Features

• Added the functionality to automatically choose a discrete graphics card over an integrated graphics card on laptops that have both
• Improved the rendering of orbital trajectories, specifically for very large datasets (#3739)
• Improved the visual fidelity of Saturn's rings and its shadow on the planet (#3749)

UI

• Moved the map of Earth from the night sky panel into the GeoLocation panel and add the ability to search for features on other planetary bodies (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#184)
• Added a confirmation dialog to some property settings that are irreversible, like disabling the mouse input (#3730)
• Correctly reflect in the user interface when navigation and time controls are disabled during recording playbacks (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#175)
• Added a new tab to the ScreenSpace renderables panel to add a browser with a specific webpage (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#177)
• Added the functionality to hide panels at lower visibility levels. Hide the ScriptLog unless the visibility is set to "Advanced User" (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#186)
• Improved the keybinds panel to show all keys bound to a specific key instead of needed to manually switch between Shift, Alt, and Ctrl keybindings (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#182)
• Improved the handling of text fields that are too long by displaying hover tooltips that show the full name of, for example, scene graph nodes (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#188)

Content

New Assets

• Added a new asset for 3I/ATLAS
• Added a new asset with an action for locking temporal layers (#3760)

Updates to existing Assets/Profiles

• Updated the temporal night time layer on Earth as the previous was no longer working
• Changed GUI naming and coloring for 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov and added labels for both
• Removed Plutos Keplerian trail as the new kernels are now reaching back to 1549 (#3726)
• Renamed Galactic Line/Band to equator and updated their identifiers (#3737)
• Added missing absPath() in the slidedeck example
• Fixed the Sun glare to use the correct billboarding for fisheye rendering

Content creation

• ContiguousMode in RenderableOrbitalKepler is now an AdvancedUser property

API

• Added the camera view direction information to the camera topic (#3741)

Bug Fixes

• Occasionally, the camera was moved outside the universe when rotating around Earth (#3497)
  • Important: If you are using the MRF cache, you need to delete the mrf_cache/Earth/Height Layers/Terrain_tileset folder
• The JWST profile failed to load
• The Euclid profile failed to load
• The Messenger profile failed to load
• It was not possible to load the user interface on a different device (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#187)
• Shift-clicking the enabled checkbox for scene graph node caused the immediateness to get stuck (#3744)
• The info button in the kebab menu of the current scene graph was not visible (#3735)
• When the Lua console was open, any keystroke was still being used by the main user interface (#3649)
• The GanymedePosition scene graph node was placed in the incorrect folder in the Juice profile
• The names for many profiles in the meta information was incorrect (#3743)
• The opacity slider for the Milky Way galaxy was inoperable
• The quick adjust slider in the time panel was broken (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#176)
• The "All globes" illumination was not actually applied to all globes (#3729)
• It was not possible to focus the camera on Charon
• The Local Dwarf Groups were using a wrong color mapping
• It was not possible to pick a text value from the script log in the Profile editor (#3620)
• The menu bar on MacOS was incorrectly set, causing crashes
• It was not possible to use relative paths in a GeoJSON texture (#3761)
• The planets sonification was crashing when no planets were available
• The documentation for RenderablePlaneSpout and RenderableSphereSpout was missing
• The min/max values for the transform matrix of a RenderableModel were set incorrectly (#3746)
• When calling setPropertyValue with a 0 second duration, the postscript was not called
• Some long tooltip descriptions were not correctly broken across lines (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#180)
• It was possible to drag a hidden window from just below the menu bar (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#183)
• Exoplanet globes were producing warning messages when they only had a single solid color (#3728)
• Exoplanet globes were producing warning messages when MRF caching was enabled
• Using the toggleFade function was printing an error message even though there was no error condition
• The Video module had an enabled property that was unused