QGIS – 3.8 ‘Zanzibar’ Released!

By David Crowther

QGIS 3.8 Zanzibar was released in August 2019 and the full change log can be viewed here:

https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog38/index.html

In the coming weeks I will be creating a number of useful FAQs based on many of these new features – so watch out for these!

At first glance these are my favourite enhancements:

• Drag and Drop Layers into Processing Tools
• 3D Rendering Improvements
• Improved North Arrows for Print Layouts
• Order by in Expression
• Floating display while editing
• Vertex Editing
• HTML and Background Colour for Widgets
• Browse through features in an Attribute Table
• Overlap Analysis – https://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360002114857-QGIS-How-to-Perform-Overlap-Analysis
• Generate Raster XYZ Tiles
• Processing: Add X and Y Fields to a Layer
• Processing: Join Attributes by Nearest
• Browse Excel Sheets
• QGIS Projects inside a GeoPackage File