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

Release notes

Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.2 for all platforms. This is our second release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

• Many changes in support of sky cultures
• Added 2 new plugins: Mosaic Camera and Custom Nebula Textures
• Many improvements in Core
• Updates in sky cultures (include new one)

Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #4356)
• Added ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin
• Added ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)
• Added support zodiac and lunar systems
• Added code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms
• Added Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in (GH: #4003)
• Added context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin
• Added fields for translating planet names
• Added ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions
• Added ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement
• Added ability mix of cultural and common star names
• Added ability to excluding star names from unwanted references
• Added context and tooltips for new menu items
• Added support for Dark Constellations
• Added new GUI elements (sky cultures)
• Added adjustments for MinGW compilation (GH: #4311)
• Added an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin
• Added a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins (GH: #4264)
• Added Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4300)
• Added parallax data in WUI
• Added Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4005)
• Added installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage (GH: #4248)
• Added skyculture "Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands" (GH: #4274)
• Added support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin(GH: #4373)
• Fixed saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions
• Fixed context data support for zodiac and lunar systems
• Fixed font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin
• Fixed wrong output size
• Fixed registry records for Windows installer (GH: #4202)
• Fixed comet discovery data
• Fixed a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC (GH: #3913)
• Fixed data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines (GH: #4304)
• Fixed description of sky cultures (GH: #3879, #3876)
• Fixed labeling native/pronounce
• Fixed extra IPA handling
• Fixed showing duplicate names in native and translation
• Fixed screen updates when setting changes
• Fixed discovery date/name
• Fixed changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin
• Fixed searching
• Fixed DSO name rendering
• Fixed Qt5.15 building
• Fixed missing space in front of translated "Added"
• Fixed typos in src/core

Packages notes

package | note ------------|--------- stellarium-25.2.tar.gz | Source code of Stellarium 25.2.
MD5: f12ac9d57e9acef54d32cc196360c9ba
SHA256: afb43e95438aef5509afd6ba197daf30b52607cac16888332d9810ba12209486 stellarium-25.2.tar.bz2 | Source code of Stellarium 25.2.
MD5: d2b508ed716ec679d6cf9ed132886754
SHA256: 6c50f8c74e18370ee24b01367e36120c633fc8bdfb611c0fa6c854612ea3464f stellarium-25.2.tar.xz | Source code of Stellarium 25.2.
MD5: b7f15cc16c5488dacce3135ae58927a7
SHA256: 5423334212a6d0daa006d44e1bc039cc212fbc990358c7b6636a7a2aac67434f stellarium-25.2.zip | Source code of Stellarium 25.2.
MD5: 51756caa88ac0412ed3da6ae4ace1cf5
SHA256: 4d984436e3435ec86884f6552c5e8031b84f15663d144a4b4b80d86420b018cd stellarium-25.2-qt5-win64.exe | Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017).
MD5: f77f7223e39cd6f0d65204cb139f97e7
SHA256: d2a8a91171c2011f19afbdcf02660008f34f0674ddb8d4214129b2851ac2cb0a stellarium-25.2-qt5.15-win64.exe | Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.15.2 (Visual Studio 2022).
MD5: 4c3804b412af47c9acb64dae972417ed
SHA256: 70e23df2d982bdecc4d84e9cb803c2b00f628affe61b8ff48f7f6c37222cc547 stellarium-25.2-qt6-win64.exe | Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.8.1 (Visual Studio 2022).
MD5: c0ff36b4c336fd3020ddd9a67c454dde
SHA256: 8dc272150c2ae630e6d889af3a33571050199f0a12d99a56cb073985cd7620b2 stellarium-25.2-qt6-arm64.exe | Stellarium 25.2 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022).
MD5: ce5deb5cad0c3e113b53c03a8f55cd33
SHA256: b8daca4802904706fa4876a187d30c866ee38d1dfd7751c8fd1d63e75a594d69 Stellarium-25.2-qt6-macOS.zip | Stellarium 25.2 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 17.0.0).
MD5: e4c21bfd29f05c14594396b12919deb0
SHA256: 9d84b159462c77d3dea5c41010c0d002c485201c48ee8005809cbcfa260f9d52 Stellarium-25.2-qt5-x86_64.zip | Stellarium 25.2 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0).
MD5: 91b4d9e828064bf98948ad72441ce037
SHA256: f6d08ed9bc7c7272f237b78dd91eb299aac4ed9ef9c4b25a5e89f65eef2495e0 Stellarium-25.2-qt5-x86_64.AppImage | Stellarium 25.2 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 5.15.3 (GCC 11.4.0).
MD5: 0956d1f2e1976920ae1dd820105ffc24 : 059470007eade281c556bc3ac7476858d299c41e0b9fd3df1272c8c13883f5c8 Stellarium-25.2-qt6-x86_64.AppImage | Stellarium 25.2 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). : dfcc69d8f9c4f2d0daa3b47b9492ddc3 : 14cd0b89815d26267d544db717a0d12a40ba1c79eded97eb5dc8ca23f119aa94

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-25.2.tar.gz.asc stellarium-25.2.tar.gz