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