Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 26.1 for all platforms. This is our first release in 2026 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

Added two new sky cultures
Added Time Navigator plugin
Many improvements for support Windows/arm64
Many significant improvements in sky cultures support
Many improvements in plugins
Many improvements in Core and GUI
Many updates in sky cultures
Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

Full list of changes:

Added support to non-standard regions in list of sky cultures (GH: #4843)
Added Chinese (Xianglin Star Chart) and Manchu sky cultures (GH: #4779)
Added ability to change the density of grid lines (GH: #4773)
Added ability to disabling show an OAG angular limits (GH: #4688)
Added FOV-dependent Moon enlargement (GH: #4806)
Added Time Navigator plugin (GH: #4817)
Added “Planetary Events” feature for Time Navigator plugin (GH: #4828)
Added missing full stops in narration
Added Mongolian and Hieroglyph fallback fonts (Windows)
Added improvements for ASCOM telescopes
Added support of new time step: Metonic cycle (GH: #4769)
Added examples for select the planetary features in scripts (GH: #4761)
Added missing flag for InfoBox (GH: #4734)
Added link to MPC’s list of bright minor planets in opposition available for 2026 into Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #4730)
Added vcs-browser URL into metadata (GH: #4714)
Fixed path to territory.geojson
Fixed translation regions in GUI
Fixed visual style for new feature in the Sky Cultures tab
Fixed observing list window displaying incorrect list name after delete (GH: #4837)
Fixed crash when trying to reach View dialog (GH: #4841)
Fixed comet tail extinction (GH: #4827)
Fixed deleting items from observing lists (GH: #4826)
Fixed saving description in observing lists (GH: #4824)
Fixed compilation on Windows
Fixed compilation on macOS Tahoe
Fixed orbital parameter of HIP91919 and parallax of HIP 28360 (GH: #4818)
Fixed crash: avoid NaN result (GH: #4619)
Fixed scaling of meteor shower icon
Fixed scaling of other object pointers
Fixed size of meteor shower, satellite, DSO pointers
Fixed wrong defaults in Extinction (GH: #4619)
Fixed typo in asterism (GH: #4801)
Fixed spelling error
Fixed an assertion (GH: #4803)
Fixed compilation for Qt5
Fixed select single constellation in some languages (GH: #4775)
Fixed sync for InfoBox’s flags
Fixed detecting dependencies for Text-To-Speech feature (GH: #4765)
Fixed docs
Fixed scripting API docs
Fixed typos in sky cultures
Fixed compilation with Qt 6.10+: QXlsx switched to master to avoid compiling issue when Qt 6.10+ is used
Fixed Spelling in Roman calendar in Calendars plugin (GH: #4727)
Fixed year of copyright and version of application
Fixed crash at exit from Stellarium (GH: #4713)
Fixed DOI for citation
Changed core And GUI: Expansion of skycultures through spatial and temporal extent (GH: #4683)
Changed core: Change how zoom limits for map in sce are handled (GH: #4846)
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 (GH: #4830)
Changed core: Refinements for TextToSpeech output (GH: #4706)
Changed core: Increase minimum number of facets of the planetary mesh
Changed core: Allow Vec4 in RemoteControl API (GH: #4780)
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 (GH: #4620)
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 (GH: #4781)
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 (GH: #4763)
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
Removed ridiculously huge minimumSize from culturesListWidget
Removed duplicate sky culture layout from Survey tab
Removed code for autoselect of the discrete graphics cards (GH: #4758)

## New features and enhancements

* all: huge update to the Japanese translations which had been not worked on
for several years. The program translation is now complete again, the man
page translation has been extended as well. Both were reworked in most
places. Translations by coolvitto.
* GUI: chapter editor: added an option in the "additional modifications"
dialog that toggles applying the selected modifications to all currently
open chapter editor tabs. Implements #6189.
* GUI: macOS: added dock icon progress bar for job queue. Patch by Miklos
Juhasz.

## Bug fixes

* GUI: chapter editor: when renumbering chapters limiting the number of
chapters to renumber did not work. Fixes #6199.
* GUI: macOS: fixed refreshing widgets after system switches between dark &
light modes. Patch by Miklos Juhasz.

## Build system changes

* The bundled `fmt` library was updated to v12.1.0, fixing a build issue on
FreeBSD. Fixes #6191.

- Nvidia: The NVIDIA Shader Cache removal is now an option (for users using NVIDIA ASC)
- Nvidia App: Support the removal of the "NVIDIA Shader Compiler" tasks.
- Nvidia: Adjusted registry entries exclusion when the Nvidia App is not selected.
- Nvidia: More precise removal on the temp folder.
- Updated task scheduler removal methods.
- AMD: AMDInstallManager folder removal
- General: Translation updates.
- General fixes and improvements.

• The ML language files in the Win-Bin-2-Iso app have been updated.
• General adjustments have been made to the Win-Bin-2-Iso application for Windows operating systems.

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