What's Changed

This release is the result of our first yearly “summer of stability” campaign where we dedicated ourselves to hunting bugs and crashes while polishing preexisting functionalities.

🚀 Features

• A new bookmarks manager featuring:
  • A bookmarks list to quickly view, jump to and navigate to user-created and project-provided bookmarks;
  • The ability to export user-created bookmarks to a geopackage;
  • The ability to delete multiple bookmarks at once.
• Introduction of QFieldCloud project templates:
  • Create projects on the fly using prepared templates available within the QFieldCloud projects page
  • For project template authors out there, you can make your templates public to share them to the broader community

✨ Improvements

• Revamped cloud project page focused on ease of use and clarity featuring:
  • A polished user interface offering clearer wording and better focus on key actions;
  • The ability to review details of pending local changes prior to uploading to the cloud;
  • The ability to see historical changes by all users collaborating on cloud projects; and
  • The action to revert local changes relocated within a 'Danger Zone' sub-panel to avoid accidental data loss
• Enhanced camera experience:
  • Snapping still images has been hardened against infinite auto focus/white-balance waiting period;
  • Automatic image rotation has been improved;
  • If your device angle led to a wrong image rotation, new buttons are available to manually adjust the rotation;
  • Expression driving details stamped onto images now supports layer and feature contexts (i.e., writing feature attributes onto a snapped photo)
• Features list and form polishing:
  • The gallery relation editor widget will now remember its thumbnail vs. list mode when toggled
  • Conditional styling of the features list now supports expression-driven bold font style
  • Searching value relation lists is now accent-less to speed up data entry
  • All relation editors now respects the project's defined sorting order
• The QR code scanner can now detect codes within an image picked from the device's picture gallery
• The project folder page has gained the ability to select multiple files and send them as a compressed ZIP archive
• The search bar now allows for a matching bookmark location to be set as navigation destination
• Support for standalone VTPK vector tiles files datasets
• Stability improvements across the board as well as memory usage reduction resulted in a tangible reduction in crashes
• Reliability of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connections to external GNSS devices improved
• Tons of dependencies updated, including QGIS 4.2.2, gdal 3.12.4, and proj 9.8.1
• Too many bug fixes to mention individually! :)

🧩 Plugin framework

• A major restructuring of QField QML components offering:
  • A cleaner separation between core, gui, and app components now available through import qfield.{core,gui,app};
  • All QField components are now prefixed with a Qf (e.g. QfMapCanvas, QfRubberband, etc.)

What's Changed

• Add a bit of padding above and below title decoration to avoid text touching edge
• Fix BLE reconnection when returning to QField after app suspended or screen is locked
• Improve available Bluetooth devices listing
• Fix checkbox editor widget toggling against non-string value against string representation
• Clear project before triggering an updating project from archive action

Full Changelog: v4.2.10...v4.2.11

What's Changed

• Fix lack of content spacing for tracking and cloud group boxes in the project creation wizard page
• Fix stylus hover leaking through floating UI onto the map crosshair
• Fix deletion of children with feature ID values going beyond range of an int32
• Insure digitized geometries are promoted to multi-part to increase compatibility across all QGIS data providers

Plugin Framework Improvements

• Add a couple of extra invokable functions for the MapLayerModel and GeometryUtils classes

Full Changelog: v4.2.9...v4.2.10

What's Changed

• Rely on QFieldCloud-provided project name when loading cloud projects in more places
• Reduce long-press start delay on numeric stepper +/- buttons within the feature form and processing algorithm panels
• When activating the internal positioning receiver, allow for non-satellite positions until a valid satellite position is captured
• Fix ordering of relation editor's children list not respecting project configuration
• Reload value relation list when a dependency layer signals data changes

Full Changelog: v4.2.8...v4.2.9

What's Changed

• Fix date/time editor widget's handling of a time value stored in a string attribute
• Fix back action when adding a new feature

Full Changelog: v4.2.7...v4.2.8

What's Changed

• Fix feature form not properly initiating constraints and visibility when opening from a single-feature identification tap
• Fix handling of the relation reference height following combobox text warp improvement
• Fix handling of current_parent* driven default value expression when editing a child feature
• Fix UDP receiver failing to reflect bound / connected state
• Insure that when a parent feature is saved through relation editor widgets the digitizing logger still works
• Provide a UI/UX to reach the QFieldCloud user account settings page
• Add required entitlements file to support NFC tag readin
• Fix changes made to cloud projects getting lost in rare scenarios
• Rely on proper feature deletion function when removing a child through relation editor widgets
• When a parent feature has attributes or geometries changes committed to the data provider, reload the list of children
• When opening a cloud project from the cloud projects screen, use the cloud project name instead of filename for the loading overlay

iOS-specific changes

• Fix missing NFC tag reading support

Full Changelog: v4.2.6...v4.2.7

What's Changed

• Handle scenario in which we pass on an invalid QDateTime() value as datetime attributes to the date editor widget
• Fix out-of-sync changes state when users delete a currently opened cloud project and re-download it immediately
• Fix webview stay on front of the scene when closing the browser popup
• Stability improvements

Full Changelog: v4.2.5...v4.2.6

What's Changed

• Simplify geometry shapes to match the map canvas MUPP
• When importing a compressed project via URL, insure the .zip file doesn't linger in the imported datasets folder
• Remove duplicate "Remove folder" action from local data picker
• Fix checkbox editor widget when widget configuration is incomplete
• Insure that the attachment / external resource editor widget UI state is properly reset when passing on null/empty value
• Additional stability improvements

Full Changelog: v4.2.4...v4.2.5

What's Changed

• Add ability to take notes onto line and polygon geometry layers within the project creation wizard
• Add a new section in the settings dialog to show imported authentication configurations details and allow for a clearing of all authentication configuration caches
• Guard the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) receiver from buffer overflow
• Fix NTRIP correction over the TCP receiver
• Fix QField network user agent settings
• Improve sorting of the QFieldCloud projects list
• Fix constraints within a hidden tab blocking feature form submission
• Do not show storage meter within the cloud project details until the project is downloaded locally
• Insure referencing feature list model always update when the underlying layer data changes

Android-specific changes

• Further stability improvements when exporting folders and datasets

iOS-specific changes

• Add "Export to folder" support for datasets and folders

Windows-specific changes

• Fix blank OAuth2 popups on Windows

Full Changelog: v4.2.3...v4.2.4

What's Changed

• Fix issue with relation editor widget lists' item height
• Increase compatibility with NTRIP servers by transforming GNGGA into GPGGA

Android-specific changes

• Further stability improvements when importing projects and datasets

iOS-specific changes

• Add ability to send datasets and compressed folders out of QField onto the device and iCloud storage

Full Changelog: v4.2.2...v4.2.3