Version history for Stellarium

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Changes for v0.19.2 - v0.19.3

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)

Changes for v0.19.0 - v0.19.1

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

Changes for v0.18.3 - v0.19.0

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%

Changes for v0.18.2 - v0.18.3

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

Changes for v0.18.1 - v0.18.2

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

Changes for v0.17.0 - v0.18.0

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

Changes for v0.16.1 - v0.17.0

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

Changes for v0.16.0 - v0.16.1

- 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

Changes for v0.15.2 - v0.16.0

Full list of changes:
- 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)

Changes for v0.15.1.1 - v0.15.2

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).

Changes for v0.15.0 - v0.15.1

- 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)

Changes for v0.14.3 - v0.15.0

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 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1939MNRAS..99..541S])
- 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.

Changes for v0.14.2 - v0.14.3

- 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)

Changes for v0.13.3 - v0.14.0

Full list of changes:
- 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)

Changes for v0.13.2 - v0.13.3

- 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)

Changes for v0.13.1 - v0.13.2

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.

Changes for v0.13.0 - v0.13.1

This release brings few new features and fixes:
- 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)

Changes for v0.12.4 - v0.13.0

The Stellarium development team after 9 months of development is proud to announce the
release of version 0.13.0 of Stellarium.
This release brings some interesting new features:
- New modulated core.
- Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping.
- Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now.
- Comet tails rendering.
- New translatable strings and new textures.
- New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time.
- New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view.
- New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky.
- New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer.
- New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers.
- New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes.
- New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable
exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring.
- New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle.
- New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color
parameter.
- New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with
glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars.
- New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability
analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements.
There have also been a large number of bug fixes and serious performance improvements.

Changes for v0.12.3 - v0.12.4

This release contains solution for one serious bug and an one new feature.

Changes for v0.12.2 - v0.12.3

This release contains a new Bright Novae plugin and fixes of few bugs within plugins and search tool.

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