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🚀 Features

• Add a new positioning serial port receiver, unlocking external GNSS device over Bluetooth on windows via virtual serial port (#3806)

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a serious issue leading to corrupted graphics - such as missing combo box background colors - on old devices.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Geometry editor rubberband fix (#3709)
• Keep the feature form model alive when hiding form to digitize child geometry (#3705)

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix field constraints not ignored when field hidden
• Fix freeze on old devices when clicking the layer tree (or toggling editing on)
• Fix UI elements overlapping with bottom OS system bar
• Fix iOS native camera / gallery failing when destination directory does not exist
• Fix handling of unique constraints when adding child features in a newly-created parent feature
• Fix clipping of QFieldCloud password text input
• Fix checkbox editor widget regression

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix regression with QML and HTML containers not displaying in feature forms
• Fix initial extent when opening individual datasets with single-point (or multiple points at same location)

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Bluetooth scanning on devices running Android >= 12
• Fix multi-line text editor widget
• Fix wrong magnetic variation value with internal GNSS devices

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Feature form fixes and optimizations
• Nicer in-app QFieldCloud registration process

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix occasional crash when activating the measuring tool
• Further feature form stability fixes

🚀 New features

• Elevation profiling of terrain and layers (#3501)
• Multi-column support in feature form (#3518)
• Measuring tool display azimuth values (#3503)
• Locked screen mode to avoid accidental touches while QField is in your pocket (#3507)
• Customize number of items shown in the feature form’s relation editor widget (#3520)

✨ Improvements

• Handling of feature form group’s background color
• Improved viewing resolution of GeoPDFs and georeferenced PDFs datasets
• Font sizing on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
• NULL state for the feature form’s checkbox widget
• New feature handling of default values improved to match QGIS behavior

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix default value relying on positioning variables updated on feature edits
• Fix external GNSS receiver’s ellipsoidal elevation regression
• More feature form-related bugs addressed, simply too many to list

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix startup crash on iOS 16.1
• Fix QField-specific variables failure when features have default values set to apply on update

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix non-atlas printing to PDF (via the main menu)
• Avoid falling into an endless loop of default value updates

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✨ Usability improvements

• Added a documentation button in the 'About QField' popup linking to our growing documentation site.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed search bar's go to point feature partially broken when layer CRS doesn't match the project CRS

🐛 Bug fixes

• Further tweaks to sample projects to have them behave better outside of Europe

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix settings' external GNSS device combobox out of sync with positioning device on QField launch

QField 2.4 is out with a number of new features, usability improvements and bug fixes. This new release also marks the first non-beta version on iOS as QField maturity on the Apple devices has ground over the last few months.

🚀 Features

• Atlas-driven print layouts can now be printed through the main menu’s print to PDF menu
• Dragging of files onto an iOS device via USB Cable and iTune support
• First non-beta iOS release available to the public

✨ Usability improvements

• When sending or exporting datasets via the project folder, all sidecars will be taken into consideration (i.e you can send those edited shapefiles via your favorite email or messenger app)
• QFieldCloud’s projects are now better sorted and its community tab now functional
• Improvements to sample projects shipped with QField (have a look!)

🐛 Bug fixes

• QField greatly improved its automated testing framework, greatly decreasing the risks of regressions slipping into future releases
• QGIS-shipped SVG markers will now render properly within Qfield
• Freehand toggling with stylus fixed
• The changlelog popup doesn't overlap with the OS’ status bar anymore

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✨ What's Changed

• Update ios appstore certificates

Full Changelog: v2.3.4...v2.3.5

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✨ Usability Improvements

• Implement basic iOS local files / project support (#3325)
• Give a hint that the projects list is empty or being refreshed (#3293)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fetch public projects with a separate request to speed up users' cloud project list on login (#3303)
• Important fix to authentication manager to restore handling of 2 factor authentication (et cie) configuration (#3313)
• Fix crash when the layer is invalid (#3304)
• Fix dashboard buttons glitch on iOS (#3321)

Full Changelog: v2.3.2...v2.3.3

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix regression on some older devices whereas the side dashboard and the search bar buttons were mislocated outside of the screen

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🚀 Features

• QR code reader functionality (#3104, #3142)
• Position tracking on point layers (#3247)
• Layer properties action to show list of features visible on the current map extent (#3213)
• Symbol-level show features list action (#3261)
• Remember individual layers visibility and styling (opacity, labels visibility) across QField sessions (#3237)
• Setting to adjust screen dimmer timeout (#3265)
• QField Android & iOS now draws under the device’s top status bar (#3188)

✨ Usability Improvements

• Layer properties popup reorganizing (#3249)
• Topology editing toggle now visible when a point layer is active (#3273)
• The measuring tool now respects projects' distance and area units type (#3276)
• Further improvements to the stakeout/precise view panel (#3244)
• A pair of copy / paste actions for text attributes when the form is in editing mode (#3142)
• Significant iOS-specific improvements
• Windows specific improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix crash when entering geometry editing mode of a point layer (#3273)
• Fix hidden legend symbols identified when tapping on the map (#3262)
• Tons of stability improvements

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a very unpleasant crash on Windows and iOS