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

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)

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix occasional crash with geometry rubber bands

Note: on Windows, while the installer filename contains 2.8.5, the actual version is 2.8.2

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix altitude value for Happy's IMU measurements
• Fix detection of IMU measurements for Happy Mönch II devices

Note: on Windows, while the installer filename contains 2.8.5, the actual version is 2.8.2

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix geometry highlighter crash for certain polygons containing overlapping vertices
• Fix memory leaks when aborting an ongoing map canvas rendering operation

Note: on Windows, while the installer filename contains 2.8.5, the actual version is 2.8.2

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix /vsicurl/ data sources
• Fix show visible layer features action when the vector layer CRS does not match that of the project

Changes

✨ Improvements

• File association to support opening .mbtiles standalone datasets

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a narrow scenario when checkbox editor widget fails to toggle to False
• Fix compass direction not pointing towards north for a number of CRSes
• Fix copying of bookmark details into the clipboard

Changes

🚀 Features

• Sensors data handling (reading, writing to feature, tracking) within QField
• Skip the welcome screen and jump right into your last opened - or user-specified - project when launching QField
• Functionality to log NMEA streams to text field
• IMU correction for supported Happy GNSS devices
• Global map shading rendering support

✨ Improvements

• Greatly improved feature search for the value relation editor widget
• Draw in the bottom navigation bar when set to gesture mode
• Handle opening of individual datasets with mixed geometry layers
• Feature lists are now sorted, everywhere

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix occasional crash on exit which would leave temporary geopackage files (.wal) behind.

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Insure layer visibility is always properly reflected in the legend widget
• Fix checkbox editor widget not reflecting feature values
• Fix default value when tracking against point layers
• Fix HTML code in HTML-enabled multiline text editor widget

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Yet more bug fixing and stability improvements.

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• More bug fixing and stability improvements.

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Many, many fixes.

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Significant improvement in Bluetooth connection reliability
• Dark theme tweaks

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Slightly higher rotation kickstart threshold to avoid accidental rotation while pinch zooming
• Fix moving of features on rotated map canvas
• Fix 'invalid relation' on fields with valid relations
• Fix WFS provider on iOS

Changes

🚀 Features

• New action to import a dataset of compressed project from a remote URL (see documentation)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix digitizing of 3D points on shapefile datasets when not locked to current GNSS position

Changes

🚀 Features

• Map canvas rotation support (via pinch rotation gesture and mouse middle button)
• Audio and video attachment recording within the feature form
• Audio and video attachment playback within the feature form
• File attachment support added to the feature form
• User interface dark theme styling (defaulting to current system default on Android)
• User interface font scaling
• A completely revamped non-native camera featuring zoom support, flash toggle, GPS location metadata, and a much better interface

✨ Improvements

• Default value expressions relying on aggregate() now work properly within the feature form
• Image metadata values are now preserved when setting a maximum image size setting (via qfieldsync)
• Feature form’s field labels will now respect the color and style overrides defined in project files
• Upstream libraries updated, including brand new QGIS 3.30

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Vertical grid datasets containing spaces in their paths now working

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix freeze occurring when zooming to a 1-point vector layer
• Fix UUID editor widget not working when editable state is unchecked
• Fix parenting of serial port receiver
• Fix blurry 'show feature' button within the relation reference editor widget

🚀 New features

• A new external GNSS devices management system that allows users to save device 'presets' making it easier to switch from one device to another (#3768, funded by Deutsche Bahn)
• A new pair of TCP and UDP receivers to support streaming of NMEA positioning data over IP (#3770, funded by Deutsche Bahn)
• Ability to choose the measurement (M) value to attach to vertices when tracking positioning or when digitizing while locked to position (#3731)

✨ Improvements

• Greatly improved external GNSS device stability and reliability with new automated tests acting as safeguards against future regressions (#3771, #3781, funded by Deutsche Bahn)
• Points created on 3D layers are now always 3D (with Z set to NaN if missing)
• Shortcut to go to a QR Code encoded point with the 'geo:' prefix when scanning through the search bar
• Printing of map layouts and atlases on iOS now works

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix out-of-sync positioning device type combobox when adding a new device
• Fix photo orientation not respected when applying maximum image size setting
• Fix USB file transfer of photo attachments not working under some scenarios (involving creation of new directories)