Stellarium Changelog

What's new in Stellarium 0.19.1.1

Jun 24, 2019

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

New in Stellarium 0.19.0.16928 Beta (Jun 17, 2019)

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.
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
Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package
Statistics

New in Stellarium 0.19.0.16908 Beta (Jun 10, 2019)

Added allow to search an inactive meteor showers in Search Tool/Lists tool
Added 'Azimuth vs. Time' graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
Added asterism from "Sky & Telescrope" 2019-05
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)
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)
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)
Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package
Statistics

New in Stellarium 0.19.0.16863 Beta (May 20, 2019)

New in Stellarium 0.19.0.1 (Mar 28, 2019)

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%

New in Stellarium 0.18.3 (Jan 22, 2019)

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