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What's Changed

Fix handling of groups within the value relation editor widget
Re-allow the addition of children when hard constraints of their parent features are not yet met
Insure that repository-installed plugins can be disabled across sessions
Fix first discovered Bluetooth device missing its address in the combo box
Be slightly more resilient to weird expression-driven values with our date editor widget
Fix value relation crash when searching for values and returning no matches

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.7.5...v3.7.6

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Published by nirvn 6 months ago

What's Changed

Insure that feature history plays well with buffered transaction groups' project transaction mode
Fix additional value relation regressions
Fix delete holes algorithm gone missing from the processing toolbox

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.7.4...v3.7.5

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Published by nirvn 6 months ago

What's Changed

Properly restore user-activated plugin on relaunch
Fix several value relation editor widget regressions
Fix misrepresenting a cloud project as locally available when download was not completed

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Published by nirvn 6 months ago

What's Changed

Fix undo/redo buttons not working when adding/deleting features on a layer with join(s)
Fix tracking not creating tracks after first track stopped
Insure margins are properly set when scene is fully loaded
Translation updates

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Published by nirvn 7 months ago

What's Changed

Expose map canvas point handler item to plugins
Fix feature list extent controller's lack of layer-to-project CRS transformation
Provide users more details when delta file wrapper is in error state
Avoid caching issues with QFieldCloud leading to outdated package files
Fix data-defined feature form properties (such as editable) not initializing properly
Improvements on recent changes in the referencing feature list model and value relation feature list model
Insure that various actions in QField (such as feature duplication, feature attributes transfers, etc.) do not lead to duplicate source primary key values
Fix image stamping when the project property is not null but an empty string

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Published by nirvn 7 months ago

What's Changed

Fix cloud project attachments always on-demand
Fix cloud project auto push's customized interval not respected
Fix NMEA logging on mobile devices
Fix default ordering of relationship editor widget's children list

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Published by nirvn 7 months ago

Changes

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🚀 Features

Photo details stamping is now fully customizable from the font size and color to the possibility of adding an image overlay to brand photos taken within QField
The plugin manage now offers a currated list of available plugins to ease discovery and installation
The lock geometry functionality has been disaggregated into four distinct permissions: feature addition, attribute editing, geometry editing, and feature deletion can be allowed or denied separately
The value relation editor widget now supports multiple column display and has a search bar to filter through long value lists
Feature identification on the map canvas now supports vector tile layers

✨ Improvements

A new notification badge attached to the main menu button located on the top-left corner of the screen to let users better keep track of QFieldCloud project changes
The download of large cloud project files will now resume instead of restarting when recovering from loss of connectivity
The ordering of the child features list within the feature form's relationship editor widget can now be reversed
Imported remote WebDAV directories can now have customized folder names
Improved scanning of nearby Bluetooth devices
Dependency updates including QGIS 3.44.1

🧩 Plugin framework

Ability to add a search prefix description for plugins that integrate into the search bar

🏆 New Contributors

@Joonalai made their first contribution in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/6408
@edgecase14 made their first contribution in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/6425

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Published by nirvn 7 months ago

What's Changed-

Fix dashboard guides re-appearing all the time during the first app launch

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Published by nirvn 8 months ago

What's Changed

Further improve canvas position lock mode
Fix incorrect HDOP and VDOP when averaging position
Improve Bluetooth device discoverability experience
Fix zooming to features on rotated map canvas

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.6.6...v3.6.7

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Published by nirvn 8 months ago

What's Changed

Allow multiple undo/redo operations by preventing menu from auto-closing
Fix + character support in attachments filenames
Insure navigation bearing serves a value between 0 to 360 degree
Further behavior and UX polishing to the new canvas locked to position mode
Optimize topological editing handling
Fix stylus/pen regression when clicking on the accept tool button

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Published by nirvn 8 months ago

What's Changed

Improve image display in the changelog viewer
Fix OAuth2 authentication on project load
Fix identification of multiple features against an online raster layer

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Published by nirvn 8 months ago

What's Changed

3-dot menu for individual feature form now includes an action to trigger a processing algorithm against that individual feature
Improve topological editing handling of newly-added vector features
Improve topological editing handling of newly-added vertices in the vertex editor
Fix the go to locator's navigation action gone missing for several versions
Fix bookmark markers interfering with map canvas pan / zoom / rotation gesture actions
Fix cloud projects not downloading when shared datasets special project access is missing
Fix sluggish map canvas panning regression caused by progressive rendering

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Published by nirvn 9 months ago

What's Changed

Fix camera not working when a custom project home path is set
Fix typo leading to tracker settings panel always skipped when initiating a tracking session
Fix project / dataset file association

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Published by nirvn 9 months ago

What's Changed

More stability improvements

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Published by nirvn 9 months ago

What's Changed

Fix vertex editor behavior against rotated map canvas
Fix localized/shared datasets support regression preventing USB cable transferred datasets from being accessed through cloud projects
Stability improvements

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Published by nirvn 9 months ago

Changes

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🚀 Features

Preview rendering of map content beyond screen edges for nicer panning and zooming experience
Localized datasets support for cloud projects
Identification support for online raster layers for WMS and ArcGIS REST data providers
Introduction of a cloud project details page to provide a more informative view of a given cloud project
New QR code scanning functionality to distribute cloud projects
Automatically open feature form when tap identifying a single feature behavior (off by default, can be activated in the settings panel)
Support for data-defined feature form attribute's label and editable properties
Map layer notes support to provide rich context to layers
Read-only external storage support for attachments from WebDAV and AWS servers

✨ Improvements

Greatly improved canvas lock to position, with constant panning insuring the location stays in the center of the screen
Print atlas-driven layouts of relationships' children directly within the parent's fearture form
IMU details - roll, pitch, heading, and steering - are now exposed as expression variables
Postgis SSL key authentication support within pg_service.conf
Multi-selection support added to local data view panel to increase efficiency
Support for manually pushing a cloud project's subfolder (e.g. layouts) to QFieldCloud
Topological editing logic added to the geometry editor reshape tool
Feature addition form's fullscreen state can now be toggled by dragging its header bar (matching preexisting behavior for the features list and feature editing forms)
Tons of feature form polishing

🧩 Plugin framework

New utility functions to read and write file content
Ability to generate QR code through QML image provider (e.g. "image://barcode/?text=check-this-cool-code&color=green")

🏆 New Contributors

@lukasgraf made their first contribution in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/6059
@t-book made their first contribution in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/6165

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Published by nirvn 9 months ago

What's Changed

Feature form's attribute and group titles now respects their QGIS-configured hidden status
More stability fixes

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Published by nirvn 11 months ago

What's Changed

Fix serious graphic corruption issue on older devices (Qt 6.8 regression)
Fix rare crash that can take place when downloading files from QFieldCloud

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Published by nirvn 11 months ago

What's Changed

Fix digitizing of points can lead to empty geometries
Fix NFC tag capture not sending decoded signal
Fix issue when the presence of both geopackages and mbtiles would lead to missing vector data
Fix QField failing to recognize a number of Bluetooth mouses
Additional fixes for the escape/back action
Additional stability improvements

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Published by nirvn 11 months ago

What's Changed

Fix search bar's go to locator to support leading NESW
Be more tolerant when parsing custom QFieldCloud server URL
Allow for individual files to be uploaded to a WebDAV remote server
Fix crash on older devices

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Published by nirvn 12 months ago

What's Changed

Fix image rotation issue when saving sketched annotations
Improve mixed stylus / tap event handling
Stability improvements

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Published by nirvn 12 months ago

What's Changed

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🚀 Features

QField can now track positions while put in background or when the device is locked. This improves battery lifetime and eases handling.
Import and export project folders from/to a WebDAV server
Project-based grid decoration
Support for opening .7z and .rar archives containing standalone datasets
Feature rotation through pinch gestures (first time contribution by @qsavoye)

✨ Improvements

Printing to PDF is now always available whether a given project or dataset contains print layouts or not
New "forward" angle snapping to have perfectly angled polygons
Additional TIFF encoding support for ZSTD, WEBP, and LERC variants
Greatly improved the reliability of the device's back action
Tons of stability and UI/UX improvements across the board
Improved stability of QFieldCloud project download
Upstream library updates, including QGIS 3.40.3, gdal 3.10.1, and Qt 6.8.2

🧩 Plugin framework

Search bar integration API (Nominatim and Geomapfish plugins available)
QField appearance styling API
Quick3D QML modules made available to plugin authors
Mechanism to integrate a plugin configuration dialog within the plugin manager

💻 Desktop improvements

Add .qgs / .qgz file association on Windows
Brand new keyboard shortcuts available, including Ctrl+K to focus on the search bar, Ctrl+M to toggle measurement tool, Ctrl+Plus to toggle digitizing mode, and Ctrl+Space to add a vertex while digitizing

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Published by nirvn about 1 year ago

What's Changed

Fix crash on older devices

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Published by nirvn about 1 year ago

What's Changed

Fix sketching over image attachments sometimes fails to save
Fix import URL eating tons of memory on large file downloads
Avoid infinite sort loop when gathering feature lists for the value relation editor widgets

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Published by nirvn about 1 year ago

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

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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!)

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

What's Changed

Add orientation (aka compass direction) detail when watermarking/stamping photos
Fix typo in stamping toaster notification

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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

QField is now installable via Microsoft Store

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.10...v3.3.11

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.9...v3.3.10

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

What's Changed

Fix handling of auto-generated FIDs in feature forms
Fix currentparent* expression values for (embedded) feature model
Improve robustness of file path handling

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.8...v3.3.9

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.7...v3.3.8

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.6...v3.3.7

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

What's Changed

Expose functions for plugin authors to handle global, project, and layer variables

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

What's Changed

Fix value map editor widget's toggle buttons interface wrongly using value as button label description

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.3...v3.3.4

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.2...v3.3.3

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.3.1...v3.3.2

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

What's Changed

Fix https network connectivity regression in QField 3.3.0

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

Changes

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🚀 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 <!-- platformend →

🍎 iOS improvements

Support for reading a PostgreSQL pg_service.conf file placed in the QField application data folder

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Published by nirvn over 1 year ago

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).

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Published by nirvn almost 2 years ago

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

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Published by nirvn almost 2 years ago

Changes

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🚀 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

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Published by nirvn almost 2 years ago

What's Changed

Fix missing translation strings
Fix crash when opening a project via file association

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

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

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

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

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Published by m-kuhn about 2 years ago

What's Changed

Fix SSL-enabled postgis layer crash

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.1.5...v3.1.6

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

What's Changed

Fix toggling of geometry editor type using the stylus
Fix additional camera crashes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.1.4...v3.1.5

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

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

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.1.3...v3.1.4

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fix crash when using external GNSS devices, a regression caused by the permission handling changes.

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

Changes

✨ Improvements

Update Sentry SDK to increase app stability.

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

Changes

✨ Improvements

Harmonized and improved feature form drawer width when adding new features

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

Changes

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🚀 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

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Published by nirvn about 2 years ago

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Search bar's filters list improvement by @qfield-fairy in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4763
Fix the HTML editor widget by @nirvn in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4758
Re-introduce a timer to avoid finger hover / stylus interference by @qfield-fairy in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4757
Fix view parent/children feature panning/zooming on high dpi screens by @qfield-fairy in https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4742

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.0.6...v3.0.7

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Stability improvements

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Published by nirvn over 2 years ago

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

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Published by nirvn over 2 years ago

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fix project load failure (i.e. blank canvas) for project containing font marker symbols

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.0.3...v3.0.4

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Published by m-kuhn over 2 years ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.0.2...v3.0.3

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Published by m-kuhn over 2 years ago

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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.0.2...v3.0.3

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Changes

What's Changed

Fix iOS release https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4640
Avoid feature form crashes when the configuration contains QML, HTML, or Text widgets https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4639
Fix relation child deletion button https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4644
Fix a glitch whereas feature form tabs overlap each other https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/4647

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v3.0.1...v3.0.2

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

Changes

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🚀 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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.7 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.6 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.5 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.4 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.3 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.2 - Insightful Indri

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.1 - Insightful Indri

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago

qfield - 2.8.0 - Insightful Indri

Changes

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🚀 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

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.6 - Heroic Hedgehog

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Yet more bug fixing and stability improvements.

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.5 - Heroic Hedgehog

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

More bug fixing and stability improvements.

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.4 - Heroic Hedgehog

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Many, many fixes.

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.3 - Heroic Hedgehog

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

Significant improvement in Bluetooth connection reliability
Dark theme tweaks

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.2 - Heroic Hedgehog

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.1 - Heroic Hedgehog

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.7.0 - Heroic Hedgehog

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 3 years ago

qfield - 2.6.3 - Geeky Gecko

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.6.2 - Geeky Gecko

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)

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.6.1 - Geeky Gecko

Changes

🚀 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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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.6.0 - Geeky Gecko

🚀 New features

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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

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.7 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.6 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.5 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] about 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.4 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.3 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.2 - Fancy Flamingo

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.1 - Fancy Flamingo

🐛 Bug fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.5.0 - Fancy Flamingo

🚀 New features

Elevation profiling of terrain and layers (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/3501)
Multi-column support in feature form (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/3518)
Measuring tool display azimuth values (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/3503)
Locked screen mode to avoid accidental touches while QField is in your pocket (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/3507)
Customize number of items shown in the feature form’s relation editor widget (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pull/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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.5 - Ecstatic Elk

Changes

🐛 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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Published by mbernasocchi over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.4 - Ecstatic Elk

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.3 - Ecstatic Elk

Changes

✨ 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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.2 - Ecstatic Elk

🐛 Bug fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.1 - Ecstatic Elk

🐛 Bug fixes

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

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.4.0 - Ecstatic Elk

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.

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🚀 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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.3.5 - Diversified Dugong

Changes

✨ What's Changed

Update ios appstore certificates

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v2.3.4...v2.3.5

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.3.4 - Diversified Dugong

Changes

🐛 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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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

qfield - 2.3.3 - Diversified Dugong

Changes

✨ 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: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/compare/v2.3.2...v2.3.3

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 3 years ago

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