Stellarium 24.4

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

The major changes of this version:

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

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

Full list of changes:

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