Release Lizmap Web Client 3.9.0

Use only the ZIP file provided in this release called lizmap-web-client-3.9.0.zip ⚠
If you are using Docker, images are available on Docker Hub 🐋:

• docker pull 3liz/lizmap-web-client:3.9.0
• docker pull 3liz/lizmap-web-client:3.9

Do not forget to go in your QGIS desktop plugin manager and regularly update all your plugins to their latest version 🤗

Requirements

To be able to run this version of Lizmap Web Client, you need :

• QGIS Server 3.34 minimum, check the latest monthly bugfix release on the QGIS roadmap
• Lizmap QGIS Server plugin 2.13.0 minimum
• QGIS project files targeting at least Lizmap Web Client 3.6.0 to be displayed
• Recommended version for Lizmap Desktop plugin 4.4.9

Automatic testing process

Changelog

Funders 🙂

• Andromède Océanologie
• Antonio Viscomi
• Agence des 50 pas de Guadeloupe
• AUDIAR
• Avignon
• Cartophyl
• CC Bièvre Est
• DVP SOLAR
• Etra, and developed by Faunalia with @mind84
• FM Projet
• Klein und Leber Gbr
• Golfe du Morbihan Vannes agglomération
• Lozère province
• Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence
• SMICA
• Syslor
• TDPA
• Valabre
• VSB Energy
• WPD

Important ⚠

• PHP 8.1 minimum is required
• Py-QGIS-Server is now required by default.
  Read in lizmap/var/config/localconfig.ini.php.dist if necessary about QGIS wrapper and
  in the documentation.

Added ⭐

• Editing
  • Make sure the dock with the form is visible before opening the cancellation confirmation dialog
• Drawing :
  • Import and export drawings as FlatGeobuf
  • Import Shapefile into the drawing toolbox
  • Circular geometry measurement on draw, contribution from @mind84
  • Add button to rotate geometries
  • Add scaling tool
  • Add split tool. Switch to editing and select split features
• Display of related children features using relations from a parent popup
  • lizmap-features-table for children in popup according to a new setting in the plugin
  • For now, the layer must be published in the "Attribute table tool". This will be avoided in next release 3.9.1
  • Evaluate QGIS expressions which are in lizmap-field, in the lizmap-features-table
  • Add layer ID in the "highlighted" signal from Lizmap features table component
  • New optional settings :
    • Show the currently highlighted feature geometry in the map with data-show-highlighted-feature-geometry="true"
    • Centre the map to this geometry with data-center-to-highlighted-feature-geometry="true"
    • Improve the logic of the opening
• Attribute table
  • Layer export capabilities based on attribute layers configuration, for groups
• Form filter
  • Filter autocomplete list based on previous applied filters
• Map viewer
  • Be able to set a maximum zoom for points, lines or polygons when zooming, setting in the plugin
• JavaScript
  • JS External OpenLayers Layer: defined custom title
• Adding Open Layers format for reading WFS capabilities data
• Support for X-Request-Id for Py-QGIS-Server debug
• REST API on Lizmap repositories and projects, see Swagger documentation
• Lizmap search
  • A new flag DEBUG=TRUE to lizmap_search to ease a little bit the debugging
  • Upgrade item_filter to accept a comma separated list of values in Lizmap search, contribution from @meyerlor Klein und Leber Gbr
• Metadata: Add the WFS link if the user has enough rights
• Landing page
  • Add the project abstract in data attributes on the landing page
• Users
  • Add login into the registration email
  • In the login form, show the button to see the password
• UX - Add tooltips on buttons in the "maps management" page and also for the project switcher button

Changed ♻

• Activate the "Locate by layer" by default
• Internal refactoring of the drawing box tool, which can lead to some UX changes
• Simplify the UI if only one tool is available
• Popup: Improve styling of drag-and-drop designed popups
• Avoid login from QGIS to be displayed in the administration panel

Fixed 🐛

• Administration panel
  • Avoid an admin to not see some projects
  • Add HTML anchors to repositories page
• X-Request-Id could be an array when doing an HTTP request, fixing logging issue about HTTP requests which have failed
• Locate By Layer - Error after automatic ESlint
• Fix tooltips in some dialogs
• Support Google Tag instead of the old Analytics
• JS Action - reset HTML message
• Fixed a JavaScript error, contribution on the source code from @Antoviscomi
• Tooltip: fix tooltip layer not removed as a tool layer
• Optimize FTS query to use the index
• Fix: 0 integer is transformed to an empty string by DOMPurify.sanitize()
• Fix: Printing with text drawing/labels is broken
• QGIS Server GetPrint Highlight Label Alignment
• Add Etag to WMS GetLegendGraphic Request
• WMS GetLegendGraphic:
  • Perform GET request for single layer
  • Put single layer request in project cache
  • JS initialize Lizmap Application from not legacy code
  • JS legacy map: defined an initialized property
• Catching Guzzle client exceptions
• Fix: zoomToFeatures in filter
• Fix setting projection axis orientation in a simple way
• The WMS Capability root layer has no bounding boxes
• Digitizing module: deactivate it when the drawing box is closed
• Regression about the attribute table being limited to 500 features
• Improve reading GetCapabilities with QGIS 3.40 about a possible null in the bounding box
• When using the quick search menu, you can't zoom back to a feature after moving the map
• Attribute table: format big data
• Fix CORS allow methods when OPTIONS Request
• Atlas: features were not projected to map
• Search: IGN French address search uses map view instead of maxExtent
• Fix UI regression: Clear popup geometry
• Tile WMS layer has no loading status updated
• Webpack: set publicPath:auto to get JS assets with a correct path
• Use media in a popup :
  • Fix incorrect replacement in <a href="media/"><img src="media/"></a>
  • Fix the regular expression if the extension has two characters
• Lizmap Atlas: Keep the current selected feature after layer updates

Removed 🌀

• Remove BBOX and projection name from the landing page and the project information panel
• Drop support of QGIS FCGI by default, see important note above

Backend ⛽

• Update Jelix to 1.8.18.1
• Code refactoring :
  • ESLint, StyleLint, Rector...
• Only use Guzzle to send requests from PHP
• Parsing QGIS Project with PHP XMLReader instead of DOM
• Expose more OpenLayers and lit classes
• Reduce mainLizmap dependencies in all JavaScript code
• Raise PHP to version 8.1
• Dataviz with PlotlyJS
  • Update to v2.35.2
  • Use a custom build to reduce file size
• Update lit-html to 3.3.0
• Update dompurify to 3.2.5

Translations

• Update translated strings from the Transifex website, not coding skills required to contribute :
  • Lizmap Web Client
  • Jelix

The Lizmap team 🦎