v0.17.0

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

v0.16.1

Release notes:

Released 2017-09-22

Version 0.16.1 is based on Qt 5.6.2, but it can still be built from sources with Qt 5.4.
This version is bugfix release with some important features:

• Added moons of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto
• Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
• DSO catalog was updated to version 3.2:
  -- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992)
  -- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014)
  -- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989)
• Added support asterisms and outlines for DSO
• Added improvements for the GUI

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.16.0 and 0.16.1:

• Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
• Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
• Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
• Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
• Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
• Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
• Added support of IAU moon numbers
• Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
• Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
• Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
• Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
• Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
• Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
• Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
• Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
• Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
• Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
• Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
• Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
• Added support of extra physical data for asteroids
• Added support of outlines for DSO
• Added new time step: saros
• Added new time step: 7 sidereal days
• Added more checks to the network connections
• Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
• Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
• Added support for ray helpers
• Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
• Added missing cross-id data
• Added support an images within description of landscapes
• Added support Visual Studio 2017 in StelLogger
• Added tool to save list of objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added tool to save celestial positions of objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Added temporary solution for bug 1498616 (LP: #1498616)
• Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
• Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
• Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
• Fixed HMS formatting
• Fixed generating ISS script
• Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed tool for saving options
• Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
• Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
• Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
• Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
• Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
• Fixed search by lists of DSO
• Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
• Fixed trackpad behaviour on macOS though workaround
• Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
• Fixed morphology for SNR
• Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Fixed link for fileStructure.html file in README (LP: #1709523)
• Fixed the calculation for drawing a reticle on a HiDPI display (Oculars plugin)
• Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
• Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
• Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
• Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)
• Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism
• Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
• Fixed magnitude computation for Jupiter's satellites
• Fixed crash of Stellarium when answer of freegeoip.net has wrong format (for example this host blocked by firewall or DNS server with HTML answer) (LP: #1706187)
• Fixed translations issue in Script Console
• Fixed illumination in Scenery3D plugin: Take eclipseFactor into account
• Fixed potential crash in DSO outlines
• Fixed various issues in ray helpers, asterisms and constellations support
• Updated InfoString feature
• Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
• Updated Maori sky culture
• Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
• Updated list of asterisms
• Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
• Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
• Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
• Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
• Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
• Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
• Updated API docs
• Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
• Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Updated rules for storing default settings
• Updated rules for computation visibility of DSO hints
• Updated plugins
• Updated default values for material fade-in/fade-out times
• Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
• Updated tab rules in the GUI
• Reduce warnings to one when loading OBJ with non-default w texture/vertex coordinates

v0.16.0

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)

v0.12.9

Release notes:

Released 2017-04-02

This release has ports of some features from the series 1.x/0.15

Changelog:

• Fixed search via MPC website for Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1678597)

v0.12.7

Release notes:

Released 2016-11-06

This release has ports of some features from the series 1.x/0.15

Changelog:

• Updated textures for deep-sky objects
• Updated star catalogues
• Fixed issue for MPC search tool in Solar System Editor plugin

v0.15.2

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

v0.12.8

Release notes:

Released 2017-02-19

This release has ports of some features from the series 1.x/0.15

Changelog:

• Updated textures for deep-sky objects
• Fixed sizes of few DSO textures (LP: #1641773)
• Fixed problem with defaultStarsConfig data and loading a new star catalogs (LP: #1641803)

v0.15.1

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 l...

v0.15.0

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 pos...

v0.14.3

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)