicts by @louis-e in #524
• Add automatic HTTP fallback for HTTPS tile loading failures by @louis-e in #525
• Fix MacOS builds by @louis-e in #520
• Fix MacOS CI universal release builds by @louis-e in #522
• Remove gui-only deps when building cli by @benjamin051000 in #321
• Move GUI logic to its own file by @benjamin051000 in #416
• CI: Add cache action to preserve build artifacts. by @benjamin051000 in #417
• ci: run cargo test by @benjamin051000 in #376
• CI: fix benchmark time to not include build by @akx in #457
• Small CI fixes by @akx in #447
• docs(README): add Arch Linux installation instructions by @adamperkowski in #113
• Revert improvement by @louis-e in #412
• Revert to second dirt addition line by @louis-e in [https://github.com//pull/420](htt...