Portable Stellarium Changelog

What's new in Portable Stellarium 24.1.0

Mar 26, 2024

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)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.4.0 (Jan 27, 2024)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.3.0 (Sep 27, 2023)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.2.0 (Jul 17, 2023)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.1.0 (Mar 28, 2023)

What's Changed:
Added missing include (GH: #2933)
Added ability to store a local file of objects as bookmark (GH: #2935)
Added missing file in Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
Added ability to show the alternative shortcuts in Help dialog (GH: #2944)
Added B-V color indices for planets and the Sun
Added B-V indices for few moons
Added ability to change the font size and color of the landscape labels from the GUI (GH: #2941)
Added ability to visualize heliocentric ecliptic distances for bright comets in AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool
Added an option to use supersampling for shadows on the Moon
Added implementation of the limb darkening for the Sun (GH: #3017)
Added Methuselah star
Added support 32-wind compass rose (GH: #3036)
Added decorative textures for the observer used in the location panel
Added accurate ecliptic calendar marks (GH: #3057)
Added ability to settings fps in the GUI (GH: #3073)
Added a workaround for poor NPOT mipmap implementations
Added "Now" button into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3012)
Added discovery info for Messier objects (GH: #3084)
Added phase name and age to Moon's infoMap (GH: #3088)
Added a check for screenshot file format
Added proper name for Arp 239
Added proper name for PGC 1436754 from SIMBAD
Added support MIT license for sky cultures
Added GUI to manually entering FOV (GH: #3093, #3013)
Added ability to toggle ignore date test for orbital data in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3099)
Added explicit text message for "satellite below horizon" (GH: #3098)
Added a confirmation warning to overwrite an existing list on import in Observing lists
Added support for masses of the major planets
Added masses for major planets
Fixed umbra circles in Satellites plugin (GH: #2510)
Fixed plotting markers of ephemerides (GH: #2951)
Fixed the performance penalty: enabled compression of high frequency events (GH: #2778)
Fixed off-by-one error in planetary rings mesh generator (GH: #2775)
Fixed compilation on Qt configured for OpenGL ES2 (GH: #2970)
Fixed bookmarks for minor planets in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #2958)
Fixed the wrong transformation of the Moon's color texture values
Fixed solar eclipse rendering of the Moon in a better way
Fixed default distance of "observer" to the parent (GH: #2911)
Fixed handling of lighting factor when rendering lunar eclipse
Fixed AstroCalc/RTS tool (GH: #3028)
Fixed another missing timezone
Fixed location changes via Search panel and "Goto" Action
Fixed return to default location (with default landscape)
Fixed other place where location name is printed in bottom bar
Fixed pixelized panel icons in screenshots (GH: #2899)
Fixed a possible security issue
Fixed DSO filters (GH: #3048)
Fixed screenshot size
Fixed a potential security issue when storing screenshots
Fixed scaling of screen geometry when setting window position (GH: #3102)
Fixed limits for altitudes in Satellites plugin
Fixed working the filter in shortcut dialog for Qt5-based builds (GH: #2939)
Fixed storing DSO with designations in Observing lists (GH: #2802)
Fixed the type/objtype bug in Observing lists
Fixed creation of default empty list at start in Observing lists
Fixed behaviour for 'Reload the sky culture' feature
Fixed a crash when observer is on the spaceship (GH: #3115)
Changed GUI of Satellites plugin: disable a bad implementation of fixed shadow altitude (GH: #3100)
Changed GUI: better button labels
Changed core: set line and file numbers in shader prefixes
Changed core: make ring shadows smoother
Changed core: improve quality of planetary ring edges
Changed core: make sure that textures being loaded don't exceed OpenGL size limits (GH: #2991)
Changed core: avoid blowing out highlights on the lunar surface
Changed core: use a ratio of FoV and sphere scale when calculating brightness coefficient for the Moon
Changed core: allow more threads for texture loading
Changed core: do computations for the planets in linear color, convert to sRGB in the end
Changed core: move Lambert BRDF from vertex shader to fragment shader
Changed core: make terminator of planets with atmosphere not so sharp
Changed core: allow texture decimation (GH: #3009)
Changed core: simplify checking whether planet being drawn in Planet::draw3dModel is the Sun or the Moon
Changed core: simplify checking whether current location is Earth in Planet::draw3dModel
Changed core: draw solar corona before the sphere, regardless of halo settings
Changed core: make rot_obliquity=0 for all observers
Changed core: do the computation of lunar eclipse colors in nonlinear color (GH: #3035)
Changed core: enable mip mapping for old-style-landscape textures)
Changed core: switch old-style landscape to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #3045)
Changed core: allow "goto" action to observers
Changed core: inhibit drawing of a few grids/markers when on Observer pseudo-planet
Changed core: inhibit location name if observing from Observer pseudo-planet
Changed core: inhibit landscape and atmosphere drawing when on an "observer" pseudo-planet
Changed core: make it possible to restrict texture size of GUI panel button pixmaps
Changed core: softened inner edge of earth penumbra slightly
Changed core: avoid creation of default user dir if CLI override given (GH: #3079)
Changed core: deprecated a redundant command line option)
Changed core: force redraw of dynamic resolution atmosphere on window resize
Changed core: use config settings screen_* in physical (unscaled) pixels (GH: #3077)
Changed core: render ShowMySky atmosphere calculating view direction per fragment
Changed core: tweak screen intersect callback (GH: #3059)
Changed core: disable culling for ZodiacalLight and MilkyWay
Changed core: ensure screenshot format initialisation sets supported format
Changed Satellites plugin: refactoring the code (simplification)
Changed Satellites plugin: reduced the minimal entered altitude for apogee/perigee filters (GH: #3004)
Changed Satellites plugin: switched to use WGS-84 data in whole Satellites plugin
Changed scripting engine: avoid empty filenames for screenshots (GH #3111)
Changed scripting engine: also make writing to absolute paths a GUI option (GH #3111)
Changed scripting engine: require user consent to let scripts store screenshots to paths given in the script (GH #3111)
Changed encoding format in Korean.isl (GH: #2992)
Updated GUI: losslessly recompress PNGs to save space (GH: #3087)
Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
Updated default list of locations
Updated default catalog of satellites
Updated default catalog of exoplanets
Updated default catalog of pulsars
Updated qxlsx dependencies (GH: #2979)
Updated XML data: use generic-icon in mime file (GH: #3011)
Updated list of languages
Updated default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
Updated translations of sceneries
Updated translations of landscapes
Updated translations of sky cultures
Removed the clamping kludge from the Oren-Nayar function
Removed NGC 5976A designation (GH: #2967)
Removed checking architectures in Windows installer (GH: #2962)

New in Portable Stellarium 1.22.3 (Oct 17, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.2 (Jul 12, 2022)

Added "type" column to WUT list (GH: #2502)
Added twilights to the nautical navigation data (GH: #2489)
Added new visual filter for satellites (GH: #1527, #2060)
Added group of satellites (Gonets)
Added "Transits of Mercury and Venus across the Sun" computations for AstroCalc tool (GH: #2477)
Added new filter for communications satellites
Added feature to recognise the communications data for satellites
Added GUI for manual addition of comm frequencies for satellites (GH: #2476)
Added support inclination classifications for geocentric orbits for satellites
Added feature to adding and restoring the descriptions of satellites
Added tool to reset TLE sources in Satellites plugin (GH: #2458)
Added 'altitude' parameter to custom filter of satellites
Added option to colored invisible satellites: you can toggle behaviour of colorification invisible satellites now
Added recognition licenses for sky cultures (GH: #2410)
Added new names to DSO (GH: #2463)
Added recognition the standard magnitudes for Starlink and OneWeb satellites
Added ability to select all satellites in the list by one touch
Added custom filter for satellites (GH: #2457, #2060)
Added quick selection buttons for DSO (GH: #2425, #2427)
Added ability to use time mask for naming of screenshots (GH: #1283)
Added visualisation Earth umbra and penumbra for satellites (GH: #2451, #2360, #1246)
Added support directional elongation (GH: #2405)
Added some Barnard outlines (GH: #2412)
Fixed saving GRS properties
Fixed missing meteor showers name (GH: #2492)
Fixed bugs in planetary transits (GH: #2491)
Fixed orbit validation for observers
Fixed selecting items from the recent search in Search tool
Fixed signal/slot issue in Search Tool
Fixed wrong selection of object in Search Tool/Lists
Fixed placement for output data on HDPI devices (Observ. plugin)
Fixed flickering Lunar halo (GH: #2240)
Fixed selection ANGLE mode: simplify force-switching to ANGLE mode (GH: #2471)
Fixed missing translations
Fixed dead links and phrases in sky cultures
Fixed filtering issue for satellites and update some defaults
Fixed description for XMM-Newton satellite
Fixed guessing the groups of satellites
Fixed slow down of time when the Moon is selected (GH: #2465)
Fixed eclipse problem (GH: #2464)
Fixed conversion tool radToHms(): avoiding possible negative zero for value of seconds (GH: #2460)
Fixed wrong code in radToHMSStr and radToHMSStrAdapt convertors (GH: #2460)
Fixed work AstroCalc/(Phenomena and RTS) tools with Qt 5.14+ (GH: #2459)
Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #2420, #2421)
Fixed duplicate for NGC 5504
Fixed stars info: hiding separation info for double stars with "fake values" (GH: #2429)
Fixed broken signal/slot in Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2433)
Fixed 'Nights above horizon' feature in Observability plugin (GH: #2436)
Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites (GH: #2452)
Fixed crash when some star catalogues deleted or adding (GH: #2404)
Fixed opacity/magnitude conflict for objects from Barnard catalog (GH: #2408)
Fixed possible duplicates of DSO names
Fixed hourly motion of objects (GH: #2505, #2498)
Fixed show negative radiant drift in RA for meteor showers (GH: #2504)
Changed setFullScreen() method (GH: #660)
Changed infostring data for observers: hided the meaningless data
Changed Satellites plugin: add improvements for visibility prediction of satellites
Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: display satellites and their orbits within selected range of altitudes only when related option is activated.
Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: Some specific comm terms from the channel description are translatable now
Changed AstroCalc/Graphs tools: a full refactoring
Changed AstroCalc/PC tool: refactoring the graphs
Changed Exoplanets plugin: refactoring the graphs
Updated filter 'orbit calculation error' in the Satellites plugin
Updated pulsars catalog
Updated list of locations
Updated meteor showers catalog (GH: #2492)
Updated default list of satellites
Updated script for InnoSetup (GH: #2450)
Updated planetary nomenclature
Updated communications data for satellites
Updated DSO catalog (v3.16; GH: #2414, #2473)
Updated list of description of satellites
Updated data in Meteor Showers catalog (GH: #2467, #2449)
Updated GUI in Meteor Showers plugin
Updated default hint color for satellites
Updated Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2416)
Updated DSO names
Removed QCustomPlot dependence
Removed scaling mode from shortcuts for Windows (GH: #2450)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.1 (Apr 18, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.0 (Mar 29, 2022)

Added ability to search satellites by COSPAR ID
Added ability to support multi supergroups for satellites
Added checks for valid UTF-8 sequence for SS [ssystem*] files
Added 2 startup shortcuts for linux distros
Added GUIs for tweaking some atmosphere parameters and better understand how these things work together
Added ability switching between Preetham and Schaefer for sky brightness (CIE Y channel)
Added ability switching between 2 presets of chromaticity parameters (Preetham/Stellarium)
Added ability coupling extinction coefficient and atmosphere turbidity
Added an exponential twilight transition to Preetham zenith luminance
Added a flag to suppress atmosphere scattering rendering. Just keeps atmosphere refraction and extinction effects
Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow solar halo drawing before or after 3d solar sphere
Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow rendering the Sun after the atmosphere (avoid overbrightening, but may look too dark)
Added GUI to fine-tune viewing environment (tone mapping)
Added scripting functions to modify tone mapping settings
Added color conversion to AdobeRGB (not only sRGB). This may give better screen colors on some systems.
Added ability moving StelDialogSeparate to a separate screen
Added human readable format for coordinates of planetary features
Added support decimal coordinates for planetary features
Added Akan (ak), Karelian (krl), Montenegrin (cnr) and Serbian (Latin) (sr@latin) languages support
Added Lunar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations
Added actions to centering screen on current telescope position
Added proper name for LBN 437
Added proper name for Stock 2 cluster
Added actions to quick choose of presets for the selected object information
Added Modified Espenak & Meeus (2006, 2022) solution for DeltaT
Added support alternative names (designations) for exoplanets
Added texture for an interesting distorted galaxy NGC 2146 in Camelopardalis
Added setting of screenshot dpi
Added New and Astronomical Hindu Calendars
Added Hindu Panchang
Added 60-year-cycle to Tibetan calendar
Added configurable text color
Added mistakenly removed parentheses to the regex
Added Egyptian (Dendera) sky culture
Added Zulu sky culture
Added 2 asterisms: Medium Bull & Minor Bull
Added Persian Astronomical calendar
Added nowruz to both Persian calendar versions
Added French Revolution Calendar (astronomical version)
Added Tibetan Calendar
Added functions from CC:UE chapter 14 on astronomical functions
Added proper name for CTB 1 (Abell 85) nebula
Added boundaries to Arabic Lunar Stations skycultute
Added support of seasonal polar caps on the Mars
Added Revised Julian Calendar into Calendars plugin
Added support heliocentric ecliptic positions of the major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool
Added Solar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations
Added missing timezone for Nuuk
Added column "Visibility conditions" to the lunar eclipses
Fixed typos in Satellites plugin
Fixed Stephenson, Morrison & Hohenkerk solution for DeltaT
Fixed Stephenson & Houlden (1986) algorithm for DeltaT
Fixed rendering gravity labels on HiDPI devices
Fixed rendering gravity labels of compass
Fixed nomenclature longitudes
Fixed synonyms in DSO names
Fixed clazy warnings for plugins and core
Fixed translation the column names in AstroCalc/WUT tool when language is changed
Fixed jumping to position in search window
Fixed entering geographical coordinates
Fixed crash on exit when Telescopes tab of Oculars is active
Fixed bug in Meteor showers search dialog
Fixed list of languages
Fixed typos in sky cultures
Fixed potential selection bug in AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed visual properties for AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool for local solar eclipses when total/annular eclipses take place very close to the horizon
Fixed decimal longitude in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
Fixed coordinates of few open clusters (DSO Catalog v3.14)
Fixed crash on start when Calendars plugin not loaded.
Fixed parsing of decimal degrees in AngleSpinBox::stringToDouble()
Fixed light pollution node in TUI
Fixed StelLocationMgr.cpp:parseAngle for negative fractional-degree angles
Fixed reading location from CLI
Fixed planetocentric rectangular coordinates
Fixed R&D solution of DeltaT
Fixed galactic and supergalactic longitudes range in Scripting Engine
Fixed bug in the Hebrew calendar
Fixed errors in Arabic sky cultures
Fixed computation of rise, transit and set times for the Moon
Fixed alignment for headers in tables
Fixed security issues: updated jQuery and jQuery UI
Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses where type of local solar eclipses are incorrect
Fixed wrong range of galactic and supergalactic coordinate systems
Changed the languages support: refactoring the code for ISO-639 codes support
Changed the core: refactoring the code for get angular size of objects
Changed the GUI: compactification of the GUI
Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: The AstroCalc/Transits tool has been converted to AstroCalc/RTS tool, where RTS is meaning "rises, transits and sets"
Changed regexp in the comets data parser
Changed core: pass Sun, Moon and current planet objects as well as location directly to Atmosphere::computeColor
Changed core: enable multisampling for landscape too
Changed core: switch from Bortle class to luminance as the quantity of light pollution
Updated Arabic sky cultures: renaming sky cultures
Updated Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
Updated rules for guessing the groups of satellites
Updated GUI of Satellites plugin
Updated default list of TLE sources
Updated International Designator info for satellites
Updated default catalog of pulsars
Updated list of known versions MSVC++
Updated logger for macOS
Updated translations
Updated Stellarium User Guide
Updated core: replace deprecated QLinkedList by std::list
Updated core: refactor cardinals
Updated core: refactor qflags
Updated GUI: Improve usability of light pollution display in landscape description
Updated GUI: Prevent negative length of day
Updated labels in Calendars plugin
Updated defaults for Calendars plugin
Updated Scenery3D plugin: Extend shadowmap/cubemap resolution options
Updated list of proper names
Updated order of star designations
Updated shape of asterism "Taurus Poniatovii"
Updated locations database, nomenclature and common names for DSO
Updated build instruction
Updated GUI for AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: allow years before 1582
Removed default GRS solution
Removed radio frequencies from getInfoMap() method

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.3 (Jan 12, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.2 (Oct 4, 2021)

Added a twilight altitude setting and twilight-finding actions to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852, #484)
Added extraString capabilities to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852)
Added missing time zones
Added 2 new greek skycultures (GH: #1850)
Added unit tests for JPL DE440/DE441 ephemeris
Added greatest digression to Infostring (GH: #1885)
Added constellation info for AstroCalc/WUT tool
Added tooltip for AstroCalc/WUT tool
Added barium stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools
Added option to toggle the method of drawing Sun's corona (GH: #971)
Added support right click for buttons (GH: #1843)
Added alternative definition of elongation (GH: #1786)
Added support of geographical regions (politically neutral toponyms) (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
Added tooltips to list of skycultures in the GUI
Added support the annual aberration (GH: #1626, #1272, #1115, #84)
Added custom max fov stop (GH: #1836)
Added DeltaT output in seconds for Scripting Engine
Added Observing lists feature (GH: #1816)
Added unobvious behavior for selection the celestial body when Graphs tab is opened
Added extra data for satellite into GUI of Satellites plugin (GH: #1785)
Added new language: English (India)
Added ability of displaying number of exoplanets in the system near designation of host star
Added support minimum altitude for Rise/Transit/Set times in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1089)
Fixed visual style of the magnitude output data
Fixed rendering graphs when the AstroCalc/Graphs tab is closed (GH: #1852)
Fixed coordinates for NGC 2379 (DSO Catalog v3.13)
Fixes and improvements of backward compatibility layer for support the regions and countries
Fixed displaying the proper motion data (GH: #1787)
Fixed empty items in Search/Lists tool for stars
Fixed proper motion data in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1787)
Fixed HiDPI issue for GUI of Scenery 3D plugin
Fixed displaying meteor showers search dialog (GH: #1854)
Fixed drawing spiky halo for Solar system bodies (GH: #1805)
Fixed behavior of the Online Query plug-in button (GH: #1806)
Fixed WS-2020-0368 issue in zlib (GH: #1807)
Fixed search stars by additional English names
Fixed translations for splash screen (GH: #1817)
Fixed location of CR 36 (Collinder 36) (GH: #1827)
Fixed crash Online Query Plug-in (GH: #1821)
Fixed distanes for PGC galaxies (GH: #1922)
Fixed computation of max elevations in AstroCalc tool
Changed Observability plugin: disabled RTS display in the plugin to avoid duplicate the data (GH: #1852)
Changed the core: added better solutions to RTS (rise-transit-set times) for fixed objects and planets (GH: #1852, #554)
Changed core: enabled nutation for -4000...+8000 for better comparison with reference solutions
Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/Graphs tool: the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graph tool now can work on Earth only (GH: #1925)
Changed behaviour of AstroCalc tool: Inhibit updates when dialog invisible (GH: #1920)
Updated the behaviour of the GUI in Search Tool: force focus on entry line when recalling (GH: #1874)
Updated the behaviour of the AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: exclude outdated solar system objects (GH: #1880)
Updated descriptions of sky cultures
Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
Updated QXlsx library
Updated Stellarium User Guide
Updated list of locations
Updated list of languages
Updated list of geographical regions
Updated list of planetary nomenclature
Updated default catalog of pulsars
Updated common names of DSO
Updated common names of the stars
Updated boundaries in Chinese skycultures (GH: #1919)
Updated translations
Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: improve the performance of computations (GH: #1910)
Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: avoid lots of computations (GH: #1904)
Updated Solar System Editpr plugin: better intuitive sorting of MPC list by padding (GH: #1835)
Removed few Chinese dialects/languages: we will keep only zh_CN, zh_SG, zh_HK and zh_TW locales for Chinese
Removed outdated translations
Removed list of countries (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
Removed Bookmarks feature (GH: #1816)
Removed the duplicate for Tr 2 cluster

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.0 (Mar 30, 2021)

Added accurate planet axis orientation and rotation (GH: #502, #151):
Added lunar libration (GH: #877)
Added lines for the Invariable Plane and Projected Solar Equator (GH: #358)
Added solar altitude to planetary feature nomenclature
Added describe planetary coordinates and changes in the nomenclature display into Stellarium User Guide
Added new language: Spanish (Latin America)
Added ability to scaling of Sun and planets (GH: #1263)
Added new magnitude algorithms for planets from Mallama&Hilton 2018 (GH: #574)
Added Earth shadow circles for topocentric observer (GH: #430)
Added new 4k texture for the Moon (required re-balancing planet shader brightness)
Added lower limit for aFOV parameter of ocular in the GUI to avoid input wrong data (GH: #1487)
Added visibility of an antisolar point for other planets (GH: #1481)
Added ability to get all designations of DSO in scripts (GH: #1477)
Added ability to show hourly motion in decimal degrees (GH: #1478)
Added more cardinal points (GH: #1522, #1529)
Added ability to switching off drawing of Solar glare (GH: #1538)
Added a new sky culture based on Al-Sufi "Book of Fixed Stars" written ~ 964 AD (GH: #1548)
Added Old Hindu calendars
Added Islamic (algorithmic) and Hebrew calendar.
Added French Revolution calendar (arithmetic version)
Added Persian (arithmetic) calendar
Added button to set standard atmosphere
Added ability to translation/transliteration of Roman (latin) terms (GH: #1511)
Added ability to use UTC time when navigational stars are displayed (GH: #1416)
Added acknowledgment section into Help/About window (GH: #1568)
Added cosmetic fix for radio communication data: no need extra precision to show data in Satellites plugin
Fixed compatibility of ToneReproducer shader with GLES (GH: #1549, #1550)
Fixed retranslation of calendars (GH: #1545)
Fixed vertical position of calendar info panel
Fixed height-dependent twinkle for star-like objects (GH: #1542)
Fixed capturing a screenshots under macOS High Sierra and later (GH: #102)
Fixed documentation for API
Fixed display the extincted magnitudes for all objects
Fixed reading textures (GH: #1547)
Fixed alignment of an intercardinal direction markers (GH: #1552)
Fixed work of multisampling mode when in Spout isn't used (GH: #1537)
Fixed visualization zodiacal light at low Bortle values (GH: #1489, #1510)
Fixed the drawing a degrees on compass on HiDPI devices
Fixed search short phrases (GH: #1528)
Fixed orientation of Jupiter, Uranus and Venus (GH: #357)
Fixed inexact rotation of Moon (GH: #347)
Fixed wrong rendering of Jupiter (GH: #1261)
Fixed incorrect moon terminator (GH: #973)
Fixed a skybox.ssc script (GH: #1461)
Fixed crash when trails are enabled (GH: #1471)
Fixed crash when choosing Zero Horizon landscape (GH: #1466)
Fixed displaying labels of coordinate grids on HiDPI devices (GH: #1445)
Fixed a labeling hour angles (GH: #1457)
Fixed API docs
Fixed styles of QMessageBox and QColorDialog (GH: #1451)
Fixed WUI of Remote Control plugin
Fixed HiDPI issue for Observability plugin
Fixed the placement of cardinal marks when compass mark is enabled on the HiDPI devices
Fixed placement of the value of equation of time for HiDPI devices
Fixed crash at exit (GH: #1479)
Fixed work of Spout mode: inhibit multisampling when in Spout mode (GH: #1507)
Fixed DOI link for "Calendrical Calculations" (GH: #1562, #1566)
Fixed missing strings for translation (GH: #1562, #1566)
Fixed tooltips and placeholders (GH: #1562, #1566)
Fixed comments for translators (GH: #1562, #1566)
Fixed updating placement of calendars when visibility of calendars are changed (GH: #1567)
Fixed artifacts in the GUI when language is changed
Fixed images and typos in Stellarium User Guide
Fixed bibliography in Stellarium User Guide
Fixed the figure of Virgo constellation (GH: #1570)
Fixed stupid typos in satellites.json file
Fixed illumination during Lunar eclipse in Scenery 3D plugin (GH: #1506)
Fixed behavior "Clear" button in Script Console (GH: #1499)
Fixed lunar magnitude: try an accurate Lunar magnitude formula (GH: #1350)
Fixed lunar eclipses: redo the eclipse push effect for lunar eclipses
Fixed behavior of Bookmarks tool when pressed button "cancel" in import dialog (GH: #1497)
Fixed Mesa mode for Windows (GH: #1551)
Fixed multisampling on non-Windows systems (GH: #1553)
Fixed typos in Al-Sufi skyculture
Fixed bug for calculation the leap years: restore leap year rule in our astronomical year counting
Updated translations
Updated translations of landscapes descriptions
Updated translations of 3D sceneries descriptions
Updated translations of skycultures descriptions
Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1520)
Updated planetary features data
Updated building instructions for Windows (GH: #1444)
Updated core: slight restructuring of Planets, Comets, MinorPlanets, SolarSystem loader
Updated core: using data from WGCCRE reports 2009, 2015 and Explanatory Supplement to the AA 2013 (with error fixed by the 1992 ed.) for rotation elements
Updated core: keeps original Stellarium planet rotation model (undocumented) where new rotation elements are unavailable
Updated core: make StelToneReproducer's xyYToRGB.glsl core function reusable (GH: #1468)
Updated code of INDI client to version 1.8.5
Updated code for building Stellarium without NLS and Scripting support
Updated GUI (GH: #1204)
Updated Satellites plugin
Updated default satellites database
Updated GUI of Navigational stars plugin
Updated default pulsars catalog
Updated description of supernovae plugin (GH: #500)
Updated description of calendars plugin in Stellarium User Guide
Removed proper name for NGC 2194 (GH: #1530)
Removed Arabic skyculture: Arabic SC was replaced by more accurate "al-Sufi" skyculture

New in Portable Stellarium 0.20.3 (Oct 6, 2020)

Added sorting for Bookmark dialog (GH: #1144)
Added B pass band for compute photometric values of nebulae
Added missing QPushButton:checked style matching 'pressed' (GH: #1150)
Added show standard magnitude and RCS info for satellites in the GUI of Satellites plugin
Added new filters for satellites
Added GUI buttons to define object information font color at daylight and for overwrite mode (GH: #1156)
Added 2 new columns for AstroCalc/Positions tool (Elevation and Elongation)
Added editable keyboard shortcut for buttons in AstroCalc tools (GH: #1165, #1166)
Added allowance to loading bookmark without date/location change (GH: #882)
Added new initial time steps in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1162)
Added option to use on the screen star designations only (GH: #1169)
Added option in the GUI to define color of text in Equation of Time plugin
Added new button into Shortcut Editor and added new tool to restoring defaults
Added action to restart trails (GH: #1030)
Added "current vertical" line (GH: #1175)
Added support custom time steps for ephemeris in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1176)
Added ability to show several objects' ephemerides in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1177)
Added using texture for satellite, when he crossing of the Moon or the Sun
Added automatic saving changes of satellites properties in Satellites plugin (GH: #1066)
Added instructions for building Stellarium from source code
Added new groups of satellites: all new groups of satellites based on their orbital properties
Added info about altitude classifications for geocentric orbits in Satellites plugin
Added pixel grid for sensors to Ocular plugin (GH: #1198)
Added keyboard shortcut for toggle focuser overlay to Oculars plugin
Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle sensor crop overlay to Oculars plugin
Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle sensor pixel grid to Oculars plugin
Added show a binning info for CCD to Oculars GUI Panel
Added option into GUI to toggle drawing halo around the Moon (GH: #914)
Added keep selection of ephemeris item when coordinate system is changed in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1199)
Added keyboard handling in additional to mouse selection for visualization of selected marker in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1200)
Added new way to select ocular elements to Oculars plugin: You can now switch between various ocular elements through double-click on the items (eyepieces/lenses/telescopes/sensors) in the main menu of the Oculars plugin (GH: #1193)
Added small improvement for sensor view mode to Oculars plugin: the cross in the center was modify: it rotating by 45° now and has a permanent size in 10 px (GH: #1206)
Added small improvement for sensor view mode to Oculars plugin: the text about the crop size now may be marked by [*] for 2 reasons: the crop size is larger than sensor size or when crop size is not multiple of binning (GH: #1206)
Added fix for better handling of comet orbit visualisation
Added planet name for nomenclature item as context data: better in search dialog and makes unique strings
Added new names for planetary features
Added tool to remember last entered objects in Search tool (GH: #1050, #1168)
Added enforce updates for Lists in Search tool to get an variable parts of list (GH: #1226)
Added star names for Western (O. Hlad) sky culture (GH: #1170)
Added key binding for toggle visibility of groups of satellites (GH: #982)
Added new categories for AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1230)
Added new category for AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1230)
Added methods to search DSO when they have coordinates in disabled catalogs (esp. for the Bookmark tool and some AstroCalc tools)
Added CLI option to start Stellarium in scaling GUI mode
Added new group of objects "Solar system bodies: minor bodies" to predict opposition of asteroids into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Added note to S&T sky culture (GH: #1244)
Added including name of a bookmarked Marker object for highlights (GH: #1260)
Added including designation of a bookmarked object without common name for highlights
Added support of new type of labels (labelEquatorial) for scripting engine
Added 3 new groups of satellites
Added tool to disable an inherited options in Oculars plugin
Added tool to define value of transparency of the semi-transparent mask in eyepiece mode in Oculars plugin
Added buttons to define special colors for satellites in Satellites plugin
Added International Designator info into the GUI of Satellites plugin
Added epoch of the TLE info into GUI of Satellites plugin
Added tooltips for both identifiers of satellites (Satellites plugin)
Added full names of groups as tooltips for wrapped names of groups (Satellites plugin)
Added a confirmation dialog for "Restore defaults" buttons (GH: #1277)
Fixed nutation and, with it, season beginning times
Fixed behaviour of AstroCalc/WUT tool
Fixed list of locations: remove duplicates of observatories
Fixed possible error in calculating the Contrast Index of nebulae (GH: #1145)
Fixed activity of button to switch in sources tab of Satellites plugin
Fixed small GUI issue when satellite tracking is enabled
Fixed crash for landscapes with added polygon (GH: #1143, #1179)
Fixed drawing satellite orbits
Fixed buttons background in Solar System Editor plugin
Fixed documents for enabling custom HiPS (GH: #1159)
Fixed display date format in main GUI
Fixed automatic setting of size for columns in shortcuts editor
Fixed trails related properties in SolarSystem (GH: #1030)
Fixed spurious recreation of trails (GH: #1030)
Fixed fade out for trails (GH: #1030)
Fixed behaviour of GUI options for planetary orbits and trails
Fixed changes in trails when time stopped (GH: #1174)
Fixed main GUI issue
Fixed AstroCalc GUI issue
Fixed few tooltips
Fixed few translatable lines in the standard GUI
Fixed remember customized object informations settings (GH: #1184)
Fixed translation special groups after change the language in Satellites plugin
Fixed size of buttons in the GUI of the Satellites plugin
Fixed availability of "Remove satellites" button in the GUI of the Satellites plugin
Fixed linguistic issue in the GUI of main application and plugins
Fixed switch to native planet names when skyculture is changed in AstroCalc tools (GH: #1203)
Fixed keyboard jumps for GUI of the Oculars plugin
Fixed saving properties of Special Markers (GH: #1201)
Fixed errors in DSO catalog (SNR G subsystem; GH: #1208)
Fixed calculation an approximate visual magnitude for Starlink DarkSat
Fixed find an initial step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1219)
Fixed handling of keyboard shortcuts: saving an empty keyboard shortcuts allow to stay primary and alternative shortcuts as they was defined by user (GH: #1222)
Fixed translation of key binding description for "Field of View" feature when language is changed
Fixed saving keyboard shortcuts
Fixed rounding issue (GH: #1153)
Fixed security issue in RemoteControl plugin (GH: #1233)
Fixed load of location from landscape at startup (GH: #1237)
Fixed the Reticulum system object designation (GH: #1250)
Fixed restore scaling for minor bodies in Oculars plugin (GH: #1258)
Fixed GUI behaviour for AstroCalc tool (GH: #1230)
Fixed misprints and typos in Chinese sky cultures (GH: #1266, #1268)
Fixed issue an including regions (or DSO without designations) as bookmarks (GH: #1267)
Fixed parser of COSPAR ID data (International Designator) in Satellites plugin
Fixed apply transit color for satellites in the iconic mode (GH: #1279)
Fixed star magnitude limits in Oculars plugin: better handling of auto-computed or manually set limiting magnitudes (GH: #400, #1285)
Changed default value for flag "displayed" of satellites
Changed limits of properties for orbital lines of satellites (GH: #1148)
Changed button labels in Bookmarks tool (GH: #916)
Changed trails behaviour: don't reset trails when just adapting thickness (GH: #1030)
Changed trails behaviour: disable trails for "observer" planets (GH: #1030)
Changed trails behaviour: handle removal of trails with time moving backwards (GH: #1030)
Changed trails behaviour: reset trails when time jumps too far (GH: #1030)
Changed limits for focal length of eyepices and magnification of binoculars (GH: #1178)
Changed upper limit for angular filter of DSO
Changed GUI for manage sources of TLE in the Satellites plugin (GH: #738)
Changed behaviour: re-enabled scrolling to newly added locations
Changed behaviour: disabled button to toggle crosshairs for eyepieces with permanent crosshairs (GH: #1247)
Changed upper limit for FOV markers (special + Telrad/Oculars): the limits was increased up to 28 degrees for circular/Telrad FOV and up to 180 degrees for rectangular FOV (GH: #1196)
Changed the priority level of drawing for Observability Analysis plugin (GH: #1194)
Changed modeling Starlink magnitudes: calculation of approx. visual magnitude for Starlink satellites based on Anthony Mallama's paper
Changed text of warning for mismatch of version of DSO catalog: improved an error message for the user
Changed behaviour of dialog rendering: disable dialog render cache (GH: #830, #393, #1007)
Changed behaviour of polygonal landscapes: get rid of a configuration flag (GH: #1239)
Changed limits for allow separation input field (up to 20 degrees) in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Changed initial time steps for some type of objects in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Changed selection of celestial bodies behaviour for oppositions in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Changed behaviour of Telescope Control plugin: re-enabled the option to autoconnect ASCOM-based mounts (GH: #1269, #1243, #1164)
Changed behaviour of Oculars plugin: the input box to define the scale factor of arrows was changed to use percentage
Changed distance between buttons "Restore defaults" and "Save settings" in the GUI of plugins (GH: #1277)
Updated minimum required Qt version to 5.7.0 (GH: #1138)
Updated Indian Vedic sky culture: Nakshatras and Rashis as stars, asterisms and constellations. (GH: #930)
Updated URL of main website to use HTTPS (GH: #1139)
Updated tool to check version of satellites.json file (reducing a number of upgrading the file)
Updated code for search stars by designations (code refactoring)
Updated HiPS tool: switched to retrieve of HiPS properties from MocServer
Updated code: solve a few casting warnings
Updated code: sanitize type mismatches
Updated code: removed obsolete QSignalMapper
Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
Updated list of contributors of Oculars plugin
Updated Milky Way texture: deleted Spica's glow
Updated translations (GH: #1210, #1211)
Updated the technical notes to the Satellites plugin
Updated translations of landscapes description
Updated translations of sky cultures description
Updated 3D scenery: increase brightness of Sterngarten model materials
Updated default list of satellites
Updated three DSO textures (GH: #1271)
Updated GUI for updating data for Meteor showers plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Historical supernovae plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Bright novae plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Pulsars plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Quasars plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Satellites plugin
Updated GUI for updating data for Exoplanets plugin
Removed the observers from calculations in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Removed limits for declination of objects in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1162)
Removed sort rules from AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1229)
Removed unused pixel size in Oculars plugin (GH: #432)
Removed unused data and code (code refactoring)
Removed orbit_visualisation_period parameter for comets in Solar System Editor plugin
Removed "Save changes" button from the GUI of the Satellites plugin
Removed the step "remove data from previous installation" from Windows installer
Removed outdated documents
Removed outdated code

New in Portable Stellarium 0.20.2 (Aug 6, 2020)

Added rectangular sensor crop overlay support [Oculars] (GH: #1069)
Added support newly marker in Search Tool (Position and Settings tabs) [Search Tool]
Added new features for scripting engine: extend the JavaScript classes corresponding to Vec3f and Vec3d [Scripting]
Added options to be able to define and use custom FOV circles for Telrad [Oculars] (GH: #1057)
Added VecMath tests for the new functions (GH: #1055)
Added VecMath feature: Vector/QColor conversions (GH: #1055)
Added feature to set current date and time as initial data when AstroCalc/Ephemeris is open [AstroCalc]
Added notification for user when version of DSO catalog is mismatched
Added support Trumpler Catalogue (Tr or Trumpler) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Added support Stock Catalogue (St or Stock) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Added support Ruprecht Catalogue (Ru or Ruprecht) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Added support "van den Bergh-Hagen Catalogue" (VdB-Ha) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Added support search by long name for Trumpler, Stock, Ruprecht, Collinder and Melotte catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
Added new type of DSO objects: region of the sky [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
Added special case for improve DSO regions visibility [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
Added outlines for DSO regions [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
Added marker of center of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
Added circular marker of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
Added rectangular marker of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
Added tool for adjustable thickness of the planetary trails (GH: #1087)
Added tool for adjustable line thickness for ephemeris lines (GH: #1087)
Added tool for adjustable thickness of the planetary orbits
Added a column, showing the elevation of the object at transit times into AstroCalc/WUT tool [AstroCalc] (GH: #1089)
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: regions of the sky [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: pulsars (the category available if Pulsars plugin is loaded and pulsars are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: bright nova stars (the category available if Bright Novae plugin is loaded) [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: bright supernova stars (the category available if Historical Supernovae plugin is loaded) [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: exoplanetary systems (the category available if Exoplanets plugin is loaded and exoplanets are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: active galaxies (this category may include additional quasars if Quasars plugin is loaded and quasars are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: interacting galaxies [AstroCalc]
Added new unit tests for DeltaT
Added tool to guess the group of satellites by their names [Satellites]
Added new groups of satellites [Satellites]
Added method to check state of loading for the plugins
Added column Elevation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool [AstroCalc]
Added default groups for some satellites from default JSON catalog [Satellites]
Added missing tool for define color of regions of the sky
Added regions of the sky into Lists of Search Tool [Search Tool]
Added tool to export version of Stellarium through StelProperty and Remote Control plugin
Added display of epoch of the TLE for artificial satellites [Satellites] (GH: #1096)
Added new flag for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
Added better arrangement of InfoString entries for planets, comets and minor planets
Added highlighting for string literals between apostrophes for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added highlighting for regular expressions for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added highlighting for multiline comments for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added highlighting for exponential numeric format for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added highlighting for hexadecimal numeric literals for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added separate highlighting of predefined names from that of keywords for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added red highlighting for unknown methods of Stellarium modules for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added highlighting for methods of StelSkyDrawer and core for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Added penumbral and umbral magnitudes during lunar eclipse (GH: #1113)
Added comments for scripters [Scripting]
Added radar cross-section (RCS) data for satellites [Satellites]
Added calculate approximaged visual magnitude for satellites from their RCS value [Satellites]
Added special case for set RCS value for Starlink satellites [Satellites]
Added option to allow drawing of landscape polygon only, if a polygon is defined [Landscapes]
Added option to allow a polygon to be drawn in the foreground (out of regular call sequence) [Landscapes]
Added option to allow landscape polygon overdrawn onto the 3D scenery [Scenery3D]
Fixed GUI and minor redesign of remaining icons [GUI] (GH: #752, #951)
Added computation an approximated angular size of satellites (the linear size is obtained from RCS value and we use spherical shape for satellites) [Satellites]
Added special case for computation an approximated angular size of ISS (we are defined linear size of ISS by "hands") [Satellites]
Added tool to display a focuser overlay in the sensor view [Oculars] (GH: #1110)
Added checking conflicts for keyboard shortcuts with informing user if conflicts are exist (GH: #1025)
Added tool to rescale oversize textures on-the-fly (GH: #1121)
Added show a fuchsia-colored replacement texture for wrong filename (GH: #1121)
Added NORAD numbers in addition to name of artificial satellite in Satellites Import Dialog for available for search [Satellites]
Added function to compute distance between locations, on a flattened planet, in km
Added geographic coordinates of center line for total and annular solar eclipse (GH: #1116)
Fixed security issue for jquery (CVE-2020-11022; GH: #1073)
Fixed magnitudes for planetary nebulae [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #913)
Fixed data for "Part of a Galaxy" objects [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #996)
Fixed work for clipboard in Script Console tool: avoid effects caused by QTextEdit after copy-paste from HTML pages. [Scripting] (GH: #1070)
Fixed telescope syncing for INDI [Telescope Control] (GH: #1065)
Fixed “Uninitialized members” issue in Script Console [Scripting]
Fixed VecMath features: moved vector/string conversion previously in StelUtils to the VecMath classes (GH: #1055)
Fixed VecMath feature: moved un-inlineable definitions to separate cpp file (GH: #1055)
Fixed proper motion output (GH: #1006, #1041)
Fixed time delay with planet movement information (GH: #1006, #1103)
Fixed cross-id data for open clusters [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
Fixed designations for van den Bergh catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Fixed descriptions for van den Bergh catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
Fixed crash in scripting method core.setObserverLocation() when planet is not defined or not exist [Scripting]
Fixed core.setObserverLocation() behaviour: avoid duplicating a country if script programmer provides one [Scripting] (GH: #1076)
Fixed object type info for meteor showers [Meteor Showers]
Fixed crash when lens are deleted in Oculars plugin [Oculars] (GH: #1078)
Fixed (a temporary fix) crash Stellarium when autoconnect is enabled for ASCOM device, but device is not attached [Telescope Control] (GH: #928)
Fixed wrong approximated visual magnitude of satellites [Satellites]
Fixed guessing groups of satellites [Satellites]
Fixed possible cache problem for magnitudes
Fixed casting warnings
Fixed topocentric/geocentric corrections for ArchaeoLines plugin [ArchaeoLines]
Fixed crash AstroCalc/WUT tool when required plugin is not loaded [AstroCalc]
Fixed docs and tooltips
Fixed visibility of deep-sky regions of the sky
Fixed work of regions of the sky in AstroCalc/Positions tool [AstroCalc]
Fixed missing object in Bennett's list of deep-sky objects (switched to synonym of missed object) [Search Tool]
Fixed missing object in Dunlop's list of deep-sky objects (switched to synonym of missed object) [Search Tool]
Fixed visual style for dialog to define custom equation of DeltaT
Fixed crossquarter declinations in ArchaeoLines plugin [ArchaeoLines]
Fixed updating timezones when loading landscapes/sceneries
Fixed updating location panel when off-screen
Fixed a deprecation warning for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
Fixed broken highlighting for quoted string literals for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Fixed broken highlighting for line comment for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Fixed indentation problems in the code
Fixed crash when removing already removed selection of constellations (GH: #1104)
Fixed jumping of the Moon
Fixed visibility for telescope selector when image sensor frame enabled after binocular [Oculars] (GH: #1108)
Fixed saving thickness of the planetary trails and orbits
Fixed context data for unit measure in Satellites plugin [Satellites]
Fixed a stupid bug in ArchaeoLines [ArchaeoLines]
Fixed sign of one element in the matrix sequence for nutation
Fixed Scripting Engine bug: a script isn't terminated properly via the stop script button [Scripting] (GH: #1118)
Fixed crash when texture isn't found (GH: #1121)
Fixed the maximum size of CCD: increased limit of sensor size to 100000 pixels [Oculars] (GH: #1123)
Fixed visual artifacts on the sky (GH: #475, #1126)
Fixed bug in Vec3d constructor for scripting engine [Scripting]
Fixed shader bug visible during Total Solar Eclipses only
Updated default settings for InnoSetup Script (.iss) file
Updated Stellarium User Guide
Updated morphological classification of open clusters [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
Updated subsystem to obtain the standard magnitudes of artificial satellites [Satellites]
Updated method for load standard magnitudes and RCS data for satellites [Satellites]
Updated size of window resize border to reduce difficulties to their resize (GH: #937, #1099)
Updated InfoString block for artificial satellites [Satellites]
Updated minimum height of artificial satellite to check the valid orbit [Satellites]
Updated default source of Starlink TLE's [Satellites]
Changed behaviour of GUI in Satellites tab in Satellites plugin [Satellites]
Changed AstroCalc/WUT tool behaviour: radiogalaxies, active galaxies, quasars, blazars and BL Lac objects was moved from 'Galaxies' category into 'Active galaxies' category [AstroCalc]
Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/WUT tool: let's use visual magnitude for all objects without extinction data [AstroCalc]
Changed "Arguments" to "arguments" for highlighter in Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Removed obsolete scripting methods from StarMgr class [Scripting]
Removed duplicate code for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
Removed "Global" from highlighter in Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
Removed unused variables

New in Portable Stellarium 0.19.1.1 (Aug 10, 2019)

Added allow to search an inactive meteor showers in Search Tool/Lists tool
Added 'Azimuth vs. Time' graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
Added feature to show tracks for latest several selected planets (GH: #539)
Added calculation and showing the orbital period for artificial satellites
Added revolutions per day info for artificial satellites
Added tools for jumping to the next or previous time of rising, transit or setting for selected object (GH: #484)
Added new behavoir for AstroCalc/Graphs when clicking within graph area now sets current time.
Added simplification in topocentric correction (GH: #391)
Added parallactic angle function (added it to infostring and infomap also)
Added hour angle and sidereal time to infomap
Added apply rotation when drawing Solar Corona (GH: #699)
Fixed draw corona when atmosphere is switched off
Fixed airmass in infomap
Fixed issue in script 'Mercury Triple Sunrise and Sunset'
Fixed crash of Stellarium for eyepieces with permanent crosshair
Fixed Stellarium crash when Remote Control plugin is working
Fixed computation of assume radius for minor planets.
Fixed the issue of the scrolling not working properly on Mac (GH: #393)
Fixed crash in Scripting Engine (Hide artificial satellites through StelProperties in core.clear() method
to avoid crash if plugin was didn't loaded)
Fixed planetarium crash in HiPS (network manager delete problem)
Fixed position problems on the Poles (GH: #391)
Fixed scaling Telrad sign on HighDPI monitors
Fixed surface occlusion bug even with landscape turned off in scripting engine (GH: #680)
Fixed building with cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON (GH: #683)
Fixed error in constellation file format (Babylonian)
Fixed Europe/Volgograd time zone settings (GH: #686)
Fixed HiPS handling of allsky download (GH: #671)
Fixed progress bar rendering (GH: #671)
Fixed positive declinations issue in AstroCalc tool when option 'Use decimal degrees' is enabled (GH: #690)
Fixed file names inconsistency
Fixed constellation line in "Japanese Moon Stations" skyculture
Fixed file name for constellation boundaries in Stellarium User Guide
Fixed the user interface problems in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
Fixed getting the wrong values in objects/info method for selected object for different formats (Remote Control plugin)
Fixed refresh plots when AstroCalc dialog becomes visible again (AstroCalc/Graphs tool)
Fixed jquery vulnerability (GH: #694)
Fixed date and time dialog behaviour: Hour/Minute/Second spinners now correctly trigger signals dateChanged(), dateChangedByYear and dateChangedForMonth() when days, months or years are affected by it.
Fixed update graphs in AstroCalc/Graphs tool when days change
Updated planetary nomenclature
Updated common names of stars and DSO's
Updated cmake rules for Windows deployment
Updated DSO textures
Updated behaviour of HiPS survey if Stellarium started without network (GH: #681)
Updated GUI for ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #689, #682)
Updated default pulsars catalog (v1.60)
Updated list of asterisms
Updated AstroCalc tools: many optimizations
Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package

New in Portable Stellarium 0.18.2 (Aug 23, 2018)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.18.1 (Aug 1, 2018)

Full list of changes:
Added dithering support
Added filtering for pulsars
Added option for Telrad
Added nomenclature for Charon
Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
Added support Mandarin Chinese language
Added support of hi-res screenshots (GH: #141)
Added few small improvements for Quasars plugin
Added tooltips for color buttons in Pulsars plugin
Added option to hiding invisible satellites in markers mode (GH: #145)
Added angular size for the estimated values of coma and gas tail for comet
Added support decimal degrees for size of DSO
Added improvements for proportional size textures for large DSO (GH: #159)
Added atmospheric mixing and extinction handling to Toast Survey (GH: #158)
Added Korean translation for landscape description (GH: #170)
Added shortkeys for change light pollution (GH: #171)
Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects (GH: #169)
Added info about duration of the solar day
Added scripting function to retrieve environment variables.
Added changeability of magnitude limit for stars through keyboard shortcuts (GH: #174)
Added Korean ISL File and Update iss.cmake (GH: #185)
Added allowing storing script output to absolute path
Added equatorial radius / diameter info for Solar system bodies
Added calculation of equatorial rotation velocity for Solar system bodies (except comets)
Added 2 more lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
Fixed load the HiPS sources through proxy
Fixed creating screenshots on retina displays
Fixed behaviour Macbook's touchpad
Fixed result of dithering color components with exactly zero tail
Fixed dithering for OpenGL ES2
Fixed enabling various lines when Telrad is enabled (GH: #109)
Fixed error in DSO catalogs filter
Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI (LP: #1764084, GH: #144)
Fixed compile with Qt5.10 (Windows/Visual Studio 2015) (GH: #139)
Fixed visibility of splash screen (GH: #142)
Fixed rendering asterisms names
Fixed editing telescope properties for Telescope Control plugin
Fixed memory leak of Bayer pattern texture in StelPainter (GH: #154)
Fixed HiPS server requests (GH: #156)
Fixed infotext brightness when planets are switched off
Fixed crash after customization of absolute/relative scales
Fixed operational status string for satellites
Fixed incorrect pair counts in constellationship.fab files (GH: #167)
Fixed color issue for formatting infostring
Fixed selection in AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed fullscreen toggle on Mac OS X (GH: #193)
Fixed User Agent string for HiPS
Fixed the SSO isolated trails checkbox. (GH: #199)
Fixed a rendering bug with spheric mirror distortion (LP: #1777320)
Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
Updated help of Telescope Control plugin
Updated HiPS behaviour: try to use caching as much as possible
Updated user agent string for HiPS browser
Updated nomenclature list
Updated main GUI
Updated GUI of plugins
Updated Satellites plugin
Updated GPS handling
Updated list of contributors
Updated catalog of pulsars
Updated behaviour of Search Tool for craters
Updated Quasars plugin
Updated format for DSO's size
[SUG] Updated year for copyright notices
Updated Korean Star Names (GH: #173)
Updated hyperlinks for DOIs resolver (GH: #187)
Updated CMake rules for Windows/MSVC (GH: #183, #188)
Updated textures
Updated Scripting Engine: extended behaviour for includes files in scripts
Updated the code: remove some redundant calls to increase code readability. (GH: #184)
Updated the code: replaces foreach macro by C++11 range-based for. (GH: #195)
Updated the code: remove gVector, use Vec3d instead. (GH: #197)
Updated the code: C++11 auto to replace complicated hand written types. (GH: #196)
Updated the code: disable debug logging on OpenGLES mode. (GH: #201)
Updated the code: remove the null pointer check after new. (GH: #202)
Updated the code: check struct size by using static_assert. (GH: #203)
Updated the code: put dwarf galaxies and h400 tables into static array. (GH: #204)
Updated the code: call getDecYear in getDeltaTByEspenakMeeus. (GH: #205)
Updated the code: remove some new/delete pairs, just use variables on stack. (GH: #206)
Updated CMake code: enable persistent usage of C++11 standard for compiling (GH: #192)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.17.0 (Dec 28, 2017)

The major changes of this version:
Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
Added improvements for Oculars plugin
Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
Updated code and data
Full list of changes:
Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
Added templates for translation of planetary features nomenclature
Added support of movement to selected nomenclature item
Added new tab for AstroCalc tool: Planetary Calculator
Added Icelandic translation for a couple of skycultures
Added another OS detection logging function
Added new landscape: the Sun
Added Russian translation for new landscape
Added filters for nomenclature (Search Tool/Lists)
Added support plural forms for translation (LP: #1561457)
Added deselectConstellations() method to public area
Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemerides tool
Added sane defaults to Planets
Added subclasses to the list of Solar system objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
Added config option to allow make visible orbits for major planets only (LP: #1720722)
Added rule to allow to hide nomenclature on the celestial body of observer (LP: #1723742)
Added context support for Solar system bodies
Added angular size filter for DSO
Added shortcut for nomenclature
Added plus/minus keys for elevation change on Macs without PgUp/PgDn
Added better font scaling for HiDPI Macs
Added detection method info for exoplanets
Added visual resolution info for Oculars plugin
Added GUI options for color of exoplanet marker
Added a default for night mode
Added API command to retrieve view direction in RemoteControl plugin
Added API commands into RemoteControl plugin: allow view setting jNow, harmonize capitalisation for the parameters.
Added velocity display to Planets, MinorPlanets and Comets
Added improvements for AstroCalc/PC tool
Added orbital velocities for AstroCalc/PC tool
Added special case for long list of "also known as" names
Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
Added Caucasian Mountain Observatory to locations list
Added option to select temperature scale to the Exoplanets plugin
Added option to allow scaling of Ocular buttons (LP: #1507205)
Added new option to the Navigational Stars plugin
Added checkboxes for DSO catalogs (PN G, SNR G, ACO) in Remote Control plugin
Added wikilinks for names of Solar system bodies
Fixed filter for limiting by DSO mangitudes
Fixed TestStelJsonParser fails (LP: #1719076)
Fixes and additions for French descriptions
Fixed context support for constellations
Fixed sort order for 'Peak' in Meteor showers search (LP: #1719939)
Fixed location for stellarium.appdata.xml file
Fixed stupid bug for asterisms in Search Tool/Lists
Fixed some back-side issues of nomenclature (LP: #1721815)
Fixed crash for Custom Objects (LP: #1722527)
Fixed output data for Exoplanets plugin
Fixed potential crash for nomenclature and inconsistency of data
Fixed light speed correction issue for nomenclature items (LP: #1724517)
Fixed annoying malfunction in Oculars plugin (lost of tracking) (LP: #1724106)
Fixed the new moons' rotation times
Fixed selecting of comets in AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed behaviour and style of tool for download star catalog
Fixed infostring for satellite features
Fixed centering/tracking issues for Nomenclature feature (LP: #1721818)
Fixed small Coverity issue
Fixed bug of positions for nomenclature when Solar system data is reloaded
Fixed shader for planet texture rendering (LP: #1731788)
Fixed sign for declination coordinate for Southern Iota Aquarids
Fixed behaviour of Velocity checkbox
Fixed Oculars GUI Panel behaviour: disabled event processing on the sky under GUI
Fixed ray helpers lines behaviour in Oculars plugin
Fixed crossid info of alpha2 centauri (LP: #1734396)
Fixed Oculars plugin mouse bug on retina display
Fixed wrong unit of measurement for distance
Fixed mouse cursor hidding
Fixed zero-filled initial date/time window issue (LP: #1409935)
Fixed crash of Stellarium when flag for decimal degrees usage is changed
Fixed regressions introduced by recent LabelMgr refactoring
Updated default settings of build environment for Windows and Mac OS X
Updated ICU rules for Qt 5.9+
Updated Oculars plugin (Allows accessing via RemoteControl)
Updated list of DSO outlines (port from HNSKY)
Updated list of DSO names
Updated behaviour of auto-load landscape when moving to selected planet
Updated scripts and their descriptions
Updated Bengali description of landscapes
Updated list of planetary nomenclature
Updated list of official star names
Updated default time step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Updated behaviour of flag for orbits to renew visibility of orbits
Updated GUI items in the View dialog
Updated list of ray helpers
Updated protocols for MPC
Updated Triangulum constellation lines
Updated the solar system screen saver script
Updated code for beta versions naming
Updated Chinese skyculture
Improved performance for AstroCalc tool
Improved performance for Nomenclature feature
Code refactoring

New in Portable Stellarium 0.16.1 (Oct 4, 2017)

Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
Added support of IAU moon numbers
Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
Added support of extra physical data for asteroids
Added support of outlines for DSO
Added new time step: saros
Added new time step: 7 sidereal days
Added more checks to the network connections
Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
Added support for ray helpers
Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
Added missing cross-id data
Added support an images within description of landscapes
Added support Visual Studio 2017 in StelLogger
Added tool to save list of objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
Added tool to save celestial positions of objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
Added temporary solution for bug 1498616 (LP: #1498616)
Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
Fixed HMS formatting
Fixed generating ISS script
Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
Fixed tool for saving options
Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
Fixed search by lists of DSO
Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
Fixed trackpad behaviour on macOS though workaround
Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
Fixed morphology for SNR
Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Fixed link for fileStructure.html file in README (LP: #1709523)
Fixed the calculation for drawing a reticle on a HiDPI display (Oculars plugin)
Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)
Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism
Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
Fixed magnitude computation for Jupiter's satellites
Fixed crash of Stellarium when answer of freegeoip.net has wrong format (for example this host blocked by firewall or DNS server with HTML answer) (LP: #1706187)
Fixed translations issue in Script Console
Fixed illumination in Scenery3D plugin: Take eclipseFactor into account
Fixed potential crash in DSO outlines
Fixed various issues in ray helpers, asterisms and constellations support
Updated InfoString feature
Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
Updated Maori sky culture
Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
Updated list of asterisms
Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
Updated API docs
Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool
Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
Updated rules for storing default settings
Updated rules for computation visibility of DSO hints
Updated plugins
Updated default values for material fade-in/fade-out times
Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
Updated tab rules in the GUI
Reduce warnings to one when loading OBJ with non-default w texture/vertex coordinates

New in Portable Stellarium 0.16.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

Added support of irregular solar system objects (3D models of minor bodies) (LP: #1153171)
Added Remote Sync plugin
Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
Added splitting ssystem.ini data - now have separate ssystem_major.ini and ssystem_minor.ini. Only the latter shall be editable for the users.
Added a few more timezone replacements.
Added support an asterisms for the sky cultures
Added better identification for existing serial ports for GPS
Added context support for constellations and asterisms names
Added support RTS2 for Telescope Control Plugin
Added a new option in config.ini file esp. for the planetariums (astro/
flag_forced_meteor_activity=(false|true) - to show a sporadic meteors activity without atmosphere).
Added support of date and time formatting settings from main app to AstroCalc tool.
Added a line for the approximate time of the meridian passing in AstroCalc tool (LP: #1652523)
Added TLE tracking to RTS2 telescopes
Added different star scales in the Oculars plugin, even separately for ocular and CCD views (LP: #1656940)
Added information on magnification of the combination of eyepiece/lens/telescope in proportions of the telescope diameters.
Added configurable options to AstroCalc tool
Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
Added support Kabyle language
Added 'What's Up Tonight' tool - AstroCalc subsystem (LP: #1080408)
Added Dark Doodad Nebula to DSO catalog
Added more data for analysis to the Exoplanets plugin.
Added calculation of list of visible object for current location (AstroCalc)
Added tool to remove custom markers by coordinates
Added support double and variable stars for AstroCalc tool
Added support translation novae names (parse nova name to extract constellation name and year of flash)
Added lists of bright double and bright variable stars to Search Tool
Added customized buttons for toggle ICRS/Galactic/Ecliptic grids (LP: #730689)
Added customized buttons for toggle constellation boundaries (LP: #1249239)
Added import/export bookmarks (LP: #1675078)
Added confirmation before deleting landscape (LP: #1635137)
Added guessing for name of location and use it when spaceship is landing (LP: #1220561)
Added an 'Additional settings' block for selected object info
Added showing a proper motions for some stars
Added an optional indication of mount mode (LP: #1172860)
Added option to toggle the usage the buttons background on bottom bar (LP: #1589702)
Added config option for planet apparent magnitude configuration
Added description to the planets magnitude algorithm
Added contrast index for DSO
Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
Added new option to configure behaviour of Satellites (Satellites/time_rate_limit = 1.0)
Added a scripting function to retrieve property names (helpful for configuring RemoteSync).
Added 3 additional catalogs to our DSO catalog (Arp, VV, PK)
Added packing of DSO catalog
Added the showing the groups of the artificial satellites
Added Belarusian sky culture
Adding Hawaiian Starlines sky culture
Added list of bright stars with high proper motion to the Search Tool/Lists and AstroCalc/Positions features
Added lunar magnitude to sky brightness computation (brightness variation during lunar eclipses!) (LP: #1471546)
Added property handling for the labels for ArchaeoLines plugin.
Added Ukrainian translation for Belarusian skyculture
Added Ukrainian translation for Hawaiian Starlines skyculture
Added context and improve English phrase (AstroCalc)
Added missed zh_HK zh_TW zh_CN descriptions for western sky-culture (LP: #1698473)
Added Belarusian description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698535)
Added Bengali description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698608)
Added 'simulation speed' for tooltip of time (LP: #1698510)
Added saving an angular separation option for phenomena
Fixed crash when tried use of SIMBAD for offline mode (LP: #1674836)
Fixed build scripts to update Index once more just before final run.
Fixed COSPAR designation parser.
Fixed wrong extinction coordinate frame of Zodiacal Light (LP: #1675699)
Fixed a missing initialisation (avoids crash at program end)
Fixed bug for loading default scenery on non-Englush locale in Scenery3D plugin
Fixed typo in name of dark nebula LDN 935 (LP: #1679066)
Fixed Scripting Engine: avoiding broken script when calling waitFor() after the point in time to wait.
Fixed infoMap data for comets.
Fixed issue of reloading of DSO names when filter of catalogs is updated.
Fixed small cosmetic bug for SIMBAD status line.
Fixed the opposition/conjunction longitude line: the line follows the ecliptic pole on date now (LP: #1687307)
Fixed very stupid bug for Date & Time dialog.
Fixed translation on-the-fly issue for AstroCalc tool.
Fixed IAU constellation label for stars with high proper motion (LP: #1690615)
Fixed crash when AstroCalc tool is active and we are on the spaceship
Fixed several Coverity issues
Fixed bug which disabled the bright flare-type Iridium point source drawing
Fixed fullscreen behaviour on switching tasks (Alt+Tab) (LP: #550337)
Fixed dynamic eye adaptation behaviour when persistent orbits are enabled
Fixed switching horizontal/equatorial coordinates for Solar system objects (AstroCalc/Positions)
Fixed crash when observer is flying on spaceship
Fixed storing torchlight and coordinate display flag to config (Scenery3D) (LP: #1502245)
Fixed placing a custom markers on HighDPI devices (LP: #1688985)
Fixed infostring for ecliptical coordinates data (Nutation)
Fixed strings consistency for Solar System Editor plug-in (LP: #1698783)
Fixed string overlap with FOV and FPS labels (LP: #1698789)
Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
Updated Scenery3D plugin
Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
Updated rule to create a directory for screenshots (LP: #1626686)
Updated GUI: refactoring blocks
Updated a GUI behaviour: a map in LocationDialog resizable is now.
Updated a GUI behaviour: enabled low resolution for High DPI devices.
Updated a GUI: added a few GUI text improvements
Updated InnoSetup script
Updated and revised stars names
Updated Historical Supernovae catalog (Added SN 2017cbv)
Updated meteor showers catalog (Added data for year 2017)
Updated AstroCalc tool: increased an accuracy of 'Altitude vs. Time' diagram
Updated AstroCalc tool: speed-up calculations for some types of phenomena
Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
Updated AstroCalc tool: improve WUT
Updated filters for DSO objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
Updated sorting rules for AstroCalc/Positions tool
Updated filters for Solar system bodies (AstroCalc/Positions)
Updated tab rules for Search Tool
Updated list of locations
Updated scripts and scripting engine
Updated list of DSO's names
Updated headers for AstroCalc tools
Updated 'Go to home' feature.
Updated Bookmarks tool.
Updated API documentation
Updated Exoplanets plugin: improve placing of the exoplanet systems
Updated Oculars plugin: the limit for diameter of binoculars aperture upped to 200mm
Updated calculation for boundaries of IAU constellations
Updated default supernovae catalog
Updated Belarusian translation for skycultures
Updated cmake variable names
Updated Ocean landscape
Updated RemoteControl panels with new functionality
Updated rules for TLE updated: never update TLE's for any date before Oct 4, 1957, 19:28:34GMT ;-)
Removed script 'Analemma'
Removed useless vertex color data from asteroid models.
Removed Polynesian sky culture (replaced by Hawaiian starlines)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.15.2 (May 25, 2017)

The Stellarium development team after three months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.15.x - version 0.15.2. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from series 1.x) and some new additions and improvements.
We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).
A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!
Full list of changes:
Added new algorithm for DeltaT from Stephenson, Morrison and Hohenkerk (2016)
Added use QOpenGLWidget
Added new option to InfoString group
Added orbit visualization data for asteroids
Added calculation of extincted magnitudes of satellites
Added new type of Solar system objects: sednoids
Added classificator of objects into Solar System Editor plugin
Added albedo for infostring (planets and moons)
Added some improvements and clean up of code in Search Tool
Added use ISO 8601 to date formatting in Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1655630)
Added "Restore direction to initial values" in Oculars plugin (LP: #1656085)
Added the define for GL_DOUBLE again to restore compilation on ARM.
Added calculation and show of horizontal and vertical scales of visible field of view of CCD (LP: #1656825)
Added caching for landscapes, including preloading and some other manipulation via scripting.
Added binning for CCD in Oculars plugin
Added textures for DSO
Added a mean solar day (equals to Earth's day) on the Sun for educational purposes
Added transmitting map of object info via RemoteControl
Added int property handling with sliders
Added a scriptable function to retrieve landscape brightness.
Added Spout licence.txt to Windows installer script
Added displaying solstices points (LP: #1670046)
Added extension of objectInfoMaps per object, most useful for scripting (LP: #1670412)
Added tentative fix for crash without network (LP: #1667703)
Added separate storing of view direction/FoV and other settings.
Added Meade MA12 Astrometric Eyepiece support in Oculars plugin
Added option to change the prediction depth of Iridium flares (Satellites plugin)
Added tooltips for AstroCalc features
Fixed indirect dependency to QtOpenGL by QtMultimediaWidgets (LP: #1656525)
Fixed text encoding in installer (LP: #1652515)
Fixed changing value of n.dot in tooltip when ephemeris type is changed (LP: #1652762)
Fixed mistakes in DeltaT stuff
Fixed typos in AstroCalc tool
Fixed visual style for spinup/spindown markers
Fixed missing cross-id of Epsilon Lyrae (LP: #1653388)
Fixed updating a list of Solar system bodies in AstroCalc tool when new objects added or objects was removed
Fixed calculation of period for comets on elliptial orbits
Fixed prediction of Iridium flares (LP: #1643311)
Fixed saving visibility flag for Bookmarks button (LP: #1654164)
Fixed refraction for Satellites (LP: #1654331)
Fixed wrong parallax and distance for IC 59 (LP: #1655423)
Fixed updating a text in Help window when shortcuts are changed (LP: #1656001)
Fixed saving flags of visibility of Milky Way and Zodiacal Light (LP: #1656067)
Fixed memory leaks
Fixed few reports of Clang static analyzer
Fixed double clicks causing crashes (LP: #1656525)
Fixed packaging QtOpenGL in Windows/macOS packages
Fixed handling a log lines with missing newline char
Fixed a bad-value crash in ArchaeoLines plugin
Fixed an invalid escape sequence in RemoteControl plugin
Fixed bug in Search Tool (LP: #1655055)
Fixed doing a screenshots (do it via FBO - solution for QOpenGLWidget)
Fixed work a button for ArchaeoLines plugin
Fixed calculation and rendering CCD frame in Oculars plugin
Fixed an memory leak with the spheric mirror distorter, and removed stencil buffer from the effect FBO (we don't need it for our rendering) (LP: #1661375)
Fixed tile-based render performance (always glClear all buffers at the start of the frame) (LP: #1661375)
Fixed glClear alpha channel usage (glClear alpha to zero instead of one)
Fixed Scenery3d cubemap rendering (restores rendering)
Fixed crash, when location 'Sierra Nevada Observatory, Spain' is chosen (LP: #1662113)
Fixed NetBSD and OpenBSD build by linking glues with Qt5::Gui.
Fixed size for few DSO textures (NPOT textures for ancient GPUs) (LP: #1641773)
Fixed crash, when missing a stars catalog from the middle of list (e.g. stars4 is missing and we tried zooming) (LP: #1653315)
Fixed crash for configure color of generic DSO marker (LP: #1667787)
Fixed date limit in AstroCalc tool (Set a minimum possible date limit for the range of dates for
QDateTimeEdit widgets) (LP: #1660208)
Fixed escaping of symbols for Simbad Lookup (LP: #1669088)
Fixed DE431 mismatch (LP: #1606583)
Fixed overbright Sun when zooming in (LP: #1421173)
Fixed absolute magnitude calculation of the planets, their moons, and the Pluto-Charon system (LP: #1664143)
Fixed a long-standing bug concerning centering small-fov views in equatorial mount mode (LP: #1484976)
Fixed influencing sky luminance/eye adaptation for bright objects covered by the landscape horizon. (LP: #1138533)
Fixed atmospheric brightening by Earth's moon when location is on other planets (LP: #1673283)
Fixed application of DE43x DeltaT when date outside range of the selected DE43x.
Fixed Night mode issue for binocular mode of Oculars Plugin (LP: #1673187)
Fixed altitude computation for landscapes
Fixed a small error in that Zodiacal light was aligned with Ecliptic J2000, not Ecliptic of date (LP: #1628765)
Fixed crash Stellarium in debug mode on OS X with Qt 5.7+, through clear GL error state after using QPainter (LP: #1628072)
Fixed a problem with Qt timezone handling, when some IANA timezones have been renamed compared to entries in our location database (LP: #1662132)
Allows SkyImages in all reference frames and deprecate the old explicit core.loadSkyImageAltAz() type commands
Updated rules for usage of custom time zones (the custom time zone may be use in all time now) (LP: #1652763)
Updated shortcuts
Updated rules for source package builder
Updated URL of DSS collection
Updated detect of OS
Updated deployment rules for Windows installer
Updated script for building Stellarium User Guide
Updated GUI for set coefficients for custom equation of DeltaT
Updated list of contributors
Updated ArchaeoLines and Gridlines options to RemoteControl pages
Updated Tongan sky culture
Updated catalog of DSO
Updated common names of DSO
Updated star names (LP: #1664671)
Updated Solar System Screen Saver.
Updated Oculars plugin
Updated Satellites plugin (Let's start looking to the Iridium on 15 seconds before flash)
Updated plist data for macOS
Updated textures of minor planets
Updated default color scheme
Removed code for automatic tuning star scales of the view through ocular/CCD (LP: #1656940)
Code clean-up
Prevent an unnecessary StelProperty change
Changed the way the OpenGL format is set once again

New in Portable Stellarium 0.15.0 (Sep 11, 2016)

Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins (SoCiS2015 project)
Added StelProperty system (SoCiS2015 project)
Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota, Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
Added tentative support for screens with 4K resolution for Windows packages (LP: #1372781)
Enabled support for side-by-side assembly technology for Windows packages (LP: #1400045)
Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
Added improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows
Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
Added improvement for Search Tool
Added improvement for scripting engine
Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
Added initial support of subset of The Washington Double Star Catalog (LP: #1537449)
Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
Added new functions for Scripting Engine
Added new DSO textures
Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
Added visualization of ephemerides
Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
Added implementation of semi-transparent mask in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
Added hiding the halo when inner planet between Sun and observer (or moon between planet and observer) (LP: #1533647)
Added a tool for fill custom settings of position of Great Red Spot on Jupiter
Added Bookmarks tool (LP: #1106779)
Added new scripts: Best objects in the New General Catalog, The Jack Bennett Catalog, Binosky: Deep Sky Objects for Binoculars, Herschel 400 Tour, Binocular Highlights, 20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars, List of largest known stars
Added Circumpolar Circles (LP: #1590785)
Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
Allow polygonal horizons with many negative values (LP: #1554639)
Allow altitude-dependent twinkling for stars (LP: #1594065)
Allow display of sun's halo if sun is just outside viewport (LP: #1294498)
Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
Apply Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Longitude in DeltaT calculations (Source: Spencer Jones, H., 'The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets', MNRAS, 99 (1939), 541-558 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1939MNRAS..99..541S])
Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Mac's.
Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
Added support MSVC2015
Added automatic reloading catalogs after updating for some plugins
Added a tour of Messier Objects
Added fix to circumvent text rendering bug (CLI option: -t)
Introduce env variable STEL_OPTS to allow preconfiguring default CLI options.
Added option for hide background under buttons on bottom toolbar (LP: #1204639)
Added check position on the screen for orbits of satellites (LP: #1510530)
Added new option to changing behaviour of displaying of the labels of DSO on the screen (LP: #1600283)
Star catalogues has been updated from 'XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation' data.
Fixed validation of day in Date and Time dialog (LP: #1206284)
Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
Fixed some skyculture links
Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones.
Fixed online search tool for MPC website
Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)
Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)
Fixed proper detection of GLSL ES version on Raspberry Pi with VC4 driver (and maybe other devices).
Fixed odd DateTimeDialog behavior during daylight saving change
Fixed key handling issue on Mac OS X in Scenery3D (LP: #1566805)
Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
Fixed a loss of focus in the sky when you click on the button (LP: #1578773)
Fixed issue of getting location from network.
Fixed bug in visualization of opposition/conjunction longitude
Fixed crash of Navigational Stars plugin (LP: #1598375)
Fixed satellites mutual occultation (LP: #1389765)
Fixed NaN in landscape brightness computation (LP: #1597129)
Fixed oversized corona (LP: #1599513)
Fixed displaying common names of DSO after changes filters of catalogs (LP: #1600283)
Ensure Large File Support for DE431 also for ARM boards.
Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)
Make moon halo visible again even when below -45 degrees (LP: #1586796)
Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
Updated AstroCalc tool
Updated icons for View dialog
Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
Updated the search rules in the search dialog (LP: #1593965)
Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
Avoid issues around GLdouble in GLES2/ARM boards.
Reduce brightness of stars for ocular and CCD views
Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
Enabled permanent visualization of position angles for galaxies
Updated bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin
Updated default config options
Updated scripts
Updated shortcuts for scripts
Updated norwegian skyculture descriptions
Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
Updated and optimized GUI
Updated Navigational Stars plugin
Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)
Important optimizations of planet position computation
Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
Refactoring of the generating parts of the infrastructure (LP: #1571391)
Refactoring Telescope Control plugin
Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.2 (Feb 6, 2016)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.1 (Feb 6, 2016)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.0 (Nov 5, 2015)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.3 (May 1, 2015)

Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (B), Van den Bergh (VdB), Sharpless (Sh 2), H-a emission regions in the Southern Milky Way (RCW), Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), Collinder (Cr) and Melotte (Mel)
Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
Added Russian translation for Western: H.A. Rey skyculture
Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
Added patch for multiscreen setups
Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
Added new version of GCVS
Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT
Added new line on the celestial sphere - opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
Fixed bug in planet shadow shasder (LP: #1405353)
Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
Avoid crash when clicking 'Lookup locations on network' checkbox in Locations window (Debian: #779046)
Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.2 (Apr 27, 2015)

Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
Added zero landscape
Added new sky subculture - Arabic Moon Stations
Added new sky culture - Japanese Moon Stations
Added new sky culture - Siberian
Added new sky subculture - Western with R.A.Rey lines of constellations (LP: #1389360)
Added support native names of the planets for different cultures
Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions - zodiacal light - sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
Added improvements for Angle Measure, Compass Marks, Solar System Editor, Exoplanets and Observability Analysis plugins
Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
Added changes to RA's output precision
Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
Added management of Zodiacal Light into core.clear() method in Scripting Engine.
Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format - now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
Added a tool for planning a mosaic astrophotography: shows a small cross at center of CCD's frame and equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 of that center (LP: #1404695)
Added aliases for couple shortkeys (LP: #947937)
Added newlines support in satellite descriptions (LP: #869126)
Added possibility to have trail only for one planet (LP: #1318479)
Added missing Flamsteed designations of stars (LP: #1406048)
Added Guernsey Observatory to locations list
Added simple method to add a Solar system object
Added display of current Time Zone (LP: #1335513)
Added few TNO's and comets
Added alphabetical soft for list in Search Tool
Added Arabic description for landscapes (LP: #1409339, #1409340, #1409341, #1409342, #1409343, #1409344)
Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
Fixed a bug that did not account for HighDPI displays when drawing a CCD in Oculars
Fixed rendering of the orbits of Neptune's moons (LP: #834737)
Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
Fixed errors, related to the proper motion of some stars (LP: #1400081)
Fixed failures for rendering of textures for some moons like Hyperion (LP: #1393083)
We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows - was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
Fixed underpredicted behaviour of refraction (LP: #1088413)
Fixed click-match issue (LP: #1398899, #1409586, #1127984, #1045293)
Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
Fixed IP-based position lookup fails (LP: #1395480)
Fixed crash on spherical mirror distortion
Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
Fixed Meade LX200 protocol support (LP: #1405397)
Fixed wrong import of comets data through online search in the Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1358230)
Fixed issue in Lists within Search Tool (LP: #1200054)
Fixed getting of coordinates in the Pointer Coordinates plugin in windowed mode (LP: #1406018)
Fixed non-display of minus sign for |equation_of_time|

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.1 (Nov 16, 2014)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.0 (Jul 22, 2014)

This release brings some interesting new features:
New modulated core
Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping
Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now
Comet tails rendering
New translatable strings and new textures
New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time
New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view
New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky
New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer
New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers
New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes
New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring
New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle
New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color parameter
New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars
New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements
There have also been a large number of bug fixes and serious performance improvements
We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).
This version based on Qt 5 and has new modulated core, and new features (examples: normal mapping, comet tails) and fixes for 115 bugs, includes:
New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time.
New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view.
New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky.
New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer.
New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers.
New translatable strings and new textures.
New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes.
New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring.
New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle.
New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color parameter.
New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars.
New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements.

Portable Stellarium Changelog

What's new in Portable Stellarium 24.1.0

New in Portable Stellarium 23.4.0 (Jan 27, 2024)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.3.0 (Sep 27, 2023)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.2.0 (Jul 17, 2023)

New in Portable Stellarium 23.1.0 (Mar 28, 2023)

New in Portable Stellarium 1.22.3 (Oct 17, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.2 (Jul 12, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.1 (Apr 18, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.22.0 (Mar 29, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.3 (Jan 12, 2022)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.2 (Oct 4, 2021)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.21.0 (Mar 30, 2021)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.20.3 (Oct 6, 2020)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.20.2 (Aug 6, 2020)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.19.1.1 (Aug 10, 2019)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.18.2 (Aug 23, 2018)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.18.1 (Aug 1, 2018)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.17.0 (Dec 28, 2017)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.16.1 (Oct 4, 2017)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.16.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.15.2 (May 25, 2017)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.15.0 (Sep 11, 2016)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.2 (Feb 6, 2016)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.1 (Feb 6, 2016)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.14.0 (Nov 5, 2015)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.3 (May 1, 2015)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.2 (Apr 27, 2015)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.1 (Nov 16, 2014)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.13.0 (Jul 22, 2014)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.12.4 (Oct 8, 2013)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.12.3 (Sep 23, 2013)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.12.2 (Aug 7, 2013)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.12.1 (Apr 29, 2013)

New in Portable Stellarium 0.12.0 (Feb 4, 2013)