Stellarium (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

Added:
- support Qt6 environment
- support designations (based on B1950 coordinates) for pulsars
- definitions for MSVC++ 17.1 and MSVC++ 17.2 compilers
- report JSON generator to Observability plugin to allow for regression testing
- modified patch from OpenIndiana for AstroCalc tool
- modified patch from OpenBSD for GPS support
- approximated standard magnitude for Chinese Space Station
- a potentially missing timezone
- ‘Go’ button in Search Window Position tab
- wwddmmyyyy date format for Obsevability Analysis plugin
- hover effect for Oculars plugin buttons
- artwork for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture
- support for up to 500% scaling of dialog close button
- supporting horizontal coordinates for the CCD sensor in Oculars plugin
- capability to create KML map of solar eclipses in AstroCalc tool
- support the additional names to observing list
- default atmosphere model path in the Atmosphere Details dialog
- config viewer
- some documentation for ShowMySky in the User Guide
- list of financial contributors into About dialog
- contact times of global solar eclipse in AstroCalc tool
- default Earth atmosphere model
- a new Stellarium Sky Culture: Samoan
- column “Symbol” for major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool
- a small didactic enhancement for AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool
- user preference for DSO catalog selection
- sound output for Qt6 builds
- object type info into title for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- support public version of Stellarium
- units of measurements to Oculars plugin
- original names to Siberian sky culture
- support the thickness of satellite orbits
- support for ShowMySky atmosphere model
- align to selected object for Angle Measure plugin
- 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”]
- quadrature line
- quadratures for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- handling the placement the windows outside the left border of the screen
- hotkey for run the computing the transits of Venus/Mercury in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- new one tooltip for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool

Fixed:
- GUI issue
- installing constellation art in Babylonian Seleucid sky culture
- use of obsolete combobox signal in Telescope Control plugin
- selection in Solar System Editor plugin for Qt6-based package
- missing segments in solar eclipse kml
- state of buttons in AstroCalc tools
- inconsistency in units
- requested GLSL version
- columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- sorting the path width and duration columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- working ShowMySky on HDPI GPU with limited graphics performance
- special hotkeys
- tooltips for some Markings
- developers list
- adding some objects (like B 287 (Barnard 287)) into Observing lists
- segfault in Observing Lists when import/export the lists
- segfault in Observing Lists when saving the lists
- import Bookmarks into Observing List
- object selection when use Edit button in Observing List
- movement users onto Null Island in Observing List
- wrong type of objects in Observing List
- building QXlsx as an universal binary on macOS
- updating region name when location is changed
- comparison logic in Angle Measure plugin
- NMEA connections in Qt6
- IAU star names
- saving the keyboard shortcut
- deployment ShowMySky library on macOS
- windows deployment
- crash when scripting is disabled
- upper limit of phase, unit of magnitude and angular size in tooltip of AstroCalc tools
- crash when using shortcut for specific time jump that related to twilight
- opens the links in browser
- exported CSV files in AstroCalc/Eclipses
- wrong timezone handling of Qt6
- scripts after property had been renamed.
- versions of scripts
- visibility selection of DSO without proper magnitudes
- scaling right axes on graphs
- working RemoteControl GUI with Qt6
- search in RemoteControl plugin
- translation the graphs data when language is changed for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- titles for AstroCalc/Graphs tools
- autodetect build architecture on macOS
- LTO build
- map update
- Zenith scripting issue
- meteor showers plugin
- name of renamed solar system file
- reading abbreviated names: allow any non-space characters as part of the constellation and asterism keys
- getting the Moon’s Elongation in ecliptical longitude via scripting
- rendering the Oculars labels on HDPI monitors
- coordinates of VDB 16
- screen blanking on Intel UHD
- updating catalogs in plugins
- missing translations
- crash in debug mode
- ‘Binocular Highlights’ script
- working the logger for BSD systems with Qt6 environment
- method getOperatingSystemInfo() for macOS
- outdated macros for macOS
- icon size in macOS
- Qt6 redirect policy in plugins
- misspelled of Schedar
- celestrak URL in Satellites plugin: celestrak.com moved to celestrak.org
- list of languages
- crash when “Show Earth’s umbra” is enabled
- translations the some tooltips when language is changed in AstroCalc tools
- lost selection in Observing Lists tool

Changed:
- core: replace ordered Bayer dithering with the algorithm based on triangle-remapped blue noise
- core: enable dithering by default
- core: Milky Way and Zodiacal Light rebalance
- GPS location manager: add location service managed by Windows (GPS, network location, …)
- building rules for dependencies: use system versions of dependencies
- Observability Analysis plugin: replace object type booleans with methods. This removes the need for managing object type state and delegates it to the StelObjectMgr
- Observability Analysis plugin: refactor Observability plugin to use signals for reacting to location state changes
- RemoteControl plugin: add missing elements
- Scripting module: switch to use JSEngine instead of QtScript in Qt6-based version
- logger: refactored the method for obtaining the compiler info in the logger
- core: improved Haiku OS support
- macOS defaults: by default for Qt6 environment on macOS create an universal binary (arm64 + x86_64) package for macOS Big Sur and later
- core: actions for jump to the moments of rise, set and transit (include twilight) of selected objects moved into “Specific Time” module

Updated:
- Location window: Rewrite MapLabel → MapWidget
- timezone data
- Stellarium User Guide
- GUI elements: increase resolution of some PNGs to improve high-DPI look
- GUI elements: work around too much stretching of close button icon on Qt 5.12.8
- GUI elements: increase resolution of spinboxes to improve the look on high-DPI monitors
- splash screen: paint version on the fly on the splash screen instead of rasterizing it into pixmap
- rendering the ShowMySky atmosphere model
- About/Config tab
- Babylonian (Mulapin) Sky Culture
- Egyptian Sky Culture
- Greek (Almagest) Sky Culture
- Indian sky culture
- atmosphere model for ShowMySky module
- list of contributors list in the About dialog
- default pulsars catalog
- list of locations
- few scripts
- title for AstroCalc/Graphs/Lunar Elongation tool
- nomenclature data
- settings for Inno Setup on Windows
- Removed the duplicate code
- Removed unneeded headers
- Removed duplicated code in AstroCalc tools