Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released!

2019-03-24 11:20:00 +0000 by alex-w

The major changes of this version:

  • 5 new sky cultures
  • Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes
  • Added many DSO textures
  • Many improvements for Scripting Engine

Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions!

Full list of changes:

  • Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
  • Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
  • Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
  • Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added new one script ‘Constellations Tour’ to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
  • Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
  • Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
  • Added translation support for strings within scripts
  • Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
  • Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
  • Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
  • Added DSO textures
  • Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
  • Added tool for allow filetype selection for Screenshots (GH: #623)
  • Added core.getPlatformName() and core.isMediaPlaybackSupported() methods into scripting engine
  • Added scripting function isModuleLoaded()
  • Added graph “Transit altitude vs Time” into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added small simplification to scripting through adding master switch by types for grids, lines and points on the sky [Scripting Engine]
  • Added showing labels for named highlights (GH: #638)
  • Added allow setting location of User Data Dir via environment variable.
  • Added scripting graphics tool [Scripting Engine] (GH: #640)
  • Added LMC and SMC as addition names for Magellanic Clouds
  • Added classifications support for sky cultures
  • Added support 2 southern deep sky catalogues (NGC subset; esp. for southern observers)
  • Added armintxe, paleolithic sky culture and landscape (GH: #628)
  • Added demo script for martian analemma [Scripting Engine]
  • Added support sols for setDate() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Added code, who indicate to hybrid graphics systems to prefer the discrete part by default (GH: #649)
  • Added support for constellation boundaries thickness (GH: #653)
  • Added Maya constellations (GH: #635)
  • Added 2 Babylonian skycultures (GH: #647)
  • Added display of used (terrestrial) timezone for observation from extraterrestrial locations
  • Added special case for Satellites plugin: use texture for draw the crossing of the ISS of the Moon or the Sun
  • Added nightly illumination plus basic description for armintxe landscape
  • Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
  • Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
  • Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
  • Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations’ Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
  • Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
  • Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
  • Fixed behaviour of script (The old script ‘Constellations Tour’ was renamed to the ‘Western Constellations Tour’ and updated) [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
  • Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
  • Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
  • Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
  • Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
  • Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
  • Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
  • Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
  • Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
  • Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
  • Fixed description data for textures.json
  • Fixed missed translatable strings in StelSkyCultureMgr class
  • Fixed CWE-404 issues
  • Fixed crash when script tried delete already deleted labels (GH: #625)
  • Fixed zooming behaviour
  • Fixed time zone issue in AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Fixed DSO texture overlay issue (GH: #655)
  • Fixed FTBFS issue on some linux systems
  • Fixed bad behaviour time zones in the location panel (GH: #602)
  • Fixed crash when selecting certain dates in 1 AD for some time zones on Windows (GH: #594)
  • Fixed default limits for graph “Transit altitude vs Time”
  • Fixed translation the “Armintxe Cave” string (GH: #657)
  • Fixed airmass calculation for deep-sky objects
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don’t show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
  • Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
  • Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide
  • Updated technical documentation
  • Updated Amalthea texture
  • Updated scripts (added i18n support)
  • Updated scripting API: added format specification for screenshots. (GH: #623)
  • Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
  • Updated DSO textures
  • Updated textures of LMC (GH: #632)
  • Updated nomenclature
  • Updated jquery and jquery-ui in Remote Control plugin (GH: #620, #621)
  • Updated scripting engine: MilkyWay saturation scriptable now
  • Updated scripting engine: expanding the core.clear() method
  • Updated Satellites plugin: harmonized function name, added a property [Scripting Engine].
  • Updated KoreanCM.isl file - typofixes (GH: #639)
  • Updated RemoteSync plugin: suppress unsuitable properties (GH: #642)
  • Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool: optimizations
  • Updated AstroCalc/Positions tool: optimizations
  • Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: optimizations
  • Updated contact info for plugins
  • Updated Sterngarten model description
  • Updated behaviour of the options on Starlore tab
  • Updated list of extraterrestrial locations
  • Updated time zones behaviour: make custom time zone use a full property of StelCore
  • Updated time zones behaviour: preserve custom timezone setting
  • Updated LocationDialog behaviour: Return to default location resets location list.
  • Removed a long time abandoned incomplete LogBook plugin
  • Remove old deprecated methods in scripting engine
  • Remove languages without translators and with translations lesser than 1%
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