v0.21.2

[alex-w]

The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!

A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!
• Bookmarks replaced by Observation Lists
• Politically neutral geonames
• Right-click opens plugin configuration
• Improved computation of rising, transit, setting times
• "Goto next twilight" functionality
• Two new Greek skycultures
• Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
• Improved fidelity of Lunar eclipses
• Fixed display of stellar proper motion
• Many fixes in core and plugins

Change log

Full list of changes:

• Added a twilight altitude setting and twilight-finding actions to StelObjectMgr (GH: Planet RTS #1852, Jump to Defined Moments in Diurnal Motion of Objects: rise, transit, set #484)
• Added extraString capabilities to StelObjectMgr (GH: Planet RTS #1852)
• Added missing time zones
• Added 2 new greek skycultures (GH: Sushoff new greek #1850)
• Added unit tests for JPL DE440/DE441 ephemeris
• Added greatest digression to Infostring (GH: Greatest Digression #1885)
• Added constellation info for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added tooltip for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added barium stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools
• Added option to toggle the method of drawing Sun's corona (GH: Couronne solaire #971)
• Added support right click for buttons (GH: Right click buttons #1843)
• Added alternative definition of elongation (GH: Moon's elongation from Sun, on the plane of the ecliptic #1786)
• Added support of geographical regions (politically neutral toponyms) (GH: Neutral geonames #1844, A serious question about Ukraine`s sovereignty #1808, Taiwan is Taiwan. DO NOT list it as Province of China.  #1135, Taiwan is not province of China #1125, A serious question about China`s sovereignty #894)
• Added tooltips to list of skycultures in the GUI
• Added support the annual aberration (GH: Annual aberration #1626, Aberration of light #1272, Error with lunar eclipse texture and magnitudes #1115, lunar positions mismatch #84)
• Added custom max fov stop (GH: Add zoom stop for planetarium use #1836)
• Added DeltaT output in seconds for Scripting Engine
• Added Observing lists feature (GH: Observing lists #1816)
• Added unobvious behavior for selection the celestial body when Graphs tab is opened
• Added extra data for satellite into GUI of Satellites plugin (GH: Satellites plug in. #1785)
• Added new language: English (India)
• Added ability of displaying number of exoplanets in the system near designation of host star
• Added support minimum altitude for Rise/Transit/Set times in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: Input for desired minimum elevation in WUT-Dialog #1089)
• Fixed visual style of the magnitude output data
• Fixed rendering graphs when the AstroCalc/Graphs tab is closed (GH: Planet RTS #1852)
• Fixed coordinates for NGC 2379 (DSO Catalog v3.13)
• Fixes and improvements of backward compatibility layer for support the regions and countries
• Fixed displaying the proper motion data (GH: Proper motion values as displayed vs that in the catalog. #1787)
• Fixed empty items in Search/Lists tool for stars
• Fixed proper motion data in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: Proper motion values as displayed vs that in the catalog. #1787)
• Fixed HiDPI issue for GUI of Scenery 3D plugin
• Fixed displaying meteor showers search dialog (GH: Current year in Czech translation of meteor showers search dialog is not displayed #1854)
• Fixed drawing spiky halo for Solar system bodies (GH: Spiky Moon's halo #1805)
• Fixed behavior of the Online Query plug-in button (GH: Online Query Plug-in Button #1806)
• Fixed WS-2020-0368 issue in zlib (GH: WS-2020-0368 (Medium) detected in https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/le/binutils-gdb/gdb-8.0-release #1807)
• Fixed search stars by additional English names
• Fixed translations for splash screen (GH: Fix for Splash screen translation. #1817)
• Fixed location of CR 36 (Collinder 36) (GH: CR 36 (Collinder 36) at wrong location #1827)
• Fixed crash Online Query Plug-in (GH: Stellarium Crashed when Cliking on Configaration window button #1821)
• Fixed distanes for PGC galaxies (GH: Incorrect distances in the PGC catalog #1922)
• Fixed computation of max elevations in AstroCalc tool
• Changed Observability plugin: disabled RTS display in the plugin to avoid duplicate the data (GH: Planet RTS #1852)
• Changed the core: added better solutions to RTS (rise-transit-set times) for fixed objects and planets (GH: Planet RTS #1852, Objects' raise/set time changes during night #554)
• Changed core: enabled nutation for -4000...+8000 for better comparison with reference solutions
• Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/Graphs tool: the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graph tool now can work on Earth only (GH: Graph scaling wrong when observing from another planet #1925)
• Changed behaviour of AstroCalc tool: Inhibit updates when dialog invisible (GH: Stellarium very slow when visiting other planets after having used AstroCalc graphs #1920)
• Updated the behaviour of the GUI in Search Tool: force focus on entry line when recalling (GH: focus of search dialog not always active #1874)
• Updated the behaviour of the AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: exclude outdated solar system objects (GH: Exclude outdated solar system objects #1880)
• Updated descriptions of sky cultures
• Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
• Updated QXlsx library
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated list of locations
• Updated list of languages
• Updated list of geographical regions
• Updated list of planetary nomenclature
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated common names of DSO
• Updated common names of the stars
• Updated boundaries in Chinese skycultures (GH: Fixed Chinese constellation boundaries. #1919)
• Updated translations
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: improve the performance of computations (GH: Astrocalc: findRightAscension replacement #1910)
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: avoid lots of computations (GH: avoid setting JD globally? Just find DeltaT and call #1904)
• Updated Solar System Editpr plugin: better intuitive sorting of MPC list by padding (GH: MPC import: improve sort of URLs #1835)
• Removed few Chinese dialects/languages: we will keep only zh_CN, zh_SG, zh_HK and zh_TW locales for Chinese
• Removed outdated translations
• Removed list of countries (GH: Neutral geonames #1844, A serious question about Ukraine`s sovereignty #1808, Taiwan is Taiwan. DO NOT list it as Province of China.  #1135, Taiwan is not province of China #1125, A serious question about China`s sovereignty #894)
• Removed Bookmarks feature (GH: Observing lists #1816)
• Removed the duplicate for Tr 2 cluster

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-0.21.2.tar.gz	Stellarium 0.21.2 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 0e909a706a6f80567272bb96df67f112 SHA1: e61b66eae54888cf90f6dab7b49bc4ca6d9d941b SHA256: e588b66a173834f74a6462f5219ce4d38e8f87405b932267f6f1d2d4dbff4a82
stellarium-0.21.2-win32.exe	Stellarium 0.21.2 for Windows (32-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: 8be8da08a538b12d7fae385b250db77c SHA1: a00371528efa5d49cff504b8c0e2a2deeb0065c4 SHA256: d98169a9d268ba4289f6f9a49add7c2bd4a7a2e17158c52ea1712ca66affaa65
stellarium-0.21.2-win64.exe	Stellarium 0.21.2 for Windows (64-bit; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017 Community) with media support. MD5: 4969d0b2542e063151c29d961134a7f9 SHA1: 3299cafeda9278b3c9e817ea4974e0b712ab9a44 SHA256: eff51315b0d3200ef0ecbb8deb8ffc3fe649162b32d577bf5701953709588af0
Stellarium-0.21.2.zip	Stellarium 0.21.2 for Mac OS X (64-bit; Mac OS X 10.12+) based on Qt 5.12.9 (AppleClang 11.0.0) with media support. MD5: 5cc5ba929a52d9d03520144563bb0ab7 SHA1: 9902f9a90ef0e4f11d3026b191d85eb36e8073ca SHA256: c0b11f61fd0ff597bdc841ff8bcfc73dd44df4f442107c7257278d378a3ed178
Stellarium-0.21.2-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 0.21.2 for Linux (AMD64; glibc 2.27) based on Qt 5.9.5 (GCC 7.5.0) with media support. MD5: dbe08a1cf5d7fe76d152f983be60f672 SHA1: 6f56160e8e5bc18a6b2af1ef872f5457b2c2f168 SHA256: a5382e9183abf6463a6d23b167b45aa03c76678495754ec525dd0e6fc8938cbb

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