stellarium

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Direct ASCOM support for Telescope Control plugin on Windows
• Refactoring the GUI
• Many improvements in the code
• Added many DSO textures
• Improvements in DSO catalog
• Many improvements in AstroCalc tool

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added Vts plugin (GH: #880)
• Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #788)
• Added support superior and inferior conjunctions for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
• Added support greatest elongations for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
• Added compute stationary points in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
• Added new groups of objects for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added magnitudes for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added brightness limit for planetary nebulae (speed-up for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
• Added 2 new functions for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
• Added support of connecting line between the ephemeris markers (GH: #758, #805)
• Added support skipping of labels for visualization of data into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #758)
• Added acknowledgements entry for plugins
• Added some more references and acknowledgements for few plugins
• Added some DSO textures (GH: #798, #824, #878)
• Added new GUI options and tooltips for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Phenomena tools
• Added parallax accuracy info for the stars (GH: #87)
• Added new planetary nomenclature
• Added selected dwarf and minot planets for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added error info for distance (taken from parallax)
• Added heliocentric speed to Apex markers
• Added support of SYNC command for LX200 and NexStar protocols (Telescope Control Plugin) (GH: #667, #727)
• Added asteroid (162173) Ryugu and moon Puck (Uranus XV)
• Added filters for open/globular star clusters in DSO tab (GH: #841)
• Added categories "open star clusters" and "globular star clusters" into AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)
• Added new type of shape for markers (MarkerMgr/scripting)
• Added new option for visualization of ephemeris markers (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
• Added tool for smart format dates of ephemeris on the sky (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
• Added new option for CCD (switching scaling FOV) in Oculars plugin (GH: #834)
• Added option to allow drawing FOV outline for ocular (Oculars plugin)
• Added an optional cardinal points to the ocular view (GH: #421)
• Added some stars to Chinese skyculture and Chinese contemporary skyculture (GH: #848)
• Added option to enable align the crosshair in equatorial coordinate system (GH: #852)
• Added option to use one color for info text (overwrite color mode) for all objects
• Added ASCOM telescope client into Telescope Control plugin (Windows only) (GH: #761, #406)
• Added 2 new config options for developers to build Stellarium package
• Added Pinyin transliteration to Chinese sky culture (GH: #867)
• Added support display of asterisms and ray helpers for Western (Rey) starlore (GH: #855)
• Added tool with keyboard shortcut for deselect the selected object (GH: #857)
• Added new tool (AstroCalc/Transits) info AstroCalc window (GH: #872)
• Added new option (duration) into AstroCalc/Graphs [Graphs] tool (GH: #874)
• Added an optional calculations for perihelion and aphelion of the planets into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #874)
• Added tool to adjustable line thickness of celestial grids and lines (GH: #828)
• Added line thickness setting into ArchaeoLines plugin
• Added new stars and exoplanets names according to IAU NameExoWorlds
• Fixed coordinates for Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan) (GH: #782)
• Fixed drawing of Off-Axis Guider (GH: #784)
• Fixed wrong rendering FOV through eyepiece when telescope is changed (GH: #211)
• Fixed parsing the designation of interstellar objects for MPC online search tool
• Fixed compute minutes in low precision case from deciman hours (GH: #792)
• Fixed double (mirrored) ephemeris lines in perspective projection (GH: #811, #813)
• Fixed exclude moons from compute of greatest elongations and stationary points on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
• Fixed compute behaviour for "Sun, planets and moons" option on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
• Fixed cache problem for compute Moon's age in some cases
• Fixed crash in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool in specific cases (GH: #822)
• Fixed displaying obvious wrong distance for stars (GH: #402, #404)
• Fixed wrong rendering the screen in night mode with fractional scaling (GH: #827)
• Fixed getting revision number for non-release builds when git is not installed or using source tarball
• Fixed wrong distances of the clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (GH: #840)
• Fixed crash when star catalogs description is updated
• Fixed abbreviation of asterism Sudor Ophiuchi
• Fixed wrong zooming in Telrad (GH: #832)
• Fixed about data for Oculars plugin and updated the version of plugin
• Fixed support mirrored cardinals for ocular view
• Fixed crash when "gravity labels" is enabled (GH: #847)
• Fixed the space char problem for gravity labels
• Fixed work scripting functions saveState and restoreState (GH: #849)
• Fixed font scaling for text around CCD frame for HiDPI screens
• Fixed translation errors in Danish (GH: #865)
• Fixed saving of stars twinkle setting (GH: #862)
• Fixed crash for saving file in AstroCalc/WUT tool when category of objects is not selected
• Fixed obtaining some data for plot graphs in Exoplanets plugin
• Fixed DSO catalog (unexsist objects)
• Fixed object information text color in eyepiece view at daytime (GH: #858)
• Fixed plot for culmination height jumps at daylight saving time (GH: #876)
• Fixed crash with negative JDs
• Fixed setting the minimum data step for labels in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #871)
• Fixed translation issues for Nomenclature
• Fixed translation issues for Nebulae
• Fixed translation months of activity for the meteor showers
• Fixed solar halo drawing issue (GH: #879)
• Fixed ASCOM settings translation issue (GH: #881)
• Fixed for paths render with orthographic projection (GH: #811)
• Fixed wrap-around rendering artefacts for Comet tails in Cylindrical and similar projections
• Fixed artefacts in some projections for old-style landscapes (GH: #366)
• Fixed Date and Time dialog: set focus on day spinner by default (GH: #886)
• Updated outlines for DSO (the data taken from OpenNGC catalog)
• Updated TelescopeControl plugin: Attempt to fix protocol mismatches for LX200 (GH: #818)
• Updated some DSO textures (GH: #783, #798, #815, #817, #824, #878)
• Updated scripting engine documentation
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated options for Windows installer (GH: #819)
• Updated AstroCalc/PC tool
• Updated parallax info string: let's use milliarcseconds for parallax for whole planetarium
• Updated default bookmarks for asteroids in Solar System Editor plugin
• Updated default bookmarks for comets in Solar System Editor plugin
• Updated the initial steps for newly added minor and dwarf planets into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Updated rules for including OpenSSL libraries into Windows package (GH: #786)
• Updated GUI for Sky and viewing options window
• Updated attributes for HDPI support
• Updated lunar terminator visibility
• Updated ephemeris marker style: it was switched to use new type of shape to balancing the visual style
• Updated spectral data for HIP stars from SIMBAD/Gaia data
• Updated variable stars data (HIP subset from GCVS 5.1 catalog)
• Updated behaviour: hide zodiacal light when whole Solar system bodies are hidden
• Updating StelProperty behaviour: allow suppression of a warning when a StelProperty cannot be found - should be used when requesting plugin properties!
• Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool: excluding moons from list of celestial bodies (except the moons of current planet) to simplificate.
• Removed filter for star clusters from DSO tab (GH: #841)
• Removed "star clusters" category from AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)

Release notes

The second bugfix release for series 0.19

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added support DMS and DD formats for parallactic angle feature
• Added altitude limitation filter for AstroCalc/Graphs[AltVsTime/ME] tools
• Added visual improvements for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
• Added new time intervals for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added computation of ephemeris for all naked-eye visible planets into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added GUI for select the color of ephemeris markers into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added 2 new scripts (Saturnian and uranian analemmas)
• Added 'k Pup' designation to star HIP 37229 (GH: #706)
• Added information about progress of loading on splash screen (GH: #719)
• Added a new skylore for Stellarium: Anutan
• Added support catalog "Southern Stars embedded in nebulosity" (Van den Bergh and Herbst, 1975 - VdBH)
• Added support "Catalogue and distances of optically visible H II regions" (Dickel+, 1969 - DWB)
• Added distances for few LDN objects
• Added support removing shortcuts through config.ini file (GH: #724)
• Added extraInfoString to StelObject: Allows extra info injected by plugins or scripts.
• Added display of Apex/Antapex points (GH: #737)
• Added "observers" for all planets with moons (GH: #736)
• Added IAU constellation abbreviation to object info
• Added 3 new actions
• Added settings for Script Console (GH: #741)
• Added Vanuatu (Netwar) skyculture (GH: #762)
• Added few asterisms (GH: #753, #768)
• Added new one time step into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #758)
• Added few new DSO textures (GH: #756, #780)
• Added support Vec3d into scripting engine
• Added a Messier Marathon script (GH: #771)
• Added support for short weekday display modes in bottom toolbar
• Added GUI option to toggle permanent orbit drawing
• Added hyperbolic comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) [2I/Borisov] into default ssystem_minor.ini file
• Added a scripting function for refraction (GH: #778)
• Fixed coloring text issue when formatting output is on
• Fixed saving properties for external software/remote computer in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #702)
• Fixed behaviour of selected ephemeris marker when sorting not for date (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
• Fixed sorting date and time columns for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Phenomena tools
• Fixed crash on destruction of static QWidget (GH: #720)
• Fixed small difference of values issue for different time zones for Date and Time column in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #717)
• Fixed stupid conversion bug in hmsToRad function (GH: #716)
• Fixed an asymmetry w.r.t. to the ecliptic latitudes (Moon age)
• Fixed Search Tool/Lists behaviour for VdBH catalog
• Fixed distances for few DSO (GH: #708)
• Fixed Gregorian date issue for AstroCalc (GH: #711)
• Fixed support GPS on macOS (GH: #712)
• Fixed coefficient for the duration of mean tropical year
• Fixed issue for images in description for landscapes: set search directory (GH: #735)
• Fixed tooltip behaviour for Date and Time dialog
• Fixed star name to its source spelling (GH: #729)
• Fixed compiling with GPSD 3.19 [API 8.0] (GH: #733)
• Fixed encoding script files in Script Console (GH: #742)
• Fixed drawing names of asterisms
• Fixed aFOV display in Oculars plugin
• Fixed visual issue in Script Console (white background) with Qt 5.13
• Fixed links for scripting docs (SUG)
• Fixed screen flashing during solar eclipse (GH: #747)
• Fixed core.resetOutput(); method behaviour (GH: #750)
• Fixed AltGr behaviour for some languages on Windows
• Fixed clipping issue for LabelMgr.labelObject (GH: #776)
• Fixed weekday computation
• Fixed rendering planets orbits (GH: #773)
• Fixed error in shape of asterism Red-Necked Emu (GH: #769)
• Fixed proper removing of default secondary shortcut (GH: #764)
• Fixed cross-id error in DSO catalog
• Updated appdata.xml file
• Updated outdated code for names of days and months
• Updated Observability plugin
• Updated list of proper names of stars (IAU approved list)
• Updated Moon age calculation: let's use geocentric coordinates only for compute of the Moon age
• Updated AstroCalc/PC tool: simplification and colorification for graphs
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: small speed-up
• Updated the default color space: StelToneReproducer now use sRGB as target RGB color space (GH: #718)
• Updated GUI for Satellites plugin
• Updated common names for DSO
• Updated common names for stars
• Updated packaging for macOS: Let's use macdeployqt for creating a MacOS bundles
• Updated nomenclature support: Let's use compressed nomenclature data to reduce an installation package
• Updated translations
• Updated planetary nomenclature
• Updated Sardinian skyculture
• Updated file handling in Script Console
• Updated HDPI features: enabled scaling fonts on High DPI monitors (GH: #546)
• Updated default shortcuts: changed default shortcut for copying selected object information (Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+Shift+C) to allow use Ctrl+C shortcut for text edit fields for whole planetarium (GH: #748)
• Updated getInfoMap method [scripting engine]: enhanced the getInfoMap method for the Sun (get eclipse data; GH: #747)
• Updated Chinese (Simplified) and Russian translations for Windows installer (GH: #755, #779)
• Updated Bookmarks tool
• Updated default exoplanets and pulsars catalogs
• Updated behaviour on Windows: disable HiDPI scaling in manifest (GH: #763)
• Updated Oculars plugin: improve RA/Dec output for CCD frame
• Code refactoring: type checking/casting clarifications
• Removed FOV plugin (the feature was moved into core of planetarium)

Release notes

The first bugfix release for series 0.19

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added allow to search an inactive meteor showers in Search Tool/Lists tool
• Added 'Azimuth vs. Time' graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
• Added feature to show tracks for latest several selected planets (GH: #539)
• Added calculation and showing the orbital period for artificial satellites
• Added revolutions per day info for artificial satellites
• Added tools for jumping to the next or previous time of rising, transit or setting for selected object (GH: #484)
• Added new behavoir for AstroCalc/Graphs when clicking within graph area now sets current time.
• Added simplification in topocentric correction (GH: #391)
• Added parallactic angle function (added it to infostring and infomap also)
• Added hour angle and sidereal time to infomap
• Added apply rotation when drawing Solar Corona (GH: #699)
• Fixed draw corona when atmosphere is switched off
• Fixed airmass in infomap
• Fixed issue in script 'Mercury Triple Sunrise and Sunset'
• Fixed crash of Stellarium for eyepieces with permanent crosshair
• Fixed Stellarium crash when Remote Control plugin is working
• Fixed computation of assume radius for minor planets.
• Fixed the issue of the scrolling not working properly on Mac (GH: #393)
• Fixed crash in Scripting Engine (Hide artificial satellites through StelProperties in core.clear() method
  to avoid crash if plugin was didn't loaded)
• Fixed planetarium crash in HiPS (network manager delete problem)
• Fixed position problems on the Poles (GH: #391)
• Fixed scaling Telrad sign on HighDPI monitors
• Fixed surface occlusion bug even with landscape turned off in scripting engine (GH: #680)
• Fixed building with cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON (GH: #683)
• Fixed error in constellation file format (Babylonian)
• Fixed Europe/Volgograd time zone settings (GH: #686)
• Fixed HiPS handling of allsky download (GH: #671)
• Fixed progress bar rendering (GH: #671)
• Fixed positive declinations issue in AstroCalc tool when option 'Use decimal degrees' is enabled (GH: #690)
• Fixed file names inconsistency
• Fixed constellation line in "Japanese Moon Stations" skyculture
• Fixed file name for constellation boundaries in Stellarium User Guide
• Fixed the user interface problems in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
• Fixed getting the wrong values in objects/info method for selected object for different formats (Remote Control plugin)
• Fixed refresh plots when AstroCalc dialog becomes visible again (AstroCalc/Graphs tool)
• Fixed jquery vulnerability (GH: #694)
• Fixed date and time dialog behaviour: Hour/Minute/Second spinners now correctly trigger signals dateChanged(), dateChangedByYear and dateChangedForMonth() when days, months or years are affected by it.
• Fixed update graphs in AstroCalc/Graphs tool when days change
• Updated planetary nomenclature
• Updated common names of stars and DSO's
• Updated cmake rules for Windows deployment
• Updated DSO textures
• Updated behaviour of HiPS survey if Stellarium started without network (GH: #681)
• Updated GUI for ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #689, #682)
• Updated default pulsars catalog (v1.60)
• Updated list of asterisms
• Updated AstroCalc tools: many optimizations
• Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• 5 new sky cultures
• Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes
• Added many DSO textures
• Many improvements for Scripting Engine

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
• Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
• Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
• Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
• Added new one script 'Constellations Tour' to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
• Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
• Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
• Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
• Added translation support for strings within scripts
• Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
• Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
• Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
• Added DSO textures
• Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
• Added tool for allow filetype selection for Screenshots (GH: #623)
• Added core.getPlatformName() and core.isMediaPlaybackSupported() methods into scripting engine
• Added scripting function isModuleLoaded()
• Added graph "Transit altitude vs Time" into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
• Added small simplification to scripting through adding master switch by types for grids, lines and points on the sky [Scripting Engine]
• Added showing labels for named highlights (GH: #638)
• Added allow setting location of User Data Dir via environment variable.
• Added scripting graphics tool [Scripting Engine] (GH: #640)
• Added LMC and SMC as addition names for Magellanic Clouds
• Added classifications support for sky cultures
• Added support 2 southern deep sky catalogues (NGC subset; esp. for southern observers)
• Added armintxe, paleolithic sky culture and landscape (GH: #628)
• Added demo script for martian analemma [Scripting Engine]
• Added support sols for setDate() method [Scripting Engine]
• Added code, who indicate to hybrid graphics systems to prefer the discrete part by default (GH: #649)
• Added support for constellation boundaries thickness (GH: #653)
• Added Maya constellations (GH: #635)
• Added 2 Babylonian skycultures (GH: #647)
• Added display of used (terrestrial) timezone for observation from extraterrestrial locations
• Added special case for Satellites plugin: use texture for draw the crossing of the ISS of the Moon or the Sun
• Added nightly illumination plus basic description for armintxe landscape
• Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
• Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
• Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
• Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations' Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
• Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
• Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
• Fixed behaviour of script (The old script 'Constellations Tour' was renamed to the 'Western Constellations Tour' and updated) [Scripting Engine]
• Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
• Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
• Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
• Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
• Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
• Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
• Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
• Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
• Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
• Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
• Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
• Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
• Fixed description data for textures.json
• Fixed missed translatable strings in StelSkyCultureMgr class
• Fixed CWE-404 issues
• Fixed crash when script tried delete already deleted labels (GH: #625)
• Fixed zooming behaviour
• Fixed time zone issue in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Fixed DSO texture overlay issue (GH: #655)
• Fixed FTBFS issue on some linux systems
• Fixed bad behaviour time zones in the location panel (GH: #602)
• Fixed crash when selecting certain dates in 1 AD for some time zones on Windows (GH: #594)
• Fixed default limits for graph "Transit altitude vs Time"
• Fixed translation the "Armintxe Cave" string (GH: #657)
• Fixed airmass calculation for deep-sky objects
• Changed default constellations font size
• Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
• Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
• Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
• Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
• Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
• Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated technical documentation
• Updated Amalthea texture
• Updated scripts (added i18n support)
• Updated scripting API: added format specification for screenshots. (GH: #623)
• Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
• Updated DSO textures
• Updated textures of LMC (GH: #632)
• Updated nomenclature
• Updated jquery and jquery-ui in Remote Control plugin (GH: #620, #621)
• Updated scripting engine: MilkyWay saturation scriptable now
• Updated scripting engine: expanding the core.clear() method
• Updated Satellites plugin: harmonized function name, added a property [Scripting Engine].
• Updated KoreanCM.isl file - typofixes (GH: #639)
• Updated RemoteSync plugin: suppress unsuitable properties (GH: #642)
• Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool: optimizations
• Updated AstroCalc/Positions tool: optimizations
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: optimizations
• Updated contact info for plugins
• Updated Sterngarten model description
• Updated behaviour of the options on Starlore tab
• Updated list of extraterrestrial locations
• Updated time zones behaviour: make custom time zone use a full property of StelCore
• Updated time zones behaviour: preserve custom timezone setting
• Updated LocationDialog behaviour: Return to default location resets location list.
• Removed a long time abandoned incomplete LogBook plugin
• Remove old deprecated methods in scripting engine
• Remove languages without translators and with translations lesser than 1%

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool
• Added new sky cultures
• Added many DSO textures
• Refactoring the GUI
• Many improvements in the code

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added names of potential interesting asteroids according to Wikipedia
• Added change saturation of Milky Way when eyepiece simulation is enabled
• Added precisions to saturation shader (GH: #261)
• Added Northern Andes skyculture (GH: #267)
• Added Western (Sky & Telescope) skyculture (GH: #562)
• Added tool for checking updates of planetarium
• Added the support of kinetic scrolling for lists and long texts for all operating systems (disabled by default)
• Added support angular size filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool (if applicable)
• Added satellite color & description handling (GH: #350, #380)
• Added new graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
• Added airmass info to infostring and infomap (GH: #157)
• Added workaround for a spherical mirror mode bug (GH: #252)
• Added angular separation filter for double stars in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added highlights support (see Bookmarks tool; GH: #272)
• Added Chinese translation for landscape description (GH: #493)
• Added tooltip for 'Prism/CCD distance (mm)' option
• Added a SphericalCap to close off Spherical Landscapes
• Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #503)
• Added tool for reaload the DSO background images (shortcut: Ctrl+I)
• Added tool for reloading the current sky culture (shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+I)
• Added pack of DSO textures
• Added timezone loading for landscapes
• Added Nereid texture
• Added new method core.selectConstellationByName() to avoid possible wrong selection when few objects has same name (enforcement selection of constellation; GH: #490)
• Added alphabetical sorting the list of surveys (GH: #506)
• Added Chinese Contemporary Skyculture (GH: #508)
• Added 2 new tweakable buttons for asterisms
• Added 4 new tweakable buttons for GUI
• Added Interstellar Object type and elements of 1I/Oumuamua
• Added new nomenclature for Mercury
• Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #540)
• Added display of the antisolar point (GH: #536)
• Added a good default list of instruments into Oculars plugin (GH: #409)
• Added kinetic scrolling to switch on the fly (GH: #519)
• Added option to select font and size (GH: #424)
• Added workaround for grouped onscreen Information of selected object issue (GH: #523)
• Added a tour of the Solar System planets
• Added phase angle info for the artificial satellites
• Added new MIME type for Stellarium scripts (for UNIX/Linux systems)
• Added wrapper for Stellarium's website
• Added support XLSX files (GH: #555)
• Added visual style for headers of columns in XLSX files
• Added option to sort results in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #521, #560)
• Added visual style for headers of columns in XLSX files
• Added support double clicks on the sky (selecting + centering objects)
• Added scripting function to allow targetting Galactic coordinates
• Fixed small issue with untranslatable items of drop-down list of HiPS surveys
• Fixed saving telescope settings on Mac OS X (GH: #254)
• Fixed the terms in columns in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Fixed switching of locale for dates on graphs in AstroCalc tool when language is changed
• Fixed bug when downloading extra stars catalogues (GH: #260)
• Fixed saving value of option "Scale image circle" in Oculars plugin (GH: #264)
• Fixed resetting results when clear button is pressed in Satellites plugin (GH: #265)
• Fixed annoying warning in Search Tool
• Fixed missing config option for rise, set and transit times in GUI
• Fixed possible crash in AstroCalc/PC tool
• Fixed adding unnamed stars into bookmarks
• Fixed fragment shader for planets
• Fixed uninitialized vars in HelpDialog (Coverity issue)
• Fixed documentation for for StelObject::getInfoMap()
• Fixed spheric mirror support on retina displays (GH: #390)
• Fixed link to the Stellarium User Guide
• Fixed link to Hawaiian Star Compass Landscape in Hawaiian Starlines (GH: #384)
• Fixed the performance for AstroCalc tool (GH: #379)
• Fixed lunar eclipse visualization (GH: #274)
• Fixed bookmarking for the unnamed stars
• Fixed Chinese sky culture (GH: #489)
• Fixed a bug for Chinese skyulture. (GH: #504)
• Fixed storing the view direction/FoV separately from other settings (GH: #309)
• Fixed typo in stellarium.desktop (GH: #507)
• Fixed typo in property setting (Cardinal direction color)
• Fixed storing of mount mode (conflict in Oculars plugin; GH: #505)
• Fixed the orientation of M58 texture (GH: #514)
• Fixed PNG warnings
• Fixed bad airmass infostring (GH: #525).
• Fixed button state
• Fixed the text overlap issue in Observability plugin (GH: #517)
• Fixed the placement issue of the cross in Pointer Coordinates (GH: #516)
• Fixed border handling for a DeltaT formula
• Fixed build with --as-needed (GH: #545)
• Fixed updating Satellites at startup (GH: #542)
• Fixed separation value for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool for oppositions
• Fixed opening XLSX files in the modern Microsoft Office
• Fixed black screen shot in night mode (GH: #534)
• Fixed TeX style for scripts (GH: #570)
• Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (AstroCalc/AltVsTime, AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/Graphs tools has been merged into AstroCalc/Graphs)
• Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (visual style has been updated)
• Updated GUI behaviour: let's hide angular limits for AstroCalc/WUT when the limits are not applicable
• Updated GUI behaviour: split GUI font size from screen font size
• Updated GUI behaviour: move color buttons to the left of labels
• Updated visual style of diagram in Exoplanets plugin
• Updated code of Satellites plugin
• Updated names of DSO
• Updated textures of DSO
• Updated textures of moons
• Updated nomenclature
• Updated documents
• Updated Oculars plugin: immediate update of display when changing instrument details in GUI.
• Updated Oculars plugin: separate font scaling for the Oculars GUI panel.
• Updated Oculars plugin: storing of current instrument (telescope/ocular/CCD/lens) indices
• Updated RemoteControl plugin: change return types in JSON object info from string-only to native.
• Updated getInfoString code: separate getMagnitudeInfoString to avoid code repetition.
• Updated tooltips and labels for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Updated default select priority for custom objects and markers (GH: #501)
• Updated behaviour: the select priority of custom objects and markers now configurable and scriptable
• Updated behaviour: improved timezone handling, allows scriptable setting (GH: #497)
• Updated default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated ArchaeoLines plugin (code refactoring)
• Updated color setting (code refactoring)
• Updated behaviour of lists in the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graphs tool (GH: #520)
• Updated tool for create the exoplanets catalog
• Updated script 'Constellations tour' and added small patch to avoid possible crash, when sky culture is changed (GH: #572)
• Obsolete code in core has been removed
• Removed outdated link (GH: #526)
• Removed doubled parenting code in GUI classes

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool and plugins
• Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae and ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas
• Added few new scripts
• Updated code and data

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added GUI improvements for AstroCalc tool
• Added elongation support for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added support decimal degrees format for AstroCalc tool
• Added handle keypressing for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added filters for enlisted objects in Search Tool/Lists tool
• Added filters for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added new textures for moons
• Added column with angular distance from the Moon into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added special case for partial solar eclipses in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added centering text for headers in AstroCalc/Phenomena, AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Positions tools
• Added "clear" button for search of artificial satellites in the selected group (Satellites plugin)
• Added additional context for term 'Transit' (GH: #215)
• Added artwork for some Maori constellations
• Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (Abell, 1966)
• Added distances for some planetary nebulae (DSO)
• Added possibility to select all constellations through scripts and hotkeys
• Added new language (Urdu)
• Added additional level of checks for JSON documents
• Added Lokono sky culture
• Added support to add/subtract calendric month through hotkeys (GH: #232)
• Added support 'ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas'
• Added processing the 30x HTTP codes for Quasars, Pulsars, Historical Supernovae, Bright Novae, Meteor Showers and Exoplanets plugins (GH: #236, #231, #229, #227, #226, #225, #224, #223)
• Added visual magnitudes and sizes for Abell planetary nebulae
• Added support Milkyway saturation effect (GH: #175, #242)
• Added Henriksson solution (2017) for Schoch formula for DeltaT (1931)
• Added actions (without default hotkeys) to toggle Moon and Minor body scaling
• Added script "Jupiter and triple shadow phenomena"
• Added script "Jupiter without Galilean satellites"
• Added script "Occultations of bright stars by planets"
• Added script "Mutual occultations of planets"
• Fixed sorting rules for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Fixed Moon HiPS rendering during eclipse
• Fixed URL of API for "Location from network" feature (GH: #218)
• Fixed some errors in DSO catalog
• Fixed crash in the combination: constellation is selected and sky culture has been changed
• Fixed Earth shadow on scaled Moon during eclipse
• Fixed auto-enabling landscapes when setObserverLocation is call (LP: #1783752)
• Fixed position of Jupiter moons: updated theory to L1.2 (GH: #222)
• Fixed cross-index data issue (DSO)
• Fixed the term for altitude above sea level (GH: #247)
• Fixed desync bug with IAU Constellation and constellation borders (GH: #246)
• Fixed reserved identifier violation issue (GH: #243)
• Fixed trouble with selection priority of nomenclature items for celestial bodies in deep shadow (GH: #239)
• Fixed parsing error in constellation IAU borders lookup (GH: #241)
• Fixed compiler warnings when GPS support is disabled (GH: #240)
• Fixed potential crash for Meteor showers plugin
• Fixed crash (segmentation fault) for sporadic meteors with max ZHR
• [SUG] Fixed bibtex link
• [SUG] Fixed links for HCG data (GH: #212)
• Updated scripts
• Updated behaviour of deselectConstellations() method (LP: #1780951)
• Updated Epimetheus texture
• Updated behaviour of "clear" button for Search and AstroCalc/WUT tools
• Updated list of locations
• Updated list of DSO names
• Updated behaviour of Oculars button on bottom toolbar: hidden by default
• Updated default bookmarks of Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #180)
• Updated script 'Partial Lunar Eclipse'
• Updated default host for GeoIP service
• Updated the appdata file (GH: #234)
• Updated behaviour of Location dialog: allowed to use resort GPS location at next startup and disable IP query when GPS is used
• Removed support of terrible Qt plural forms

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Improvements and fixes for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] support
• Updated code of plugins
• Updated code and data
• Updated GPS handling
• Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects
• Added dithering support

Packages notes

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added dithering support
• Added filtering for pulsars
• Added option for Telrad
• Added nomenclature for Charon
• Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added support Mandarin Chinese language
• Added support of hi-res screenshots (GH: #141)
• Added few small improvements for Quasars plugin
• Added tooltips for color buttons in Pulsars plugin
• Added option to hiding invisible satellites in markers mode (GH: #145)
• Added angular size for the estimated values of coma and gas tail for comet
• Added support decimal degrees for size of DSO
• Added improvements for proportional size textures for large DSO (GH: #159)
• Added atmospheric mixing and extinction handling to Toast Survey (GH: #158)
• Added Korean translation for landscape description (GH: #170)
• Added shortkeys for change light pollution (GH: #171)
• Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects (GH: #169)
• Added info about duration of the solar day
• Added scripting function to retrieve environment variables.
• Added changeability of magnitude limit for stars through keyboard shortcuts (GH: #174)
• Added Korean ISL File and Update iss.cmake (GH: #185)
• Added allowing storing script output to absolute path
• Added equatorial radius / diameter info for Solar system bodies
• Added calculation of equatorial rotation velocity for Solar system bodies (except comets)
• Added 2 more lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed load the HiPS sources through proxy
• Fixed creating screenshots on retina displays
• Fixed behaviour Macbook's touchpad
• Fixed result of dithering color components with exactly zero tail
• Fixed dithering for OpenGL ES2
• Fixed enabling various lines when Telrad is enabled (GH: #109)
• Fixed error in DSO catalogs filter
• Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI (LP: #1764084, GH: #144)
• Fixed compile with Qt5.10 (Windows/Visual Studio 2015) (GH: #139)
• Fixed visibility of splash screen (GH: #142)
• Fixed rendering asterisms names
• Fixed editing telescope properties for Telescope Control plugin
• Fixed memory leak of Bayer pattern texture in StelPainter (GH: #154)
• Fixed HiPS server requests (GH: #156)
• Fixed infotext brightness when planets are switched off
• Fixed crash after customization of absolute/relative scales
• Fixed operational status string for satellites
• Fixed incorrect pair counts in constellationship.fab files (GH: #167)
• Fixed color issue for formatting infostring
• Fixed selection in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed fullscreen toggle on Mac OS X (GH: #193)
• Fixed User Agent string for HiPS
• Fixed the SSO isolated trails checkbox. (GH: #199)
• Fixed a rendering bug with spheric mirror distortion (LP: #1777320)
• Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
• Updated help of Telescope Control plugin
• Updated HiPS behaviour: try to use caching as much as possible
• Updated user agent string for HiPS browser
• Updated nomenclature list
• Updated main GUI
• Updated GUI of plugins
• Updated Satellites plugin
• Updated GPS handling
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated catalog of pulsars
• Updated behaviour of Search Tool for craters
• Updated Quasars plugin
• Updated format for DSO's size
• [SUG] Updated year for copyright notices
• Updated Korean Star Names (GH: #173)
• Updated hyperlinks for DOIs resolver (GH: #187)
• Updated CMake rules for Windows/MSVC (GH: #183, #188)
• Updated textures
• Updated Scripting Engine: extended behaviour for includes files in scripts
• Updated the code: remove some redundant calls to increase code readability. (GH: #184)
• Updated the code: replaces foreach macro by C++11 range-based for. (GH: #195)
• Updated the code: remove gVector, use Vec3d instead. (GH: #197)
• Updated the code: C++11 auto to replace complicated hand written types. (GH: #196)
• Updated the code: disable debug logging on OpenGLES mode. (GH: #201)
• Updated the code: remove the null pointer check after new. (GH: #202)
• Updated the code: check struct size by using static_assert. (GH: #203)
• Updated the code: put dwarf galaxies and h400 tables into static array. (GH: #204)
• Updated the code: call getDecYear in getDeltaTByEspenakMeeus. (GH: #205)
• Updated the code: remove some new/delete pairs, just use variables on stack. (GH: #206)
• Updated CMake code: enable persistent usage of C++11 standard for compiling (GH: #192)

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Added support Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] (Hello visualization of
  multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
• Updated and extended AstroCalc tool
• Added support a Hickson Compact Group collection
• Updated code and data

Packages notes

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Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added support Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] (Hello visualization of multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
• Added patches for TeXLive
• Added Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) translations for InnoSetup
• Added Dnoces star name
• Added check relative paths for AppImage (or something similar) packages
• Added hook for creating an AppImage application
• Added optional building 3rd-party INDILib when Telescope Control plugin is disabled
• Added manual commands for NSEW movements in Telescope Control plugin [INDI-only]
• Added computation of solar eclipse magnitude and solar eclipse obscuration on Earth (special case)
• Added option to allow adding some sky background color (GH: #71)
• Added Moon age computation (GH: #73)
• Added "Western (O.Hlad)" sky culture
• Added support common names of pulsars
• Added some DSO images
• Added calculation of synodic period
• Added AstroCalc/Monthly Elevation tool
• Added optional Sun, Moon, Astronomical Twilight and Nautical Twilight lines for AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
• Added Battlesteads Observatory into locations list
• Added a special case of computations (lunar eclipse) into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added two new signals to manage wide dates changes with various steps - by months and years
• Added new option to the AstroCalc/AltVsTime and AstroCalc/ME tools
• Added support a Hickson Compact Group collection
• Added tools for select color of planetary labels and trails
• Added option to suppress drawing large halo around bright stars. (GH: #105)
• Added Tesla Roadster orbital elements
• Added config options for font size of cardinal points
• Added visualization of civil twilight line in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
• Added 'Artificial objects' into Search/Lists tool
• Added feature to store and retrieve selected HiPS
• Added bottom bar GUI button for HiPS display
• Fixed spheric mirror effect inputs with retina display
• Fixed visualization issue for ephemeris markers due refraction (GH: #51)
• Fixed building Stellarium on *BSD systems (GH: #52)
• Fixed texture name
• Fixed behaviour of DateTimeDialog (LP: #1409935)
• Fixed behaviour of Compass Marks plugin
• Fixed issue for creating a multiple Screenshot directories (GH: #60)
• Fixed cmake for OSX
• Fixed data race condition by mutex in Telescope Control plugin
• Fixed few C99 warnings
• Fixed rules for MSVC linker
• Fixed Phoebe's absolute magnitude
• Fixed some DSO positions (data is obtained from NED database) (GH: #64)
• Fixed FSF address
• Fixed missed license info for the new code
• Fixed version of DSO catalog
• Fixed inconsistency of calculations in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
• Fixed crash due missing file MSVCR120.dll (GH: #101)
• Fixed backward orbiting of Uranus moons (GH: #107)
• Fixed search Hydra constellation (show IAU numbers for moons) (LP: #1752784)
• Fixed crash when opening Configuration window (beta 0.90.0.15828) (GH: #111)
• Fixed crash when landscape invalid
• Fixed translation action in HipsMgr
• Fixed name of action for TOAST DSS
• Fixed very jerky (unusable) trackpad navigation on OS X (LP: #1705832)
• Updated Russian and German translations for InnoSetup
• Updated list of cardinals names
• Updated target rules for OSX
• Updated AppStream info
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated Indian Vedic skyculture
• Updated list of nomenclature on the Titan
• Updated zlib to version 1.2.11
• Updated toggling of atmosphere, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light
• Updated Telescope Control plugin
• Updated AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
• Updated focus rules for Search Tool
• Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
• Updated behaviour of AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/PC tools
• Updated the behaviour of Satellites plugin: the plugin will be disabled when date is changed for a month or year to avoiding stupid computation
• Updated select priority rules for DSO
• Updated help info in the plugins
• Updated info in Help window
• Updated metainfo
• Updated textures for Solar system bodies
• Removed outdated data

Release notes

Version 0.17.0 is based on Qt 5.9.3, but it can still be built from sources with Qt 5.4.

The major changes of this version:

• Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
• Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
• Added improvements for Oculars plugin
• Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
• Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
• Updated code and data

Changelog

Full list of changes:

• Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
• Added templates for translation of planetary features nomenclature
• Added support of movement to selected nomenclature item
• Added new tab for AstroCalc tool: Planetary Calculator
• Added Icelandic translation for a couple of skycultures
• Added another OS detection logging function
• Added new landscape: the Sun
• Added Russian translation for new landscape
• Added filters for nomenclature (Search Tool/Lists)
• Added support plural forms for translation (LP: #1561457)
• Added deselectConstellations() method to public area
• Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemerides tool
• Added sane defaults to Planets
• Added subclasses to the list of Solar system objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Added config option to allow make visible orbits for major planets only (LP: #1720722)
• Added rule to allow to hide nomenclature on the celestial body of observer (LP: #1723742)
• Added context support for Solar system bodies
• Added angular size filter for DSO
• Added shortcut for nomenclature
• Added plus/minus keys for elevation change on Macs without PgUp/PgDn
• Added better font scaling for HiDPI Macs
• Added detection method info for exoplanets
• Added visual resolution info for Oculars plugin
• Added GUI options for color of exoplanet marker
• Added a default for night mode
• Added API command to retrieve view direction in RemoteControl plugin
• Added API commands into RemoteControl plugin: allow view setting jNow, harmonize capitalisation for the parameters.
• Added velocity display to Planets, MinorPlanets and Comets
• Added improvements for AstroCalc/PC tool
• Added orbital velocities for AstroCalc/PC tool
• Added special case for long list of "also known as" names
• Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
• Added Caucasian Mountain Observatory to locations list
• Added option to select temperature scale to the Exoplanets plugin
• Added option to allow scaling of Ocular buttons (LP: #1507205)
• Added new option to the Navigational Stars plugin
• Added checkboxes for DSO catalogs (PN G, SNR G, ACO) in Remote Control plugin
• Added wikilinks for names of Solar system bodies
• Fixed filter for limiting by DSO mangitudes
• Fixed TestStelJsonParser fails (LP: #1719076)
• Fixes and additions for French descriptions
• Fixed context support for constellations
• Fixed sort order for 'Peak' in Meteor showers search (LP: #1719939)
• Fixed location for stellarium.appdata.xml file
• Fixed stupid bug for asterisms in Search Tool/Lists
• Fixed some back-side issues of nomenclature (LP: #1721815)
• Fixed crash for Custom Objects (LP: #1722527)
• Fixed output data for Exoplanets plugin
• Fixed potential crash for nomenclature and inconsistency of data
• Fixed light speed correction issue for nomenclature items (LP: #1724517)
• Fixed annoying malfunction in Oculars plugin (lost of tracking) (LP: #1724106)
• Fixed the new moons' rotation times
• Fixed selecting of comets in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed behaviour and style of tool for download star catalog
• Fixed infostring for satellite features
• Fixed centering/tracking issues for Nomenclature feature (LP: #1721818)
• Fixed small Coverity issue
• Fixed bug of positions for nomenclature when Solar system data is reloaded
• Fixed shader for planet texture rendering (LP: #1731788)
• Fixed sign for declination coordinate for Southern Iota Aquarids
• Fixed behaviour of Velocity checkbox
• Fixed Oculars GUI Panel behaviour: disabled event processing on the sky under GUI
• Fixed ray helpers lines behaviour in Oculars plugin
• Fixed crossid info of alpha2 centauri (LP: #1734396)
• Fixed Oculars plugin mouse bug on retina display
• Fixed wrong unit of measurement for distance
• Fixed mouse cursor hidding
• Fixed zero-filled initial date/time window issue (LP: #1409935)
• Fixed crash of Stellarium when flag for decimal degrees usage is changed
• Fixed regressions introduced by recent LabelMgr refactoring
• Updated default settings of build environment for Windows and Mac OS X
• Updated ICU rules for Qt 5.9+
• Updated Oculars plugin (Allows accessing via RemoteControl)
• Updated list of DSO outlines (port from HNSKY)
• Updated list of DSO names
• Updated behaviour of auto-load landscape when moving to selected planet
• Updated scripts and their descriptions
• Updated Bengali description of landscapes
• Updated list of planetary nomenclature
• Updated list of official star names
• Updated default time step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Updated behaviour of flag for orbits to renew visibility of orbits
• Updated GUI items in the View dialog
• Updated list of ray helpers
• Updated protocols for MPC
• Updated Triangulum constellation lines
• Updated the solar system screen saver script
• Updated code for beta versions naming
• Updated Chinese skyculture
• Improved performance for AstroCalc tool
• Improved performance for Nomenclature feature
• Code refactoring

Release notes:

Released 2017-06-21

Version 0.16.0 is based on Qt5.6.2. It can still be built from sources with Qt5.4.

5 blueprints and 38 bugs and wishlist items have been targeted.
New features include

• RemoteSync plugin, which allows running several connected instances of Stellarium.
• Non-spherical models for solar system objects like asteroids and small moons.
• Solar system config file is now split into two parts.
• AstroCalc feature extension: What's Up Tonight, graphs, ...
• DSO: Addition of catalogs of peculiar galaxies
• New Skycultures: Belarusian, Hawaiian Star Lines
• Telescope plugin: support for the RTS2 telescope system.
• Location can now be read from a GPS device.

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.15.2 and 0.16.0:

• Added support of irregular solar system objects (3D models of minor bodies) (LP: #1153171)
• Added Remote Sync plugin
• Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
• Added splitting ssystem.ini data - now have separate ssystem_major.ini and ssystem_minor.ini. Only the latter shall be editable for the users.
• Added a few more timezone replacements.
• Added support an asterisms for the sky cultures
• Added better identification for existing serial ports for GPS
• Added context support for constellations and asterisms names
• Added support RTS2 for Telescope Control Plugin
• Added a new option in config.ini file esp. for the planetariums (astro/
  flag_forced_meteor_activity=(false|true) - to show a sporadic meteors activity without atmosphere).
• Added support of date and time formatting settings from main app to AstroCalc tool.
• Added a line for the approximate time of the meridian passing in AstroCalc tool (LP: #1652523)
• Added TLE tracking to RTS2 telescopes
• Added different star scales in the Oculars plugin, even separately for ocular and CCD views (LP: #1656940)
• Added information on magnification of the combination of eyepiece/lens/telescope in proportions of the telescope diameters.
• Added configurable options to AstroCalc tool
• Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
• Added support Kabyle language
• Added 'What's Up Tonight' tool - AstroCalc subsystem (LP: #1080408)
• Added Dark Doodad Nebula to DSO catalog
• Added more data for analysis to the Exoplanets plugin.
• Added calculation of list of visible object for current location (AstroCalc)
• Added tool to remove custom markers by coordinates
• Added support double and variable stars for AstroCalc tool
• Added support translation novae names (parse nova name to extract constellation name and year of flash)
• Added lists of bright double and bright variable stars to Search Tool
• Added customized buttons for toggle ICRS/Galactic/Ecliptic grids (LP: #730689)
• Added customized buttons for toggle constellation boundaries (LP: #1249239)
• Added import/export bookmarks (LP: #1675078)
• Added confirmation before deleting landscape (LP: #1635137)
• Added guessing for name of location and use it when spaceship is landing (LP: #1220561)
• Added an 'Additional settings' block for selected object info
• Added showing a proper motions for some stars
• Added an optional indication of mount mode (LP: #1172860)
• Added option to toggle the usage the buttons background on bottom bar (LP: #1589702)
• Added config option for planet apparent magnitude configuration
• Added description to the planets magnitude algorithm
• Added contrast index for DSO
• Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
• Added new option to configure behaviour of Satellites (Satellites/time_rate_limit = 1.0)
• Added a scripting function to retrieve property names (helpful for configuring RemoteSync).
• Added 3 additional catalogs to our DSO catalog (Arp, VV, PK)
• Added packing of DSO catalog
• Added the showing the groups of the artificial satellites
• Added Belarusian sky culture
• Adding Hawaiian Starlines sky culture
• Added list of bright stars with high proper motion to the Search Tool/Lists and AstroCalc/Positions features
• Added lunar magnitude to sky brightness computation (brightness variation during lunar eclipses!) (LP: #1471546)
• Added property handling for the labels for ArchaeoLines plugin.
• Added Ukrainian translation for Belarusian skyculture
• Added Ukrainian translation for Hawaiian Starlines skyculture
• Added context and improve English phrase (AstroCalc)
• Added missed zh_HK zh_TW zh_CN descriptions for western sky-culture (LP: #1698473)
• Added Belarusian description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698535)
• Added Bengali description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698608)
• Added 'simulation speed' for tooltip of time (LP: #1698510)
• Added saving an angular separation option for phenomena
• Fixed crash when tried use of SIMBAD for offline mode (LP: #1674836)
• Fixed build scripts to update Index once more just before final run.
• Fixed COSPAR designation parser.
• Fixed wrong extinction coordinate frame of Zodiacal Light (LP: #1675699)
• Fixed a missing initialisation (avoids crash at program end)
• Fixed bug for loading default scenery on non-Englush locale in Scenery3D plugin
• Fixed typo in name of dark nebula LDN 935 (LP: #1679066)
• Fixed Scripting Engine: avoiding broken script when calling waitFor() after the point in time to wait.
• Fixed infoMap data for comets.
• Fixed issue of reloading of DSO names when filter of catalogs is updated.
• Fixed small cosmetic bug for SIMBAD status line.
• Fixed the opposition/conjunction longitude line: the line follows the ecliptic pole on date now (LP: #1687307)
• Fixed very stupid bug for Date & Time dialog.
• Fixed translation on-the-fly issue for AstroCalc tool.
• Fixed IAU constellation label for stars with high proper motion (LP: #1690615)
• Fixed crash when AstroCalc tool is active and we are on the spaceship
• Fixed several Coverity issues
• Fixed bug which disabled the bright flare-type Iridium point source drawing
• Fixed fullscreen behaviour on switching tasks (Alt+Tab) (LP: #550337)
• Fixed dynamic eye adaptation behaviour when persistent orbits are enabled
• Fixed switching horizontal/equatorial coordinates for Solar system objects (AstroCalc/Positions)
• Fixed crash when observer is flying on spaceship
• Fixed storing torchlight and coordinate display flag to config (Scenery3D) (LP: #1502245)
• Fixed placing a custom markers on HighDPI devices (LP: #1688985)
• Fixed infostring for ecliptical coordinates data (Nutation)
• Fixed strings consistency for Solar System Editor plug-in (LP: #1698783)
• Fixed string overlap with FOV and FPS labels (LP: #1698789)
• Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
• Updated Scenery3D plugin
• Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
• Updated rule to create a directory for screenshots (LP: #1626686)
• Updated GUI: refactoring blocks
• Updated a GUI behaviour: a map in LocationDialog resizable is now.
• Updated a GUI behaviour: enabled low resolution for High DPI devices.
• Updated a GUI: added a few GUI text improvements
• Updated InnoSetup script
• Updated and revised stars names
• Updated Historical Supernovae catalog (Added SN 2017cbv)
• Updated meteor showers catalog (Added data for year 2017)
• Updated AstroCalc tool: increased an accuracy of 'Altitude vs. Time' diagram
• Updated AstroCalc tool: speed-up calculations for some types of phenomena
• Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
• Updated AstroCalc tool: improve WUT
• Updated filters for DSO objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Updated sorting rules for AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Updated filters for Solar system bodies (AstroCalc/Positions)
• Updated tab rules for Search Tool
• Updated list of locations
• Updated scripts and scripting engine
• Updated list of DSO's names
• Updated headers for AstroCalc tools
• Updated 'Go to home' feature.
• Updated Bookmarks tool.
• Updated API documentation
• Updated Exoplanets plugin: improve placing of the exoplanet systems
• Updated Oculars plugin: the limit for diameter of binoculars aperture upped to 200mm
• Updated calculation for boundaries of IAU constellations
• Updated default supernovae catalog
• Updated Belarusian translation for skycultures
• Updated cmake variable names
• Updated Ocean landscape
• Updated RemoteControl panels with new functionality
• Updated rules for TLE updated: never update TLE's for any date before Oct 4, 1957, 19:28:34GMT ;-)
• Removed script 'Analemma'
• Removed useless vertex color data from asteroid models.
• Removed Polynesian sky culture (replaced by Hawaiian starlines)

Release notes:

Released 2017-03-21

The Stellarium development team after three months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.15.x - version 0.15.2. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from series 1.x) and some new additions and improvements.

We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.15.1 and 0.15.2:

• Added new algorithm for DeltaT from Stephenson, Morrison and Hohenkerk (2016)
• Added use QOpenGLWidget
• Added new option to InfoString group
• Added orbit visualization data for asteroids
• Added calculation of extincted magnitudes of satellites
• Added new type of Solar system objects: sednoids
• Added classificator of objects into Solar System Editor plugin
• Added albedo for infostring (planets and moons)
• Added some improvements and clean up of code in Search Tool
• Added use ISO 8601 to date formatting in Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1655630)
• Added "Restore direction to initial values" in Oculars plugin (LP: #1656085)
• Added the define for GL_DOUBLE again to restore compilation on ARM.
• Added calculation and show of horizontal and vertical scales of visible field of view of CCD (LP: #1656825)
• Added caching for landscapes, including preloading and some other manipulation via scripting.
• Added binning for CCD in Oculars plugin
• Added textures for DSO
• Added a mean solar day (equals to Earth's day) on the Sun for educational purposes
• Added transmitting map of object info via RemoteControl
• Added int property handling with sliders
• Added a scriptable function to retrieve landscape brightness.
• Added Spout licence.txt to Windows installer script
• Added displaying solstices points (LP: #1670046)
• Added extension of objectInfoMaps per object, most useful for scripting (LP: #1670412)
• Added tentative fix for crash without network (LP: #1667703)
• Added separate storing of view direction/FoV and other settings.
• Added Meade MA12 Astrometric Eyepiece support in Oculars plugin
• Added option to change the prediction depth of Iridium flares (Satellites plugin)
• Added tooltips for AstroCalc features
• Fixed indirect dependency to QtOpenGL by QtMultimediaWidgets (LP: #1656525)
• Fixed text encoding in installer (LP: #1652515)
• Fixed changing value of n.dot in tooltip when ephemeris type is changed (LP: #1652762)
• Fixed mistakes in DeltaT stuff
• Fixed typos in AstroCalc tool
• Fixed visual style for spinup/spindown markers
• Fixed missing cross-id of Epsilon Lyrae (LP: #1653388)
• Fixed updating a list of Solar system bodies in AstroCalc tool when new objects added or objects was removed
• Fixed calculation of period for comets on elliptial orbits
• Fixed prediction of Iridium flares (LP: #1643311)
• Fixed saving visibility flag for Bookmarks button (LP: #1654164)
• Fixed refraction for Satellites (LP: #1654331)
• Fixed wrong parallax and distance for IC 59 (LP: #1655423)
• Fixed updating a text in Help window when shortcuts are changed (LP: #1656001)
• Fixed saving flags of visibility of Milky Way and Zodiacal Light (LP: #1656067)
• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed few reports of Clang static analyzer
• Fixed double clicks causing crashes (LP: #1656525)
• Fixed packaging QtOpenGL in Windows/macOS packages
• Fixed handling a log lines with missing newline char
• Fixed a bad-value crash in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed an invalid escape sequence in RemoteControl plugin
• Fixed bug in Search Tool (LP: #1655055)
• Fixed doing a screenshots (do it via FBO - solution for QOpenGLWidget)
• Fixed work a button for ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed calculation and rendering CCD frame in Oculars plugin
• Fixed an memory leak with the spheric mirror distorter, and removed stencil buffer from the effect FBO (we don't need it for our rendering) (LP: #1661375)
• Fixed tile-based render performance (always glClear all buffers at the start of the frame) (LP: #1661375)
• Fixed glClear alpha channel usage (glClear alpha to zero instead of one)
• Fixed Scenery3d cubemap rendering (restores rendering)
• Fixed crash, when location 'Sierra Nevada Observatory, Spain' is chosen (LP: #1662113)
• Fixed NetBSD and OpenBSD build by linking glues with Qt5::Gui.
• Fixed size for few DSO textures (NPOT textures for ancient GPUs) (LP: #1641773)
• Fixed crash, when missing a stars catalog from the middle of list (e.g. stars4 is missing and we tried zooming) (LP: #1653315)
• Fixed crash for configure color of generic DSO marker (LP: #1667787)
• Fixed date limit in AstroCalc tool (Set a minimum possible date limit for the range of dates for
  QDateTimeEdit widgets) (LP: #1660208)
• Fixed escaping of symbols for Simbad Lookup (LP: #1669088)
• Fixed DE431 mismatch (LP: #1606583)
• Fixed overbright Sun when zooming in (LP: #1421173)
• Fixed absolute magnitude calculation of the planets, their moons, and the Pluto-Charon system (LP: #1664143)
• Fixed a long-standing bug concerning centering small-fov views in equatorial mount mode (LP: #1484976)
• Fixed influencing sky luminance/eye adaptation for bright objects covered by the landscape horizon. (LP: #1138533)
• Fixed atmospheric brightening by Earth's moon when location is on other planets (LP: #1673283)
• Fixed application of DE43x DeltaT when date outside range of the selected DE43x.
• Fixed Night mode issue for binocular mode of Oculars Plugin (LP: #1673187)
• Fixed altitude computation for landscapes
• Fixed a small error in that Zodiacal light was aligned with Ecliptic J2000, not Ecliptic of date (LP: #1628765)
• Fixed crash Stellarium in debug mode on OS X with Qt 5.7+, through clear GL error state after using QPainter (LP: #1628072)
• Fixed a problem with Qt timezone handling, when some IANA timezones have been renamed compared to entries in our location database (LP: #1662132)
• Allows SkyImages in all reference frames and deprecate the old explicit core.loadSkyImageAltAz() type commands
• Updated rules for usage of custom time zones (the custom time zone may be use in all time now) (LP: #1652763)
• Updated shortcuts
• Updated rules for source package builder
• Updated URL of DSS collection
• Updated detect of OS
• Updated deployment rules for Windows installer
• Updated script for building Stellarium User Guide
• Updated GUI for set coefficients for custom equation of DeltaT
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated ArchaeoLines and Gridlines options to RemoteControl pages
• Updated Tongan sky culture
• Updated catalog of DSO
• Updated common names of DSO
• Updated star names (LP: #1664671)
• Updated Solar System Screen Saver.
• Updated Oculars plugin
• Updated Satellites plugin (Let's start looking to the Iridium on 15 seconds before flash)
• Updated plist data for macOS
• Updated textures of minor planets
• Updated default color scheme
• Removed code for automatic tuning star scales of the view through ocular/CCD (LP: #1656940)
• Code clean-up
• Prevent an unnecessary StelProperty change
• Changed the way the OpenGL format is set once again

Release notes:

Released 2016-12-25

Version 0.15.1 introduces a few new exciting features.

• The Digital Sky Survey (DSS) can be shown (requires online connection).
• AstroCalc is now available from the main menu and gives interesting new computational insight.
• Stellarium can act as Spout sender (important for multimedia environments; Windows only).

In addition, a lot of bugs have been fixed.

• wait() and waitFor() in the Scripting Engine no longer inhibits performance of moves.
• DE430/431 DeltaT may be OK now. We still want to test a bit more, though.
• ArchaeoLines also offers two arbitrary declination lines.
• Added support of time zones dependent by location.
• Added new skyculture: Sardinian.
• Added updates and improvements in catalogs.
• Added improvements in the GUI.
• Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991).

Changelog:

List of changes:

• Added code which allows to display full-sky multi-resolution remote images projected using the TOAST format
• Added new option to Oculars plugin: enabling automatic install the type of mount from the telescope settings for saving horizontal orientation of CCD frame
• Added new option stars/flag_forced_twinkle=(false|true) for planetariums to enable a twinkling of stars without atmosphere (LP: #1616007)
• Added calculations of conjunction between major planets and deep-sky objects (AstroCalc)
• Added calculations of occultations between major planets and DSO/SSO (AstroCalc)
• Added option to toggle visibility of designations of exoplanets (esp. for exoplanetary systems)
• Added support of time zones dependent by location (LP: #505096, #1492941, #1431926, #1106753, #1099547, #1092629, #898710, #510480)
• Added option in GUI to edit colours of the markings
• Added a special case for educational purpose to drawing orbits for the Solar System Observer
• Added the new config option in the sky cultures for management of boundaries of constellations
• Added support synonyms of star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
• Added support reference data for star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
• Added support synonyms of DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
• Added support native names of DSO (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
• Added support reference data for native DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
• Added support Spout under Windows (Stellarium is Spout Sender now)
• Added a few trojans and quasi-satellites in ssystem.ini file
• Added a virtual planet 'Earth Observer' for educational purposes (illustration for the Moon phases)
• Added orbit lines for some asteroids and comets
• Added config option to switch between styles of color of orbits (LP: #1586812)
• Added support of separate colors for orbits (LP: #1586812)
• Added function and shortcut for quick reversing direction of time
• Added custom objects to avoid of getting of empty space for Search Tool (SIMBAD mode) and to adding custom markers on the sky (LP: #958218, #1485349)
• Added tool to management of visibility for grids/lines in Oculars plugin
• Added the hiding of supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
• Added markers for various poles and zenith/nadir (LP: #1629501, #1366643, #1639010)
• Added markers for equinoxes
• Added supergalactic coordinate system
• Added code for management of SkyPoints in Oculars plugin
• Added notes to the Help window
• Added commands and shortcuts for quick move to celestial poles
• Added textures for deep-sky objects
• Added Millions of light years distance to infostring for galaxies (LP: #1637809)
• Added 2 custom declination lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
• Added dialog with options to adjust of colors of markers of deep-sky objects
• Added new options to infobox
• Added calculating and displaying the Moon phases
• Added allow for proper stopping of time dragging (LP: #1640574)
• Added time scrolling
• Added Scottish Gaelic (gd) translations for landscapes and sceneries.
• Added usage the Qt 5 JSON parser instead of the hand-made one we used so far
• Added synonyms for DSO
• Added names consistency for DSO
• Added support operational statuses for few classes of artificial satellites
• Added special zoom level for Telrad to avoid undefined behaviour of zooming (LP: #1643427)
• Added new icons for Bookmarks and AstroCalc tools
• Added missing Bayer designation of 4 Aurigae (LP: #1645087)
• Added calculations of conjunctions/occultations between planets and bright stars (AstroCalc tool)
• Added 'Altitude vs Time' feature for AstroCalc tool
• Added location identification which adds canonical IAU 3-letter code to infostring and PointerCoordinates plugin
• Added elongation and phase angle to Comet and MinorPlanet infostrings
• Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
• Added AstroCalc icon (LP: #1641256)
• Added new scriptable methods to CustomObjectMgr class
• Added Sardinian sky culture
• Allow changes of milky way and zodiacal light brightness via GUI while stars switched off (LP: #1651897)
• Fixed visual issue for AstroCalc tool
• Fixed incorrectly escaping of translated strings for some languages in Remote Control plugin (LP: #1608177)
• Fixed disappearing of star labels when the 'Navigational Stars' plugin is loaded and not activated (LP: #1608288)
• Fixed offset issue for image sensor frame in Oculars plugin (LP: #1610629)
• Fixed crash when labels and markers box in sky and Viewing Options tab is ticked (LP: #1609958)
• Fixed spherical distortion with night mode (LP: #1606969)
• Fixed behaviour of buttons on Oculars on-screen control panel (LP: #1609060)
• Fixed misalignment of Veil nebula image (LP: #1610824)
• Fixed build of planetarium without scripting support (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
• Fixed coordinates of the open cluster Melotte 227
• Fixed typos in Kamilorai skyculture
• Fixed cmake typos for scenery3d model (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
• Fixed crash when turning off custom GRS if GRS Details dialogue has not been opened before (LP: #1620083)
• Fixed small issue rounding for JD for DeltaT tooltip on bottom bar
• Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites during changing of location through spaceship feature (LP: #1622796)
• Fixed hiding the Moon during a total solar eclipse when option 'limit magnitude' for Solar system objects is enabled
• Fixed small bug for updating catalog in the Bright Novae plugin
• Fixed displaying date and time in AstroCalc Tool (LP: #1630685)
• Fixed a typographical error in coefficient for precession expressions by Vodnark et. al.
• Fixed crash on exit in the debug mode in StelTexture module (LP: #1632355)
• Fixed crash in the debug mode (LP: #1631910)
• Fixed coverity issues
• Fixed obvious typos
• Fixed issue for wrong calculation of exit pupil for binoculars in Oculars plugin (LP: #1632145)
• Fixed issue for Arabic translation (LP: #1635587)
• Fixed packaging on OS X for Qt 5.6.2+
• Fixed calculations of the value of the Moon secular acceleration when JPL DE43x ephemeris is used
• Fixed distances for objects of Caldwell catalogue
• Fixed calculations for transit phenomena (LP: #1641255)
• Fixed missing translations in Remote Control plug-in (LP: #1641296)
• Fixed displaying of localized projection name in Remote Control (LP: #1641297)
• Fixed search localized names of artificial satellites
• Fixed showing translated names of artificial satellite
• Fixed GUI Problem in Satellites plug-in (LP: #1640291)
• Fixed moon size infostring (LP: #1641755)
• Fixed AstroCalc lists transits as occulations (LP: #1641255)
• Fixed resetting of DSO Limit Magnitude by Image Sensor Frame (LP: #1641736)
• Fixed Nova Puppis 1942 coordinates
• Fixed error in light curve model of historical supernovae (LP: #1648978)
• Fixed width of search dialog for Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1649640)
• Fixed shortcut for "Remove selection of constellations" action (LP: #1649771)
• Fixed retranslation name and type of meteor showers in Meteor Showers when language of application is changed
• Fixed wrong tooltip info (LP: #1650725)
• Fixed Mercury's magnitude formula (LP: #1650757)
• Fixed cross-id error for alpha2 Cen (LP: #1651414)
• Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
• Fixed view centered on zenith (restart after save) issue (LP: #1620030)
• Updated DSO Catalog: Added support full of UGC catalog
• Updated DSO Catalog: Added galaxies from PGC2003 catalog (mag <=15)
• Updated DSO Catalog: Removed errors and duplicates
• Updated stars catalogues
• Updated stars names (LP: #1641455)
• Updated settings for AstroCalc
• Updated Satellites plugin
• Updated Scenery3d plugin
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated support for High DPI monitors
• Updated list of star names for Western sky culture
• Updated Search Tool (LP: #958218)
• Updated default catalogues for plugins
• Updated list of locations (2nd version of format - TZ support)
• Updated pulsars catalog & util
• Updated Scripting Engine
• Updated rules for visibility of exoplanets labels
• Updated shortcuts
• Updated info for the landscape actions (LP: #1650727)
• Updated Bengali translation of Sardinian skyculture (LP: #1650733)
• Correctly apply constellation fade duration (LP: #1612967)
• Expanded behaviour of for isolated constellations selection (only for skycultures with IAU generic boundaries) (LP: #1412595)
• Ensure stable up vector for lookZenith, lookEast etc.
• Verification the star names by the official IAU star names list
• Minor improvement in ini file writing
• Set usage Bortle index only after year 1825
• Re-implement wait() and waitFor() scripting functions to avoid large delays in main thread
• Restored broken feature (hidding markers for selected planets)
• Removed color profiles from PNG files
• Removed the flips of the CCD frame because it works incorrect and he introduced new one bug
• Removed the useless misspelled names from list of stars
• Removed the Time Zone plug-in
• Removed useless translations in ArchaeoLines plug-in

Release notes:

Released 2016-07-31

In memory of our team member Barry Gerdes.

Version 0.15.0 is based on Qt5.6. Starting with this version, some graphics cards have been blacklisted by Qt and are automatically forced to use ANGLE on Windows. We introduce a major internal change with the StelProperty system. This allows simpler access to internal variables and therefore more ways of operation.
Most notably this version introduces an alternative control option via RemoteControl, a new webserver interface plugin. We also introduce another milestone towards providing better astronomical accuracy for historical applications: experimental support of getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides. This feature is however not fully tested yet.

The major changes:

• Added StelProperty system
• Added new plugin for exhibitions and planetariums - Remote Control
• Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota, Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
• Updated code of plugins
• Added Bookmarks tool and updated AstroCalc tool
• Added new functions for Scripting Engine and new scripts
• Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
• Added updates and improvements in DSO and star catalogues (include initial support of The Washington Double Star Catalog)
• azimuth lines (also targetting geographic locations) in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Many fixes and improvements...

In addition, we prepared a new user guide.

Changelog:

Full list of changes:

• Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
• Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins (SoCiS2015 project)
• Added StelProperty system (SoCiS2015 project)
• Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
• Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
• Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
• Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota, Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
• Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
• Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
• Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
• Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
• Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
• Added tentative support for screens with 4K resolution for Windows packages (LP: #1372781)
• Enabled support for side-by-side assembly technology for Windows packages (LP: #1400045)
• Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
• Added improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows
• Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
• Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
• Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
• Added improvement for Search Tool
• Added improvement for scripting engine
• Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
• Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
• Added initial support of subset of The Washington Double Star Catalog (LP: #1537449)
• Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
• Added new functions for Scripting Engine
• Added new DSO textures
• Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
• Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
• Added visualization of ephemerides
• Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
• Added implementation of semi-transparent mask in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
• Added hiding the halo when inner planet between Sun and observer (or moon between planet and observer) (LP: #1533647)
• Added a tool for fill custom settings of position of Great Red Spot on Jupiter
• Added Bookmarks tool (LP: #1106779)
• Added new scripts: Best objects in the New General Catalog, The Jack Bennett Catalog, Binosky: Deep Sky Objects for Binoculars, Herschel 400 Tour, Binocular Highlights, 20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars, List of largest known stars
• Added Circumpolar Circles (LP: #1590785)
• Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
• Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
• Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
• Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
• Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
• Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
• Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
• Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
• Allow polygonal horizons with many negative values (LP: #1554639)
• Allow altitude-dependent twinkling for stars (LP: #1594065)
• Allow display of sun's halo if sun is just outside viewport (LP: #1294498)
• Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
• Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
• Apply Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Longitude in DeltaT calculations (Source: Spencer Jones, H., 'The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets', MNRAS, 99 (1939), 541-558)
• Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Mac's.
• Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
• Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
• Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
• Added support MSVC2015
• Added automatic reloading catalogs after updating for some plugins
• Added a tour of Messier Objects
• Added fix to circumvent text rendering bug (CLI option: -t)
• Introduce env variable STEL_OPTS to allow preconfiguring default CLI options.
• Added option for hide background under buttons on bottom toolbar (LP: #1204639)
• Added check position on the screen for orbits of satellites (LP: #1510530)
• Added new option to changing behaviour of displaying of the labels of DSO on the screen (LP: #1600283)
• Star catalogues has been updated from 'XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation' data.
• Fixed validation of day in Date and Time dialog (LP: #1206284)
• Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
• Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
• Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
• Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
• Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
• Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
• Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
• Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
• Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
• Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
• Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
• Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
• Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
• Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
• Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
• Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
• Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
• Fixed some skyculture links
• Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones.
• Fixed online search tool for MPC website
• Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)
• Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
• Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)
• Fixed proper detection of GLSL ES version on Raspberry Pi with VC4 driver (and maybe other devices).
• Fixed odd DateTimeDialog behavior during daylight saving change
• Fixed key handling issue on Mac OS X in Scenery3D (LP: #1566805)
• Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
• Fixed a loss of focus in the sky when you click on the button (LP: #1578773)
• Fixed issue of getting location from network.
• Fixed bug in visualization of opposition/conjunction longitude
• Fixed crash of Navigational Stars plugin (LP: #1598375)
• Fixed satellites mutual occultation (LP: #1389765)
• Fixed NaN in landscape brightness computation (LP: #1597129)
• Fixed oversized corona (LP: #1599513)
• Fixed displaying common names of DSO after changes filters of catalogs (LP: #1600283)
• Ensure Large File Support for DE431 also for ARM boards.
• Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)
• Make moon halo visible again even when below -45 degrees (LP: #1586796)
• Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
• Updated AstroCalc tool
• Updated icons for View dialog
• Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
• Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
• Updated the search rules in the search dialog (LP: #1593965)
• Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
• Avoid issues around GLdouble in GLES2/ARM boards.
• Reduce brightness of stars for ocular and CCD views
• Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
• Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
• Enabled permanent visualization of position angles for galaxies
• Updated bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin
• Updated default config options
• Updated scripts
• Updated shortcuts for scripts
• Updated norwegian skyculture descriptions
• Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
• Updated and optimized GUI
• Updated Navigational Stars plugin
• Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)
• Important optimizations of planet position computation
• Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
• Refactoring of the generating parts of the infrastructure (LP: #1571391)
• Refactoring Telescope Control plugin
• Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
• Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.

Release notes:

Released 2016-03-20

The Stellarium development team after two months of development is proud to announce the third correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.14.x - version 0.14.3. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from version 0.15.0).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.14.2 and 0.14.3:

• Added Bengali description for landscapes (LP: #1548627)
• Added background transparency in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
• Fixed serial port issue on Windows version (LP: #1543813)
• Fixed MESA mode on Windows (LP: #1509735)
• Fixed Stellarium crashes in ocular view of Saturn/Neptune/Uranus (LP: #1495232)
• Fixed artifacts in rendering of Mercury in the Sun (LP: #1533647)
• Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
• Fixed movement of radiant when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
• Fixed changing name of planet (LP: #1548008)

Release notes:

Released 2016-01-08

The Stellarium development team after month of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.14.x - version 0.14.2. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from version 0.15.0).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.14.1 and 0.14.2:

• Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
• Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
• Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
• Fixed some skyculture links
• Fixed editing some shortcut keys (LP: #1530567)
• Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
• Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
• Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
• Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
• Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
• Updated default config options
• Updated icons for View dialog
• Updated Stellarium DSO Catalog
• Added list of dwarf galaxies (Search Tool)
• Added improvements in Scenery 3D plugin

Release notes:

Released 2015-12-02

The Stellarium development team after month of development is proud to announce the first correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.14.x - version 0.14.1. This version contains 13 closed bugs (ported from version 0.15.0).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.14.0 and 0.14.1:

• Added support for side-by-side assembly technology (LP: #1400045)
• Enhancements of the Ocular plugin: add OAG support (LP: #1354427)
• Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
• Added designations for few stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
• Fixed constellation art brightness and zooming (LP: #1520783)
• Fixed number of satellite orbit segments resets (LP: #1510592)
• Fixed certain outplanet moons with wrong Longitudes (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
• Fixed saving settings for some View panel options (LP: #1509639)
• Fixed fails to run up on Windows when invoked from a different directory (LP: #1410529)
• Fixed wrong value of ecliptic obliquity (LP: #1520792)
• Fixed segmentation fault (core dumped) while try update stars catalog (LP: #1514542)
• Tentative fix for support 4K resolution (GUI scaling) (LP: #1372781)

Release notes:

Released 2015-10-24

The Stellarium development team after 6 months of development is proud to announce the release of version 0.14.0 of Stellarium.

Version 0.14.0 brings a big leap forward in astronomical accuracy for historical applications:

• Precession now follows the IAU2006 model in the long-time version from Vondrak et al. 2011.
• Nutation is applied (IAU2000B solution). Given that nobody has observed it without telescope and the model does not give limits of applicability, we limit its application to 1500..2500
• Application of DeltaT has been simplified and made a bit more intuitive.

We now dare to add another coordinate system: Ecliptic coordinates of date.

We can therefore now show that planetary positions given by the commonly used solution VSOP87 is applicable to -4000..+8000 only, and its use outside this range will give somewhat artificial results. There is more to follow in future versions.

The other big addition is a greatly improved collection of DSO data with lots of possibilities in a new GUI tab to select for object type and/or catalog. In total, 15 catalogs are now built-in!

Also the Meteor Shower, Satellites, Telescope Control and 3D Sceneries plugins have been improved.

Landscapes can have switchable labels, so you can e.g. indicate mountain peaks.

In total 83 bugs and wishlist items were fixed or at least decided.

A platform-specific change for Windows: OpenGL binding is now dynamic. That means, there are no more separate OpenGL/ANGLE/MESA downloads, but after installation you will have separate commands in the start menu which force ANGLE or MESA modes.

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.13.3 and 0.14.0:

• Added accurate calculations of the ecliptic obliquity. Finally we have good precession! (LP: #512086, #1126981, #1240070, #1282558, #1444323)
• Added calculations of the nutation. Now we optionally have IAU-2000B nutation. (Applied between 1500..2500 only.)
• Added new DSO catalog and related to him features (LP: #1453731, #1432243, #1285175, #1237165, #1189983, #1153804, #1127633, #1106765, #1106761, #957083)
• Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
• Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin
• Added AstroCalc - a tool for calculating planetary phenomena (LP: #1181702)
• Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
• Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
• Added cross-identification data for HIP stars (SAO and HD numbers)
• Added sinusoidal projection
• Added draw DSO symbols with different colors
• Added labels to the landscapes (gazetteer support)
• Added a new behaviour for drawing of orbit for selected planet - drawing of the orbits of 'hierarchical group' (parent and all their childrens) of the selected celestial body (disabled by default) (LP: #1071457).
• Added an option to lower the horizon, e.g. for a widescreen cylindrical view with mostly sky and ground on lower screen border (LP: #1299063).
• Added various timeshift-by-year commands (LP: #1478670)
• Added Moon's phases info
• Added support of SOCKS5 proxies (LP: #1499974)
• Rewriting the Meteor module and the Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1471143)
• Updated skycultures (LP: #1497818)
• Updated Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese translations of landscapes and skycultures
• Updated data for Solar System Observer
• Updated color scheme for constellations
• Updated documentation
• Updated QZip stuff
• Updated TUI plugin
• Updated data for Satellites plugin
• Updated Clang support
• Updated Pluto and Charon textures
• Updated GCVS catalog
• Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1240791)
• Using a better formula for CCD FOV calculation in Oculars plugin (LP: #1440330)
• Updated on-screen control panel in Oculars plugin (LP: #1467286)
• Updated list of detection operating systems (LP: #1504910)
• Fixed shortkeys conflict (New shortkeys for Scenery 3D plugin - LP: #1449767)
• Fixed aliasing issue with GCC in star data unpacking
• Fixed documentation for core.wait() function (LP: #1450870)
• Fixed perspective projection issue (LP: #724868)
• Fixed crash on activation of AngleMeasure in debug mode (LP: #1455839)
• Fixed crash in Sinusoidal Projection (LP: #1472555)
• Fixed issue for update bottom bar position when we toggle the GUI (LP: #1409023)
• Fixed weird view of the Moon in Oculars plugin when Moon's scaling is enabled
• Fixed non-realistic mode drawing of artificial satellites
• Fixed availability plugins for the scripting engine (LP: #1468986)
• Fixed potention memory bug in Meteor class
• Fixed wrong spectral types for some stars (LP: #1429530)
• Fixed style of progress bar (LP: #1419895)
• Fixed tooltip colors in night mode (LP: #1300801)
• Fixed visibility of selected object info in night mode (LP: #1487096)
• Fixed behaviour of waitFor function (scripting engine) (LP: #1051858)
• Fixed resize event handler on Windows (LP: #1490265)
• Fixed regression bug of key movements
• Fixed magnitude of the Sun during solar eclipse (LP: #1485245)
• Fixed obvious omission in Observability plugin after having separated JD/JDE (LP: #1499161)
• Fixed night mode on retina display (LP: #1458109)
• Fixed unusual meteor shower display (LP: #1506126)
• Enable autosaving the state by default for Compass Marks plugin (LP: #1410987)
• Added escape counter to allow exiting loop in solving Kepler's equation (LP: #1465112)
• Added limitation magnitude for solar system objects (LP: #1409543)
• Added extinctive reddening on the horizon for planets, esp. visible for Sun/Moon/bright planets (LP: #1448621)
• Added tooltip for 'Select single constellation' option (LP: #1498022)
• Avoid entering locations with leading whitespace (LP: #1083731)
• Avoid rendering of sunlight and moonlight when show of Solar System objects is disabled (LP: #1499699)
• Change visibleSkyArea limitation to allow landscapes with "holes" in the ground. (LP: #1469407)
• Improved Delta T feature (LP: #1380242)
• Improved the ad-hoc visibility formula for LDN and LBN
• Improved the sight opportunities when artificial satellites are passes (LP: #907318)
• Changed behaviour of coloring of orbits of artificial satellites: we use gray color for parts of orbits, where satellite will be invisible (LP: #914751)
• Improved coloring and rendering artificial satellites (include their labels) in the Earth shadow for both modes (LP: #1436954)
• Improved for landscape and lightscape brightness with/without atmosphere. Now even considers landscape opacity for no-atmosphere conditions.
• Reduce Milky Way brightness in moonlight
• Enhancement of features in Telescope Control plugin (LP: #1469450)
• Removed all references to QDeclarative
• Removed meaningless extincted magnitude data in infostring if objects are below horizon
• Restore drawing corona of the Sun during total solar eclipse (LP: #1435065)

Release notes:

Released 2015-04-25

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the third correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.3. This version contains over 30 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features - like visualization of the 3D landscapes and extra DSO catalogs.

Changelog:

• Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
• Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
• Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (B), Van den Bergh (VdB), Sharpless (Sh 2), H-α emission regions in the Southern Milky Way (RCW), Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), Collinder (Cr) and Melotte (Mel)
• Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
• Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
• Added Russian translation for Western: H.A. Rey skyculture
• Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
• Added patch for multiscreen setups
• Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
• Added new version of GCVS
• Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT by M. Khalid, Mariam Sultana and Faheem Zaidi (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/480964
• Added new line on the celestial sphere - opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
• Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
• Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
• Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
• Fixed bug in planet shadow shasder (LP: #1405353)
• Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
• Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
• Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
• Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
• Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
• Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
• Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
• Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
• Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
• Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
• Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
• Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
• Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
• Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
• Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
• Avoid crash when clicking 'Lookup locations on network' checkbox in Locations window (Debian: #779046)
• Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
• Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
• Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
• Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)

Release notes:

Released 2015-01-20

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.2. This version contains over 70 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features - like visualization of the zodiacal light and new sky cultures.

Changelog:

• Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
• Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
• Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
• Added zero landscape
• Added new sky subculture - Arabic Moon Stations
• Added new sky culture - Japanese Moon Stations
• Added new sky culture - Siberian
• Added new sky subculture - Western with R.A.Rey lines of constellations (LP: #1389360)
• Added support native names of the planets for different cultures
• Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions - zodiacal light - sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
• Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
• Added improvements for Angle Measure, Compass Marks, Solar System Editor, Exoplanets and Observability Analysis plugins
• Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
• Added changes to RA's output precision
• Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
• Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
• Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
• Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
• Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
• Added management of Zodiacal Light into core.clear() method in Scripting Engine.
• Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
• Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format - now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
• Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
• Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
• Added a tool for planning a mosaic astrophotography: shows a small cross at center of CCD's frame and equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 of that center (LP: #1404695)
• Added aliases for couple shortkeys (LP: #947937)
• Added newlines support in satellite descriptions (LP: #869126)
• Added possibility to have trail only for one planet (LP: #1318479)
• Added missing Flamsteed designations of stars (LP: #1406048)
• Added Guernsey Observatory to locations list
• Added simple method to add a Solar system object
• Added display of current Time Zone (LP: #1335513)
• Added few TNO's and comets
• Added alphabetical soft for list in Search Tool
• Added Arabic description for landscapes (LP: #1409339, #1409340, #1409341, #1409342, #1409343, #1409344)
• Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
• Fixed a bug that did not account for HighDPI displays when drawing a CCD in Oculars
• Fixed rendering of the orbits of Neptune's moons (LP: #834737)
• Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
• Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
• Fixed errors, related to the proper motion of some stars (LP: #1400081)
• Fixed failures for rendering of textures for some moons like Hyperion (LP: #1393083)
• We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows - was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
• Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
• Fixed underpredicted behaviour of refraction (LP: #1088413)
• Fixed click-match issue (LP: #1398899, #1409586, #1127984, #1045293)
• Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
• Fixed IP-based position lookup fails (LP: #1395480)
• Fixed crash on spherical mirror distortion
• Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
• Fixed Meade LX200 protocol support (LP: #1405397)
• Fixed wrong import of comets data through online search in the Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1358230)
• Fixed issue in Lists within Search Tool (LP: #1200054)
• Fixed getting of coordinates in the Pointer Coordinates plugin in windowed mode (LP: #1406018)
• Fixed non-display of minus sign for |equation_of_time|<1 minute, and some code simplification (LP: #1406573)
• Fixed bad UTF-8 characters in tooltips (LP: #1407659)
• Fixed select priority for radiants
• Fixed landscape names translation issue (LP: #1409333)
• Fixed compilation on Windows and on armhf with Qt 5.4 (LP: #1395655)
• Fixed memory leak on Windows x64 (LP: #1406005)
• Fixed cursor timeout restore (LP: #1383047)
• Fixed DSO's markers placement in orthographic projection (LP: #1411882)
• Fixed Moon's glow under horizon (LP: #1409188)
• Fixed wrong visualisation of grids close to "equators" for small FOV (LP: #1400686)
• Update deployment rules for Windows and OS X (LP: #1338020)
• Hide info about type when it not defined for this object of solar system (LP: #1404189)
• Improved look for Date and Time Dialog and fixed show Julian Dates - it show now JD instead a CJD (LP: #1398775)
• Meteors don't be visible without enabled atmosphere now
• Made an exclusion for moons with chaotic period of rotation (LP: #1393083)
• Reducing the number of compass marks to those on screen to improve performance (LP: #1307444)
• On returning to home position, display atmosphere and fog only if configured in config file (LP: #1391074)
• Change default settings for Windows installer: added removing cache at install of the planetarium for avoiding "missing disk in drive " problem. (LP: #1371183)
• Translation of names of the celestial bodies moved to stellarium-skycultures
• Changes in style of displaying of "celestial names" in cultures
• Language of the cultures now can be chosen in GUI
• Changes in detection of OpenGL availability
• Extend the 'restore to original FOV' feature for sensor mode also (LP: #1398890)
• Re-implemented viewing/flag_constellation_pick option to allow select single constellation only (LP: #1401745)
• Set hint visibility threshold for planets and comets to 5mag below sky limiting magnitude. (LP: #1402188)
• Updated scripting documentation (LP: #1402200, #1402224)
• Fit more realistic magnitude of the Moon for the case of lunar eclipse (LP: #1306811)
• Avoid overly bluish Milky Way.
• Extend TNO's classification
• Avoid crash for satellites with not valid orbits (LP: #1408580)
• Improvement for showing names of the stars and fixed couple typos in GCVS
• Actualize TLE's
• Minor fix for space ship translation
• Reduce minimal FOV to 5 arcsec (LP: #807841)
• Restore location settings via CLI (LP: #1409898)
• Hide and remove satellites with invalid orbits
• All relative dates in Scripting Engine are set without DeltaT correction (LP: #1310009)

Plus we added few fixes for typos and fixes for avoiding compilation warnings (LP: #1394814, #1395193)

Release notes:

Released 2014-10-19

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the first correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.1.

Changelog:

Bugfix release with few new features.

• Added: Light layer for old_style landscapes
• Added: Auto-detect location via network lookup.
• Added: Seasonal rules for displaying constellations
• Added: Coordinates can be displayed as decimal degrees (LP: #1106743)
• Added: Support of multi-touch gestures on Windows 8 (LP: #1165754)
• Added: FOV on bottom bar can be displayed in DMS rather than fractional degrees (LP: #1361582)
• Added: Oculars plugins support eyepieces with permanent crosshairs (LP: #1364139)
• Added: Pointer Coordinates Plugin can displayed not only RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: #1365784, #1377995)
• Added: Angle Measure Plugin can measure positional angles to the horizon now (LP: #1208143)
• Added: Search tool can search position not only for RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: #1358706)
• Fixed: Galactic plane renamed to correct: Galactic equator (LP: #1367744)
• Fixed: Speed issues when computing lots of comets (LP: #1350418)
• Fixed: Spherical mirror distortion work correctly now (LP: #676260, #1338252)
• Fixed: Location coordinates on the bottom bar displayed correctly now (LP: #1357799)
• Fixed: Ecliptic coordinates for J2000.0 and grids diplayed correctly now (LP: #1366567, #1369166)
• Fixed: Rule for select a celestial objects (LP: #1357917)
• Fixed: Loading extra star catalogs (LP: #1329500, #1379241)
• Fixed: Creates spurious directory on startup (LP: #1357758)
• Fixed: Various GUI/rendering improvements (LP: #1380502, #1320065, #1338252, #1096050, #1376550, #1382689)
• Fixed: "missing disk in drive " (LP: #1371183)