The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!

A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

Release notes

The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.3.

The major changes of this version:

• Better handling of minor bodies with outdated orbital elements
• "Goto next day at same altitude" functionality for selected objects
• Mark a few special points on the planets
• Three refined Arab skycultures
• Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
• Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
• Fixed a problem with LX200 telescopes
• Many fixes in core and plugins

There has also been a large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

Enjoy!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added support a context in names of sky cultures
• Added improvements for compute the accuracy and performance of sunrise/sunset time in AstroCalc/WUT
• Added support HTC 2.0 theory (#1942)
• Added also search descriptions in Satellites plugin (GH: #1940)
• Added support QtWebEngine in OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #1938)
• Added reference to ArchaeoLines plugin
• Added scriptable method to set the time extent for trails
• Added figure correction for the Lunar position
• Added atmospheric pressure and temperature info into location tooltip
• Added *.md files into Windows installer (GH: #2023)
• Added orbit epoch as explicit element to the KeplerOrbit (GH: #2000, #2027)
• Added Solar and Lunar info to InfoString (GH: #1455, #2037)
• Added pragmatic solution for a Linux display problem with aberration (GH: #1945)
• Added a "default" group to selected object info (GH: #2038)
• Added context for info group names (GH: #2038)
• Added epoch entries for the Interstellar objects
• Added support to show ephemeris when Solar system bodies are hidden (GH: #2044, #2051)
• Added orbit_Epoch to comet orbital elements
• Added scripting functions for tonemapping
• Added tool to find and select an object from its standard name and object type name (GH: #1970)
• Added tool to search an object by its standard name and object type
• Added Arabic sky culture (GH: #2064)
• Added Arabian Peninsula sky culture (GH: #2064)
• Added Arabic Lunar Stations sky culture (GH: #2064)
• Added new actions for jumping to defined moments in diurnal motion of selected objects (GH: #2106)
• Added smart tooltip for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (GH: #2110)
• Added Poles and east and west points (limb/equator intersection) (GH: #2092, #2098)
• Added Central and Subsolar special points (GH: #2098)
• Added scriptable method to replace textures on-the-fly (GH: #1060, #2120)
• Added twilight data into InfoString for the Sun
• Added new filter for satellites (GH: #2124)
• Added code to automatic add the group of satellites, based on Celestrak groups (GH: #1636, #2125)
• Fixed issues in hawaiian starlines sky culture (GH: #1931)
• Fixed error in search of Atlas right hand (GH: #1934)
• Fixed computation max elevation in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Fixed building unit tests when scripting is disabled
• Fixed direct script commands for RemoteControl (GH: #1943)
• Fixed selecting sky culture
• Fixed Sun limb size and direction in Navigational Stars plugin (GH: #2019, #2021)
• Fixed Observability plugin: restore lost lunar "previous" and "next" full moon information (GH: #2025)
• Fixed epoch support for the Pluto (GH: #2062)
• Fixed OnlineQueries plugin: additional cmake fixes over #2006 (GH: #2049)
• Fixed a regular expression for constellation references (GH: #2055)
• Fixed typo in HD designation for HIP 48715 star (GH: #2063)
• Fixed dithering for native GLES2 systems (Odroid C1)
• Fixed PNGs: prevent libpng iCCP incorrect sRGB profile warnings
• Fixed building OnlineQueries plugin for non-WebEngine mode
• Fixed typo in CMake script (GH: #2067)
• Fixed default epoch for comet orbit
• Fixed crash after importing single asteroid (pulsar, quasar, supernova, nova, exoplanetary system) when imported asteroid was selected (GH: #1970)
• Fixed crash after updating catalogs of objects (pulsars, quasars, supernovae, novae, exoplanets, solar system objects) when selected object was removed by updating tool (GH: #1970)
• Fixed formatting (GH: #2095)
• Fixed rendering of markers when using perspective or orthographic projections (GH: #2093)
• Fixed issue in implementation of LX200 protocol (GH: #818)
• Fixed typos in sky cultures (GH: #2105)
• Fixed context issue for translation of pole labels (GH: #2098)
• Fixed aberration issues for Nomenclature selection (GH: #2098)
• Fixed selection priority for far-side features of the planet (GH: #2098)
• Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: cosmetic fix for custom markers
• Changed Satellites plugin: improve guessing GALILEO satellites
• Changed core: refactoring the support of the on-screen stars names (GH: #1951, #2005)
• Changed the core: replace QRegExp occurrences
• Changed mouse navigation behaviour (GH: #1317, #2086, #2089)
• Updated minimum requirements: Qt 5.9
• Updated instructions for building Stellarium from source code (GH: #1927)
• Updated GUI of Satellites plugin: cosmetic fixes
• Updated list of exoplanet detection methods
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated list of active developers
• Updated planetary nomenclature
• Updated list of base locations
• Updated the code of core: refactoring
• Updated translations of sky cultures
• Updated translations of 3D sceneries
• Updated translations of landscapes
• Updated translations of GUI
• Updated the description of Chinese sky culture and fixed some issues (GH: #1952)
• Updated reference in Calendars plugin
• Updated pulsars catalog
• Updated documents for Scripting Engine
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated code for select priority and cosmetic fixes (GH: #2098)
• Updated code for tooltips in AstroCalc/Graphs tools (GH: #2110)
• Updated Babylonian (mulapin) sky culture
• Removed dead code
• Removed outdated code and data
• Removed Arabic Moon Stations sky culture (GH: #2064)

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