v24.1

[alex-w]

The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 24.1.

The major changes of this version:

• Added low graphics mode
• Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
• Improvements in Scripting Engine
• Updates in Core

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems. If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added missing stars (GH: Many Missing Stars With All Catalogs Installed #3575)
• Added ability to following the current position in Search Tool/Position (GH: Following current position in Search Tool #3643)
• Added ability to set a sub-arcminute lower limit for angular size (GH: Allow sub-arcminute lower limit for angular size #3647)
• Added note on Ephemeris table (GH: Issue with Astronomical Calculations: Ephemeris Showing Unrealistic Magnitude for Uranus #3634)
• Added special case for SIMBAD/NCP in Search Tool
• Added ability to toggle visibility HIPS surveys via scripting engine (GH: Make HipsMgr visible to/part of the scripting API #3613)
• Added ability to use comma as decimal separator in Remote Control plugin
• Added translations to Lithuanian language
• Added distance and heliocentric distance info for Solar system objects into scripting engine
• Added major axis, minor axis and orientation angle info for DSO into scripting engine and Remote Control plugin (GH: Remote Control Plugin - Objects Info #3605)
• Added an option to force low graphics mode (GH: Stellarium 23.4.0 Qt6.5.3 Win64 freezes after opening #3590)
• Added code to automatic updating the TLE sources from Celestrack website (GH: Can't load satellites #3588)
• Added a tabular view for distances of Solar system objects (InfoString).
• Fixed bug in Meteor shower plugin (GH: Meteor shower issue #3616)
• Fixed south azimuth usage in Search Tool/Position
• Fixed landscape transparency issue (GH: Creating Langscapes in Version 23.3 #3512)
• Fixed alignment for note in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Fixed CCD frame rotation after changing language (GH: CCD frame rotation is broken after changing language #3627)
• Fixed computation of phase angle for satellites
• Fixed selection the title of observing lists when he is saved or imported (GH: saving obs list does not update title [obs list] #3623)
• Fixed a tiny bug in Observing Lists dropdown menu
• Fixed installation path for manpages in FreeBSD (GH: FreeBSD now installs manpages under $PREFIX/share/man/manX #3612)
• Fixed the major digit of version: automatisation has been removed
• Fixed license data for AppData file according to SPDX License List v3.22
• Fixed Rise/Transit/Set info (GH: Rise/Transit/Set info gets wrong after switching location if the object was selected #3602, Incorrect RTS Info if stars with no name are subsequently selected #3610)
• Fixed updating Rise/Transit/Set info after switching location if the object was selected in AstroCalc/RTS tool
• Fixed a serious bug in Observing Lists (GH: import issue [observing lists] #3586)
• Fix: reduce notification popups in Observing Lists (GH: odd canceling workflow [observing lists] #3587)
• Fixed possible issue for transparency in landscapes (GH: Creating Langscapes in Version 23.3 #3512)
• Fixed typo in coordinates of Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy (GH: Incorrect coordinates of Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy in Stellarium #3576)
• Fix: clearing up refs to a few star names
• Fixed the informational data (InfoString) for comets
• Fixed visibility for orbital properties in the View/SSO dialog
• Fixed build without PCH
• Fixed missing reference.fab files (GH: Fix for missing reference.fab files #3681)
• Fixed find objects from search history (GH: Fixed find objects from search history #3671)
• Changed core: fall back to fast_float when C++ stdlib doesn't provide from_chars for floats
• Changed core: use std::from_chars for parsing ints in OBJ files
• Changed core: updating StelLogger (GH: Updating StelLogger #3614)
• Changed SolarSystem: add IAU designation for comets if missing
• Changed SolarSystem: add the perihel year to the comet name in case of loading older-style ssystem_minor.ini
• Changed Solar System Editor plugin: allow overwrite if possible (GH: I can't overwrite custom ssystem_minor.ini file in custom location #3641)
• Changed Exoplanets plugin: switched to use surface temperature for potentially habitable planets
• Changed Exoplanets plugin: updated priority to selection of objects
• Changed Meteor Showers plugin: Use NELM for local meteor rate (GH: Meteor shower local hourly rate depends on zoom level #3549)
• Updated Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Updated Remote Control plugin (GH: Remote Control plugin: Lists #2995)
• Updated dependencies: QXlsx 1.4.7
• Updated dependencies: CalcMySky 0.3.2
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated catalog of pulsars
• Updated translations
• Updated discovery circumstances for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated orbital elements and default list of minor planets and comets
• Updated list of contributors
• Updated list of financial contributors
• Updated nomenclature data
• Updated SUG: document --low-graphics option
• Update properties for CPack-generator of DEB packages
• Updated instructions for building planetarium from the source code
• Removed fixed sizes from Oculars dialog
• Removed "scale" option from desktop file
• Removed outdated translatable lines
• Removed link to TLE for Starlink satellites with very old orbit data
• Removed extra shortcuts from (common|user) desktop in Windows (GH: Lines on screen after enabling Telescope control #3579)

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-24.1.tar.gz	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 240f71a2a707d7b5cf321b20963cc82e SHA256: 5a48fb2c5b17c9ebfa23153604f470dc87a5eab5fafb0510f71e115ac76072a8
stellarium-24.1.tar.bz2	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 4f456afc2376136841b8fbf97a9b0bd3 SHA256: 403ab602a7cb6a7e114bbe3ad80f00b4046c0eb11e089623744f9ed3a0915b43
stellarium-24.1.tar.xz	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: ad88695629e1c71ed66fa19b0a95771a SHA256: c5ce5efb6de0108b4b8d798bf1ba887c42b39f29197400ec3fcfc9fe5c96f4d7
stellarium-24.1.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 6113cb9ff0ea5737b10e37ff17516b63 SHA256: 8213c89e6f91c7fa7d09ea13dcf091c81aa378a901de7609f75d04d1fb295151
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: cb59bbee2a565e41101ff7daadb4271e SHA256: f7ac6b28070a8dc7e9b319cabc0cbdfb573aa502a0d6a3c59ad3c6ac148f4675
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: ba22ab7b31306b1e5c1fa052bacaff1d SHA256: d95c1c593027388e2502992345fe2357d44d84d7b53220a1d37f62e810dbf3e0
stellarium-24.1-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: 66c116495e413561ceb261b4548ce204 SHA256: 21cae322ce6a358de95bc42e157ee32ebfad835266445a1b93742987104ded27
stellarium-24.1-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: cfd46d1f79a39ce940cc3b2b90944395 SHA256: f8f602c3c7ab6e4cd9f162384ddbc895da32e4875c58bb07636fa3d013a13956
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 15.0.0). MD5: 92265095a2e5c59b516117883c94a72b SHA256: a5e16e146305167d09ad5507e9d8cb4459f5ad2d712482dc4e0be97259f1298c
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: 92265095a2e5c59b516117883c94a72b SHA256: a5e16e146305167d09ad5507e9d8cb4459f5ad2d712482dc4e0be97259f1298c
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: d5948720914d2c1d2d51b23840fa1253 SHA256: 206374680710683a4db9e87daeeec6925236ca33712f8cbbb0533f1f8650d7c3
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 825b2126faa81b849d03636fc02ca221 SHA256: 853a26c5dab168b3190e1376e5b00bc7a9b9b50c2ca1985df0b650a1245c2da7

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.1.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.1.tar.gz

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