Stellarium

What's new in this version:

Added:
- support to non-standard regions in list of sky cultures
- Chinese (Xianglin Star Chart) and Manchu sky cultures
- ability to change the density of grid lines
- ability to disabling show an OAG angular limits
- FOV-dependent Moon enlargement
- Time Navigator plugin
- “Planetary Events” feature for Time Navigator plugin
- missing full stops in narration
- Mongolian and Hieroglyph fallback fonts (Windows)
- improvements for ASCOM telescopes
- support of new time step: Metonic cycle
- examples for select the planetary features in scripts
- missing flag for InfoBox
- link to MPC’s list of bright minor planets in opposition available for 2026 into Solar System Editor plugin
- vcs-browser URL into metadata

Fixed:
- path to territory.geojson
- translation regions in GUI
- visual style for new feature in the Sky Cultures tab
- observing list window displaying incorrect list name after delete
- crash when trying to reach View dialog
- comet tail extinction
- deleting items from observing lists
- saving description in observing lists
- compilation on Windows
- compilation on macOS Tahoe
- orbital parameter of HIP91919 and parallax of HIP 28360
- crash: avoid NaN result
- scaling of meteor shower icon
- scaling of other object pointers
- size of meteor shower, satellite, DSO pointers
- wrong defaults in Extinction
- typo in asterism
- spelling error
- an assertion
- compilation for Qt5
- select single constellation in some languages
- sync for InfoBox’s flags
- detecting dependencies for Text-To-Speech feature
- docs
- scripting API docs
- typos in sky cultures
- compilation with Qt 6.10+: QXlsx switched to master to avoid compiling issue when Qt 6.10+ is used
- Spelling in Roman calendar in Calendars plugin
- year of copyright and version of application
- crash at exit from Stellarium
- DOI for citation

Changed:
- Changed core And GUI: Expansion of skycultures through spatial and temporal extent
- Changed core: Change how zoom limits for map in sce are handled
- Changed core: Make object searches return StelObjectP
- Changed core: Rewrite SearchDialog logic
- Changed core: Strip away some HTML decoration from infostring and narration
- Changed core: Use translation setting for Zodiac/Lunar Station infostring labels
- Changed core: Refinements for TextToSpeech output
- Changed core: Increase minimum number of facets of the planetary mesh
- Changed core: Allow Vec4 in RemoteControl API
- Changed core: Re-enable high graphics mode for OpenBSD and NetBSD operating systems
- Changed core: Added improvements for support ARM64 architecture on Windows
- Changed core: Re-enable high graphics mode for OpenBSD and NetBSD
- Changed core: Take care of application font change
- Changed logger: fix for Haiku OS name detection
- Changed logger: improved hardware detection for OpenBSD
- Changed logger: cosmetic fixes for Solar System Editor plugin
- Changed scripting engine: Also remove labels, skyImages and screenImages when clearing the scene in a script
- Changed behavior of AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: do not disable selection of the objects when list of phenomena is empty (the mode “Last selected object” is enabled)
- Changed OnlineQueries plugin: Updated ASE URL
- Updated albedo texture of the Moon
- Updated planetary nomenclature
- Updated default list of comets and minor planets
- Updated translations
- Updated default catalog of exoplanets
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated discovery circumstances for comets and minor planets
- Updated photometry data for artificial satellites
- Updated Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
- Updated Norse (Edda) sky culture
- Updated Help dialog: added Scenery3D movement keys
- Updated DSO catalog to v3.23

Removed:
- a broken duplicate of page_surveys
- ridiculously huge minimumSize from culturesListWidget
- duplicate sky culture layout from Survey tab
- code for autoselect of the discrete graphics cards