Release Notes — Portal & Mobile
Overview
Release notes for Soarvo Portal and Soarvo Mobile. New releases are listed at the top.
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Stay current: The Soarvo Mobile app updates regularly. Keep your team on a recent version so they can use the latest field-capture features — see your app store for updates.
Soarvo Portal
Portal v1.80 — 9 March 2026
New user profiles
- Project Supervisor — must be assigned to a project and location; can upload, manage, and delete data within their assigned scope.
- Mobile-Only — can capture data in the mobile app but has no access to the web portal.
New Background Map Manager
- Background Maps in the Layers panel now offers a richer selector.
- Multiple map layers can be displayed simultaneously via Additional Layers.
- WMS layers can be added by uploading a config file. See WMS Libraries for ready-made bundles.
Advanced feature labelling
- Labels can now use multiple fields. Use
{FieldName}placeholders. - Single-line label example:
{Material} {Diameter} - Multi-line label example:
{Material}\n{Diameter}
National Highways grid projection support
Custom National Highways co-ordinate projections (EPSG codes 112000 – 112101) are now selectable when setting up a project.
Reference Location support
Mark a location as Reference (Project Wide Availability tick) to share its data across multiple locations without re-uploading. See Reference Locations.
New import formats
Soarvo now supports .DXF and .KML for import. See Supported File Formats.
Soarvo Mobile
Mobile 0.0.180 — Production
New features
- Support for Nordalp X6 PRO as a position source. See nordalp X6 PRO RTK Integration.
- Move nodes on linear and area features.
- Split linear features.
- Previous login email cached and auto-restored on the login page.
- Auto-generated inspection metadata attributes on parent features:
_inspectedBy,_inspectedDate,_inspectedStatus. _COPY_PARENT_GEOMsupport for child inspection feature types (point geometry only).!INSPECTEDDISTANCEdefault value code for child inspection feature types.- Simplified icon support.
- "My Data Only" filter on the Features Overview page.
- Device position logging.
Data and calculation updates
!LENupdated to perform 2D calculations; new!LEN3Dfunction for 3D length.- Floating-point precision workaround for
!CALCexpressions.
Fixes
- Deleted projects no longer remain on the device after removal.
- Antenna height adjustment fixed for Trimble Precision SDK position sources.
- iPadOS 26.1+ workaround for menus and modals auto-dismissing.
Mobile 0.0.162 — Production
New features
_AUTO_ACCEPTand_ON_SAVE_ACTIONSfeature-type metadata settings.- Project-wide locations now load onto the map alongside the currently opened location.
MobileLocationZoomlocation tag uses the location anchor as the initial map centre.
Improvements
- Improved map annotation performance.
#32CE32added as a colour that defaults to transparent polygon fill.
Mobile 0.0.157 — Production
New features
- Grid Lines secondary feature functionality (Grid Generation).
- Parallel Lines secondary feature functionality (Parallel Lines).
- Tree Inspection (BS3998) secondary feature, including RPR calculation (Tree Inspections).
- Alignment & Chainage functionality (Alignment and Chainage).
- Location search with status filters and search-by-name.
- "Mark as Finished" option on location cards.
- Corner-by-corner navigation (Google Maps / Apple Maps) for features over 1km away.
number()function support inside!CALC.- Signature attribute support (sketch canvas auto-sizes).
- Photo & sketch thumbnails via
!MODIFIER-SHOWTHUMBNAIL. - Mobile-Only user role support.
Mapping & capture improvements
- ESRI World Imagery now available as a default layer (OS layers removed as defaults).
- Improved zoom-to-feature behaviour.
- "Lock to Position" toggle shows toast notifications.
- Line/area feature capture now starts directly on the map.
- Improved auto-add nodes with Start/Stop control (Auto Add Linear/Area Nodes).
- Better line annotation positioning.
- Transparent polygon support via colour
#FFFF01. - Selected features highlighted in cyan to match the portal.
- Mandatory attributes clearly indicated (red→green status bar).
- More verbose error messages on save.
Photo & watermark updates
- Watermarks now use Easting/Northing for BNG, TM65, TM75, ITM projections; X/Y for other projected systems; Latitude/Longitude for EPSG:4326.
- Bearing removed when the device doesn't provide it.
Fixes
- TPSDK (Trimble Catalyst) updated to v2025.1.28484.68.
- General maintenance and library updates.