Stellarium 0.18.1

2018-07-01 10:10:00 +0000 by alex-w

The major changes of this version:

  • Improvements and fixes for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] support
  • Updated code of plugins
  • Updated code and data
  • Updated GPS handling
  • Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects
  • Added dithering support

A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

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)
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