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