Posts by 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

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!)

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

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

What's Changed

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

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

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

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

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

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