1.0 [2022-10-01]
The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!
What makes this 1.0?
- After more than 20 years of development the program is finally accurate
enough for historical application.
- This is the first release based on the Qt6 framework, so the project is
safe for future development. These packages are tagged with a version
number like 1.22.3.
- We keep releasing Qt5-based packages for legacy or obsolete systems.
This may include many Windows users who have to run ANGLE mode.
These packages are tagged with a version number like 0.22.3.
What is new for users?
- A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems,
sorry.)
- Many details around eclipses
- Updated Observation List features
- New features in AstroCalc tool
- HiDPI improvements
- Better dithering
- Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
- New skyculture: Samoan
- Updated several skycultures
- Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars
plugins
- Many more bugfixes.
0.22.2 [2022-07-07]
The major changes of this version:
- Added recognition licenses for skycultures
- Many improvements in the Satellites plugin, esp. display of earth shadow
and filtering
- Improvements in AstroCalc: graphs, eclipses, transits
- Improvements in Meteor Showers, Exoplanets and the Navigational Stars plugins
- Updated DSO catalog
- Fixed ANGLE mode for some rare cases
- A large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements
(see full list of changes).
Behind the scenes, we are preparing for a major upgrade of the internal
Qt framework.
0.22.1 [2022-04-16]
The major changes of this version:
- Added fixed equatorial grid/line
- Added new sky cultures
- Fixed building Stellarium (AppImage)
- Updated DSO catalog
0.22.0 [2022-03-27]
The major changes of this version:
- AstroCalc: Eclipse Finder
- AstroCalc: RTS (Rises, Transits, Settings)
- Switch from Bortle scale to physical brightness values for light pollution.
- Allow tweaks for the atmosphere brightness/color model and tone mapping
- Several new calendars in the Calendars plugin
- Seasonal polar caps on Mars
- New and improved sky cultures
- Larger textures allowed in Scenery3D
- Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
- Many fixes in core and plugins.
- Technical preparations towards a major upgrade of the internal Qt framework.
0.21.3 [2021-12-25]
The major changes of this version:
- Better handling of minor bodies with outdated orbital elements
- "Goto next day at same altitude" functionality for selected objects
- Mark a few special points on the planets
- Three refined Arab skycultures
- Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
- Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
- Fixed a problem with LX200 telescopes
- Many fixes in core and plugins
All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
The following distfiles could not be fetched (possibly fetched
conditionally?):
./misc/libreoffice/distinfo libreoffice/harfbuzz-2.6.4.tar.xz
Stellarium v0.21.2
The major changes of this version:
Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!
Bookmarks replaced by Observation Lists
Politically neutral geonames
Right-click opens plugin configuration
Improved computation of rising, transit, setting times
“Goto next twilight” functionality
Two new Greek skycultures
Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
Improved fidelity of Lunar eclipses
Fixed display of stellar proper motion
Many fixes in core and plugins
0.21.1 [2021-06-24]
The major changes of this version:
- Updated designations of stars and handling of list of designations
and common names those stars
- Updated Almagest and al-Sufi skycultures
- Many changes in plugins
- Many fixes in core and plugins for support HiDPI devices
- Enhancements in visualization of markings and in scripting engine
v0.21.0:
The major changes of this version:
We have finally completed our work on accurate planet axes, including Lunar libration
Visualisation of Earth shadow for Lunar eclipses
Better texture for the Lunar surface
Added the latest algorithms for planet magnitudes
Enhanced Calendars plugin
Replaced "arabic" by more accurate "al-Sufi" skyculture
Planets are now scalable and Solar glare switchable for didactic applications
0.20.4
The major changes of this version:
- Added Calendars plugin
- Many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium
- Many changes in plugins
- Updated DSO catalog
The major changes of this version:
* Fixed nutation and, with it, season beginning times
* Many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium
* Many changes in Oculars and Satellites plugins
* Updated DSO catalog
0.20.2:
The major changes of this version:
- Many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium
- Many changes in scripting engline and Script Console
- Many changes in Oculars and Satellites plugins
- Updated DSO catalog
Stellarium v0.20.1
The major changes of this version:
Restore working Stellarium in ANGLE mode on Window
Many changes in scripting engline and Script Console
Fixes in GUI and plugins
Updated DSO catalog
Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions!
Full list of changes:
Added new language - Luxembourgish (lb)
Added proper properties for Angle Measure plugin
Added configurable colors for Angle Measure plugin
Added GUI adaptations for Angle Measure plugin
Added evaluates scripts in individual context (Scripting Engine)
Added new planetary nomenclature
Added use properties in Satellites plugin
Added overloaded Labeling functions with colors specified as Vec3f (Scripting Engine)
Added display proper file paths and line numbers on script errors (Scripting Engine)
Added test for low precision hms time conversion function
Added spiky stars option
Added checkbox to the option settings in Script Console to clear the output text before a script is run
Added implementation of telescope syncing in INDI client
Added dirty flag, set by signal from QTextEdit (Script Console)
Added code to set TAB stop width at 4 characters (Script Console)
Added code to avoid losing names after Cancel in some QFileDialog (Script Console)
Added implementation of FSM to tranfer properly between dirty/filename states on load, save, clear, edit, expand actions (Script Console)
Added special case Catalogs/Other in GUI for objects without identifier (DSO Catalog v3.9)
Added Oculus plugin (disabled by default)
Fixed ANGLE support for Windows package
Fixed keyboard navigation in Oculars plugin
Fixed Russian translation for Windows installer
Fixed data blunder: severely wrong slope for upcoming comet
Fixed flipping galactic/Supergalactic labels on Southern hemisphere
Fixed translations ‘Set FOV to XXX degrees’ when language is changed
Fixed possible segfault in SolarSystem class
Fixed building Stellarium without scripting
Fixed (restored) fading switch effect in Satellites plugin
Fixed (inverted) realistic/iconic mode labeling in Satellites plugin
Fixed (renamed) properties to better follow conventions in Satellites plugin
Fixed visualization mode in Satellites plugin
Fixed time conversion for low precision form
Fixed jerking an animation of movement of Solar system bodies
Fixed name for SH2-308 (DSO Catalog v3.9)
Fixed filter properly objects by catalogs (DSO Catalog v3.9)
Fixed few wrong objects in DSO catalog (DSO Catalog v3.9)
Fixed WUI of Remote Control plugin
Updated fix for ghost comet in ortographic projection issue
Updated list of contributors
Updated code: simplified RegExp results handling
Changed Vec3f& to Vec3f asreturn type for functions called from scripts in some classes (Scripting Engine)
Re-implement getDecAngle, fixing some inconsistencies
Removed Abell planetary nebulae catalog
v0.20.0:
Added Almagest skyculture
Added missing Ukrainian translations for landscapes
Added show an altitude of perigee/apogee for satellites
Added show an orbit inclination info for satellites
Added support INDIGO for Telescope Control plugin
Added tool for extract dates of releases with their versions from ChangeLog and update list of these releases in stellarium.appdata.xml file
Added particular refresh method for Oculars plugin to see immediate changes of CCD properties
Added displaying last updated TLE for users
Added a SIMBAD lookup name query to the Search Dialog
Added the configuration file and shell scripts to translate skyculture and landscape descriptions with po4a
Added new config and GUI option to change behaviour of focusing on day spinner in Date and Time dialog
Added context for name an asteroid (849) Ara to resolve translation issue
Added a failure warning for Solar System Editor plugin
Added Cross-origin (CORS) support to Remote Control plugin
Added support for CORS preflight request to the Remote Control plugin
Added a minimum near clipping plane distance: slightly improves rendering of Saturn viewed from Pan
Added a GimbalOrbit for the "Observer" planets: allows arbitrary viewpoints by keyboard action
Added new nomenclature items
Added new type of planetary feature
Added automatize for creating Windows installers and signing them
Added configuring colors for ocular circles, sensor frames and text output in Oculars plugin
Added a toggle action to switch visibility of Ocular GUI button bar
Added allowing for assign shortcut for opening the config dialogues of plugins
Added display references for proper names of celestial object in description of skyculture
Added texlive-fonts-recommended to apt-get install doc
Added hourly proper motion for planets, minor planets and comets
Added shortcuts to change GimbalOrbit distance
Added actions for rotate reticles into Oculars plugin
Added modern rotational elements for Solar system objects
Added linear model in the first approximation for smooth reduce the brightness of Jovian moons for get more realistic look
Added partitions to the Great Circles
Added properties for control of line partitions
Added fixed distinct length for 30, 10, 5, 1 degree marks for partitions
Added configurable thickness for partitions
Added German set of navigational stars
Added nautical navigation data for navigation stars
Added special name for landing location (translatable string "landing site") to avoid using "-" as name and good look
Added comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) as potential superbright comet (a Great Comet)
Added asteroid (101955) Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) with texture (and nomenclature some time early)
Added option to hide Scripts Console at script running
Fixed script for installing asterisms data in Western: Rey skyculture
Fixed typos in sky culture and landscape descriptions
Fixed restoring star labels state to default value after disabling displaying the Navigational stars data
Fixed work AstroCalc/Transits tool for pulsars
Fixed displaying proper name and designation of pulsars (the output format was unificate with other objects)
Fixed scaling FOV for CCD with OAG (Oculars plugin)
Fixed resetting zoom level in Oculars plugin when CCD frame is rotation
Fixed name for M48
Fixed CCD rotation issue
Fixed wrong text placement on center of screen, when vertical offset is defined
Fixed potential bug for updating standard magnitudes for satellites
Fixed a spurious bad answer in Search Tool
Fixed location manager for API changes to GPSd 3.20
Fixed updating TLE for satellites with leading zeros in ID
Fixed data formatting for Meteor Showers Search Tool
Fixed selection the meteor shower from Meteor Showers Search Tool
Fixed Corona size on HiDPI screens
Fixed caching of precession values not being used
Fixed color conversion for markers of meteor showers from old format
Fixed setting thickness of lines for constellations and boundaries
Fixed jittering labels and moons hints
Fixed the flawed 2013 brightness model for Venus
Fixed manage slider by keyboard in AstroCalc/Graphs[Monthly Elevation] tool
Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship
Fixed behaviour of draw the trails of planets
Fixed opening User Directory in Script Console if scripts directory into User Directory does not exist
Fixed crash with the extrainfostrings
Fixed behaviour of Bookmarks highlights: fool protection is enabled
Fixed enabling a reticle for eyepieces in Oculars plugin
Fixed getting weird data for eclipse magnitude value during transits of inner planets
Fixed viewing Phobos from Mars
Fixed velocity value for KeplerOrbit around planets
Fixed a few potential problems (CWE-476)
Fixed constellation lines for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture
Fixed crash Stellarium, when meteor shower selected and you tried set date to outside the activity range of selected shower (Fix#975)
Fixed crash Stellarium on trying select inactive meteor shower in Search Tool/Lists (Fix#975)
Fixed displaying info for inactive meteor showers
Fixed missing translatable strings for nomenclature data
Fixed the time rate when Solar system body is selected: adjust time resetting for planet proper motion display
Fixed GUI issue: switch off true time indicator when scene is paused
Fixed false comet in orthographic projection
Fixed black rendering of lunar pole
Fixed hiding the cardinal points on "planetary observers"
Fixed weird axis orientation of the Moon
Fixed name of a script
Fixed hides data in Ocular plugin: changed the priority level of drawing for Equation of Time and Pointer Coordinates plugins
Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship and target planet is Solar system minor body
Fixed location info string on bottom bar when observer is on spaceship
Fixed compilation Stellarium on Solaris (Clang 9.0; SunOS 5.11)
Updated set of GUI icons
Updated list of countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and list of locations
Updated list of contributors
Updated Ukrainian translation of the sky culture descriptions
Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin: the color picker button was split into 3 buttons to define separate colors for info, orbit and marker of satellite
Updated "Save settings" button behaviour: when button "Save settings" are pressed, then emitted signal
configurationDataSaved() and all plugins are saved the config data too
Updated scripts
Updated Scripting Console
Updated code for Orbit class: combined EllipticalOrbit and CometOrbit classes to KeplerOrbit
Updated list of MSVC versions for StelLogger class
Updated GUI for Oculars plugin and changed focus policy for Oculars GUI buttons
Updated GUI for Information tab: define new ProperMotion InfoStringGroup flag, and adapt GUI, settings and StarWrapper
Updated InfoString: improved readability (HTML symbol syntax instead of Unicode char numbers)
Updated GUI and shortcuts info for Oculars plugin
Updated GUI for Script Console
Updated Moon phases info: Restore/sanitize handling of named moon phases
Updated trails behaviour: when planet is changed the trails should be recreated
Updated trails behaviour: include moons of current planet into planet trails
Updated trails behaviour: allow limitation (early cutoff) of trail length
Updated behaviour for selection of meteor showers in Search Dialog (Ctrl+Alt+M) of the Meteor Shower plugin
Updated default list of TLE sources in Satellites plugin
Updated Korean translations for Windows Installer
Updated DSO names: synced few names from SIMBAD
Updated the pulsars catalog and tool for generate of JSON catalog from the original data
Updated SSD: synced the data by JPL HORIZON for some Solar system minor bodies
Removed outdated and abandoned code
Removed code for separate handling hotkeys from Oculars plugin
Removed unnecessary orbit data from Comets and MinorPlanets
Removed of code repetition
v0.19.3:
The major changes of this version:
* Direct ASCOM support for Telescope Control plugin on Windows
* Refactoring the GUI
* Many improvements in the code
* Added many DSO textures
* Improvements in DSO catalog
* Many improvements in AstroCalc tool
v0.19.1
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
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
Added new behavoir for AstroCalc/Graphs when clicking within graph area now sets current time.
Added simplification in topocentric correction
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
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
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
Fixed scaling Telrad sign on HighDPI monitors
Fixed surface occlusion bug even with landscape turned off in scripting engine
Fixed building with cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
Fixed error in constellation file format (Babylonian)
Fixed Europe/Volgograd time zone settings
Fixed HiPS handling of allsky download
Fixed progress bar rendering
Fixed positive declinations issue in AstroCalc tool when option 'Use decimal degrees' is enabled
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
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
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
Updated GUI for ArchaeoLines plugin
Updated default pulsars catalog (v1.60)
Updated list of asterisms
Updated AstroCalc tools: many optimizations
Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package
0.19.0:
The major changes of this version:
- 5 new sky cultures
- Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes
- Added many DSO textures
- Many improvements for Scripting Engine
0.18.3:
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
