Polaris Office

What's new in this version:

Temporal:
- Feature: Add temporal manager support for WMTS layers with TIME dimension

Map Tools:
- Feature: Allow selecting features in vector tile layers

User Interface:
- Feature: Exclusive window based UX for data source manager
- Feature: Add a Show in Attribute Table action to the right click menu of legend class symbols
- Feature: Add setting to hide NULL values on identify result

Symbology:
- Feature: Allow control over GPS location marker
- Feature: Added new ellipse marker shapes

Labelling:
- Feature: Add support for HTML bold/italic/font size and font family to labelling
- Feature: Add option to use absolute units for line height

Mesh:
- Feature: Add option to reload mesh layer temporal properties

3D Features:
- Feature: Ambient Occlusion 3D Effect

Point Clouds:
- Feature: Point Cloud Layer Export
- Feature: Eye Dome Lighting for point clouds in 2D map canvas

Print Layouts:
- Feature: Add FORCE_RASTER and IMAGE_COMPRESSION parameters to PDF algorithms

Expressions:
- Feature: Add new variable form of current feature expression functions
- Feature: Add new shared_paths function
- Feature: Make_valid and geom_to_array functions
- Feature: Concave hull function
- Feature: Ask for confirmation when discarding expression changes

Data Management:
- Feature: Ask for confirmation when deleting features
- Metadata and Metasearch:
- Feature: Layer metadata data provider search and storage

Processing:
- Feature: Fixed precision support for select processing tools
- Feature: Improved “Make Valid” Algorithms
- Feature: Default option to show feature count for vector outputs from processing
- Feature: Add relations export option to package layers algorithm
- Feature: Add “Offset” parameter to “Drape” algorithms

Application and Project Options:
- Feature: Modified project coordinate and bearing display settings
- Feature: Add support for “user” fonts, and automatic downloading of freely licensed fonts

Browser:
- Feature: Implement relationship discovery for OGR layers, and show relationships in browser
- Feature: Modified UX for Geopackage and ESRI File Geodatabase creation
- Feature: Allow drag and drop of vector layers to non-GPKG OGR database datasets
- Feature: Expose field domain management for non-gpkg OGR sources

Data Providers:
- Feature: Define session role for PostgreSQL connections
- Feature: Automatically add related tables when adding layers from GDAL datasets with embedded relationship information
- Feature: Add subset string (filter) support for arcgis REST layers
- Feature: Abstract database provider for renaming fields
- Feature: WFS performing binary spatial operations in expressions on server
- Feature: Editing ArcGIS REST Layers
- Feature: Load raster sublayers from vector tile styles automatically
- Feature: Add WMS layers individually
- Feature: Save projects to Oracle Database Provider

QGIS Server:
- Feature: QGIS_SERVER_ALLOWED_EXTRA_SQL_TOKENS settings variable
- Feature: Open layers in a read only mode with QGIS Server

Plugins:
- Feature: Changes to plugin automatic updates behaviour

Programmability:
- Feature: Add temporal handling to maps in QGIS Quick
- Feature: Addition of py-args command line parameter

Notable Fixes:
- Feature: Bug fixes by Alessandro Pasotti
- Feature: Bug fixes by Even Rouault
- Feature: Bug fixes by Julien Cabieces
- Feature: Bug fixes by Paul Blottiere
- Feature: Bug fixes by Sandro Santilli
- Feature: Bug fixes by Nyall Dawson
- Feature: Bug fixes by Loïc Bartoletti