v25.3

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

Release notes

Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.3 for all platforms. This is our third release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

• Many changes in support of sky cultures
• Added new plugins: Sky Culture Maker
• Many improvements in Core and AstroCalc
• Many updates in sky cultures

Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added more realistic texture of the Sun (GH: #4517)
• Added ability to compute time when Sun and Moon at custom altitude in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4467)
• Added ability to set minutes before sunrise/after sunset in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4513)
• Added ability to handling yesterday/tomorrow in AstroCalc/Almanac tool
• Added ability to increase cross size in "Markings" Menu (GH: #4368)
• Added ability to toggle current time speed to zero and back (GH: #4497)
• Added ability to select object at rise, transit or set time in AstroCalc/RTS tool (GH: #4472)
• Added ability to draw graph's (AstroCalc/Graphs) from keyboard (GH: #4471)
• Added patch for INDI from OpenIndiana
• Added new plugin: Sky Culture Maker (GH: #4454)
• Added the missing 7 stars in Chinese SC (GH: #4524)
• Added ability to show object's constellation info in InfoString
• Added Arab Lunar Mansions
• Added english name as comment to translation of sky cultures items
• Added code to extract byname and pronounce for translation of sky cultures
• Added bynames to a few modern skycultures
• Added byname tag to constellation descriptions for further label refinement
• Added communication data for some satellites
• Added groups of communications satellites
• Fixed possible dependency problem in linux
• Fixed repetition of "modern" label part
• Fixed rendering the center of umbra after adding SSO's (GH: #4302)
• Fixed crash (GH: #4512)
• Fixed crash in AstroCalc/Graphs/Lunar Elongation in debug mode (GH: #4447)
• Fixed star catalog loading on big-endian systems (GH: #4504)
• Fixed decoding packed number (GH: #4503)
• Fixed CSS
• Fixed compilation on GCC 9
• Fixed infostring (GH: #4468)
• Fixed hardware detection in linux
• Fixed hardware detection in *BSD
• Fixed unintended rotation by 180° of sky surveys
• Fixed type conversions
• Fixed few typos in docs (GH: #4530)
• Fixed text errors in two Chinese Sky cultures (GH: #4528)
• Fixed issues in Chinese Song Dynasty Skyculture (GH: #4525)
• Fixed Chinese SC: correct the lines of Ox (GH: #4524)
• Fixed missing "Added" in Chinese names ending in "(In XYZ mansion)"
• Fixed typos in Chinese SC
• Fixed gravity labels for RTL languages
• Fixed search the minor planet by name without number
• Fixed ugly display some glyphs in Qt 6.9+ (GH: #4284)
• Fixed getting CPU frequency in macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Fixed show pixel grid of sensor crop overlay (GH: #4436)
• Fixed formatted output of object info (GH: #4408)
• Fixed HIP number for Menkar in NavStars (GH: #4402)
• Fixed LandscapeFisheye shader in GLSL 1.00 mode
• Fixed a few names and trace references
• Fixed InfoString with RTL components (GH: #4542)
• Fixed Error message in plugin SkyCultureMaker (GH: #4546)
• Fixed visual bug in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #4534)
• Changed core: center Zodiac and Lunar Station labels (GH: #4510)
• Changed core: make sure a Zodiac/Lunar label is visible
• Changed core: don't break orientation lock when moving location (GH: #4450)
• Changed core: extended time interval (GH: #4501)
• Changed core: allow variations in latitude extent of Lunar mansions
• Changed core: reduce labels for Zodiac and Lunar Stations to single components
• Changed core: speedup texture loading when desired frame rate is low
• Changed core: make it possible to choose between multiple planetary HiPS per planet (GH: #4459)
• Changed core: avoid label position reset (GH: #4455)
• Changed core: switching to using SourceForge.net CDN as default storage of the stars catalogs (GH: #4460)
• Changed core: store flagConstellationPick (isolated constellation selection) (GH: #4396)
• Changed core: undo false optimisation (GH: #4415)
• Changed core: use exact stars magnitude when there is a artificial cutoff (GH: #4438)
• Changed GUI: apply screen font scaling to compass marks (GH: #4307)
• Changed GUI: follow the user selected time format in GUI (GH: #4392)
• Changed GUI: fix handling of app font change (GH: #4510)
• Changed GUI: moved few related actions into 'Scripts' group (GH: #4482)
• Changed GUI: avoid disabling checkbox in sky cultures (GH: #4396)
• Changed GUI: single language box for whole program (GH: #4445)
• Changed logger: cosmetic fixes for CPU data
• Changed logger: cosmetic fixes - normalization
• Changed logger: limit list of video adaptors by availability
• Updated rules for creating an AppImage package (GH: #4405)
• Updated installer for Windows: added hook for Qt6WebEngine (GH: #4407)
• Updated standard DSO catalog
• Updated star catalog (level 0) (GH: #4427)
• Updated icons for macOS (GH: #4424)
• Updated the list of planetary nomenclature
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated default catalog of novae
• Updated the default list of satellites
• Updated photometry data of satellites
• Updated the default list of locations
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated the discovery circumstances for comets
• Updated the discovery circumstances for minor planets
• Updated script 'Messier Objects Tour'
• Updated script 'Jupiter Moons'
• Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris GUI: Increase duration from 100 -> 1000 units of time (GH: #4416)
• Updated standard DSO catalog
• Updated minimal requirements for macOS
• Updated Modern SC: move star name translations to bynames (GH: #4382)
• Updated Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
• Updated Babylonian (MUL.APIN) SC
• Updated Chinese (Song dynasty) SC
• Updated all Arabic SC
• Updated dependency: upgrading CPM from 0.40.8 to 0.42.0
• Removed old edges from Chinese skycultures (GH: #4377)
• Removed workaround for bug LP:1498616
• Removed double application of nutation in Infostring (GH: #4421)
• Removed duplicate point in Coma Berenices line in Modern (IAU) sky culture (GH: #4411)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-25.3.tar.gz	Source code of Stellarium 25.3
stellarium-25.3.tar.bz2	Source code of Stellarium 25.3
stellarium-25.3.tar.xz	Source code of Stellarium 25.3
stellarium-25.3.zip	Source code of Stellarium 25.3
stellarium-25.3-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.3 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017)
stellarium-25.3-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.3 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.8.3 (Visual Studio 2022)
Stellarium-25.2-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 25.3 for macOS (universal; macOS 12.0+) based on Qt 6.9.2 (AppleClang 17.0.0)
Stellarium-25.3-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 25.3 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0)
Stellarium-25.3-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 25.3 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 5.15.3 (GCC 11.4.0)
Stellarium-25.3-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 25.3 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0)

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-25.3.tar.gz.asc stellarium-25.3.tar.gz

v25.2

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

Release notes

Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.2 for all platforms. This is our second release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

• Many changes in support of sky cultures
• Added 2 new plugins: Mosaic Camera and Custom Nebula Textures
• Many improvements in Core
• Updates in sky cultures (include new one)

Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #4356)
• Added ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin
• Added ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)
• Added support zodiac and lunar systems
• Added code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms
• Added Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in (GH: #4003)
• Added context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin
• Added fields for translating planet names
• Added ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions
• Added ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement
• Added ability mix of cultural and common star names
• Added ability to excluding star names from unwanted references
• Added context and tooltips for new menu items
• Added support for Dark Constellations
• Added new GUI elements (sky cultures)
• Added adjustments for MinGW compilation (GH: #4311)
• Added an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin
• Added a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins (GH: #4264)
• Added Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4300)
• Added parallax data in WUI
• Added Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4005)
• Added installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage (GH: #4248)
• Added skyculture "Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands" (GH: #4274)
• Added support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin(GH: #4373)
• Fixed saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions
• Fixed context data support for zodiac and lunar systems
• Fixed font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed wrong output size
• Fixed registry records for Windows installer (GH: #4202)
• Fixed comet discovery data
• Fixed a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC (GH: #3913)
• Fixed data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines (GH: #4304)
• Fixed description of sky cultures (GH: #3879, #3876)
• Fixed labeling native/pronounce
• Fixed extra IPA handling
• Fixed showing duplicate names in native and translation
• Fixed screen updates when setting changes
• Fixed discovery date/name
• Fixed changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin
• Fixed searching
• Fixed DSO name rendering
• Fixed Qt5.15 building
• Fixed missing space in front of translated "Added"
• Fixed typos in src/core
• Fixed typos in skycultures/
• Fixed typos in plugins/
• Fixed typos in guide/
• Fixed crash: Restore OpenGL context after initialising StelAudioMgr
• Fixed issues found by PVS-Studio
• Fixed configuration when innosetup isn't installed (GH: #4297)
• Fixed packing sky cultures (GH: #4281)
• Fixed categories in Linux/UNIX menu (desktop file)
• Fixed adding new locations (GH: #4257)
• Fixed issue for custom time zone in Location dialog
• Fixed numbers in DSO textures file
• Fixed compiling with Qt 5
• Fixed building on Windows (GH: #4256)
• Fixed a warning message
• Fixed missing negation of a condition (HiPS)
• Fixed problems with IP-based location lookup (GH: #4253)
• Fixed minor issues in Mosaic Camera plug-in
• Fixed one-off assertion bug (GH: #4249)
• Fixed astrometry tests (GH: #4246)
• Fixed compiling in macOS when md4c is locally installed package
• Fixed linking macOS package when md4c is locally installed package
• Fixed compilation with Qt 6.9
• Fixed modern asterism TA8
• Fixed typo in Khoi-San SC
• Fixed links in documentation (GH: #4260)
• Fixed calculation the duration of astronomical night (GH: #4381)
• Fixed localization support in new plugin (GH: #4383)
• Fixed cmake for Satellites plugin
• Fixed z fighting of HiPS levels (GH: #4376)
• Fixed designation for comet P/2024 L4
• Fixed two names for Venus
• Changed core: Haiku OS hasn't hardware acceleration and we shouldn't use High Graphics Mode here
• Changed core: Replace native enum string format by comma-separated list format
• Changed core: Different brackets for pronunciation/transliteration group
• Changed core: Avoid capitalized search result
• Changed core: Move HiPS tile texture binding to a separate method
• Changed core: Don't accept non-planetary surveys in SolarSystem::onNewSurvey
• Changed core: Check if a survey is planetary immediately by hipslist
• Changed core: Merge HiPS properties from hipslist and properties
• Changed core: Let HiPS have TIFF and BMP tiles
• Changed core: simplifications
• Changed core: Speedup renderMarkerPointedCircle (GH: #4247)
• Changed core: Add manually-resolved glDrawBuffer and glReadBuffer to Planet::initFBO
• Changed core: Don't create empty HiPS properties
• Changed core: Implement a more robust HiPS list parser
• Changed core: Survive loading bad line for asterisms
• Changed core: Use QtPositioning for location lookup
• Changed core: Let's use Low Graphics Mode on NetBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris and Haiku
• Changed GUI and core: increase WOW-effect for demonstrations of parallax
• Changed GUI: The feature of automatic closing of the search dialog is configurable now (GH: #4347)
• Changed GUI: Cosmetic fixes for Help dialog
• Changed logger: Improve determination version of the Haiku OS
• Changed logger: improve message for skipping asterisms (GH: #4349)
• Changed HiPS support: Log more information about loading Allsky
• Changed HiPS support: Mark Allsky as not available on failure to decode
• Changed HiPS support: Update HipsSurvey's progress bar when Allsky download ends
• Changed ISS scripts: Splitted ISS files into InnoSetup 6 compatible and InnoSetup 5 compatible
• Changed SC data in Babylonian (Mulapin) sky culture
• Changed SC data in Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Changed SC data in Korean sky culture
• Changed SC data in all Modern sky cultures
• Changed SC data: Splitting data in "english" field into "english" and "pronounce" fields in new Chinese SC
• Changed SC data: Renaming "Chinese Medieval" sky culture to "Chinese Song Dynasty Sky" sky culture
• Changed SC data: Remove po directory from recently imported Chenzhuo SC
• Updated GCVS catalog
• Updated planetary nomenclature data
• Updated ShowMySky atmosphere shaders
• Updated scripts: Protect users from scripts overwriting settings
• Updated .clang-format to conform to the Coding Style
• Updated scripts according to latest changes
• Updated planetary nomenclature data
• Updated translations
• Updated metainfo
• Updated dependencies: INDI v2.1.3
• Updated dependencies: NLopt v2.9.0
• Updated dependencies: CalcMySky v0.3.5
• Updated lists of contributors
• Updated data of comets
• Removed duplicates supernovae
• Removed extracted comments that repeat auto-generated ones in few sky cultures
• Removed malformed whitespaces
• Removed outdated flag (GH: #4373)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-25.2.tar.gz	Source code of Stellarium 25.2. MD5: f12ac9d57e9acef54d32cc196360c9ba SHA256: afb43e95438aef5509afd6ba197daf30b52607cac16888332d9810ba12209486
stellarium-25.2.tar.bz2	Source code of Stellarium 25.2. MD5: d2b508ed716ec679d6cf9ed132886754 SHA256: 6c50f8c74e18370ee24b01367e36120c633fc8bdfb611c0fa6c854612ea3464f
stellarium-25.2.tar.xz	Source code of Stellarium 25.2. MD5: b7f15cc16c5488dacce3135ae58927a7 SHA256: 5423334212a6d0daa006d44e1bc039cc212fbc990358c7b6636a7a2aac67434f
stellarium-25.2.zip	Source code of Stellarium 25.2. MD5: 51756caa88ac0412ed3da6ae4ace1cf5 SHA256: 4d984436e3435ec86884f6552c5e8031b84f15663d144a4b4b80d86420b018cd
stellarium-25.2-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: f77f7223e39cd6f0d65204cb139f97e7 SHA256: d2a8a91171c2011f19afbdcf02660008f34f0674ddb8d4214129b2851ac2cb0a
stellarium-25.2-qt5.15-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.15.2 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: 4c3804b412af47c9acb64dae972417ed SHA256: 70e23df2d982bdecc4d84e9cb803c2b00f628affe61b8ff48f7f6c37222cc547
stellarium-25.2-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.8.1 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: c0ff36b4c336fd3020ddd9a67c454dde SHA256: 8dc272150c2ae630e6d889af3a33571050199f0a12d99a56cb073985cd7620b2
stellarium-25.2-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: ce5deb5cad0c3e113b53c03a8f55cd33 SHA256: b8daca4802904706fa4876a187d30c866ee38d1dfd7751c8fd1d63e75a594d69
Stellarium-25.2-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 25.2 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 17.0.0). MD5: e4c21bfd29f05c14594396b12919deb0 SHA256: 9d84b159462c77d3dea5c41010c0d002c485201c48ee8005809cbcfa260f9d52
Stellarium-25.2-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 25.2 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: 91b4d9e828064bf98948ad72441ce037 SHA256: f6d08ed9bc7c7272f237b78dd91eb299aac4ed9ef9c4b25a5e89f65eef2495e0
Stellarium-25.2-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 25.2 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 5.15.3 (GCC 11.4.0). <br ...

v25.1

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

Release notes

Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.1 for all platforms. This is our first release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

• Switching to using Gaia DR3 catalog (extra catalogues with more than 220 milliones stars)
• Full 6D astrometry (2D sky positions, 2D proper motion, parallax, radial velocity) compute for most bright stars (V<10.5)
• Modelling movement for 15 couples of binary stars
• New powerful data format for sky cultures
• Many improvements in Core
• Improvements in Telescope Control plugin
• Updates in sky cultures (include new one)
• Incorporated whole GCVS 5.1 catalog
• New tool in AstroCalc dialog

Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added new star catalogs with Gaia DR3 (GH: #3992)
• Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of constellations (GH: #4083)
• Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of asterisms (GH: #4188)
• Added AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4175)
• Added support for normal and horizon maps in planetary HiPS
• Added a warning dialog if ASCOM version is outdated but telescope preconfigured
• Added constellation boundaries for Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
• Added short designations for some double stars for easy finding them
• Added Castor to binary orbital parameters data
• Added $\zeta$ Her and $\eta$ Oph to binary star orbital data to deal with their stationary companion due to lack of
• Added $\gamma$ Virginis A and B to binary orbital parameters data
• Added and updated many nebula textures (GH: #4162)
• Added support output of native names of constellations
• Added context for Japanese sky culture (GH: #3966)
• Added context for constellation names in Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures
• Added message context to chinese star "Added"
• Added support for extraction of Chinese star names with "Added"
• Added ability to see the pronounce for native names of constellations
• Added reference for 14 proper names of stars
• Added support Venetian language
• Added ability to copy HTML version of the selection info
• Added ability to keep "latest selected object" in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4127)
• Added filter of showing named DSO only (GH: #4125)
• Added ability to use absolute path to the logfile (GH: #4027)
• Added ability to re-select last selected object (GH: #4113)
• Added a scripting function for RTS with given altitude
• Added parallax effect (exaggerate parallax) to stars (GH: #4023)
• Added support for Gaia ID in other functionalities (GH: #4064)
• Added info for newly discovered comets
• Added a filter by eclipse type in AstroCalc tool (GH: #4054)
• Added Export Map button for local solar eclipses too
• Added SH2-245 as Eridanus Loop (GH: #4046)
• Added new Chinese sky culture (GH: #4234)
• Added pronounce and IPA tags in Siberian SC (GH: #4237)
• Added missing Jupiter in Lokono sky culture
• Added 0.5 arcmin padding to bounding cap because Saemundsson's inversion formula is not exact to fix clipping issue at small FOV (GH: #4231)
• Fixed computation of HiPS draw order for planetary surveys
• Fixed make sure that HiPS mesh is convex
• Fixed change of HiPS tile detalization with zoom level
• Fixed searching pot entry with msgctxt
• Fixed string comparison for equality (GH: #4163)
• Fixed translability a short name of dataset for DSO textures (GH: #4191)
• Fixed 61 Cygni binary orbital parameter epoch (should be J2016 not J2000)
• Fixed truncated StarId
• Fixed ignored constellation star ids passed as strings
• Fixed application of the aberration effect to the ephemeris markers (GH: #3867)
• Fixed sky cultures naming for 61 Cyg A
• Fixed orbit color manipulation (GH: #4213)
• Fixed endless loop in Calendars plugin (GH: #4206)
• Fixed reading star id from "HIP/Gaia DR3 XXX" names
• Fixed epoch for boundaries in Chinese (Medieval) sky culture
• Fixed designation of double star (GH: #4150)
• Fixed region entries for modern skycultures
• Fixed compilation on Windows
• Fixed splash screen text positioning on Qt5
• Fixed computation of next maximum/minimum light for variable stars
• Fixed mismatch between values of Apparent Diameter and Angular Size in AstroCalc/Graphs tool (GH: #3981)
• Fixed modifiers info for slew commands at Macs (GH: #4116)
• Fixed hiccups every few seconds (GH: #4112)
• Fixed positioning of the cardinals
• Fixed Qt/OS screen font scaling by fractional factors
• Fixed HIP 101769 and HIP 25606 are incorrectly matched to the wrong Gaia ID
• Fixed fractional OS scaling support in Wayland
• Fixed search faint stars by their id (cross-id)
• Fixed tab order in Config dialog
• Fixed comments for translators for UI elements
• Fixed typos in Modern (IAU) sky culture (GH: #4050)
• Fixed density of star name labels (GH: #4029)
• Fixed oversized angle buttons in Oculars plugin
• Fixed missing include for some linux distros (INDI)
• Fixed include correct INDI headers (GH: #4025, #4019)
• Fixed rendering telescopic asterisms (GH: #3315)
• Fixed orbit rendering: densely sampling orbit of parent planet if on its moon (GH: #4013, #83)
• Fixed wrong data for stars (GH: #1659, #1724, #364, #374, #369, #363)
• Fixed false stars (GH: #18, #2786, #777, #399, #677, #1032, #398, #1192, #1189)
• Fixed missing stars (GH: #362, #1016)
• Fixed stellar proper motion (GH: #85, #221, #348, #1541, #1061, #3108)
• Fixed star selection when big zoom mouse (GH: #3136)
• Fixed checksum for one new star catalog
• Fixed constellation line mismatch (GH: #4240)
• Fixed reload skycultures (GH: #4239)
• Fixed crash in Observing Lists: Map index from proxy model back to the source (GH: #4241)
• Fixed telescopic asterisms (GH: #4238)
• Fixed native names into native tags in Anutan sky culture
• Changed core: compute position angle and separation of binary stars system (GH: #4184)
• Changed core: compute 6D astrometry for a few binary star system
• Changed core: Use a glTF-compatible normal map for the Moon
• Changed core: Bind texture to the correct slot when loading it
• Changed core: Limit amount of time taken by texture loading per frame
• Changed core: Remove the limit on thread count
• Changed core: Don't repeatedly call ssm->getMoon()
• Changed core: Speed up loading of star cross-identification data
• Changed core: Append new additional star names instead of prepending
• Changed core: Use hips_frame and type to determine planet
• Changed core: Take updated parallax into account when drawing marker and search for star selection (GH: #4214)
• Changed core: Check for star nullptr when loading constellation data in case one of the major star catalog corrupted/missing (GH: #4207)
• Changed core: Don't load any high level star catalog if a lower level star catalog is missing (GH: #4203)
• Changed core: Avoid crash in moving between planets
• Changed core: Suppress output of meaningless coordinates (GH: #4212)
• Changed core: Handle correctly landscape labels with negative altitude angle (GH: #4174, #4176)
• Changed core: Hide the broken zero horizon
• Changed core: Exclude synchronous texture loads from time limiting
• Changed core: Don't try to get OpenGL context in StelTexture constructor
• Changed core: Filter HiPS mipmaps
• Changed core: Don't apply normal/horizon map to surveys
• Changed core: Handle extra * and ? signs at the end of Chinese star number
• Changed core: Try to localize ' Added' with space, since some locales should avoid it
• Changed core: use unsigned char for component in cross-id.cat (GH: #4164)
• Changed core: switch to use binary format for cross-id file (GH: #4158)
• Changed core: update star catalogs with astroquery 0.4.9 to improve handling of binary systems and cross-ids (GH: #4156)
• Changed core: switching to new data format for skycultures
• Changed core: Allow excluding names from unwanted references (GH: #4147, #11)
• Changed core: Point DSO name path into same (default) set.
• Changed core: Updated list of SIMBAD mirrors in Search Tool
• Changed core: Use commonNameMap instead of iterating over dsoArray
• Changed core: Pre-trim DSO string catalog numbers
• Changed core: Don't use toUpper, use compare(CaseInsensitive)
• Changed core: Use default DSO names as common names
• Changed core: Enable drawing of single-star constellations and asterisms
• Changed core: Don't reload common DSO names on each SC load
• Changed core: Don't reload default DSO names on each SC load
• Changed core: Follow [PM][+-] indicators of constellation edges
• Changed core: Redefine boundaries for modern_* skycultures
• Changed core: Allow arbitrary epochs in Skyculture boundary edge definition
• Changed core: Scale planet label shift properly
• Changed core: Scale solar halo properly
• Changed core: Scale planet halo properly
• Changed core: Scale star halo properly
• Changed core: Base star scaling on screen scale
• Changed core: Handle font size changes in Cardinals
• Changed core: Position InfoPanel taking into account font size ratio
• Changed core: Make line loops and strips continuous
• Changed core: Avoid breaking strict aliasing rules
• Changed core: Set correct light pollution level when location=auto (GH: #4216)
• Changed core: Handle the case when surface normal looks away from the camera
• Changed core: Reduce HiPS split order when tile width is small
• Changed logger: Better error message for Asterisms
• Changed logger: Print texture size in StelTexture memory usage reports
• Changed logger: Adjust log levels in StelMainView
• Changed logger: Remove "W...

v24.4

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released final version in this year - 24.4.

The major changes of this version:

• Changes in DSO rendering
• Improvements in Core
• Improvements in Telescope Control plugin
• Updates in sky cultures

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added optional drop shadow behind InfoText
• Added ability of immediate-store for (hopefully) all main program properties (GH: #3987)
• Added designation for η Car star (GH: #633)
• Added code for Tachelhit language
• Added sidereal time in degrees to StelObject InfoMap
• Added test to avoid missing colors for NebCl type
• Added new nomenclature
• Added alias for Asia/Choibalsan time zone (GH: #3955, #3953)
• Added proper name for LDN43
• Fixed kerning of curved text (GH: #4006)
• Fixed application of text baseline shift
• Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #3995)
• Fixed typos (GH: #3993, #4015)
• Fixed mistakes in Korean SC (GH: #3994)
• Fixed proper motion for pulsars
• Fixed minimum target version for macOS when Qt5 is using
• Fixed color for NebCl type
• Fixed sizes of proportional hints for DSO
• Fixed description of Arabic (Lunar mansions) SC (GH: #3938)
• Fixed description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) SC (GH: #3944)
• Fixed typos in Arabic (Indigenous) skyculture (GH: #3939)
• Fixed BOM char in source code
• Fixed constellation Pleiades (HR -> HIP) in Greek (Leiden Aratea) SC (GH: #3931)
• Fixed translating months in AstroCalc/Graphs after changing language (GH: #3907)
• Fixed typos in Mongolian skyculture (GH: #3913)
• Fixed typos in Indian skyculture (GH: #3908)
• Fixed typos in Romanian skyculture (GH: #3912)
• Fixed few security alerts for JS code (GH: #3918, #3920, #3917)
• Fixed compiling planetarium in some systems (GH: #3905)
• Fixed missing parts of refactoring
• Fixed setting 2 lines in ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #3909)
• Fixed saving selected object information (GH: #3910)
• Fixed coordinates in '20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars' script (GH: #3835)
• Changed core: keep FOV search radius in hiDPI screen consistent from user perspective (GH: #3985)
• Changed core: attempt to resolve HIP first (GH: #3980)
• Changed core: Refactoring drawing nebulae markers (GH: #3968)
• Changed core: Allow dimming of DSO hints and labels
• Changed core: Make some landscape variables static, and properties of LandscapeMgr (GH: #3951, #3574)
• Changed core and Solar System Editor plugin: improved size of small asteroids
• Changed core: Rewrite spheric mirror to make it more efficient (GH: #3535, #3954)
• Changed core: Remove a useless OpenGL call
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: Show an even more clear hint that ASCOM is disabled in Qt6 builds
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: INDI support is optional now
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: switch to INDI v2.1.1 (GH: #3269)
• Changed Satellites plugin: User can decide if newly added satellites are visible by default now (GH: #3986)
• Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid bad orbit lines (GH: #3934)
• Changed Satellites plug-in: small speedup
• Changed Calendars plugin: add drop shadow for better readability
• Updated Norse SC (GH: #3990, #3991)
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated default list of minor bodies
• Updated list of planetary features
• Updated discovery circumstances for comets and for minor planets
• Updated photometry data for satellites
• Updated translations
• Updated infrastructure: Let system-installed fast_float be found (GH: #3949)
• Updated WebUI in Remote Control plug-in (GH: #3929)
• Updated JS libraries in Remote Control plugin-in (GH: #3923)
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Removed texture of NGC104

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-24.4.tar.gz	Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: eabf3b7357a40073245f29faa5ee5c83 SHA256: 433bb8a0380313e6d9e4caf62395b724f4d74262c8aae426a0fe1a5e61a29cbb
stellarium-24.4.tar.bz2	Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: cc976adc3d31831a0c2e4fa11ceb585f SHA256: 103359554d41cf195d8200ea74de83515eb2f595260587783d3135ed9acf1d2c
stellarium-24.4.tar.xz	Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: dc317cfd181e79043de2c38d6104908e SHA256: 84386ad6261bbad7851a56febe673ec73adc7a3b49156b33af6c534e85ac8f8d
stellarium-24.4.zip	Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: 7c7ddfd42a75a8216f37562c8a73f68a SHA256: 7c3211a341449cadd4fe592f0ab3e0f03db06b2f86e5aa210b47cc396ce4f3c7
stellarium-24.4-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: be04387af333b42db8fb2c3ce81e68f8 SHA256: 71b620f40b330af0444791181684942df7b8bd51c73b72a32b3e2c3d0109a127
stellarium-24.4-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: 7a94fcaa6f4c466965128a51d67d421f SHA256: e662ce010c6fb18bf7138f7209a0b0fb0f4127be30d0c053842942639975dcdd
stellarium-24.4-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: dabcb566eed1a97304d727737841ddb8 SHA256: c52a7a2da4e0639457d1c4a2010d4bdbf47594710fac179fdfa69718d83bc36b
stellarium-24.4-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: 28250785a9f64e578042c997d6c2ad38 SHA256: 8219feea683696b2fe36ea02c68581cc02d4e5aa8b5a1593676b05888a0f5a87
Stellarium-24.4-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 24.4 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 16.0.0). MD5: ed1e9ec3b3ff376ce2812530c2af42f2 SHA256: e3a8c9ac2c7e52b4eb971b84941e801affaa69f156b844f806c42dbd9f08f63c
Stellarium-24.4-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 24.4 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: da227cf4d3bb0168fbf519693876a431 SHA256: 2474235caf179cdc0d1fe0b70b6da39a13c16aaf24faf9740ced2ea3c3543ad7
Stellarium-24.4-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: bb6f74d11b3eee3f7c738ab4d8be4310 SHA256: d87bad1be41495c743b253267a79b1873f357b75589f2e976ee158f4f3cdf3a0
Stellarium-24.4-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 8ba2aa3e7425d395c8de9bfa4057be37 SHA256: 79a5bd45375cc952587aa44ac44efcd37303684cff6d488b8f4b59a6257eefb6

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.4.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.4.tar.gz

v24.3

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 24.3.

The major changes of this version:

• Performance improvements for computation of Solar system bodies positions
• Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
• Updates in sky cultures
• Updates in GUI

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on
the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems.
If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help
us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ability a batch drawing of asteroid and comet markers (GH: #3847)
• Added tiny circles as optional markers for minor bodies (GH: #3847)
• Added multithreading computations of positions for Solar system bodies (GH: #3847)
• Added tooltip for new option in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added ability to use a wider range of dates for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3880)
• Added a reddish tint over the landscape when sun is low (GH: #3858, #3855)
• Added abort telescope slew signals to LX200 and NexStar telescopes (GH: #2754)
• Added setting dynamic limits for wide range of dates in AstroCalc tools
• Added ability to use a wider range of dates for AstroCalc/RTS tool
• Added links for multi-opposition unnumbered objects and one-opposition objects into bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin
• Added info for total candidates for adding in Solar System Editor plugin
• Added ability to use a wider range of dates for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1327)
• Added ability to hide the constellation art button (GH: #3830)
• Added context support for exoplanet detection methods and exoplanetary classes (GH: #3798)
• Added comments for tooltips (GH: #3786)
• Fixed coordinates in '20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars' script (GH: #3835)
• Fixed typos in Maya skyculture
• Fixed linking with which may require libtbb
• Fixed messing in solar eclipse maps (GH: #3894)
• Fixed TimeZone for Xochicalco (GH: #3897)
• Fixed missing old-fashioned storing of new settings (GH: #3847)
• Fixed saving new option for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Fixed the circumstances discovery for few comets
• Fixed parsing MPC large numbers in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #3882)
• Fixed Andromeda lines for Modern (S&T) sky culture (GH: #3865)
• Fixed Calendars plugin
• Fixed support common names for sky cultures (GH: #3845)
• Fixed typos in sky cultures (GH: #3854, #3838, #3842, #3845)
• Fixed working Search Tool/Lists tool when list of asterisms is empty (GH: #3853)
• Fixed duplicate Satellites filter window (GH: #3825)
• Fixed landscape label drawing
• Fixed “group”/“groups” mistake in Satellites plugin (GH: #3826)
• Fixed mistake in novae catalog (GH: #3831)
• Fixed a string for StelObject info (GH: #3813)
• Fixed missing feature for limiting magnitude for Solar system bodies (GH: #3817)
• Fixed re-display data when "boundless" flag is changed in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3811)
• Fixed sorting rules for phase and elongation in the AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3810)
• Fixed tooltip in AstroCalc/Graphs tool (GH: #3809)
• Fixed Andromeda lines for Modern (IAU) sky culture
• Fixed messages in tooltips for AstroCalc tools (GH: #3801)
• Fixed selection of objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #3799)
• Fixed translation issue for multiple detection methods for one exoplanet (GH: #3798)
• Fixed translation issue for exoplanetary classes of potentially habitable exoplanets (GH: #3798)
• Fixed displaying of morphological descriptions for globular star clusters (GH: #3782)
• Fixed bug in TUI plug-in (GH: #3784)
• Fixed coordinates of SN 1181A
• Fixed custom user dir option
• Changed core: small speedup for Preetham atmosphere
• Changed core: avoid StelBottomBar redraws when not needed
• Changed core: speed-up InfoPanel
• Changed core: avoid some costly computations
• Changed core: Allow display of colors for each planet and per minor body type (GH: #3878, #3849)
• Changed core: Allow to draw planet orbits together with orbit of selected object (GH: #3878, #3849)
• Changed core: speedup for nomenclature items
• Changed core: use QLatin1String for string literal comparison for Solar system objects
• Changed core: simplify gridline intersect callbacks (GH: #3792)
• Changed core: Use QLatin1String for string literal comparison in Planet and SolarSystem classes
• Changed core: Restored code of QtCompress (optional; bundled) (GH: #3802)
• Changed core: Allow disabling StelAudioMgr at runtime (GH: #3775)
• Changed GUI: Obvious improvement for Oculars GUI
• Changed Exoplanets plug-in: The list of detection methods of exoplanet has been revised
• Changed Satellites plugin: setting the new defaults for timerate limits for displaying satellites (x1000 or ~16 minutes per second) for smooth rendering the scene (GH: #3890)
• Changed Satellites plugin: speedups of computations
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: Disable ASCOM on Qt6 (GH: #3887)
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: Disable sync button if telescope does not support it
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated default catalog of satellites
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated default catalog of novae
• Updated default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated default list of minor bodies
• Updated photometry data for satellites
• Updated discovery circumstances for comets and minor planets
• Updated planetary nomenclature data
• Updated translations
• Updated lists of interesting stars
• Removed old comets
• Removed erroneous DSO names
• Removed links to dead wiki (GH: #3874)
• Removed link to MPC Numbered objects list from bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin (a huge data)
• Removed unused code
• Removed unneeded tooltips (GH: #3797, #3796)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-24.3.tar.gz	Stellarium 24.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 375367ffdfbbe3e4d4443ecebacf97ae SHA256: c3ffb56a049061c7754bafab176146a2c4474ecede108d650f3c7551e1eae50a
stellarium-24.3.tar.bz2	Stellarium 24.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 1b601909f727bfdd7d72ea5a70fa3962 SHA256: bf8f24496fdecceefd75ec4ee60f57f7973905d94e3cd4c195d4d188dc25c8ce
stellarium-24.3.tar.xz	Stellarium 24.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: a2f0a8dd0f2aeb49c05fb38aa63f929b SHA256: 03dad30f4031bdc2d200146e7c587249ea75dbdb88c8ae13632829aac5540b08
stellarium-24.3.zip	Stellarium 24.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: ceb89c2742f2d051ae9fdcf882025296 SHA256: dfad69ba4d1a24e738a9ed2fc3a2f167410f1f92c044355a4a8a0b3a387fa20a
stellarium-24.3-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 24.3 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: 9ccf4d8e033ac6e1fcd004056ec9994b SHA256: f2f1ac3b1509596209266bc69056b2738849308ea81a304e8887e0159c43b4ee
stellarium-24.3-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.3 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: 6ea90049cfe91cd16a0c8fcc0adf2297 SHA256: e419544880224a9a5590b4c1985fe17c5afd502249b9c6fd68f4106bc982b6ad
stellarium-24.3-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.3 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: ffc5d67216eef800bc865ab40502c1b7 SHA256: d137912a94c1f2c3f25b0b36f20e2e7d3610b337b854bcd82bb66dba61e38a01
stellarium-24.3-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 24.3 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: c84d4b2ada0373c84388d0b39f8b68d4 SHA256: e73c4d4371436e6f9a90afb77985e4aa7775935f0bf6ddc3fba385e124cf6299
Stellarium-24.3-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 24.3 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 16.0.0). MD5: 99a660bba53af10703eef112c68d11b2 SHA256: 52462403d3d5c16613c364b023efbddbb1b036140d60e68f70f67a6c0dc8e519
Stellarium-24.3-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 24.3 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: 24d42ee209cdab22cbc4f2b0722a98a2 SHA256: 6e4fb74715010f213fa4bf55affa1661b572b4b9e1705aa3f882744293350394
Stellarium-24.3-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.3 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: 075ca71b9f07fef80f3d2984bcc52dbc SHA256: 2c136618ede7fb0687d8371a95a004e4bf9f00e0a1a83359de88b04aeec1cf0b
Stellarium-24.3-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.3 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: be7710c2323197b0bbb637c3c6f6e92a SHA256: 304764814caa5a23c0b848abc7e429e0ec1ef9e1f90ae999d9ef197c422562b3

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.3.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.3.tar.gz

v24.2

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 24.2.

The major changes of this version:

• Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
• Updates in sky cultures
• Updates in GUI

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on
the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems.
If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help
us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ability to show an approximate limiting magnitude of devices in Oculars plug-in
• Added support Twilight Factor and Relative Brightness for binoculars in Oculars plug-in
• Added support Adler Index for binoculars in Oculars plug-in
• Added support Bishop Index for binoculars in Oculars plug-in
• Added more actions for Exoplanets plug-in
• Added set of navigational stars from Nevil Maskelyne's "The British Mariner's Guide" published in 1764
• Added discovery circumstances for newly discovered comets
• Added partial solar eclipse opening angle
• Added ability to follow CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR variable (GH: #3732)
• Added ability to add/subtract great years via hotkeys
• Added support for localization for solar eclipses maps
• Added export of an equirectangular raster eclipse map
• Added missing discovery circumstances for some comets
• Added note for unmarked entries for Sources in Satellites plugin (GH: #3617)
• Fixed eclipse artifacts (GH: #3729)
• Fixed building Scenery3D plugin with Qt 6.7 (GH: #3763)
• Fixed Russian translation of Belarusian SC description
• Fixed image path in German translation of Greek (Farnese) SC
• Fixed references in Romanian SC
• Fixed Galician translation of Xhosa SC description
• Fixed Italian translation of Anutan SC description
• Fixed calculation of twilight factor (or dusk index) for binoculars in Oculars plug-in
• Fixed hiding/restoring of star name display in Navigational Stars plugin (GH: #3728)
• Fixed morphological description of DSO
• Fixed output for CLI option --list-landscapes in Windows
• Fixed solar radius
• Fixed CLI output in Windows (GH: #3710)
• Fixed generator of KML
• Fixed properties for some periodic comets
• Fixed remembering the sorting rules between updates in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #3684)
• Fixed failure to parse too small numbers with from_chars
• Changed AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: check number of penumbra limits in terms of rise-set line
• Changed AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: rewrite generation of shadow limits
• Changed AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: rewrite AstroCalcDialog::getMaximumEclipseAtRiseSet
• Changed AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: rewrite AstroCalcDialog::getRiseSetLineCoordinates
• Changed core/AstroCalc: Move solar eclipse computations out from Planet.cpp
• Changed core/AstroCalc: Move some solar eclipse computations from AstroCalcDialog
• Changed core/AstroCalc: do not show earthshine during annular or high-percentage partial eclipses
• Changed core/AstroCalc: refine max eclipse at rise/set curve
• Changed core: force redraw of NomenclatureItems if needed (GH: #3706)
• Changed core: rename sky culture change signal for better consistency
• Changed core: switch off IAU moon numbers from screen labels
• Changed Satellites plug-in: compactification of GUI
• Changed Satellites plug-in: improve explanatory tooltip
• Changed Remote Control plug-in: add and fix missing functions and features
• Changed scaling limits, special for real planetariums
• Changed GUI: minor clarification
• Changed Satellites plugin: expanding photometry and RCS data for satellites
• Changed Scenery3D plugin: rename variable for debugging of the shaders (GH: #3670)
• Changed visual style: enable table borders by default in sky cultures
• Changed visual style: use single lines between table cells in sky cultures
• Updated Vanuatu (Netwar) sky culture: clarified the license with author
• Updated Anutan sky culture: fix formatting
• Updated Chinese sky culture: fix formatting
• Updated Tibetian sky culture: rename an image to match the name in the links
• Updated default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated discovery circumstances data for minor planets
• Updated discovery circumstances data for comets
• Updated photometry of satellites
• Updated planetary nomenclature
• Updated group for RPM
• Removed extraneous borders in tables in About dialogs of plugins (GH: #3742)
• Removed config option for an AppImage (GH: #3726)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-24.2.tar.gz	Stellarium 24.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 27a7cd3ab9421cb73790db6022f7c5aa SHA256: e6d8ee0792b7f77486b700d4669d0dd0c349319f379758ad643d76165d1d56d2
stellarium-24.2.tar.bz2	Stellarium 24.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: ca705a368a3598561eb1d25df70e7676 SHA256: 55d55d4983c7263a32c23a579389283171dd9bb42e783cb26882a9546e85a7c5
stellarium-24.2.tar.xz	Stellarium 24.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 97ebab4102e455ab73672d9caca1fbbe SHA256: f9e8e114e34265194ffff0c2a2806a6fdc998449192749c4ef60b0a5302101af
stellarium-24.2.zip	Stellarium 24.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: b46261ae4b205f06246b59957a9bf572 SHA256: 47e7702d90b1da5db4062a3c967924aedd071e424c070cc7c3a32ed6ca927f03
stellarium-24.2-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 24.2 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: d45dea6a3878cdb22676189b9bed8a11 SHA256: 35ef9fe4c4217c5dd36d611b29382c5af61423edec9c7ef13c2b27ce6b80a5ad
stellarium-24.2-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: 3be9f2296cc0165faef74253b64bbb0f SHA256: 60faba4a4570a7591e333836cec247bb1992719a04cb41c902194ba6f27394cb
stellarium-24.2-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: 28c4313f8a4b9bc69b4676b830bd22e8 SHA256: 73b1e6e73a167260d5d95dd02556274cdb66f43ead2b00d02f35024adb436e32
stellarium-24.2-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 24.2 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: 39a8856bf539e1b6efb33b82b2a554f5 SHA256: 3615dbfca0e962b4ecc66f0010a2173337d87074f5ad4c05ec24b94547069512
Stellarium-24.2-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 24.2 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 15.0.0). MD5: 29571975d74c4c23c86bd7cfcbe3a6b7 SHA256: 34bdec53ba5dfb2569a52545ab06306f12843ef483970d548c59cd49e77b5c99
Stellarium-24.2-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 24.2 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: 5808774430dbd3a5ab9e299510357ef4 SHA256: cd8c12db299dfb20fcc80f608bf81f4c913535676cd37c062067bd5875952eef
Stellarium-24.2-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.2 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: a7a4c75ed5e5ab4a2df287ae76e23e56 SHA256: a619c1e2f28920b9b77a0a19ee5baf17907934b4a45596d64ab16e43b3a1547d
Stellarium-24.2-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.2 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 1a32f601687092c9d615df7c366384be SHA256: b463602f09d48f02f9e2813d5e74faea690d83db63dae63db84e55755c3d26d3

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.2.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.2.tar.gz

v24.1

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 24.1.

The major changes of this version:

• Added low graphics mode
• Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
• Improvements in Scripting Engine
• Updates in Core

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems. If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added missing stars (GH: #3575)
• Added ability to following the current position in Search Tool/Position (GH: #3643)
• Added ability to set a sub-arcminute lower limit for angular size (GH: #3647)
• Added note on Ephemeris table (GH: #3634)
• Added special case for SIMBAD/NCP in Search Tool
• Added ability to toggle visibility HIPS surveys via scripting engine (GH: #3613)
• Added ability to use comma as decimal separator in Remote Control plugin
• Added translations to Lithuanian language
• Added distance and heliocentric distance info for Solar system objects into scripting engine
• Added major axis, minor axis and orientation angle info for DSO into scripting engine and Remote Control plugin (GH: #3605)
• Added an option to force low graphics mode (GH: #3590)
• Added code to automatic updating the TLE sources from Celestrack website (GH: #3588)
• Added a tabular view for distances of Solar system objects (InfoString).
• Fixed bug in Meteor shower plugin (GH: #3616)
• Fixed south azimuth usage in Search Tool/Position
• Fixed landscape transparency issue (GH: #3512)
• Fixed alignment for note in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Fixed CCD frame rotation after changing language (GH: #3627)
• Fixed computation of phase angle for satellites
• Fixed selection the title of observing lists when he is saved or imported (GH: #3623)
• Fixed a tiny bug in Observing Lists dropdown menu
• Fixed installation path for manpages in FreeBSD (GH: #3612)
• Fixed the major digit of version: automatisation has been removed
• Fixed license data for AppData file according to SPDX License List v3.22
• Fixed Rise/Transit/Set info (GH: #3602, #3610)
• Fixed updating Rise/Transit/Set info after switching location if the object was selected in AstroCalc/RTS tool
• Fixed a serious bug in Observing Lists (GH: #3586)
• Fix: reduce notification popups in Observing Lists (GH: #3587)
• Fixed possible issue for transparency in landscapes (GH: #3512)
• Fixed typo in coordinates of Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy (GH: #3576)
• Fix: clearing up refs to a few star names
• Fixed the informational data (InfoString) for comets
• Fixed visibility for orbital properties in the View/SSO dialog
• Fixed build without PCH
• Fixed missing reference.fab files (GH: #3681)
• Fixed find objects from search history (GH: #3671)
• Changed core: fall back to fast_float when C++ stdlib doesn't provide from_chars for floats
• Changed core: use std::from_chars for parsing ints in OBJ files
• Changed core: updating StelLogger (GH: #3614)
• Changed SolarSystem: add IAU designation for comets if missing
• Changed SolarSystem: add the perihel year to the comet name in case of loading older-style ssystem_minor.ini
• Changed Solar System Editor plugin: allow overwrite if possible (GH: #3641)
• Changed Exoplanets plugin: switched to use surface temperature for potentially habitable planets
• Changed Exoplanets plugin: updated priority to selection of objects
• Changed Meteor Showers plugin: Use NELM for local meteor rate (GH: #3549)
• Updated Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Updated Remote Control plugin (GH: #2995)
• Updated dependencies: QXlsx 1.4.7
• Updated dependencies: CalcMySky 0.3.2
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated catalog of pulsars
• Updated translations
• Updated discovery circumstances for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated orbital elements and default list of minor planets and comets
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated list of financial contributors
• Updated nomenclature data
• Updated SUG: document --low-graphics option
• Update properties for CPack-generator of DEB packages
• Updated instructions for building planetarium from the source code
• Removed fixed sizes from Oculars dialog
• Removed "scale" option from desktop file
• Removed outdated translatable lines
• Removed link to TLE for Starlink satellites with very old orbit data
• Removed extra shortcuts from (common|user) desktop in Windows (GH: #3579)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-24.1.tar.gz	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 240f71a2a707d7b5cf321b20963cc82e SHA256: 5a48fb2c5b17c9ebfa23153604f470dc87a5eab5fafb0510f71e115ac76072a8
stellarium-24.1.tar.bz2	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 4f456afc2376136841b8fbf97a9b0bd3 SHA256: 403ab602a7cb6a7e114bbe3ad80f00b4046c0eb11e089623744f9ed3a0915b43
stellarium-24.1.tar.xz	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: ad88695629e1c71ed66fa19b0a95771a SHA256: c5ce5efb6de0108b4b8d798bf1ba887c42b39f29197400ec3fcfc9fe5c96f4d7
stellarium-24.1.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 6113cb9ff0ea5737b10e37ff17516b63 SHA256: 8213c89e6f91c7fa7d09ea13dcf091c81aa378a901de7609f75d04d1fb295151
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: a85e5a7e7a3d8d41ec0177152171e959 SHA256: 0f7963b69f0acb8192b91ab12e15f2ccda953ed39c0c3c47e34bfd53f6ce02a8
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: fc98ea2a43f4a1bacb689995c83d0322 SHA256: cb0241677b878167f1c2b45477b0c4a3dd11bf9c2806e950193480de7632ebfa
stellarium-24.1-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: 9bb771c93364092286f0bb062ce90bc4 SHA256: d9db848d9d11597c2a916f0ababf5c489103714834706ab1c79f1b374c954cb2
stellarium-24.1-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: 554c7900cc2d624b5be67a77048c3c30 SHA256: 7e445b9d213e305b67f6e004ebe2e463cee6df5a6515b82adf79ee9db95e9a54
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 15.0.0). MD5: e5517c6263827a38356b8781c3c4296a SHA256: ca0fa67fb193d4c7aa5bd1f51840a4d40b3637c009ad228d9108664aa36a7776
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: 936a817705578383d63769a91c7eaa40 SHA256: 64174eac7608146397ba1d3bbafbcc005e3d8f863590db87c4cdd31abdd7cd01
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: d5948720914d2c1d2d51b23840fa1253 SHA256: 206374680710683a4db9e87daeeec6925236ca33712f8cbbb0533f1f8650d7c3
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 825b2126faa81b849d03636fc02ca221 SHA256: 853a26c5dab168b3190e1376e5b00bc7a9b9b50c2ca1985df0b650a1245c2da7

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.1.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.1.tar.gz

v23.4

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 23.4.

The major changes of this version:

• New plugin: Lens Distortion Estimator (experimental)
• New sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions
• Changed GUI: ability to change the look via normalStyle.css
• Added new MESA for Windows packages
• Added support Windows/ARM64 packages
• Added support the origins of nomenclature names
• Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
• Improvements for performance on macOS/ARM64

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems. If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added script "Jupiter Moons"
• Added filter, based on SATCAT Operational Status in Satellites plugin
• Added new sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions (GH: #3434)
• Added support an AppImage/Qt6 packages (GH: #3529)
• Added Lens Distortion Estimator plugin
• Added more simple calendar-based time steps (esp. for RemoteControl)
• Added wrapper for too long star names (GH: #3479)
• Added a temporary workaround for overlapping indicator and text in lists
• Added an optional sorting rule for Search Tool
• Added a new category of celestial objects into AstroCalc tool
• Added tooltips for twilights in Nav. Stars plugin
• Added a text wrapper for pulsar notes
• Added a text wrapper for long origins of nomenclature names
• Added reference file for Modern (H.A. Rey) SC
• Added a text wrapper for pulsar notes
• Added a text wrapper for long origins of nomenclature names
• Added ability to make observing lists directory configurable via GUI (GH: #3165)
• Added dpiAwareness option to manifest and send physical viewport size to Spout (GH: #3462)
• Added DSO names (GH: #3460)
• Added support the origins of nomenclature names (GH: #3457)
• Added 2 new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added Remote control command to change window size (GH: #3433)
• Added support Windows/ARM64 packages
• Fixed coordinates for exoplanets
• Fixed few missing stars
• Fixed a problem with initialisation sequence (GH: #3550)
• Fixed crash in StelTexture destructor on exit (GH: #3427, #3541)
• Fixed unexpected behaviour: avoid auto changing landscape when not wanted (GH: #3514)
• Fixed Satellites plugin: restore shadow circle at arbitrary altitude
• Fixed computation of crop factor (LDE plugin)
• Fixed slow down of time during solar eclipses (GH: #3520)
• Fixed shadow circle issue: allow line loops on Cylindrical projection (GH: #3505)
• Fixed the selection objects in AstroCalc tools
• Fixed translation of the origins for planetary nomenclature
• Fixed Windows installer for 64-bit modes (GH: #3492)
• Fixed color of ColorButton's tooltip
• Fixed RTS caching (GH: #3485)
• Fixed TUI plugin (GH: #3483)
• Fixed New Hindu Lunar calendar (GH: #3442)
• Fixed metainfo data
• Fixed recognition for MSVC++ versions
• Fixed coordinates for custom objects
• Fixed getting the list of sky cultures: don't skip remaining sky cultures after failing to read one
• Fixed error message for Zodiacal light feature
• Changed core: Use the correct screen when making a screenshot
• Changed core: Restore default inclusion of TUI plugin (GH: #3481)
• Changed core: Only let time dragging work with Ctrl modifier
• Changed core: Make sure custom markers are set only when Shift is pressed alone
• Changed GUI: Increase brightness cutoff for planets (GH: #3317)
• Changed GUI: Make a dedicated widget for color buttons
• Changed GUI: Scale the pixel sizes in the stylesheet according to GUI font size
• Changed GUI: Make default GUI font size available outside of StelApp
• Changed GUI: Remove all fixed sizes from dialog .ui files
• Changed GUI: Set button icon sizes explicitly in normalStyle.css
• Changed GUI: Move stackListWidget sizes to normalStyle.css
• Changed GUI: Move StelCloseButton style to normalStyle.css
• Changed GUI: Fix application of bold font property to window titles
• Changed GUI: Deduplicate title bar implementation
• Changed GUI: Turn StelCloseButton into a ToolButton
• Changed GUI: Use default style for normal state of GPS button
• Changed GUI: Style QToolButton the same way as QPushButton
• Changed GUI: Provide a proper sizeHint for AngleSpinBox
• Changed GUI: Make slider groove more scalable
• Changed GUI: Use StelMainView as the parent for all message boxes and file dialogs
• Changed code of Satellites plugin: Avoid duplicate code
• Changed code of Oculars plugin: Avoid saving and reading wrong indexes for telescopes, CCD and eyepieces
• Changed the default level for selection priority of custom markers
• Changed Windows installer: Simplify Spout sending
• Changed Windows installer: Modernize Mesa library (GH: #3414, #2803)
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated list of planetary nomenclature
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated default catalog of satellites
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated meteor showers catalog from 2024 IMO Calendar
• Updated list of financial contributors
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated translations
• Updated scripting engine: Make reloadPlanets() scriptable
• Updated communications data for satellites
• Updated DSO names (GH: #3543)
• Updated script "Messier Objects Tour"
• Updated SUG: Added information on adding orbital elements from JPL Horizon
• Updated SUG: Added example data for interplanetary spacecraft
• Updated ISO 3166 data
• Updated default value of GRS longitude
• Updated discovery circumstances for minor planets and comets
• Updated GUI tooltips
• Updated SpoutLibrary (GH: #3450)
• Updated appdata.xml file

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-23.4.tar.gz	Stellarium 23.4 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 6107d1e352216b1e20d3cf3d45cea277 SHA256: db4db9f205cc13fb68e3f3c4c895754d16868e4d25a14da44db6d0d809e39943
stellarium-23.4.tar.bz2	Stellarium 23.4 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: bdeeedcc854e36c713c18316d5833f84 SHA256: 67bc50a043448471eef049aaa007289aa3fbe9ba51d4c262155d2a5c8e3bc642
stellarium-23.4.tar.xz	Stellarium 23.4 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: c44271c128de0f2830ce465574e28ce8 SHA256: 024f8f0a5df02b6dfc30ca98fa735c9a457078594d98eef29f2d736130e0594a
stellarium-23.4.zip	Stellarium 23.4 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 4d6989ae19adf1f304828b936c2e715c SHA256: c18d790180fdc62a5fdd39d840d24acd39588dff64be8de3a5e22024bb2b61f6
stellarium-23.4-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 23.4 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: cb59bbee2a565e41101ff7daadb4271e SHA256: f7ac6b28070a8dc7e9b319cabc0cbdfb573aa502a0d6a3c59ad3c6ac148f4675
stellarium-23.4-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: ba22ab7b31306b1e5c1fa052bacaff1d SHA256: d95c1c593027388e2502992345fe2357d44d84d7b53220a1d37f62e810dbf3e0
stellarium-23.4-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: 66c116495e413561ceb261b4548ce204 SHA256: 21cae322ce6a358de95bc42e157ee32ebfad835266445a1b93742987104ded27
stellarium-23.4-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 23.4 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: cfd46d1f79a39ce940cc3b2b90944395 SHA256: f8f602c3c7ab6e4cd9f162384ddbc895da32e4875c58bb07636fa3d013a13956
Stellarium-23.4-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 23.4 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 15.0.0). MD5: 92265095a2e5c59b516117883c94a72b SHA256: a5e16e146305167d09ad5507e9d8cb4459f5ad2d712482dc4e0be97259f1298c
Stellarium-23.4-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 23.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: b503d00095ebff1ae63ea8eb6c1c6acb SHA256: 97e16722e38724847bac28c6634d96e9951892692f975c36aa25dae538263932
Stellarium-23.4-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 23.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 195977e4b12670afe444968a023f5a04 SHA256: 804419f809c17aa2574caf685da758e6cb87491372efa34301c1b89fdee8a21b

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-23.4.tar.gz.asc stellarium-23.4.tar.gz

v23.3

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 23.3.

The major changes of this version:

• New plugin: Missing Stars
• Allow semitransparent landscapes
• Added discovery circumstances for Solar system bodies
• Improve orbit drawing for minor bodies
• Show named impact features as ellipses
• Major changes in Navigational Stars plugin
• Observing List fixes
• Unambiguous comet names

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems.
If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ability to define directory for observing lists (GH: #3165)
• Added new plugin - "Missing Stars" (GH: #3399, #2998, #1907, #361, #116)
• Added scriptable method and shortcut for toggle visibility the markers of selected objects
• Added support smooth orbit lines (GH: #3371)
• Added support drawing of orbits on open KeplerOrbits (GH: #3359)
• Added patch to use qt.conf on windows via QtCreator (GH: #3345)
• Added scalar versions of sRGB-linear conversions
• Added option to add or exclude moon orbits for planets/selected objects (GH: #3348)
• Added another option and StelApp method to allow storing config items immediately (GH: #3348)
• Added new set of navigational stars: Soviet aviation
• Added new set of navigational stars: Soviet/Russian manned space programs
• Added new set of navigational stars: Vixen Starbook
• Added new set of navigational stars: Argo Navis
• Added new set of navigational stars: Orion Intelliscope
• Added new set of navigational stars: Sky Commander
• Added "is-waning" to planet info map
• Added Skywatcher SynScan HC and Pro App alignment stars for Navigational Stars plugin (GH: #3327)
• Added Meade Autostar 494/497 HC alignment stars for Navigational Stars plugin
• Added set of navigational stars from Apollo space program for Navigational Stars plugin
• Added show current location of object for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3289, #2937)
• Added missing timezone (GH: #3316)
• Added support transparency for landscapes (GH: #3293, #3214)
• Added discovery circumstances for comet P/2023 M1
• Added CLI option for logfile name
• Fixed blending DSO hints (GH: #3302)
• Fixed type for Interstellar objects in Solar System Editor plugin
• Fixed bad performance in Mac M1 (GH: #2947)
• Fixed crash in Telescope Control plugin for Qt6-based packages (GH: #2874, #2821)
• Fixed background color for artwork (GH: #3299)
• Fixed handling Stellarium' scripts on Macs
• Fixed mistake in DSO catalog
• Fixed a slow reaction with touchpad on Macs (GH: #2778)
• Fixed missing translations
• Fixed various typos (GH: #3411)
• Fixed clarification on Spout in SUG (GH: #2922)
• Fixed hiding splash when starting stellarium from a script (GH: #3407)
• Fixed a logfile warning (GH: #3324)
• Fixed location update with landscape in RemoteSync plugin (GH: #3274)
• Fixed observing list import/export (GH: #3207, #3206)
• Fixed error when downloading stars (GH: #3395)
• Fixed link to supplemental TLE (default lists)
• Fixed list of MSVC++ versions
• Fixed moving to a NomenclatureItem location (GH: #3355)
• Fixed the botched logic of storing details for the orbit drawing (GH: #1842, #3348)
• Fixed overflow on bad implementations of tanh() (GH: #3351)
• Fixed discrepancy between SUG and an Oculars tooltip (GH: #3346)
• Fixed crash of Nav. Stars plugin (GH: #3341)
• Fixed bug: avoid dereferencing null pointer
• Fixed bug: prevent artifacts in limb darkening
• Fixed computation of signed phase angle of a planet (GH: #3306)
• Fixed the name of a uniform in a location query
• Fixed FPS: restore minimizing fps when idle
• Fixed crash Oculars plugin: Lens can potentially be a null pointer, so must not be dereferenced without a check (GH: #3322)
• Fixed OpenSSL issue for Qt5-based packages for Windows (GH: #3321, #3326)
• Fixed a DSO name confusion mentioned at Transifex
• Fixed object search with HIP numbers
• Fixed behavior of DitheringMode with QVariant in Qt5 (GH: #3307, #3304)
• Fixed Qt5 build without PCH
• Fixed restoration for default list of TLE source in Satellites plugin
• Fixed handling Unicode in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #2934, #3301)
• Fixed connection to a renamed signal in Telescope Control plugin
• Fixed connections to renamed signals in RemoteSync plugin: this restores excluding features from synchronisation (GH: #3303)
• Changed core: a tiny improvement for sorting data in Search Tool
• Changed core: Reduce dumping cities for unknown timezones
• Changed core: avoid recomputation of RTS at every frame (GH: #3275)
• Changed core: preserve texture binding when rendering text (GH: #3356)
• Changed core: improve text rendering quality (GH: #3353)
• Changed core: show comets a bit less restrictively
• Changed core: use optional "immediate save" for Nomenclature detail settings (GH: #3342)
• Changed core: draw crater type NomenclatureItems (craters, Lunar maria, satellite features which AFAICS are always craters) as ellipse (GH: #3342)
• Changed core: suppress forward scattering peak in the sky pseudo-reflection behind landscape
• Changed core: reduce code duplication in xyYToRGB shader and updating the code
• Changed core: enable stencil buffer in the main OpenGL surface format
• Changed core: always use texture-based text rendering in StelPainter
• Changed core: Turn dithering into a global post-processing effect (GH: #3335)
• Changed core: Use GLSL 3.30 whenever OpenGL >= 3.3 is in use
• Changed core: Move OpenGL 3.3 Core glfuncs() getter to StelOpenGL
• Changed core: Explicitly choose texture unit in spherical mirror distorter
• Changed core: Move InitFailure from AtmosphereShowMySky to the base class
• Changed core: updated code for vector maths
• Changed logger: cosmetic fixes for better reading the data
• Changed NavStars plugin: simplifications
• Changed RemoteSync plugin: Allow suppressing debug messages
• Changed RemoteSync plugin: Allow finetuning of debug output
• Changed RemoteSync plugin: Add useful diagnostic in case of problem
• Changed Scenery3D plugin: changed logging type
• Changed requirements: Qt 5.12 is minimal version now to building
• Changes in Windows installer: using better compression algorithm
• Updated SUG: Clarify that our J2000.0 coordinates include aberration. (GH: #3309)
• Updated instructions for building planetarium from source code
• Updated OnlineQueries plugin
• Updated default list of satellites
• Updated list of exoplanets
• Updated discovery circumstances for minor planets
• Updated comet discovery circumstances (GH: #3389)
• Updated list of locations
• Updated default settings for macOS bundle
• Updated settings for doxygen (GH: #3390)
• Updated plugins: Removed logically wrong code (unused by the fact)
• Updated plugins: Switched to use static variables for sync visibility of stars labels
• Updated Solar System Editor plugin
• Updated ssystem_1000comets.ini file
• Updated Espenak & Meeus DeltaT equation
• Updated nomenclature data
• Updated GUI: Disable dithering config GUI when dithering is not supported (GH: #3335)
• Updated contact address in few sky cultures
• Removed --fix-text option
• Removed locales with translation progress lesser 1% per whole time
• Removed outdated code for support the version of Qt prior 5.12
• Removed fov options from RemoteSync plugin: is now StelMovementMgr.currentFov property (GH: #3303)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-23.3.tar.gz	Stellarium 23.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 04bcc9996f73f9861700126eba1645ce SHA256: 55afd3bd44de76c156dadb17d52023ed5d4a74297dcff3c98eb71adef0fd66d9
stellarium-23.3.tar.bz2	Stellarium 23.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: d3ea7c501a66ef700b43be4751f10ec9 SHA256: ba1ac84412f469a49fc066ae0dd76eb3a8da053d14399cd6c4336ab6e0d4f2fc
stellarium-23.3.tar.xz	Stellarium 23.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: e57c9962212500c5b726bb89d427dc99 SHA256: 179420e9e9f11278b78dc54e14458452c92055cc8923538748c8a0f961714fc2
stellarium-23.3.zip	Stellarium 23.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 0affda954c0fe4d4847be4a1981183c8 SHA256: 48aca3198e1d2ee07ab73746269a75c32a3388ae4a8d55e4d9120142cdb5b145
stellarium-23.3-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 23.3 for Windows (32-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: da48db21fff4e384d4accfa8e406f6fe SHA256: 59c88820028c36106852d4d5ee223fb8e27855a2b5dad97440423d7084fc8341
stellarium-23.3-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.3 for Windows (64-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: 2f37ee4e786ae8d47d1f15032db43d03 SHA256: 0124c3b18f52e1847607d6a659b743c1f6279a98e9d14f6f7bb1ae4f5dab3458
stellarium-23.3-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.3 for Windows (64-bit; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.4.2 (Visual Studio 2019 Community) with media support. MD5: dcddda4ef590c0e502cba71377e878c9 SHA256: d89bb44594c3470da9df0aed2f2ede730a6fd5650e56bbabe2bf544e3f598697
Stellarium-23.3-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 23.3 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.2 (AppleClang 15.0.0) with media support. MD5: 77929dc913565106a93e5c9b6e30d374 SHA256: 96fb8c70b0aaa6ff5c1a863d906151df42a040eab81f151e8fd2b08fd822dabd
Stellarium-23.3-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stel...

v23.2

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 23.2.

The major changes of this version:

• vectorizing the markers of deep-sky objects
• updated the support of locations
• added the discovery circumstances for solar system objects

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

Like in the 1.* series, it seems the TelescopeControl plugin at least on Windows works better in the Qt5-based releases. Just install this if you are affected. We are looking for telescope users with programming skills to help us fixing this issue. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ecliptic obliquity to infoMap (GH: #3233)
• Added support "short-period comets" type
• Added support combined designations for numbered periodic comets
• Added optional "Solar A/a" and "Lunar A/a" info for objects (GH: #3273)
• Added support for webp format in HiPS
• Added discovery circumstances for Caldwell objects
• Added discovery circumstances for Solar System Objects (GH: #3230)
• Added support antialiasing for Oculars lines
• Added changeable font to LeftStelBar (GH: #3125)
• Added UTM/WGS84 coordinate conversions
• Added new category into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added missing timezone (GH: #3200)
• Added push to directional light strength into Scenery 3D plugin
• Added new rotation buttons for CCD in the Oculars plugin
• Added KY day number in Calendars plugin
• Added option "Stop clock when starting" (GH: #3140)
• Added ability to specify seconds in time selectors of AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3146)
• Fixed building Satellites plugin when Iridium flares are enabled
• Fixed 64-bit install mode for Windows (GH: #3130)
• Fixed angular size for AstroCalc/Graphs tool: Let's use angular radii of planets without rings (GH: #3135)
• Fixed computation of perpendicular in wide line rendering
• Fixed tooltips for Penumbra and Umbra circles (GH: #3175)
• Fixed updating location even if name is the same (GH: #3171)
• Fixed fading of the new nebula markers
• Fixed Observing Lists feature: avoid duplicate stored list when creating a new list (GH: #3163)
• Fixed missing doSRGB uniform in AtmosphereShowMySky
• Fixed filters in Satellites plugin (GH: #3158)
• Fixed working the actions in Oculars plugin (GH: #3280)
• Fixed prism rotation in Oculars plugin (GH: #3283)
• Fixed links to Mike McCants' website
• Fixed designations of periodic comets
• Fixed WUI of Remote Control plugin
• Fixed orbital elements of Phoebe (GH: #230)
• Fixed special handling of Earth map (GH: #3180)
• Fixed a bad connection definition (GH: #3180)
• Fixed missing include (GH: #3180)
• Fixed orbital elements of Pluto's moons (GH: #3242)
• Fixed missing data for periodic comets
• Fixed label for button in Equation of Time plugin
• Fixed Greek (Farnese) sky culture
• Fixed positioning of sensor labels with high-DPI scaling on (GH: #3262)
• Fixed orientation of sensor rectangle in equatorial mode (GH: #3260)
• Fixed missing rotation of sensor frame (GH: #3258)
• Fixed high-DPI-scaled mouse click position test relative to Oculars panel
• Fixed computation of inner and outer radii of OAG
• Fixed shapes of ocular frames
• Fixed computation of angular resolution in Oculars plugin
• Fixed positioning of text around the sensor frame in Oculars plugin (GH: #3254)
• Fixed a little mess with loading landscapes
• Fixed metainfo for AppData scheme
• Fixed rose32 directions (GH: #3235)
• Fixed a "round cap near zenith" artifact of ShowMySky atmosphere
• Fixed checking updates
• Fixed skewed text in -t mode
• Fixed text element arrangement in buttonbar (GH: #3125)
• Fixed template string for width estimate (GH: #3125)
• Fixed a possible glitch when too few buttons are visible (GH: #3125)
• Fixed bug in AstroCalc/RTS tool
• Changed core: slight improvement of gravity labels
• Changed core: Suppress computing RTS when on transition to a new location (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Avoid computing minor bodies while on a transitioning observer (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: When autoselecting landscape and planet landscape not found, don't default to defaultLandscape but use zero (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Load zero landscape if landscape not found (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Unselect object when it is the upcoming location's planet (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: When clicking on the map, apply a zero landscape with color from the map (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Allow dynamic loading of colorized zero landscape everywhere (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Avoid auto-enabling atmosphere if we stay on the same planet (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Use ZeroColor landscape also only when "Autoselect Landscapes" (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: Use actual planet texture name (GH: #3180)
• Changed core: make sure AtmosphereShowMySky is initialized with correct altitude
• Changed core: deduplicate rendering of horizon line
• Changed core: render fixed-color wide lines via triangles (GH: #3187, #2836)
• Changed core: specify texture unit explicitly in StelPainter::drawText (GH: #3154)
• Changed core: a small speed-up for DSO
• Changed core: reduce number of texture loading threads for most systems (GH: #3148)
• Changed core: simplify setting OpenGL version
• Changed core: make sure we do request deprecated functions in Compatibility Profile
• Changed core: vectorize marker of galaxy (GH: #3188)
• Changed core: vectorize marker of globular cluster and the default circular marker
• Changed core: vectorize marker of open cluster with nebulosity (GH: #3172)
• Changed core: vectorize marker of open cluster (GH: #3172)
• Changed core: vectorize markers of dark nebulas (GH: #3166)
• Changed core: vectorize markers of diffuse nebulas (GH: #3166)
• Changed core: allow SOCKS proxy to be supplied via http_proxy env var (GH: #3182)
• Changed core: Make linearRGB/sRGB conversion GLSL functions reusable
• Changed core: Make rectangular FoV marking follow real projection (GH: #3290)
• Changed GUI: reduce margins of DateTime dialog's spinbox buttons
• Changed GUI: Reduce margins of DateTime dialog's spinbox buttons (GH: #2722, #3157)
• Changed GUI: Use separate spinup/down icons for DateTime dialog spinboxes (GH: #2722, #3157)
• Changed GUI behavior: force GUI redraw when topocentric correction is toggled (GH: #3125)
• Changed GUI behavior: improve font-dependent positioning of bottom button bar (GH: #3125)
• Changed GUI behavior: better distance distribution of status line elements (GH: #3125)
• Changed GUI behavior: improve positioning of texture-based text
• Changed GUI in AstroCalc/Positions tool: let's use arcseconds for SSO
• Changed Scenery3D plugin: allow ignoring initial view settings
• Changed Scenery 3D plugin: Allow coordinate text output in bottom/center (fix for planetarium)
• Changed Satellites plugin: allow Satellite Number to be zero (GH: #3186)
• Changed AstroCalc tool: when switching to best locations, use zero landscape
• Changed documentation: improve Fedora building instructions (GH: #3192)
• Changed AppImage properties: Disable using QtWebEngine for AppImage (GH: #3143)
• Updated labels in AstroCalc
• Updated list of financial supporters
• Updated data: Revising default list of comets (GH: #3276)
• Updated list of locations
• Updated discovery circumstances for minor planets
• Updated documentation: Specify tab size explicitly in coding style document (GH: #3284)
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated CalcMySky to v0.3.1
• Updated QXlsx to v1.4.6 (GH: #3132)
• Updated translations
• Updated data: revised discovery circumstances of Messier objects
• Updated common names of DSO
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated planetary features
• Updated catalog of exoplanets
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Removed: Text User Interface plugin has been disabled by default now
• Removed separate color for clusters with nebulosity (GH: #3172)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-23.2.tar.gz	Stellarium 23.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: b42a829ffe080ba7c27b8ff25ba8a9c8 SHA256: 01bf23f7ff007c58b91bffe233938e2cf23e9182bd36bfe72715fbfbde57ec0a
stellarium-23.2.tar.bz2	Stellarium 23.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 7ec2ae76d45e902ac6c94db6e2b6214c SHA256: 191e37bf1d8528c90d87d66f204fde79c8580f9f6d180aefffede57823ada611
stellarium-23.2.tar.xz	Stellarium 23.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: b67149a2220752978a58a244d5b933ae SHA256: 3aee154d0de3ed484e3e6fee027cf73e6dd0a677b3ea1af348b225ac02339008
stellarium-23.2-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 23.2 for Windows (32-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: 55d34c5fa4b65b252ff99a8086397959 SHA256: c210f125f4a40093f434327df4c27d9fef7b9366747c6f6c48e88c0fabc86917
stellarium-23.2-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.2 for Windows (64-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: ebfcbd88b2ea8ece7ac28d93573cd8e6 SHA256: a303292a47e8f7a256a50c870ec54f9d10909eec97b7d41090f9658e42599889
stellarium-23.2-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 23.2 for Windows (64-bit; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.4.2 (Visual Studio 2019 Community) with media support. MD5: 2437899d9f132f6d898aac3af91bb47a SHA256: faf7913c9ff87d5844d2fbe61f97f56da8161b4e2d6932fadc52d0da318222a2
Stellarium-23.2-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 23.2 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.1 (AppleClang 14.0.0) with media support. MD5: 6205fb22cefc2623bf6ec7e17c2ce2ce SHA256: 1cddac3c5aeedde...