Stellarium Files

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

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released final version in this year - 24.4.

The major changes of this version: - Changes in DSO rendering - Improvements in Core - Improvements in Telescope Control plugin - Updates in sky cultures

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

What's Changed

Full list of changes: - Added optional drop shadow behind InfoText - Added ability of immediate-store for (hopefully) all main program properties (GH: [#3987]) - Added designation for η Car star (GH: [#633]) - Added code for Tachelhit language - Added sidereal time in degrees to StelObject InfoMap - Added test to avoid missing colors for NebCl type - Added new nomenclature - Added alias for Asia/Choibalsan time zone (GH: [#3955], [#3953]) - Added proper name for LDN43 - Fixed kerning of curved text (GH: [#4006]) - Fixed application of text baseline shift - Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: [#3995]) - Fixed typos (GH: [#3993], [#4015]) - Fixed mistakes in Korean SC (GH: [#3994]) - Fixed proper motion for pulsars - Fixed minimum target version for macOS when Qt5 is using - Fixed color for NebCl type - Fixed sizes of proportional hints for DSO - Fixed description of Arabic (Lunar mansions) SC (GH: [#3938]) - Fixed description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) SC (GH: [#3944]) - Fixed typos in Arabic (Indigenous) skyculture (GH: [#3939]) - Fixed BOM char in source code - Fixed constellation Pleiades (HR -> HIP) in Greek (Leiden Aratea) SC (GH: [#3931]) - Fixed translating months in AstroCalc/Graphs after changing language (GH: [#3907]) - Fixed typos in Mongolian skyculture (GH: [#3913]) - Fixed typos in Indian skyculture (GH: [#3908]) - Fixed typos in Romanian skyculture (GH: [#3912]) - Fixed few security alerts for JS code (GH: [#3918], [#3920], [#3917]) - Fixed compiling planetarium in some systems (GH: [#3905]) - Fixed missing parts of refactoring - Fixed setting 2 lines in ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: [#3909]) - Fixed saving selected object information (GH: [#3910]) - Fixed coordinates in '20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars' script (GH: [#3835]) - Changed core: keep FOV search radius in hiDPI screen consistent from user perspective (GH: [#3985]) - Changed core: attempt to resolve HIP first (GH: [#3980]) - Changed core: Refactoring drawing nebulae markers (GH: [#3968]) - Changed core: Allow dimming of DSO hints and labels - Changed core: Make some landscape variables static, and properties of LandscapeMgr (GH: [#3951], [#3574]) - Changed core and Solar System Editor plugin: improved size of small asteroids - Changed core: Rewrite spheric mirror to make it more efficient (GH: [#3535], [#3954]) - Changed core: Remove a useless OpenGL call - Changed Telescope Control plugin: Show an even more clear hint that ASCOM is disabled in Qt6 builds - Changed Telescope Control plugin: INDI support is optional now - Changed Telescope Control plugin: switch to INDI v2.1.1 (GH: [#3269]) - Changed Satellites plugin: User can decide if newly added satellites are visible by default now (GH: [#3986]) - Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid bad orbit lines (GH: [#3934]) - Changed Satellites plug-in: small speedup - Changed Calendars plugin: add drop shadow for better readability - Updated Norse SC (GH: [#3990], [#3991]) - Updated default list of locations - Updated default list of minor bodies - Updated list of planetary features - Updated discovery circumstances for comets and for minor planets - Updated photometry data for satellites - Updated translations - Updated infrastructure: Let system-installed fast_float be found (GH: [#3949]) - Updated WebUI in Remote Control plug-in (GH: [#3929]) - Updated JS libraries in Remote Control plugin-in (GH: [#3923]) - Updated default catalog of pulsars - Removed texture of NGC104

Packages notes

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07 fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example) gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.4.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.4.tar.gz