Stellarium

What's new in this version:

Added:
- ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin
- ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin
- ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)
- support zodiac and lunar systems
- code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms
- Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in
- context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin
- fields for translating planet names
- ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions
- ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement
- ability mix of cultural and common star names
- ability to excluding star names from unwanted references
- context and tooltips for new menu items
- support for Dark Constellations
- new GUI elements (sky cultures)
- adjustments for MinGW compilation
- an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin
- a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins
- Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin
- parallax data in WUI
- Mosaic Camera plugin
- installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage
- skyculture “Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands”
- support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin

Fixed:
- saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions
- context data support for zodiac and lunar systems
- font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin
- wrong output size
- registry records for Windows installer
- comet discovery data
- a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC
- data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines
- description of sky cultures
- labeling native/pronounce
- extra IPA handling
- showing duplicate names in native and translation
- screen updates when setting changes
- discovery date/name
- changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin
- searching
- DSO name rendering
- Qt5.15 building
- missing space in front of translated “Added”
- typos in src/core
- typos in skycultures/
- typos in plugins/
- typos in guide/
- crash: Restore OpenGL context after initialising StelAudioMgr
- issues found by PVS-Studio
- configuration when innosetup isn’t installed
- packing sky cultures
- categories in Linux/UNIX menu (desktop file)
- adding new locations
- issue for custom time zone in Location dialog
- numbers in DSO textures file
- compiling with Qt 5
- building on Windows
- a warning message
- missing negation of a condition (HiPS)
- problems with IP-based location lookup
- minor issues in Mosaic Camera plug-in
- one-off assertion bug
- astrometry tests
- compiling in macOS when md4c is locally installed package
- linking macOS package when md4c is locally installed package
- compilation with Qt 6.9
- modern asterism TA8
- typo in Khoi-San SC
- links in documentation
- calculation the duration of astronomical night
- localization support in new plugin
- cmake for Satellites plugin
- z fighting of HiPS levels
- designation for comet P/2024 L4
- two names for Venus

Changed:
- Changed core: Haiku OS hasn’t hardware acceleration and we shouldn’t use High Graphics Mode here
- Changed core: Replace native enum string format by comma-separated list format
- Changed core: Different brackets for pronunciation/transliteration group
- Changed core: Avoid capitalized search result
- Changed core: Move HiPS tile texture binding to a separate method
- Changed core: Don’t accept non-planetary surveys in SolarSystem::onNewSurvey
- Changed core: Check if a survey is planetary immediately by hipslist
- Changed core: Merge HiPS properties from hipslist and properties
- Changed core: Let HiPS have TIFF and BMP tiles
- Changed core: simplifications
- Changed core: Speedup renderMarkerPointedCircle
- Changed core: Add manually-resolved glDrawBuffer and glReadBuffer to Planet::initFBO
- Changed core: Don’t create empty HiPS properties
- Changed core: Implement a more robust HiPS list parser
- Changed core: Survive loading bad line for asterisms
- Changed core: Use QtPositioning for location lookup
- Changed core: Let’s use Low Graphics Mode on NetBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris and Haiku
- Changed GUI and core: increase WOW-effect for demonstrations of parallax
- Changed GUI: The feature of automatic closing of the search dialog is configurable now
- Changed GUI: Cosmetic fixes for Help dialog
- Changed logger: Improve determination version of the Haiku OS
- Changed logger: improve message for skipping asterisms
- Changed HiPS support: Log more information about loading Allsky
- Changed HiPS support: Mark Allsky as not available on failure to decode
- Changed HiPS support: Update HipsSurvey’s progress bar when Allsky download ends
- Changed ISS scripts: Splitted ISS files into InnoSetup 6 compatible and InnoSetup 5 compatible
- Changed SC data in Babylonian (Mulapin) sky culture
- Changed SC data in Greek (Almagest) sky culture
- Changed SC data in Korean sky culture
- Changed SC data in all Modern sky cultures
- Changed SC data: Splitting data in “english” field into “english” and “pronounce” fields in new Chinese SC
- Changed SC data: Renaming “Chinese Medieval” sky culture to “Chinese Song Dynasty Sky” sky culture
- Changed SC data: Remove po directory from recently imported Chenzhuo SC

Updated:
- GCVS catalog
- planetary nomenclature data
- ShowMySky atmosphere shaders
- scripts: Protect users from scripts overwriting settings
- .clang-format to conform to the Coding Style
- scripts according to latest changes
- planetary nomenclature data
- translations
- metainfo
- dependencies: INDI v2.1.3
- dependencies: NLopt v2.9.0
- dependencies: CalcMySky v0.3.5
- lists of contributors
- data of comets

Removed:
- duplicates supernovae
- extracted comments that repeat auto-generated ones in few sky cultures
- malformed whitespaces
- outdated flag