Dear amateurs,
we published today the first release candidate for Stellarium 0.13.2 and if you have a time and interest - please help us test it.
List of changesChanges between 0.13.1 and 0.13.1.95 [0.13.2RC1] (HEAD):
- Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
- Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
- Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
- Added zero landscape
- Added new sky culture - Arabic Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture - Japanese Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture - Siberian
- Added support native names of the planets for different cultures
- Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
- Added improvements for Angle Measure, Compass Marks and Observability Analysis plugins
- Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
- Added changes to RA's output precision
- Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
- Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
- Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
- Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
- Added management of Zodiacal Light into core.clear() method in Scripting Engine.
- Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions - zodiacal light - sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
- Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
- Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format - now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
- Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
- Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
- Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Fixed a bug that did not account for HighDPI displays when drawing a CCD in Oculars
- Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
- Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
- Fixed errors, related to the proper motion of some stars (LP: #1400081)
- Fixed failures for rendering of textures for some moons like Hyperion (LP: #1393083)
- We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows - was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
- Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
- Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
- Fixed IP-based position lookup fails (LP: #1395480)
- Fixed crash on spherical mirror distortion
- Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
- Hide info about type when it not defined for this object of solar system (LP: #1404189)
- Improved look for Date and Time Dialog and fixed show Julian Dates - it show now JD instead a CJD (LP: #1398775)
- Meteors don't be visible without enabled atmosphere now
- Made an exclusion for moons with chaotic period of rotation (LP: #1393083)
- Reducing the number of compass marks to those on screen to improve performance (LP: #1307444)
- On returning to home position, display atmosphere and fog only if configured in config file (LP: #1391074)
- Change default settings for Windows installer: added removing cache at install of the planetarium for avoiding "missing disk in drive <whatever>" problem. (LP: #1371183)
- Translation of names of the celestial bodies moved to stellarium-skycultures
- Changes in style of displaying of "celestial names" in cultures
- Language of the cultures now can be chosen in GUI
- Changes in detection of OpenGL availability
- Extend the 'restore to original FOV' feature for sensor mode also (LP: #1398890)
- Re-implemented viewing/flag_constellation_pick option to allow select single constellation only (LP: #1401745)
- Fit more realistic magnitude of the Moon for the case of lunar eclipse (LP: #1306811)
Plus we added few fixes for typos and fixes for avoiding compilation warnings (LP: #1394814, #1395193)
- Re-allow drawing comet hints for very dim comets (LP: #1402188)
- Updated scripting documentation (LP: #1402200, #1402224)
Download link:
https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/trunk
