March 8, 2024 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
- Project-defined tracking sessions activated on project load
- Background push and synchronization for cloud projects
- Automatically push pending changes to the cloud on a regular interval
- New undo/redo functionality allowing you to reverse undesired digitizing and feature editing
- Title and copyright decoration overlay on top of the map canvas
✨ Improvements
- Better progress feedback when downloading and synchronizing cloud projects
- Visual indicators of ‘newer’ cloud project available on the server in QField
- Relationship’s children can now be created prior to saving their parent feature
- Insure positioning precise view (i.e. stake-out) works on compass-less devices
- User interface polishing, including a brand new main menu layout
- Support for gpsd-served NMEA streams over TCP/UDP
- Updated several underlying libraries, including QGIS (v3.36) and Qt (v6.6.2)
🤖 Android improvements
- Massive re-work of native camera, gallery, and file opening activities unlocking proper OS activity overlay
January 16, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix missing translation strings
- Fix crash when opening a project via file association
January 15, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix crash when sending datasets which include sidecar files
- Fix occasional crash when opening a project when a previous project is already loaded
- Fix occasional crash when synchronizing a cloud project
January 13, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Improvements for dark mode
- Fix field expression-based constraint update logic
Android-specific improvements:
- Fix Android freezes when sending folders
iOS-specific improvements:
- Fix JPEG compression on iOS
What's Changed
- Fix confusing 'snap to 45 degree' toast when opening projects on QField launch
- Fix loading of symbologies and snapping from a modified project after having opened it once
- Fix finger tapping failures
- Fix lingering artifact when clearing navigation destination
- Fix coordinate cursor locked to position not sticking to position
- Fix lingering artifacts when cancelling geometry editor's fill ring and split feature tools
- Stability improvements
What's Changed
- Fix toggling of geometry editor type using the stylus
- Fix additional camera crashes
What's Changed
- Fix SSL-enabled postgis layer crash
January 11, 2024 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
- QField can now snap to common angles when digitizing lines and polygons
- Expression-driven locking of geometry per feature
- QField's QML camera now adds direction metadata alongside geographical information
- QField's QML also features a grid overlay
- Vertex editor has again a new undo mechanism and capability to select a vertex by finger tapping on the screen
@positioning_orientation
variable available when running on devices equipped with a compass
- Functionality to allow for non-cloud projects to be updated through a ZIP file containing refreshed and/or new datasets and project file
✨ Improvements
- Improvement on the rendering of the coordinate cursor and digitizing rubber bands to insure visibility against both light and dark backgrounds
- Screen lock improvements, including disabling interactions with the back button
- Significant stability improvements; in particular, a bad camera-related crash in the upstream Qt library has been resolved
- Better handling of camera, microphone, and location permissions
December 12, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix crash when using external GNSS devices, a regression caused by the permission handling changes.
Changes
✨ Improvements
- Update Sentry SDK to increase app stability.
December 11, 2023 QField releases
Changes
✨ Improvements
- Harmonized and improved feature form drawer width when adding new features
November 18, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
Full Changelog: v3.0.6...v3.0.7
November 2, 2023 QField releases
October 30, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix line and polygon highlight on rotated map canvas
- Fix display of feature form's HTML widget
- Fix corrupted Exif image orientation metadata when maximum image size setting is enabled
October 25, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix project load failure (i.e. blank canvas) for project containing font marker symbols
Full Changelog: v3.0.3...v3.0.4
October 23, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix crash with QML, HTML, and Text editor widget
- Fix resumption of tracks erase the last vertex of the previous session
- Fix fill ring geometry editor tool
- Fix QFieldCloud wrong password feedback mistaken for an expired session
Full Changelog: v3.0.2...v3.0.3
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix mouse clicks on map canvas blocked when feature {form,list} panel is visible
- Fix wrong screen DPI assigned to the map canvas (leading to tiny markers and fonts)
- Fix handling of hyperlinks in the feature form's text widget
- Fix oauth2 authentication not forgotten on app restart
Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v3.0.1
Changes
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix iOS release #4640
- Avoid feature form crashes when the configuration contains QML, HTML, or Text widgets #4639
- Fix relation child deletion button #4644
- Fix a glitch whereas feature form tabs overlap each other #4647
Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.0.2
October 9, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
General features:
- Near-Field Communication (NFC) text tag reading support
- The welcome screen’s recent projects list is now equipped with a map canvas preview
- New active layer feature search functionality in the top search bar
- New map canvas rendering quality setting to unlocked faster rendering speeds and lower memory usage at the cost of a slightly rendering quality reduction
- A list of feature(s) under which a long press has occurred is now appended to the map canvas menu with action shortcuts
- Relationship-related editor widgets now allows for zooming onto the child/parent within the feature form
- Layer credits are now displayed within the layer properties panel when available in opened projects
- Imperial and nautical scale bar support
- Feature form text widget support
Tracking features:
- New erroneous position safeguard defined as a maximum distance threshold
- Resumption of tracking across sessions
Digitizing features:
- New snapping button which allows users to toggle snapping on/off while digitizing
- New legend snapping badges when project is set up to advanced snapping mode
- Digitizing of geometry vertices through volume keys
- Brand new geometry editor’s eraser tool allowing users to remove parts of a geometry by drawing areas of deletion
✨ Improvements
QField built against Qt6:
- Dramatically improved Material theme used to style UI elements such as combo boxes
- Improved dark theme color scheme
- Improved internal positioning handling of satellite information
- Years worth of fixes and improves when compared to the previously used version
Quality of life improvements:
- The value relation editor widget has received several fixes and UX improvements
- When duplicating features, users are now asked to move the duplicated feature immediately
- Duplication of features will now copy any children of any existing relationships set to composition strength
- Missing project fonts are now downloaded in the background and automatically added into QField
- Labels visibility on vector tile layers can now be toggle on/off
- QField now exports layouts as PDFs on iOS
- Improvements in the handling of altitude with external GNSS receivers
- Countless optimizations have made QField’s UI smoother than ever
October 5, 2023 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
- Allow for tracking session to be resumed (inc. across QField restarts) (#4590)
- Implement digitizing through volume keys on Android devices (#4594)
- Brand new geometry editor' erase tool functionality (#4584)
- Brand new tracker functionality: maximum distance tolerance (#4589)
- Brand new search bar active layer feature matching functionality + UI/UX improvements (#4546)
- Implement near-field tag/target reading capability (#4539)