Stellarium 0.11.3 - Changelog

What's new in Stellarium 0.11.3:

May 18th, 2012

Added:
· ecliptic grid
· world observatories to the locations list
· allow configuration of url for SIMBAD lookups
· opportunity to freely choose the object information to display
· Pluto texture

Fixed:
· No objects under horizon
· (MinGW-w64) CMake does not detect Win64
· (MinGW-w64) Compilation errors
· Oculars FOV
· "Galactic Plane" string does not get translated when language is switched Use freedesktop specification for Unity quicklists
· Apparent diameter of planets with rings
· Crash [assert] when FOV is small and Quasars or Historical Supernovae plugins is enabled
· Angle Measure plug-in reads the wrong options from the configuration file Crash in debug mode on displaying constellation borders
· Star halo "dances" for small Solar System objects
· RTL-languages is not displayed correctly when using gravity labels
· Orbits with close perihelions are not displayed correctly
· Precision of angular diameter lower than intended
· Moons' orbit lines broken by parent planet movement with time
· Invalid user defined location cause Stellarium to crash
· Difficulty to select zoomed in planets and moons
· Altazimutal grid not overlapping equatorial grid when located on poles
· Global key bindings not global
· Screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7)
· Wrong planet phases as seen from more outer planets
· Zoom in/out command sticks
· Importing SSOs causes some strange effects
· Not updated values of dimensions of CCD while changes telescopes
· Gravity labels rendered incorrectly
· Keyboard shortcut for subtract one sidereal year don't works

What's new in Stellarium 0.11.2:

March 12th, 2012

The main theme of this version seems to be localization:
· most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translatable
· landscape names are now translatable
· country names are now translatable
· scripts names and descriptions are now translatable

Oculars plug-in:
· added an optional control panel displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen as an alternative to the pop-up menu that was used to control it in the previous version;
· overhaul of the pop-up menu, the underlined letters in it can be used as keyboard shortcuts;
· added the ability to rearrange the items in the lists of oculars, telescopes and sensors;
· fixed the inappropriate flipping of the binoculars view;

Satellites plug-in:
· fixed title bar of the Satellites config window not being resized with the rest of the window
· catalog numbers are now used to identify satellites, preventing bugs with duplicate satellites and satellites renamed in the source lists
· catalog number and international designator are now displayed for each satellite
· a simple windows to add satellites has been added

Added:
· Ctrl+C binding to copy selected object info text to clipboard.
· to the Windows installer options to remove files left over from the previous installation.
· windows no longer can be dragged to unreachable positions.
· the "Save settings" button now saves the current main window position, too. the language list is now sorted by language name, not language code.
· the "Reload style" action has been removed, as the underlying feature no longer works. If you decide to design a new visual style for Stellarium, please contact us to give you a version where it works.
· distance in km (if the distance is below 0.1 AU) to the information displayed about Solar System objects.
· the StelGui::getSkyGui() method to allow plug-in developers to create their own toolbars and other GUI elements.
· an option to show the galactic coordinates grid and the galactic plane. several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs): Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Haumea. the Quasars plug-in.
· the Pulsars plug-in.
· more detailed information is now added to the log file for Mac OS X. (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects. changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in.
· a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.

Fixed:
· startup script crash
· plugin names localization in the Configuration window
· resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change sky lines' labels not translated on language change
· "Get catalog" button not translated on language change
· last star catalog not being offered for download
· proxy configuration without username/password
· Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window
· Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts
· scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0 constellations lines and names not displayed
· newly created location cannot be set as default

What's new in Stellarium 0.11.2 RC 1:

February 27th, 2012

The main theme of this version seems to be localization:
· most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translateable
· landscape names are now translatable
· country names are now translatable
· scripts names and descriptions are now translatable

Oculars plug-in:
· added an optional control panel displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen as an alternative to the pop-up menu that was used to control it in the previous version;
· overhaul of the pop-up menu, the underlined letters in it can be used as keyboard shortcuts;
· added the ability to rearrange the items in the lists of oculars, telescopes and sensors;
· fixed the inappropriate flipping of the binoculars view;

Satellites plug-in:
· fixed title bar of the Satellites config window not being resized with the rest of the window
· catalog numbers are now used to identify satellites, preventing bugs with duplicate satellites and satellites renamed in the source lists
· catalog number and international designator are now displayed for each satellite
· a simple windows to add satellites has been added

· Added Ctrl+C binding to copy selected object info text to clipboard.
· Added to the Windows installer options to remove files left over from the previous installation.
· Windows no longer can be dragged to unreachable positions.
· The "Save settings" button now saves the current main window position, too.
· The language list is now sorted by language name, not language code.
· The "Reload style" action has been removed, as the underlying feature no longer works. If you decide to design a new visual style for Stellarium, please contact us to give you a version where it works.
· Added distance in km (if the distance is below 0.1 AU) to the information displayed about Solar System objects.
· Added the StelGui::getSkyGui() method to allow plug-in developers to create their own toolbars and other GUI elements.
· Added an option to show the galactic coordinates grid and the galactic plane.
· Added several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs): Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Haumea.
· Added the Quasars plug-in.
· Added the Pulsars plug-in.
· Added (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects.
· Changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in.
· Added a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.

Fixed:
· plugin names localization in the Configuration window
· resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change
· sky lines' labels not translated on language change
· "Get catalog" button not translated on language change
· last star catalog not being offered for download
· proxy configuration without username/password
· Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window
· Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts
· scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0

What's new in Stellarium 0.11.1:

November 4th, 2011

· Bug fix release.
Added:
· new skyculture: Arabic - new moons and rings
· new translations for landscapes and sky cultures
· possibility to observate geo-orbiting satellites
· new cities
· misspelling on a star name
· location window: map pointer position is updated on longitude/latitude change.
· location window: fixed checking "Use as default" changing the name of the selected location to "New Location"
· Solar System Editor plug-in: a bug in the parsing of MPC lists: the epoch's Julian Day value was wrong by 0.5 JD (LP: #836839)
· Solar System Editor plug-in: crash while trying to browse for a local file
· Historical Supernovae plug-in: a bug in plug-in name
· Historical Supernovae plug-in: a bug in selected instead of nearby stars (LP: #835815)
· doesn't load localised description of skyculture/landscape if applanguage=system_default (LP: #845924)
· add/remove landscapes dialog bug in OSX 10.6.8
· horizon line setting not saved
· orbital period totally wrong for Himalia
· flag_show_fps = false & flag_show_fov = flase.
· 11.0 will crash if a landscape is selected with misspelled planet name
· crash on selecting off-Earth location in the Location window
· 0.11.0 crashes when switching language while location window is open
· 0.11.0 crashes when trying using custom distortion file

What's new in Stellarium 0.11.0:

July 4th, 2011

· Stellarium now takes into account the refraction of the atmosphere in the visualization of the sky so far, it seems, is the only planetarium simulates refraction in full.
· Redesigned search tool
· Oculars plugin rewritten & expanded. Includes binocular support, better CCD support.
· New plugin: Historical supernovae; now you can watch the flashes of bright 13 of these stars (in the calculation were taken only by those whose peak was brighter than 10m).
· Type of deep-sky objects on the "heaven" Stellarium's now possible to determine visually, without isolating the corresponding object.
· Increase in the number of satellites of the solar system planets.
· Were fixed annoying bugs in plug-ins and most of them acquired the improvements.
· By analogy with the description of the cultures of the sky began to speak in Russian and English of descriptions of landscapes.
· And, finally, has been fixed quite a few bugs in the Stellarium, including some from the list of "feature requests."
· There have also been a large number of bug fixes and some performance
· improvements.

What's new in Stellarium 0.10.6:

December 5th, 2010

New features:
· New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.
· New plugin: Solar System editor.
· New plugin: Time Zone manual override.
· Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts. - Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.
· Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.
· Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox/epoch override.

What's new in Stellarium 0.10.5:

June 3rd, 2010

· This is an important bug fix release closing more than 30 bugs in the main application and in the plugins. It also brings small GUI useability improvements, as well as a much reduced starting time.

What's new in Stellarium 0.10.4:

February 23rd, 2010

sky:
· default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
· extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
· asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
· constellations for twelve different cultures
· images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
· realistic Milky Way
· very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
· the planets and their satellites
interface :
· a powerful zoom
· time control
· multilingual interface
· fisheye projection for planetarium domes
· spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
· all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
· telescope control
visualisation:
· equatorial and azimuthal grids
· star twinkling
· shooting stars
· eclipse simulation
· skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability :
· plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescrope configuration and more
· add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

What's new in Stellarium 0.10.3:

January 29th, 2010

· Based on Qt 4.6.x
· Bundling of plugins: Satellites, Oculars, AngleMeasure, CompassMarks, TelescopeControl, TextUserInterface.
· New script engine improvements including variable script running speed, and a script console (activate with F12).
· Made tabs in GUI smaller by moving titles under the icons.
· Updated the plugin API to allow to compilation and easy distribution of static plugins.
· Added plugins window.
· Got rid of the boost library dependency.
· The whole sky display viewport is now contained in a class deriving from QGraphicsWidget, allowing to move and resize it as a normal widget.
· Generalized the use of shared pointers for StelObject management.
· Use vertex shaders for computation of atmosphere color if OpenGL supports it.
· Optimized openGL calls by replacing glBegin()/glEnd() by the use of vertexArray.
· Optimization of critical parts of the projection code.
· Added code for managing and displaying non-convex polygons + unit tests.
· Recoded the StelGrid code to support non ponctual sky regions, and optimized API (new class StelSphericalIndex + unit tests)
· Optimized many part of the code by reducing creation of temporary Vec3d/Vec3f.
· Optimized JSON parser (x25 speed improvement) + unit tests.
· Migrated all text drawing system to QFont. This fixes long standing bugs for displaying arabic and asian characters in the sky. Also allow to get rid of 6 source files and of the freetype dependency (managed internally to Qt)
· Switch default back end mode to native for Windows as ATI drivers often have problems, still raster default for other platforms. Add --graphics-system option.
· Fixed magnitude computation for most of the planets.
· Use GL Shader for stars rendering if OpenGL >= 2.1.
· Re-organized the startup by moving log and command line processing to main.cpp.
· Re-coded all the management of extra star catalogs.
· Implemented partial support of OpenGLES 2.0.
· Moved official plugins code into plugins/ and changed the cmake config so that they are automatically compiled in static.
· Re-coded the texture engine based on Qt loading features (Got rid of explicit libjpeg and libpng dependencies!).
· Allowed to first render the sky in a frame buffer.
· Moved the code related to viewport distortions into a new class StelViewportEffect based on frame buffer object.
· Added working cmake targets for compilig and runing unit tests.
· Added a delay before making Simbad name lookup queries to avoid sending too many requests.
· Added the Aztec sky culture.
· Many minor fixes and optimizations.

What's new in Stellarium 0.10.2:

March 9th, 2009

· Based on Qt 4.5.
· Display constellations lines using nicely distorted arcs.
· Fixed GUI problems when creating a new location.
· Fixed the grid lines wrap around at the discontinuities in cylindrical and Mercator projection.
· Hide the planet computation problems after year 80608.
· Use the Qt raster engine by default. This fixes mac rendering bugs and speeds up greatly the GUI rendering.
· Improved management of intersection of viewports with large FOV and projections with singularities.
· Added Hammer-Aitoff projection allowing full sky overview.
· Fixed various bugs.