v1.2

[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 1.2.

This release mostly aimed at fixing issues but also brought a few new features:

• New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen)
• Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes
• Improved rendering of the Moon
• Improved HiDPI behaviour
• Use Noto as default font
• Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures
• Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)

Behind the scenes, several minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

It seems the Telescope Control plugin at least on Windows works better in the Qt5-based releases. Just install this if you are affected. We are looking for telescope users with programming skills to help us fixing this issue. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added support elongation in ecliptic longitude for Pointer Coordinates plugin (GH: Pointer Coordinates plug-in - Is it possible to include Elongation and Elongation in Ecliptic Longitude Coordinates? #2700)
• Added Bahai calendars (GH: Calendars plugin: Bahai and Chinese (plus variants) #2898)
• Added Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (GH: Calendars plugin: Bahai and Chinese (plus variants) #2898)
• Added linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin (GH: Calendars plugin: Bahai and Chinese (plus variants) #2898)
• Added new projection: plate carree (GH: Projection: plate carree #2856)
• Added options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone (GH: Only label (lunar) features along the terminator #2790)
• Added translation hints in Calendars plugin
• Added names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin
• Added support for anisotropic filtering of textures (GH: Add support for anisotropic filtering of StelTexture #2881)
• Added context support for proper names of pulsars
• Added Noto fonts (GH: Replace DejaVu fonts by Noto fonts #2877)
• Added new sky culture - Seri (GH: Seri skyculture #2863)
• Added new sky culture - Tikuna (GH: added new tikuna sky culture #2812)
• Added new sky culture - Greek (Dante)
• Added one extra check for updates Satellites (GH: sat plugin loses data when Internet connection is down #2860)
• Added temporary hook for Qt5-based macOS bundles (GH: Cannot install v1.1 on Mac OS 10.5.7 #2890)
• Added support new archive formats for generator of source packages (GH: Use smaller source distribution archive #2820)
• Added support the Region parameter for skycultures (GH: Changes in sky cultures #2760)
• Added indicator of max exposure time for moving objects in Oculars plugin (GH: Indicate max exposure time for moving objects #2789)
• Added new sky culture - Modern (IAU) (GH: Added new sky culture - Modern (IAU) #2835)
• Added scaling stars on a HiDPI devices (GH: Scaling stars on a HiDPI devices #2846)
• Added 4 new sets of navigational stars
• Fixed minimum system version for macOS bundle
• Fixed typos in the rest of the codebase (GH: Fix typos in the rest of the codebase  #2862)
• Fixed compilation without PCH
• Fixed missing translatable text for calendars
• Fixed missing signals after changing properties for nomenclature
• Fixed properties in the GUI for nomenclature
• Fixed the build of SUG on Ubuntu 20.04
• Fixed naming: Starlore -> Sky Culture
• Fixed man pages for bundle in macOS
• Fixed setting versions of packages in Windows
• Fixed link to the latest Stellarium User Guide
• Fixed checking updates of Stellarium
• Fixed context for term
• Fixed version numbers for macOS bundle (GH: [macOS] version numbers in 1.1 / 1.1.1 release broken #2805)
• Fixed wobble of small objects like Callisto or Thebe (GH: Objects at high zoom wobble — but only when atmosphere is on #2809)
• Fixed a seam that appears between floor and sides of old-style landscapes when multisampling is on
• Fixed planet shader on GLSL 1.00
• Fixed loading star names for Hawaiian Starlines SC (GH: Hawaiian Starlines - Missing star names #2808)
• Fixed renamed properties (Oculars plugin)
• Fixed a few more renamed timezones
• Fixed Observer altitude in Satellites plugin (GH: Satellites plugin rounds observer elevation to 1000 meters #2848)
• Fixed typos in the src/ subdirectory (GH: Fix typos in the src/ subdirectory #2857)
• Fixed typos in the plugins/ subdirectory (GH: Fix typos in plugins/ subdirectory #2858)
• Changed Calendars plugin: Roman Calendar - print years AUC in Roman numerals (GH: Calendars plugin: Bahai and Chinese (plus variants) #2898)
• Changed core: switch LandscapeSpherical to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: Convert Spherical and Fisheye landscapes to pure fragment-shader rendering #2908)
• Changed core: switch LandscapeFisheye to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: Convert Spherical and Fisheye landscapes to pure fragment-shader rendering #2908)
• Changed core: avoid the seam in spherical landscape for GL<3.3 by sacrificing mip mapping (GH: Convert Spherical and Fisheye landscapes to pure fragment-shader rendering #2908)
• Changed core: avoid crash when sky culture ID is wrong
• Changed core: undo extraneous gamma encoded in moon_4k texture
• Changed core: silence Angle shader compilation warnings
• Changed core: rename vectors methods length and lengthSquared into norm and normSquared (GH: Rename vectors methods length and lengthSquared into norm and normSquared #2795)
• Changed core: remove overrides of StelProjector::project from Stereographic and Hammer projections
• Changed core: reduce the clutter when converting MatXd to MatXf
• Changed core: simplify cloning of Mat4dTransform, maintain equality of transfoMat{,f} up to static_cast
• Changed core: pass a double-precision vector to StelSkyDrawer::postDrawSky3dModel instead of a single-precision one (GH: Planet halo jumps around at large enough zoom, while planet is stationary #2844)
• Changed core: move initial window resizing logic out of StelGLWidget::initializeGL() (GH: Move initial window resizing logic out of StelGLWidget::initializeGL() #2832)
• Changed core: store the flag on whether current OpenGL context is ES in GLInfo (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: set default GLES float precision in fragment shaders to mediump (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: add support for loading StelVertexArray into StelOpenGLArray (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: store vertex to Altitude&Azimuth position conversion matrix in Mat4dTransform (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: add support for using StelProjector::project analogue in shaders (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: add a method to compare projections of StelProjector (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: make MilkyWay project its vertices in a vertex shader instead of doing it on the CPU (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: add support for using StelProjector::unProject analogue in shaders (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: render Milky Way calculating view direction per fragment (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: render Zodiacal light calculating view direction per fragment (GH: Add support for projection computations on GPU, make MilkyWay and ZodiacalLight use this #2847)
• Changed core: don't try to render a Planet whose textures are not all loaded
• Changed core: load Planet textures synchronously (GH: Load Planet textures synchronously #2854)
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated the default list of satellites
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated the default catalog of pulsars
• Updated the default list of locations
• Updated list of planetary features
• Updated DSO catalog: LBN 770 and LBN 772 are synonyms and both have coordinates as LBN 771
• Updated DSO names
• Updated Greek (Almagest) SC: a line in CrB added
• Updated Modern and Modern (IAU) SC: typo fixes
• Removed English (India) language

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-1.2.tar.gz	Stellarium 1.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 1a9b2b69300ac54fda47cf4b801bf07f SHA256: 2cbf95839c5fbd312c08ad0f92b2ddf8a7f822bd32bc31e91f3aa28920674f60
stellarium-1.2.tar.bz2	Stellarium 1.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: bb29b853a181bbfdd72c1c9b65c5ab3f SHA256: 7a9fc6cf4d412085162b4fa250ce02edc8b849a5b23fa028add56efe4f23d613
stellarium-1.2.tar.xz	Stellarium 1.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 07a305166cc0172e0102a0ab865748e8 SHA256: 802a0e8231cae41ec04f697f70105c291d9719aa6e7fd8cbe1f15068c3324e09
stellarium-1.2-qt5-win32.exe	Stellarium 1.2 (v0.22.5) for Windows (32-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: 7d74a9b9a5ff18cb4c7bd5b8c41e1218 SHA256: 969ef09a80bd37411e73dbc1c6e5412f36e452243e5ce653d6000a226fef99f2
stellarium-1.2-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 1.2 (v0.22.5) for Windows (64-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: a33776b8d919dea4cf9534f6c66265ed SHA256: a94590b8fbb23910cfce6b97ca6e2a8ad3a113667fc8777f2a0fdb870bb04c4a
stellarium-1.2-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 1.2 (v1.22.5) for Windows (64-bit; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.4.0 (Visual Studio 2019 Community) with media support. MD5: 31e4e033203cf9731be38cd2f3100590 SHA256: 2c4c1d56ced46c17a3163fa3fed5f42ec0a57a3c7c6bbd0e25cb922221491291
Stellarium-1.2-macOS.zip	Stellarium 1.2 (v1.22.5) for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.4.1 (AppleClang 14.0.0) with media support. MD5: 921da06ec82c52970f94cb4591eaa293 SHA256: 4700f8da7b523b9fdc03222272f26dfbb3d9a94e1bab560868d70e90c601a309
Stellarium-1.2-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 1.2 (v0.22.5) for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 11.0.0) with media support. MD5: 81572a1445c3e65aa84c02c3ada6e6bf SHA256: ecd5d3ae86d8c69fa956b0e85fd3465acb8ec4ff5589bc95863dc711b80d534f
Stellarium-1.2-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 1.2 (v0.22.5) for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0) with media support. MD5: 1788616c2045acf65ef060caeeea642b SHA256: 081c88d008345fc0a73788872687905e54717b9269747e9e776e539720c8fa03

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This discussion was created from the release v1.2.