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)