Stellarium 26.1 x64 + Portable + Repack

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: #2700)
Added Bahai calendars (GH: #2898)
Added Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (GH: #2898)
Added linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin (GH: #2898)
Added new projection: plate carree (GH: #2856)
Added options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone (GH: #2790)
Added translation hints in Calendars plugin
Added names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin
Added support for anisotropic filtering of textures (GH: #2881)
Added context support for proper names of pulsars
Added Noto fonts (GH: #2877)
Added new sky culture - Seri (GH: #2863)
Added new sky culture - Tikuna (GH: #2812)
Added new sky culture - Greek (Dante)
Added one extra check for updates Satellites (GH: #2860)
Added temporary hook for Qt5-based macOS bundles (GH: #2890)
Added support new archive formats for generator of source packages (GH: #2820)
Added support the Region parameter for skycultures (GH: #2760)
Added indicator of max exposure time for moving objects in Oculars plugin (GH: #2789)
Added new sky culture - Modern (IAU) (GH: #2835)
Added scaling stars on a HiDPI devices (GH: #2846)
Added 4 new sets of navigational stars
Fixed minimum system version for macOS bundle
Fixed typos in the rest of the codebase (GH: #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: #2805)
Fixed wobble of small objects like Callisto or Thebe (GH: #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: #2808)
Fixed renamed properties (Oculars plugin)
Fixed a few more renamed timezones
Fixed Observer altitude in Satellites plugin (GH: #2848)
Fixed typos in the src/ subdirectory (GH: #2857)
Fixed typos in the plugins/ subdirectory (GH: #2858)
Changed Calendars plugin: Roman Calendar - print years AUC in Roman numerals (GH: #2898)
Changed core: switch LandscapeSpherical to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #2908)
Changed core: switch LandscapeFisheye to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #2908)
Changed core: avoid the seam in spherical landscape for GL<3.3 by sacrificing mip mapping (GH: #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: #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: #2844)
Changed core: move initial window resizing logic out of StelGLWidget::initializeGL() (GH: #2832)
Changed core: store the flag on whether current OpenGL context is ES in GLInfo (GH: #2847)
Changed core: set default GLES float precision in fragment shaders to mediump (GH: #2847)
Changed core: add support for loading StelVertexArray into StelOpenGLArray (GH: #2847)
Changed core: store vertex to Altitude&Azimuth position conversion matrix in Mat4dTransform (GH: #2847)
Changed core: add support for using StelProjector::project analogue in shaders (GH: #2847)
Changed core: add a method to compare projections of StelProjector (GH: #2847)
Changed core: make MilkyWay project its vertices in a vertex shader instead of doing it on the CPU (GH: #2847)
Changed core: add support for using StelProjector::unProject analogue in shaders (GH: #2847)
Changed core: render Milky Way calculating view direction per fragment (GH: #2847)
Changed core: render Zodiacal light calculating view direction per fragment (GH: #2847)
Changed core: don't try to render a Planet whose textures are not all loaded
Changed core: load Planet textures synchronously (GH: #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

The major changes of this version:

Added support OpenGL 3.3 Core profile
Changed core: switch to use CalcMySky v0.2.1
Changed GUI: allow user CSS
Fixed compiling with Qt 6.4
Fixed Telescope Control plugin
Removed Dakota & Ojibwe sky cultures: this is on request of the original contributors, and following a misunderstanding about licensing.
Full list of changes:

Added support OpenGL 3.3 Core profile
Added support for the versioned variant of ShowMySky library
Added ability to show only special nomenclature points (GH: #2748)
Added Abort slew button into Telescope Control plugin
Added aberration to CustomObjects made from Simbad queries (GH: #2769)
Added donation link to AppStream Metadata (GH: #2773)
Added small tuning for DSO selection without magnitudes (GH: #2701, #2716)
Added another vanished timezone
Added workaround for QTBUG-105984 in macOS (GH: #2785)
Fixed loading of glow texture in OnlineQueries plugin
Fixed compiling with Qt 6.4: use QString instead of QByteArray (GH: #2709)
Fixed OnlineQueries plugin button: redesigned OnlineQueries icons (GH: #2710, #2714)
Fixed building Stellarium with -DENABLE_MEDIA=Off option
Fixed using of OpenGL debug logger
Fixed AppVerName variable for Windows installer (GH: #2728)
Fixed crash in AtmosphereShowMySky constructor when OpenGL 3.3 functions pointer is null
Fixed loading dynamic plugins (GH: #2725)
Fixed bundling for the versioned variant of ShowMySky library on macOS
Fixed resizing tab names in Help window when language is changed
Fixed a missing iterator count-up(!) in SlewDialog (Telescope Control plugin)
Fixed saving option “Use horizontal coordinates” in Oculars plugin
Fixed saving mount properties in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #2713)
Fixed protocol for screenshots URL
Fixed bundling latest versions of ShowMySky library (GH: #2761, #2779)
Fixed normals map of the Moon, increase its resolution and implement shadows (GH: #2781)
Fixed issue in unit testing of scripting engine (GH: #2774)
Fixed freezing Stellarium when scripts are running (GH: #2792)
Changed core: make Date&Time dialog more usable for typing date
Changed core: optional support XLSX files (GH: #2723)
Changed core: avoid deprecation warnings on Qt5.14+
Changed core: avoid a debug output
Changed core: avoid uninitialized vectors
Changed core: replace world map with a higher-resolution version (The map was taken from NASA Blue Marble Next Generation dataset for July 2004) (GH: #2742)
Changed core: handle exceptions from AtmosphereRenderer when drawing
Changed core: current atmosphere should be deleted immediately if we need to reset to fallback
Changed core: handle the options that set environment variables before QGuiApplication is created
Changed core: detect OpenGL ES mode dynamically rather than by conditional compilation
Changed core: make orbits antialiased
Changed core: simplify check for GLES
Changed ASCOM client in Telescope Control plugin
Changed core: switch to use CalcMySky v0.2.1
Changed core: restore current OpenGL context if it got replaced after window resize during StelMainView::init()
Changed core: avoid GL_INVALID_OPERATION caused by operating on zero VAO
Changed core: move dithering mode management from StelPainter to StelCore
Changed rules for packaging Stellarium in Windows
Changed rules for packaging Stellarium in Linux
Changed license info for Boorong sky culture
Changed license info for Lokono sky culture
Changed GUI: allow user CSS (GH: #2772, #678, #1624, #2763)
Changed Telescope Control plugin: trivial simplifications)
Updated scripts
Updated list of default locations
Updated default catalog of pulsars
Updated GUI: set date delimiters in Date-Time dialog in one place
Updated GUI of Telescope Control plugin
Updated list of default locations
Updated description of Equation of Time plugin
Updated AppStream Metadata
Removed outdated bookmark in Solar System Editor plugin
Removed languages without translators
Removed Dakota & Ojibwe sky cultures: this is on request of the original contributors, and following a misunderstanding about licensing.
Removed the font hook for Windows

The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!

What makes this 1.0?
After more than 20 years of development the program is finally accurate enough for historical application.
This is the first release based on the Qt6 framework, so the project is safe for future development. These packages are tagged with a version number like 1.22.3.
We keep releasing Qt5-based packages for legacy or obsolete systems. This may include many Windows users who have to run ANGLE mode. These packages are tagged with a version number like 0.22.3.
What is new for users?
A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems, sorry.)
Many details around eclipses
Updated Observation List features
New features in AstroCalc tool
HiDPI improvements
Better dithering
Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
New skyculture: Samoan
Updated several skycultures
Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars plugins
Many more bugfixes.
A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs, and especially contributed in development!

Clear Skies!

Alexander and Georg

What's Changed
Full list of changes:

Added support Qt6 environment
Added support designations (based on B1950 coordinates) for pulsars
Added definitions for MSVC++ 17.1 and MSVC++ 17.2 compilers
Added report JSON generator to Observability plugin to allow for regression testing
Added modified patch from OpenIndiana for AstroCalc tool
Added modified patch from OpenBSD for GPS support
Added approximated standard magnitude for Chinese Space Station
Added a potentially missing timezone
Added 'Go' button in Search Window Position tab (GH: #2681)
Added wwddmmyyyy date format for Obsevability Analysis plugin
Added hover effect for Oculars plugin buttons (GH: #2698)
Added artwork for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture
Added support for up to 500% scaling of dialog close button (GH: #2660)
Added supporting horizontal coordinates for the CCD sensor in Oculars plugin (GH: #2672)
Added capability to create KML map of solar eclipses in AstroCalc tool (GH: #2677)
Added support the additional names to observing list (GH: #2525, #2553, #2232, #2309)
Added default atmosphere model path in the Atmosphere Details dialog (GH: #2637)
Added config viewer (GH: #2628)
Added some documentation for ShowMySky in the User Guide (GH: #2636)
Added list of financial contributors into About dialog (GH: #2646)
Added contact times of global solar eclipse in AstroCalc tool (GH: #2652)
Added default Earth atmosphere model (GH: 2634)
Added a new Stellarium Sky Culture: Samoan (GH: #2627)
Added column "Symbol" for major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1628)
Added a small didactic enhancement for AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool (GH: #2549)
Added user preference for DSO catalog selection
Added sound output for Qt6 builds
Added object type info into title for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
Added support public version of Stellarium (GH: #2545)
Added units of measurements to Oculars plugin (GH: #2594)
Added original names to Siberian sky culture
Added support the thickness of satellite orbits (GH: #2623)
Added support for ShowMySky atmosphere model (GH: #624, #2604)
Added align to selected object for Angle Measure plugin (GH: #2621)
Added computation the time of equinoxes and solstices and set of actions to jump to the solstice/equinox at current, next or previous year. The default hotkeys for actions are not defined [module "Specific Time"] (GH: #1394, #2516)
Added quadrature line (GH: #2513, #2511, #789)
Added quadratures for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #2513, #2511, #789)
Added handling the placement the windows outside the left border of the screen (GH: #2514)
Added hotkey for run the computing the transits of Venus/Mercury in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
Added new one tooltip for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Fixed GUI issue
Fixed installing constellation art in Babylonian Seleucid sky culture (GH: #2704)
Fixed use of obsolete combobox signal in Telescope Control plugin
Fixed selection in Solar System Editor plugin for Qt6-based package
Fixed missing segments in solar eclipse kml (GH: #2702)
Fixed state of buttons in AstroCalc tools
Fixed inconsistency in units
Fixed requested GLSL version
Fixed columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
Fixed sorting the path width and duration columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
Fixed working ShowMySky on HDPI GPU with limited graphics performance (GH: #2676)
Fixed special hotkeys
Fixed tooltips for some Markings (GH: #2671)
Fixed developers list
Fixed adding some objects (like B 287 (Barnard 287)) into Observing lists (GH: #1884, #2309, #2553, #2232)
Fixed segfault in Observing Lists when import/export the lists (GH: #2411, #1932, #2553, #2232)
Fixed segfault in Observing Lists when saving the lists (GH: #2437, #2553, #2232)
Fixed import Bookmarks into Observing List (GH: #1944, #2553, #2232)
Fixed object selection when use Edit button in Observing List (GH: #1941, #2553, #2232)
Fixed movement users onto Null Island in Observing List (GH: #1933, #2486, #2553, #2232)
Fixed wrong type of objects in Observing List (GH: #2475, #2553, #2232)
Fixed building QXlsx as an universal binary on macOS
Fixed updating region name when location is changed (GH: #2633)
Fixed comparison logic in Angle Measure plugin (GH: #2630)
Fixed NMEA connections in Qt6
Fixed IAU star names (GH: #2531)
Fixed saving the keyboard shortcut (GH: #2571)
Fixed deployment ShowMySky library on macOS
Fixed windows deployment
Fixed crash when scripting is disabled (GH: #2544)
Fixed upper limit of phase, unit of magnitude and angular size in tooltip of AstroCalc tools (GH: #2555)
Fixed crash when using shortcut for specific time jump that related to twilight (GH: #2558)
Fixed opens the links in browser (GH: #2554)
Fixed exported CSV files in AstroCalc/Eclipses (GH: #2569)
Fixed wrong timezone handling of Qt6 (GH: #2547)
Fixed scripts after property had been renamed.
Fixed versions of scripts
Fixed visibility selection of DSO without proper magnitudes (GH: #2563)
Fixed scaling right axes on graphs (GH: #2578, #2582)
Fixed working RemoteControl GUI with Qt6 (GH: #2579)
Fixed search in RemoteControl plugin (GH: #2568)
Fixed translation the graphs data when language is changed for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
Fixed titles for AstroCalc/Graphs tools
Fixed autodetect build architecture on macOS (GH: #2550)
Fixed LTO build (GH: #2590)
Fixed map update (GH: #1302, #2592)
Fixed Zenith scripting issue (GH: #754, #2589)
Fixed meteor showers plugin
Fixed name of renamed solar system file
Fixed reading abbreviated names: allow any non-space characters as part of the constellation and asterism keys (GH: #2606)
Fixed getting the Moon's Elongation in ecliptical longitude via scripting (GH: #2605)
Fixed rendering the Oculars labels on HDPI monitors (GH: #2622)
Fixed coordinates of VDB 16 (GH: #2600)
Fixed screen blanking on Intel UHD (GH: #2166, #2472, #2484, #2619)
Fixed updating catalogs in plugins (GH: #2534)
Fixed missing translations
Fixed crash in debug mode
Fixed 'Binocular Highlights' script
Fixed working the logger for BSD systems with Qt6 environment
Fixed method getOperatingSystemInfo() for macOS
Fixed outdated macros for macOS
Fixed icon size in macOS (GH: #2543)
Fixed Qt6 redirect policy in plugins (GH: #2534)
Fixed misspelled of Schedar (GH: #2531)
Fixed celestrak URL in Satellites plugin: celestrak.com moved to celestrak.org
Fixed list of languages
Fixed crash when "Show Earth's umbra" is enabled (GH: #2509)
Fixed translations the some tooltips when language is changed in AstroCalc tools
Fixed lost selection in Observing Lists tool (GH: #2694)
Changed core: replace ordered Bayer dithering with the algorithm based on triangle-remapped blue noise (GH: #2640)
Changed core: enable dithering by default (GH: #2644)
Changed core: Milky Way and Zodiacal Light rebalance (GH: #2648)
Changed core: improved Haiku OS support
Changed core: actions for jump to the moments of rise, set and transit (include twilight) of selected objects moved into "Specific Time" module (GH: #2516)
Changed GPS location manager: add location service managed by Windows (GPS, network location, ...) (GH: #2620)
Changed building rules for dependencies: use system versions of dependencies (GH: #1295)
Changed Observability Analysis plugin: replace object type booleans with methods. This removes the need for managing object type state and delegates it to the StelObjectMgr (GH: #2536)
Changed Observability Analysis plugin: refactor Observability plugin to use signals for reacting to location state changes (GH: #2535)
Changed RemoteControl plugin: add missing elements
Changed Scripting module: switch to use JSEngine instead of QtScript in Qt6-based version
Changed logger: refactored the method for obtaining the compiler info in the logger
Changed macOS defaults: by default for Qt6 environment on macOS create an universal binary (arm64 + x86_64) package for macOS Big Sur and later
Updated Location window: Rewrite MapLabel ? MapWidget (GH: 2696)
Updated timezone data
Updated Stellarium User Guide
Updated GUI elements: increase resolution of some PNGs to improve high-DPI look (GH: #2658)
Updated GUI elements: work around too much stretching of close button icon on Qt 5.12.8 (GH: #2674)
Updated GUI elements: increase resolution of spinboxes to improve the look on high-DPI monitors
Updated splash screen: paint version on the fly on the splash screen instead of rasterizing it into pixmap (GH: #2668)
Updated rendering the ShowMySky atmosphere model
Updated About/Config tab
Updated Babylonian (Mulapin) Sky Culture
Updated Egyptian Sky Culture
Updated Greek (Almagest) Sky Culture
Updated Indian sky culture (GH: #2557, #2559)
Updated atmosphere model for ShowMySky module (GH: #2643)
Updated list of contributors list in the About dialog
Updated default pulsars catalog
Updated list of locations
Updated few scripts
Updated title for AstroCalc/Graphs/Lunar Elongation tool
Updated nomenclature data
Updated settings for Inno Setup on Windows
Removed the duplicate code
Removed unneeded headers
Removed duplicated code in AstroCalc tools

Добавлена версия 0.22.2

The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.1.

The major changes of this version:

Added fixed equatorial grid/line
Added new sky cultures
Fixed building Stellarium (AppImage)
Updated DSO catalog
Enjoy!

What's Changed
Full list of changes:

Added Khoikhoi and San sky culture (GH: #2396)
Added Xhosa sky culture (GH: #2395)
Added fixed equatorial grid/line (GH: #2399)
Added DSO names (GH: #2387)
Fixed building AppImage/x86_64 package
Fixes various typos in sky cultures (GH: #2400)
Fixed rendering 3D models for solar system bodies (GH: #2367)
Changed screenshots naming: properly detect largest screenshot number (GH: #2379)
Updated DSO catalog (v3.15): updated visual magnitudes for Messier objects from RNGC/IC catalog by Wolfgang Steinicke (GH: #2375)
Updated designations of stars (GH: #2391)
Updated licence statement for few sky cultures