3.5.0 - Fangorn

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• QField can now track positions while put in background or when the device is locked. This improves battery lifetime and eases handling.
• Import and export project folders from/to a WebDAV server
• Project-based grid decoration
• Support for opening .7z and .rar archives containing standalone datasets
• Feature rotation through pinch gestures (first time contribution by @qsavoye)

✨ Improvements

• Printing to PDF is now always available whether a given project or dataset contains print layouts or not
• New "forward" angle snapping to have perfectly angled polygons
• Additional TIFF encoding support for ZSTD, WEBP, and LERC variants
• Greatly improved the reliability of the device's back action
• Tons of stability and UI/UX improvements across the board
• Improved stability of QFieldCloud project download
• Upstream library updates, including QGIS 3.40.3, gdal 3.10.1, and Qt 6.8.2

🧩 Plugin framework

• Search bar integration API (Nominatim and Geomapfish plugins available)
• QField appearance styling API
• Quick3D QML modules made available to plugin authors
• Mechanism to integrate a plugin configuration dialog within the plugin manager

💻 Desktop improvements

• Add .qgs / .qgz file association on Windows
• Brand new keyboard shortcuts available, including Ctrl+K to focus on the search bar, Ctrl+M to toggle measurement tool, Ctrl+Plus to toggle digitizing mode, and Ctrl+Space to add a vertex while digitizing