What's new in Maitreya 8.0.1b
Nov 17, 2022
- Changes:
- Font updated due to copyright issues.
- Source code compiles on wxWidgets 3.2
- Ubuntu package available for version LTS 22.04 (usable for derivates like Linux Mint 21)
New in Maitreya 8.0.1 (Oct 25, 2017)
- Vedic Astrology:
- Shadbala view added
- Dasa tree view: signification of Mahadasas and Antardasas can be displayed according to the scriptures, currently Parasara and Phala Deepika
- Solar chart: Vimsottari Dasa and Muntha added, Vedic mode.
- Vedic partner astrology: Rajju Koota added.
- General Astrology:
- Additional planetary attributes can be displayed: element, quality, Antiscia, 90 and 45 deg circle (western), basic signification (vedic)
- Uranian Astrology:
- Tables for sums, differences, midpoints of Antiscia and reflection points of pairs added.
- Events of these types can be viewed in UranianView, Transit and PartnerView.
- New modes in transit view: shifted Meridian, shifted gravitation point, reverse Solar arc
- User Interface:
- Vedic chart: aspects (Rasi and Graha drishti) can be displayed on (shift+, ctrl+) mouse over
- Vedic chart: basic signification of Varga charts can be displayed with the chart
- Western chart: magnify aspects and corresponding planets on mouse over
- New styles for vedic and western charts (yet to be completed)
- Configuration dialog improved. Data can be saved per tab. Restore defaults now possible.
- New font, nicer astrological glyphs
- Graphical Dasa: highlight of Dasas on mouse over. Simplified acess for zoom (Ctrl+mouse wheel) and Antardasa mode (Shift+mouse wheel)
- Calculation:
- Support for Julian and Gregorian dates on birth data input. Support for input years BC added.
- Location database updated, includes now 164K cities.
- Technical:
- XML based configuration migrated to JSON. Old custom XML Yoga definition files can be converted in Yoga Editor.
- Linux: Debian package is now for Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
- Swiss Ephemeris can be used (as shared library) from the installed system if provided. Applies to Debian Linux and derivates.
- Textclient for UNIX systems renamed, name is now maitreya8t
- Support for MS Visual Studio environment discontinued
New in Maitreya 6.0.5 (Jun 29, 2011)
- Bugfix: Sarvatobhadra: wrong display of planets (Abhijit/Sravana only)
- Bugfix: EclipseView: list grows on each update (obsolete items)
New in Maitreya 6.0.4 (Jun 4, 2011)
- French translation added
- Russian translation updated
- RPM spec changed for rpm based Linux distros
- library dependencies changed in Makefile.am of jyotish folder
New in Maitreya 6.0 RC2 (Jul 31, 2010)
- Printout: wrong total number of pages removed (footer in mulitpage output)
- Printout: KP and KP comprehensive styles added
- Printout: Rahu/Ketu added/bugfix of rc1 forgotten
- Printout: file chooser did not work
- MultipleView: no refresh in graphical charts on birth data change
New in Maitreya 6.0 RC1 (Jul 26, 2010)
- Bugfix: bad display of mixed planets/Arudhas in PDF output
- New version number prevents problems in rpm and deb versioning
- libfontconfig added to linker command in gui/Makefile.am
- support for rpm package build added
New in Maitreya 6.0 Dev 4 (Jul 11, 2010)
- Bugfix: crashes in charts (uninitialized variables due to bad call stack in Horoscope classes)
- Bugfix: crash in graphical Ephemeris
- Return values on ephem calculation and warning if planets are zero (planetoids etc)
- Calculator::calcPositionSpeed doesnt subtract Ayanamsa now if length is zero
New in Maitreya 6.0 Dev 3 (Jun 22, 2010)
- Bugfix: bad display of mixed planets/Arudhas in PDF output
- New version number prevents problems in rpm and deb versioning
- libfontconfig added to linker command in gui/Makefile.am
- support for rpm package build added
New in Maitreya 6.0 Dev 2 (Jun 22, 2010)
- PartnerView now working
- Wrong context menus in PartnerView fixed
- Inheritance in TextWidget changed again: added virtual write method
- German translation reviewed
- Wrong Yoni for Magha Nakshatra (Dog instead of Rat)
- Text export in Ephemeris view works now
- New feature: CSV export
- Default export format (text and graphic) in ConfigurationDialog/GeneralPanel
- maitreya_textclient added to release
- Removed bug: configuration of Dasa colors was not working
- Added missing files for Dasa display in release (3 png files in pics dir)
- wxpdf version upgraded
- MaitreyaSymbols6.xml and .z removed from release (font now directly loaded from True Type font file)
- bug fixed: text export for extension "txt" not working
- TextWidgets changed: subclasses instead of writing in view classes (big change)
New in Maitreya 6.0 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Major Changes:
- Improved transit view with double western/Vedic chart and Sarvatobhadra in all modes (transit, Solar, direction etc). Animation of transits on the time axis supported. Screenshot
- Extended partner view with double western/Vedic chart, Sarvatobhadra and mixed Varga charts. Screenshot
- New Shadbala view with diagrams and text output. Screenshot
- Yoga editor for custom Yoga definitions.Screenshot
- More than 170 Arabic Parts (Fortune etc.) now supported. Parts can be displayed in graphical charts, Vargas etc.
- Uranian astrology completely refactored and available in western and Vedic view. Astrological objects can be configured now.
- Medium and Minor Changes:
- Configuration of colors for planets, signs, aspects is now possible.
- Improved aspect configuration, colors, aspect symbols and styles. Many new aspects can be configured (Quintile, Septile, Novile, declination).
- Styles now supported for Sarvatobhadra chart (like in western/Vedic chart). All objects can be shown in Sbc.
- New coordiantes in charts possible: equatorial, barycentric and heliocentric.
- New object: Sphuta Navamsa Lagna.
- New styles for western chart with big symbols, new symbol set for signs. Screenshot
- New simplified shortcuts.
- New Yogas: Non luminous planets (Parasara ch. 25), Planets in houses including Nodes from Phala Deepika ch. 8.
- Other Changes:
- These features are not visible from the astrologer's point of view but have impact on development.
- Complete refactoring of source code, new directory structure.
- New license: GPL (the software stays free and Open Source)
- XML based configs for charts, printout, colors and Yogas.
- Directory structure after 'make install' now according GNU conventions.
- New Debian package for Linux/Ubuntu users.
- Improved source code documentation (Doxygen).
- File based storage of configuration under Windows (UNIX-like) instead of Windows Registry.
New in Maitreya 5.0 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Major Changes:
- Yoga view shows planetary events according to classical scriptures (Parasara, Saravali, Brihat Jataka). Support for higher Vargas.
- Support for astrological scripting language (MDL = Maitreya definition language). This language is used to define astrological events and their effects.
- Ashtaka Varga view with diagrams (Rasi and Graha summary) and graphical charts for Rekha, Trikona and Ekadhipatya Shodana (all Vargas). Several options for AV calculation.
- Varga overview with diagram of Vimsopaka Bala and grouped charts.
- Improved Vedic chart with styles (like western chart in version 4.2)
- All astrological objects are available in both Vedic and western view (including Kala Velas, Upagrahas, Uranian planets, planetoids).
- Minor Changes:
- Configuration dialog rewritten.
- Configuration of individual aspect types and orbes in western chart.
- Display options for lords and dignities in planetary list.
- Kala Vela configuration support (lords, portions, Gulika can be included now).
- Buttons in main toolbar can be configured now.
- Custom footer in PDF printout (can be used for name of astrologer etc.)
- Graphical/textual display of planets and signs in graphical Dasa view.
- Multiple chart views added in partner view and Tajaka view.
- Support for Krusinski house system.
- Italian translation.
- Default house system for Vedic astrology is now Placidus. K.P: style house system ist default, too.
- Better support for development on MS Windows. The software builds now on MS Visual Studio Express.
- Full support for wxWidgets 2.8 on all platforms. wx 2.6 is deprecated now. Windows installer comes with latest 2.8 release.
New in Maitreya 4.2 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Symbols for signs, planets and aspects in western and Vedic astrology.
- Support for new astronomical objects: Chiron, Pholus, Lilith (Black Moon) and 4 planetoids Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta
- Strongly improved western graphic chart. Styles can configured, colors, pictures, etc.
- Support for Pratyantardasas in graphical Dasa view; display of periods on mouse-over event.
- Vedic names of signs and planets are supported now
- Polish language support.
New in Maitreya 4.1 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Telugu language support.
- Improved location database, mouse wheel, double click, etc. are supported now.
- Support for Indian display of planetary positions (like 00-10-20 instead of 10-20 Aries).
- Suport for Legal and Letter paper format.
- Improved Sarvatobhadra (Unicode)
- Bugs of version 4.0 (Lagna Vimsottari and configuration errors) fixed.
- Compilation errors on GNU gcc 4.1 ("invalid extra qualification") fixed.
- Several minor changes.
New in Maitreya 4.0 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Dasas:
- Graphical Dasa view showing the Dasas on the time axis. This view allows to get a synchronous overview of different Dasas.
- New text view of Dasas showing Mahadasas and Antardasas in comprehensive tabular form.
- Entry charts can be created for the starting point of all Dasas.
- Solar/Tajaka Chart:
- Solar/Tajaka charts are supported in Vedic and western mode. It is possible to create new documents based on Solar charts and to analyse them like normal charts.
- Ephemeris:
- Graphical Ephemeris in different circles like 360 deg, 90 deg or Nakshatra view (13:20).
- Ingress Events of the planets are supported for signs and Nakshatras.
- The Krishnamurti view calculates the starting events of lord/sublord periods.
- Sunrise, sunset, sidereal time and Tithi (Vedic date) are supported.
- Lunar phases and start of Tithis can be shown in another view.
- Printout
- The printout is completely rewritten. Printout is done in PDF format and viewing/printing is delegated to the PDF viewer (like Acrobat Reader or xpdf).
- Different printout types can be configured. This new feature allows e.g. a multi page printout with several Vargas or Dasas.
- Partner Chart:
- The partner view supports the Composite chart. This kind of chart is based upon the midpoints of two charts.
- Further Changes:
- Here is a list of further changes/enhancements since version 3.2.
- Russian language support.
- All text windows can be shown in HTML or plain text. Text export can be done in these two formats, too.
- Fonts and colors can be configured.
- Graphical Export of Charts: there are 3 new formats: TIF, PNM and PCX. The gif format has been removed.
- The main window list control can be shown in three different modes: Big icons (3.x style), small icons and report view.
- A context menu in the main window control gives access to several application commands.
- Several new house systems have been added.
- K.P. support for general Nakshatra Dasas (not only Vimsottari). This is intended to be an advanced research feature.
- Removed Features:
- Narayana and Lagna Kendradi Dasa.
- Unusual Ayanamsas. Only the standard Ayanamsas are left: Lahiri, Raman, Krishnamurti and custom Ayanamsa.