November 15, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix user interface language not respecting system locale when available
- Work around an upstream Qt crash when a value relations editor combo box pick leads to its container to be hidden
- Fix cloud attachments not uploaded immediately when hitting the synchronize button
- Fix layer login popup getting into the top / bottom system margins
- Fix initiating a tracking session with a feature form containing relations
- Fix geometry digitizing step missing when adding a relationship parent via the relationship combo box
- To avoid interference with snapping results when creating features using a mouse/stylus, do not reset coordinate cursor when rubber band is frozen
October 24, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Improve handling of captured photo's ratio and resolution
- Improve feature attribute pasting
- Optimize addition of child feature in a parent feature being edited
- Guard from potential crash when loading a project that requires authentication credentials
- Fix large files constantly being re-downloaded when synchronizing cloud projects
October 4, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Prevent feature form crash with blob attributes
- Fix regression with cloud project's synchronize and push buttons sometimes not responsive to clicks
- Fix multi-line handling of expressions within QML / HTML editor widgets
- Fix regression with value relation editor widget search bar not reacting to keystrokes with a number of virtual keyboards
- Update translations (thanks to our growing group of contributors!)
September 28, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix variable scoping error with relation editor widgets
- Enable WebSockets support in QField to benefit plugin authors
- Fix regression whereas feature multi-editing can lead to crash
- Some (micro) optimizations of feature form
- Fix crash occurring when the internal receiver is request permission while immediately replaced with external receiver on launch
- Insure that QField toasts appear above the virtual keyboard
- Fix missing + IMU in the quality description
- Allow for users to see and send NMEA logs produced by QField
September 13, 2024 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
- A nifty processing toolbox has been added into QField, with countless algorithms available to edit features and geometries while in the field
- Geofencing functionality has landed in QField, allowing users to use vector layers to define geofenced areas to warn users or restrict areas where digitizing can occur
- Project variables are now shown and customizable within the variable editor
- The ratio and resolution settings for photos captured by the QField camera
- Date and positioning details can be imprinted onto photos captured by the QField camera
✨ Improvements
- A visual revamp of the variables panel provides more space for variable content and easier interaction
- QField’s growing documentation is now searchable directly within QField through the search bar, simply type ? followed by keyword(s)
- Users can now flag folders as ‘favorites’ when browsing local datasets and projects
- The cloud projects list now comes with a nifty search bar
- Significant improvements in attachment upload to the QFieldCloud servers (if this was a problem in the past, try again!)
- Improvements to the QField camera geotagging functionality
- On mobile devices, the home screen has a shutdown button to insure authentication details are cleared
- Projects can now have a default active layer set for each map theme
🪟 Windows improvements
What's Changed
- Add orientation (aka compass direction) detail when watermarking/stamping photos
- Fix typo in stamping toaster notification
August 15, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix snapped coordinate cursors disappear under certain project/layer CRS conditions
- Fix value map and value relation editor widgets' handling of special characters (such as < and >)
- Harmonize handling of QField's multi-value relation editor widget with that of QGIS
- Insure that the orientation value is between 0 and 360 (instead of ~-90 to 270)
Full Changelog: v3.3.10...v3.3.11
August 10, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Multiple improvements to make cloud project attachments (photos, videos, audio clips, etc.) upload smoother
- Generated print and atlas layouts as well as photos can be pushed to QFieldCloud via the project folder panel
Full Changelog: v3.3.9...v3.3.10
August 8, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix handling of auto-generated FIDs in feature forms
- Fix current_parent_* expression values for (embedded) feature model
- Improve robustness of file path handling
Full Changelog: v3.3.8...v3.3.9
July 31, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix Value relation editor widget not auto-completing on second feature
- Fix settings' panel tabs not translatable
- Fix untranslatable map canvas menu item and install/upgrade message
- Fix value relation handling of group name display when multi-selection is enabled
- Make the About QField data directory location a clickable hyperlink when relevant
Full Changelog: v3.3.7...v3.3.8
July 21, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Improve legend's parent/children visual representation
- Insure that exif tags from photo being sketched are transferred onto the resulting drawing
- Fix regression with addition of relationship children against geopackages with FOREIGN KEY constraints
- Fix missing elevation profile chart labels
Full Changelog: v3.3.6...v3.3.7
July 5, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Expose functions for plugin authors to handle global, project, and layer variables
What's Changed
- Provider users with visual feedback when adding a child feature a slow/remote layer
- Avoid double-storing photos taken by QField when using the native camera
- Stabilize value map editor widget filtering
- Fix hard to read QFieldCloud server error reporting details
- Fix wrongly sized raster image decorator
- Fix missing cacert.pem to improve support for gdal's /vsicurl/ dataset access
June 22, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix value map editor widget's toggle buttons interface wrongly using value as button label description
Full Changelog: v3.3.3...v3.3.4
What's Changed
- Fix stylus usage on value relation list
- Fix
@cloud_*
expression variables
- Fix
@current_parent_*
default value not saved on child creation
- Make value map filtering case insensitive
- Many other small fixes
Full Changelog: v3.3.2...v3.3.3
June 18, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Insure that the vertex editor's generated geometries are compatible with the vector layer of the associated features
- Various plugin framework improvements
Full Changelog: v3.3.1...v3.3.2
June 7, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix https network connectivity regression in QField 3.3.0
June 6, 2024 QField releases
Changes
🚀 Features
- Drawing capabilities to sketch over photos taken in the field and annotate drawing templates
- Copy and pasting of feature attributes using the OS clipboard as well as a dedicated feature attribute transfer action
- Tap-on-canvas finger digitizing mode provides a faster way to enter points and vertices
- The feature form’s value relation widget gained grouping capabilities to enhance ordering of items
- The feature form’s value map widget gained a toggle buttons interface for faster data entry and an item filtering for large combobox lists
- Camera switcher now available in the ‘non-native’ camera allowing users to hop between the front and back camera as well as other available video devices
- Image decoration overlay on top of the map canvas
- Plugin framework to empower users to customize QField using Javascript & QML
✨ Improvements
- Layers visibility and opacity can now be changed during ongoing digitizing of geometries
- Visibility and collapsing/expanding buttons added to the dashboard legend
- Information overlays revamped to sit on top of the map canvas alongside a refined styling to better focus on displayed details
- Information overlays now respect projects’ distance unit type when reporting altitude and distance to destination details
- The feature form will now respect projects’ ‘reuse last entered value’ setting as configured through QGIS when digitizing new features
- Map canvas rotation can be frozen by long-pressing on the map canvas and unchecking the map rotation menu item
- Geometry editing tools such as reshape now respect snapping to angle functionality
- Elevation profile overlay gained a beautiful dark theme styling variant
- Significant stylus handling improvements
- Large set of library updates - including QGIS (3.36.3) and Qt (6.6.3) – resulting in a stabler experience
🪟 Windows improvements
- Support for direct Bluetooth communication to external GNSS devices
- Windows packages are now signed
🍎 iOS improvements
- Support for reading a PostgreSQL pg_service.conf file placed in the QField application data folder
March 30, 2024 QField releases
What's Changed
- Fix typo leading to erroneous geotagging of photos
- Fix autopush timer interval value
- Fix handling of empty string in the value relation editor widget
- Performance boost when downloading packages from QFieldCloud servers
- Fix last averaged position not taken into account when digitizing
- Fix readability issue with the busy indicator message string
- Fix positioning information panel not respecting project distance unit type for altitude and accuracy
What's Changed
- Fix a QFieldCloud synchronization issue with geometryless layers.
- Fix a number of file attachments wrongly identified as display images (e.g. dxf).