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# What's new in Version 3.28 'Firenze'?
This release has following new features:
- Temporal: Add temporal manager support for WMTS layers with TIME dimension
- Map Tools: Allow selecting features in vector tile layers
- User Interface: Exclusive window based UX for data source manager
- User Interface: Add a Show in Attribute Table action to the right click menu of legend class symbols
- User Interface: Add setting to hide NULL values on identify result
- Symbology: Allow control over GPS location marker
- Symbology: Added new ellipse marker shapes
- Labelling: Add support for HTML bold/italic/font size and font family to labelling
- Labelling: Add option to use absolute units for line height
- Mesh: Add option to reload mesh layer temporal properties
- 3D Features: Ambient Occlusion 3D Effect
- Point Clouds: Point Cloud Layer Export
- Point Clouds: Eye Dome Lighting for point clouds in 2D map canvas
- Print Layouts: Add FORCE_RASTER and IMAGE_COMPRESSION parameters to PDF algorithms
- Expressions: Add new variable form of current feature expression functions
- Expressions: Add new shared_paths function
- Expressions: Make_valid and geom_to_array functions
- Expressions: Concave hull function
- Data Management: Ask for confirmation when deleting features
- Metadata and Metasearch: Layer metadata data provider search and storage
- Processing: Fixed precision support for select processing tools
- Processing: Improved "Make Valid" Algorithms
- Processing: Default option to show feature count for vector outputs from processing
- Processing: Add relations export option to package layers algorithm
- Processing: Add "Offset" parameter to "Drape" algorithms
- Application and Project Options: Modified project coordinate and bearing display settings
- Application and Project Options: Add support for "user" fonts, and automatic downloading of freely licensed fonts
- Browser: Implement relationship discovery for OGR layers, and show relationships in browser
- Browser: Modified UX for Geopackage and ESRI File Geodatabase creation
- Browser: Allow drag and drop of vector layers to non-GPKG OGR database datasets
- Browser: Expose field domain management for non-gpkg OGR sources
- Data Providers: Define session role for PostgreSQL connections
- Data Providers: Automatically add related tables when adding layers from GDAL datasets with embedded relationship information
- Data Providers: Add subset string (filter) support for arcgis REST layers
- Data Providers: Abstract database provider for renaming fields
- Data Providers: WFS performing binary spatial operations in expressions on server
- Data Providers: Editing ArcGIS REST Layers
- Data Providers: Load raster sublayers from vector tile styles automatically
- Data Providers: Add WMS layers individually
- Data Providers: Save projects to Oracle Database Provider
- QGIS Server: QGIS_SERVER_ALLOWED_EXTRA_SQL_TOKENS settings variable
- QGIS Server: Open layers in a read only mode with QGIS Server
- Plugins: Changes to plugin automatic updates behaviour
- Programmability: Add temporal handling to maps in QGIS Quick
- Programmability: Addition of py-args command line parameter
# What's new in Version 3.26 'Buenos Aires'?
This release has following new features:
- Breaking Changes: DB2 Support Removed
- Map Tools: Selecting all features by attribute value from Identify Results panel
- User Interface: Coordinate ordering according to CRS
- User Interface: Select features from expression based symbols
- User Interface: Copy preview expression value to clipboard
- User Interface: Option to synchronize statistics panel with layer selection
- User Interface: Implement scroll wheel action for color and symbol buttons
- Accessibility: Horizontal table scroll with shift+wheel
- Symbology: New "Animated Marker" symbol type
- Symbology: Allow any symbol to be an animated symbol
- Symbology: Point cloud style synchronization
- Symbology: Add a new classification method for "Fixed interval"
- Symbology: Custom dash pattern panel shows total pattern length
- Symbology: Select style categories when storing styles in database
- Labelling: Allow data-defined control over line anchor type
- Labelling: Control label anchor placement relative to text position
- Labelling: Interactively move curved line labels along their line features
- Rendering: WMS provider resampling
- Rendering: Selective masking vectorization
- 3D Features: Transparency support for 3D Phong material
- 3D Features: 3D Maps inherit terrain settings from project
- 3D Features: Sync 2D and 3D navigation
- 3D Features: 3D axis in 3D map viewer
- Point Clouds: Point cloud triangulation in 3D views
- Point Clouds: Cloud Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) support
- Point Clouds: Point cloud filtering
- Print Layouts: Apply font settings from layer conditional styling to layout attribute tables
- Expressions: Between/ Not between operators
- Expressions: Static parent variable in aggregate expression functions
- Expressions: Static parent variable in aggregate expression functions
- Digitising: Add a checkbox to disable vertex tool dock auto-opening behavior
- Digitising: Integrate shape map tools into feature digitizing
- Digitising: New constraints for advanced digitizing panel
- Data Management: Add a "filter rules" search box to vector tile renderer and labeling widgets
- Data Management: User defined field names in export
- Data Management: Georeferencing vector layers in georeferencer
- Data Management: Add field domain management capabilities to browser
- Data Management: Buffered Transactional Editing
- Forms and Widgets: Access form reference in python form actions
- Forms and Widgets: Allow drag and drop forms label font and color customization
- Forms and Widgets: Collapse form group by expression
- Analysis Tools: "Keep disjoint features separate" option for dissolve algorithm
- Processing: Raise message model tool
- Processing: Run batch processing steps in tasks
- Processing: Background processing of model algorithms
- Processing: Allow setting Examples in graphical model help
- Processing: Overlay tools with multiple overlay layers support
- Application and Project Options: Project elevation properties framework
- Application and Project Options: Optionally store UI configuration in projects
- Application and Project Options: Optionally store layer edit state in projects
- Application and Project Options: Project style databases support
- Application and Project Options: Added setting to show feature counts by default for newly added layers
- Application and Project Options: Add a "Skip" option for custom environmental variables in Settings->Options->Environment
- Application and Project Options: Revamped projects' default symbols, color ramp , and text format
- Profile Plots: Elevation profile plotting tool
- Profile Plots: Flexible vector layer symbology in elevation profiles
- Profile Plots: Flexible symbology for point cloud profile plotting
- Profile Plots: Vector feature extrusion for profile charts
- Browser: Rename bookmark groups context menu control
- Data Providers: Support reading ESRI vector tile packages (.vtpk) files directly
- Data Providers: SQL Logging in the Debugging/ Development panel
- QGIS Server: Alternate periodic check strategy for detecting project updates
- QGIS Server: Add more server highlight label parameters
- QGIS Server: Temporal properties support for WMS Server
- Programmability: Add a QgsScaleCalculator function to calculate canvas width from a given extent, scale, and dpi
- Programmability: Clear current symbol action in symbol button widget
# What's new in Version 3.24 'Tisler'?
This release has following new features:
- User Interface: Retrieve map extents directly from layout maps and bookmarks
- User Interface: Easier creation of custom coordinate reference systems
- Symbology: Marker/hash line: offsets along line by "percent" of line length (and negative offsets!)
- Symbology: Control whether first/last vertex placements apply to every part of multi-part geometries
- Symbology: Marker/hash line "on vertices" placement option replaced by "on inner vertices"
- Symbology: Placement options in marker and hash line symbol layers are now checkboxes instead of mutually exclusive buttons
- Symbology: Control the color model used when interpolating gradient ramps
- Symbology: Resizable thumbnails in the style manager dialog
- Symbology: "Lineburst" symbols
- Symbology: "Raster Line" symbols
- Symbology: Choice of clipping behaviour for line pattern fills
- Symbology: Improved rendering of line pattern fills
- Symbology: Rotation angle for point pattern fills
- Symbology: Randomized point offsets for point pattern fills
- Symbology: Coordinate reference mode setting for line pattern and point pattern fill symbol layers
- Symbology: Control marker clipping for point pattern fills
- Symbology: Expression functions for creating triangular/square/curved waves
- Labelling: "Percentage" units for text buffer size, shadow offset and blur radius
- Labelling: Data defined label positions by point geometries
- Labelling: Stretched text for labels and text formats
- Rendering: Rendering layers as groups
- Rendering: Support for "Line pattern" when converting Mapbox GL vector tile layer styles
- Rendering: Support background styles for Mapbox GL-styled vector tile layers
- 3D Features: Respect Z ordering when rendering point clouds in 2D
- 3D Features: Dock/Undock 3D views
- 3D Features: 3D map view manager
- 3D Features: Improved camera navigation
- Print Layouts: Full text rendering capabilities for layout text labels
- Expressions: geometry_type function
- Expressions: Overlay intersects sort by intersection size
- Expressions: Show all layer field names when building expressions
- Expressions: represent_attributes function
- Expressions: Optional minimum overlap area and circle radius for overlay_intersection
- Expressions: map_prefix_keys function
- Expressions: densify_by_count and densify_by_distance functions
- Expressions: Rotate parts of multi-part geometries independently with "rotate" expression function
- Expressions: apply_dash_pattern function
- Expressions: scale function
- Expressions: Filter by multiple attributes for get_feature function
- Data Management: Multiedit support for relation editor
- Metadata and Metasearch: Support for OGC API - Records in MetaSearch
- Forms and Widgets: Form submit actions with HTTP POST
- Forms and Widgets: New button to open attribute table on filtered features
- Analysis Tools: Add roundness method to curve polygon
- Processing: Extract labels algorithm
- Processing: Optional output extent parameter for the GDAL Raster Calculator algorithm
- Processing: Optional extent parameter for the GDAL clip raster by mask algorithm
- Processing: Processing history rework
- Processing: Advanced actions in Processing dialogs
- Processing: Single file exports from Atlas to PDF algorithm
- Processing: Project Models are shown in the Project menu
- Processing: Add point cloud destination parameter and output to Processing
- Processing: Array field support
- Application and Project Options: qgis_process --no-python argument
- Application and Project Options: Suppress "bad layers" handler on startup
- Application and Project Options: Parameter values for qgis_process can be specified as a JSON object via stdin
- Application and Project Options: Run Python script algorithms directly via qgis_process
- Data Providers: Friendlier errors from XYZ raster tiles, WMS and vector tiles
- Data Providers: Add out-of-the-box connection to Mapzen Global Terrain tiles
- Data Providers: HMAC SHA256 auth method for MapTiler
- Data Providers: Template parameter {usage} for XYZ raster and vector tiles
- Data Providers: Convert WMTS/XYZ raster tiles to terrain (DEM)
- Data Providers: Array field types for scratch layers
- Data Providers: JSON field types for new GeoPackage layers
- Data Providers: Delimited text type overrides and other improvements
- Data Providers: New authentication method for HTTP header based authentication
- Data Providers: Expose secondary PostGIS geometry columns as referenced geometries
- QGIS Server: Allow better control of the response flow chain from server filters
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