After a short hiatus due to bug #3614 in JOSM I'm finally able to continue adding Australian postcodes, this was actually fixed a day or so ago but I was distracted by real life.

This bug was actually quite nasty, any ways joining another way would then cause them not to be displayed, which resulted in me erroneously adding boundaries to OSM that already existed.

I've since fixed those mistakes but there was a number of other people getting tripped up on the same bug so I wonder how much other damage was caused, or if people also thought the DB had been vandalised as a result.

That's the perils for those running bleeding edge code I guess, although I'm not sure how the JOSM team determine when a version is stable. Does anyone know if they put a feature freeze on things before a new stable version is due to be released?