3.0.0 - Amazonia

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

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

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

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

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

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

2.8.2 - Insightful Indri

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

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

2.8.0 - Insightful Indri

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

2.7.6 - Heroic Hedgehog

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Yet more bug fixing and stability improvements.