QGIS 3.22.1

What's new in this version:

Annotations:
- Feature: Annotation layer properties and effects
- Feature: Edit nodes in an annotation item
- Feature: Move selected annotation with cursor keys
- Feature: Create line/ polygon annotation item tools
- Feature: New point text tool
- Feature: Annotations toolbar

Map Tools:
- Feature: Add a “measure bearing” map tool

User Interface:
- Feature: Toggle editing on multiple selected layers
- Feature: Identify layer groups and all selected layers
- Feature: Add a ‘Show in Files’ action for all file items in browser

Symbology:
- Feature: Custom units for geometry generator symbol layers
- Feature: Symbology reference scale for vector layers
- Feature: Invert colors filter option for raster rendering

Labelling:
- Feature: Specify unit for data defined label rotation

Mesh:
- Feature: Create new mesh layer
- Feature: Mesh frame editing
- Feature: Mesh frame editing lifecycle
- Feature: Edit mesh map tool
- Feature: Advanced mesh editing enhancements
- Feature: Select editable mesh elements by polygon
- Feature: Select mesh elements by existing geometries
- Feature: Select mesh elements by expression
- Feature: Transform single vertex
- Feature: Reindex/ renumber mesh layer
- Feature: Force mesh by polylines
- Feature: Mesh transform by expression

Rendering:
- Feature: Allow using physical DPI for map canvas
- Feature: Data defined raster layer opacity

Print Layouts:
- Feature: Predefined scale support for point-driven atlases
- Feature: Indentation of legend groups and subgroups

Expressions:
- Feature: Mesh expression functions for vertex_as_point and vertex_z
- Feature: Expression function for $z
- Feature: Affine transform expression
- Feature: Straight distance2d expression
- Feature: Add sinuosity expression
- Feature: New exif() and exif_geotag() functions

Digitising:
- Feature: Geometry snapper algorithm optimization
- Feature: Convert to curve with vertex tool
- Feature: Add Z/M support to Advanced Digitizing

Data Management:
- Feature: Drag and Drop support for external storage file widget
- Feature: File-based dataset size and last modified date in the layer properties dialog
- Feature: Rename files in QGIS Browser
- Feature: Move GPS tools “add gpx layer” functionality to Data Source Manager
- Feature: Load projects from GPKG using drag and drop
- Feature: External Storage support

Forms and Widgets:
- Feature: Drag & Drop designer form actions

Layer Legend:
- Feature: Use placeholder icon in legend for raster layers

Analysis Tools:
- Feature: Add if() function to raster calculator
- Feature: Virtual raster support in raster calculator

Processing:
- Feature: Annotation layer parameter type for processing
- Feature: Add a POST option to the FileDownloader processing algorithm
- Feature: Add new “Select within distance” and “Extract within distance” algorithms
- Feature: Point cloud parameter for Processing
- Feature: Remove the GPS importer plugin
- Feature: Convert GPX feature type processing algorithm
- Feature: Add incremental field with modulo option
- Feature: Duration parameter
- Feature: Spatiotemporal ST-DBSCAN clustering algorithm
- Feature: Move non-native processing providers into independent plugins
- Application and Project Options:
- Feature: Export all keyboard shortcuts to XML or PDF
- Feature: Move GPS Tools GPSbabel device configuration widget to global settings
- Feature: Set default path structure for new projects
- Feature: Allow configuration of the max cache size from QGIS settings

Browser:
- Feature: Improved delete action for browser files
- Feature: Connections API result widget

Data Providers:
- Feature: Transactions in MSSQL provider
- Feature: Show system and internal tables in sublayer selection
- Feature: Automatically read and convert metadata from ESRI Personal Geodatabases
- Feature: Create a generic data item provider for all file based datasources

QGIS Server:
- Feature: Enable multiple MetadataUrls
- Feature: Add version to QGIS Server CLI tools

Programmability:
- Feature: Expose scriptable vector tile encoder
- Feature: Encode and write vector tiles in different CRS than EPSG:3857
- Feature: DistanceWithin filter for QgsFeatureRequest
- Feature: API for preset combobox values
- Feature: QgsExifTools class support for fetching tag values