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You can find a list of breaking changes against 0.19 here.

Features

• 2024 Digital Universe Data Update
• Add new TileProvider to select tile providers based on the date and apply to VIIRS Joint Polar Satellite System (#3350)
• Provide better error messages when failing to load an asset due to verification failures
• Add support for model vertex colors (#3346)
• Reduce the number of capture threads used by SGCT to optimize image sequence framerate
• Add server name to parallelpeer authentication, used as unique identifier on wormhole server
• Add the ability to scale the debug statistics graphs
• Move the statistics and frame info rendering from the RenderEngine into the debugging module ( #1248)
• Update Ghoul to get more information on when WMI queries fail (#3330)

UI

• Add possiblity to sort SGNs in GUI based on numerical value
• Small Node Popover menu refactor

Content

New Assets

• Add an example asset to show the current in-game time in a screenspace object (#3312)
• Add new advanced example assets for the point cloud rendering

Updates to existing Assets/Profiles

• Add Down and Up keybinds to set the time to realtime and "now" respectively (#3275)
• Fix spelling mistake in Haumea model
• Fix a warning from hdf.asset due to a missing dataset parameter (#3343)
• Removed the version numbers from asset files as they were unused and inconsistent
• Remove the large data files from the URLSynchronization example files to make the file loadable
• Use the correct way to scale the Eiffel tower educational asset

Content creation

• Add the ability to specify DashboardItems for ScreenSpaceDashboards in assets.
• Make the 'Layer's specification in RenderableGlobe optional
• Improve error messages and export DashboardItem documentation
• Adds a task to generate a raw volume (used in for example RenderableTimeVaryingVolume) from a CSV file.
• The default for actions is now to have them not local (#3194)

Lua

• Add Lua function to calculate the number of seconds between dates and use it in assets (#3332)
• Add a new Lua function to create debug axes for the current focus node

Bug Fixes

• Fix a multithreaded access to SPICE that could cause a crash on startup (#3345)
• Fix a bug where the keyboard shortcuts would no longer be displayed
• Correctly consume char-based keyboard callbacks in the CEF module (#3290)
• Prevent crash when starting without any enabled audio devices (#3329)
• Fix bug with resizing the WorldWideTelescope window
• Fix an issue with the point cloud rendering texture not being rendered when the texture file path is updated during runtime
• Fix a faulty example GUI path in the point cloud example files
• Generate the framebuffer for screenspace rendering without mipmapping as it handles transparency poorly
• Fix parsing TLE files with CRLF line endings on unix (#3326)
• A non-main dashboard is now correctly displayed when adding it as a propertyowner to a ScreenSpaceDashboard
• Fix an issue where the scale for ScreenSpaceDashboards was always enforced to be 1