Dear all,

Today, v5.3.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are deployed on the openstreetmap.org it will take a few days before all tiles show the new rendering. It may take longer than normal because there are significant deployment-related changes.

• External shapefiles for coastline and other data are now loaded into the database with a provided script.

• The recommended indexes are now required. Attempting to render without them will result in abysmal performance.

• amenity=embassy is no longer rendered, and office=diplomatic with diplomatic=embassy or diplomatic=consulate is instead.

• Mini-roundabouts are rendered like a turning circle.

• There is a new partial index for waterways

Anyone running their own install must run scripts/get-external-data.py and create the new indexes. People who are running with minutely diffs may be interested in https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/issues/386.

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including hiddewie, crimsondusk, pitdicker, and terminaldweller, new contributors.

For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v5.2.0…v5.3.0

As always, we welcome any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues