ODK Collect v2024.3 Beta: offline Entities, counter, map scale

We have just released beta 6 and it should start rolling out shortly. This should fix an issue with the first Entity in lists that @ahblake reported and also make pulldata use offline Entities. We still have a couple of issues related to offline Entities to address and believe we will start regression testing early next week.

If you use Entities, we recommend that you verify this beta with your forms. By default, offline Entities will not be turned on yet but we have made changes to a lot of the code paths for filtering Entity lists and looking up Entity values.

If you would like to try offline Entities with your forms, you can now do so with Central v2024.2. You will need to opt individual forms in. To do this, add an offline column to the entities sheet of your XLSForm and put value yes below. This is a temporary setting that will be turned on by default in the next release of pyxform. In Central v2024.3, all Entity-related forms will be automatically migrated to use offline Entities.

This is an existing issue related to how decimal values are represented by computers. We'll get to it next release or maybe in a point release! In the mean time, a larger/different step should make this less likely. Thanks for reporting.

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