ChangeLog¶

This file lists the most important changes in QWC2 and qwc-services between LTS releases.

2024-lts → 2025-lts¶

Upgrade notes¶

When upgrading from a 2025-lts setup, please note the entries marked with [2024-lts → 2025-lts] in the upgrade notes:

• QWC2 upgrade notes
• qwc-docker upgrade notes

Viewer Configuration¶

• Config: Allow overriding plugin config per theme
• Allow adding custom plugins via QWC2 API
• Allow registering identify exporters and attribute calculators via QWC2 API

General¶

• Allow detaching QWC2 dialogs (i.e. Attribute Table) to separate browser windows
• Allow specifying OverviewMap layer independent from current background layer

Editing / AttributeForm / AttributeTable¶

• Honour expressions in QGIS Attributes Form configuration for group box visibility, default value and value-relation filter as defined (currently limited grammar)
• Allow limiting Attibute Table to current map extent
• Add CSV export to Attribute Table
• Highlight hovered / filtered features in Attribute Table

Redlining¶

• Add support for rotating labels
• Allow configuring available tools / default color / unit length
• Add CTRL / SHIFT support to transform tool to scale objects from corner / preserving aspect ratio

Measure¶

• Show measurement labels in map of height profile print output

Print¶

• Reworked plugin with new series print mode

Layer tree¶

• Allow importing (zipped) Shapefiles
• Add option to only show groups
• Add option to show a link to the Attribute Table of a layer

Identify¶

• Show layer selection and feature count

New plugins¶

• Portal
• MapFilter
• GeometryDigitizer
• Reports (see also Reports)
• CookiePopup

QWC services¶

• Make qwc_config schema name configurable

Config Generator¶

• Create theme groups for subdirs below scan dir
• Add option to save scanned projects and groups in themes configuration
• Handle template themesConfig section in tenantConfig template
• Allow setting generate_nested_nrel_forms per dataset in the theme item editConfig

Admin GUI¶

• Allow generating configuration using cached project capabilities
• Allow generating configuation forcing read-only dataset permissions
• Allow querying QGIS Server logs
• Add NewsPopup plugin

DB Auth¶

• Allow configuring post_param_login, max_login_attempts, totp_enabled, totp_issuer_name in service config
• Display account locked status to user
• Reword reset password to password change, also allow unlocking account
• Introduce totp_enabled_for_admin config option
• Implement IP blacklisting
• Add force_password_change_first_login config setting

Data service¶

• Add recaptcha support for public editing
• Introduce separate create_user_field and create_timestamp_field for logging record creations
• Honour data source filter as set in the QGIS layer properties

Document service¶

• Rewrite, drops the requirement on a separate jasper-reporting-service, see Reports

Feature info service¶

• Support authentication via basic auth
• Add support for text/plain and text/html info formats
• Add support for specifying custom templates by placing a file in info_templates_path

Fulltext search service¶

• Add trigram search backend

Legend service¶

• Support authentication via basic auth

Mapinfo service¶

• Support returning multiple values from SQL query to info_title

OGC service¶

• Add support for WFS 1.1.0

Full changelogs¶

• QWC2
• qwc-admin-gui
• qwc-base-db
• qwc-config-generator
• qwc-data-service
• qwc-db-auth
• qwc-document-service
• qwc-elevation-service
• qwc-ext-service
• qwc-feature-info-service
• qwc-fulltext-search-service
• qwc-ldap-auth
• qwc-legend-service
• qwc-mapinfo-service
• qwc-map-viewer
• qwc-ogc-service
• qwc-permalink-service
• qwc-print-service
• qwc-registration-gui
• qwc-wms-proxy
• jasper-reporting-service

2023-lts → 2024-lts¶

Upgrade notes¶

When upgrading from a 2023-lts setup, please note the entries marked with [2023-lts → 2024-lts] in the upgrade notes:

• QWC2 upgrade notes
• qwc-docker upgrade notes

General¶

• Support common plugin configuration applied to both mobile and desktop
• Support resource syntax in background layer definitions
• Support per-theme startupTask
• Support spearate mobile/desktop sections for toplevel config properties
• Add support for tenantConfig templates
• Add config option for redirect to login if requesting a restricted theme
• Add support for configuring projects stored in database
• Add support for qgz projects

Editing¶

• Display clickable links in editable text fields
• Allow generating nested 1:N relation forms (see generate_nested_nrel_forms)
• Joined fields as configured in QGIS the project are now handled by the qwc-data-service

FeatureInfo¶

• Allow specifying a info template path rather than requiring to specify the template inline

HeightProfile¶

• Allow printing height profile

LayerTree¶

• Allow importing GeoPDF files
• Allow zooming to layer groups
• Allow setting group transparency
• Add support for switching WMS layer styles

Map¶

• Show a warning when attempting to load a non-existent theme, theme layer or background layer
• Allow individually controlling snapping to vertex/edge
• Snap to all vector layers: Redlining, GeoJSON, KML, WFS (see also wfs_max_scale)
• Support external MVT layers

Print¶

• Add support for atlas printing
• Add GeoPDF support
• Support layer resource URIs as printLayer (i.e. wms:https://wms.geo.admin.ch#ch.are.bauzonen)
• Improved print label configuration in printLabelConfig
• Add support for print layout templates

Redlining¶

• Add redlining support for squares, rectangles, ellipses and transform tool to scale/rotate
• Allow displaying measurements while drawing
• Add numeric input widget
• Support line end arrow heads
• Add GeoJSON/KML export

Search¶

• New QGIS feature search provider
• Theme layer search (see searchThemeLayers)
• Provider/geometry filtering to search box
• Allow configuring search highlight style (see searchOptions.highlightStyle)

Settings¶

• Allow setting default startup theme/bookmark for logged in user

Share¶

• Permalink expiry date (see default_expiry_period)
• Allow copying QR code to clipboards on supported browsers

New plugins¶

• Cyclomedia
• QGIS FeatureSearch
• MapExport (replacement for RasterExport and DxfExport)
• MapLegend
• NewsPopup
• Routing

Full changelogs¶

• QWC2
• qwc-admin-gui
• qwc-base-db
• qwc-config-generator
• qwc-data-service
• qwc-db-auth
• qwc-document-service
• qwc-elevation-service
• qwc-ext-service
• qwc-feature-info-service
• qwc-fulltext-search-service
• qwc-ldap-auth
• qwc-legend-service
• qwc-mapinfo-service
• qwc-map-viewer
• qwc-ogc-service
• qwc-permalink-service
• qwc-print-service
• qwc-registration-gui
• qwc-wms-proxy
• jasper-reporting-service