What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added new sky culture: Balinese (GH: #4625)
• Added new sky culture: Indian (Nakshatras) [from Susanne M. Hoffmann with B.S. Shylaja]
• Added new sky culture: Norse (Edda) [from the German Studies, University of Jena]
• Added new sky culture: Chinese (Journey to the West) [from two Chinese colleagues]
• Added initial support of narration (cmake flag ENABLE_SPEECH)
• Added discovery circumstances for newly discovered comets
• Added missing timezone
• Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Dante) sky culture
• Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Leiden Aratea) sky culture
• Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Farnese) sky culture
• Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Added report failures to load textures obtained from network too
• Added constellation descriptions to Modern sky culture
• Added VS2026 multi-config section and fix VS2022 statement in BUILDING.md (GH: #4676)
• Added more logging categories (GH: #4652)
• Added missing context in Modern sky culture constellation names
• Added ability to inhibit screensaver in fullscreen via CLI (Windows only) (GH: #4507)
• Added object type support for custom object
• Added obj type in search result, indicating SIMBAD result with fetched object types
• Added all native names to name search (GH: #4608)
• Added the star "Celestial Pig's Eye" in Chinese sky culture (GH: #4598)
• Added Visual Studio 2022 build instructions
• Added ability to see colored labels for satellites in both modes (GH: #4588)
• Added polar distance info into InfoMap data
• Added extinction effect into drawing of satellites (GH: #4585)
• Added new set of navigational stars (XIX century)
• Added ability to use polar distance instead of declination in equatorial coordinates (GH: #4571, #4529)
• Added Nova Centauri 2025
• Added support for translating separated Constellations section
• Fixed crash when ENABLE_SPEECH is not defined
• Fixed typos (GH: #4653, #4646)
• Fixed structure of many sky cultures
• Fixed observe magnitude limit (GH: #4633)
• Fixed discovery circumstances for minor planets
• Fixed some debug messages with paths
• Fixed hardware detection in linux/aarch64 (RPi4)
• Fixed hardware detection in OpenBSD
• Fixed typo in Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
• Fixed checking updates
• Fixed build with Qt6.10 (GH: #4667)
• Fixed IPA for Russian Siberian sky culture
• Fixed GUI issue in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #4661)
• Fixed altitude representation in decimal degrees in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4582)
• Fixed deleted lines during creation of a constellation end up in the output in Sky Culture Maker plugin (GH: #4593)
• Fixed Observability Analysis plugin crash (GH: #4618)
• Fixed start with empty observing list (GH: #4641)
• Fixed documentation (GH: #4627)
• Fixed getting screenshot HiDPI scaling on Wayland
• Fixed bookmarks for minor planets orbital elements
• Fixed indication satellite in penumbra (GH: #4615)
• Fixed helplabel font in bottom bar (GH: #4614)
• Fixed a use after free (GH: #4581)
• Fixed loading localization in some specific cases (GH: #4605)
• Fixed translations issue (GH: #4607)
• Fixed loading star catalogs
• Fixed setting SkyculturePartition colors (GH: #4575)
• Fixed reading the setting for enabling abbreviations of constellations
• Fixed missing config option
• Fixed tooltip
• Fixed the positioning of the star "Auxiliary Road " in Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture (GH: #4576)
• Fixed description of few scripts
• Fixed classification issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Drawn constellations are not reset after "Export and Exit" (GH: #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Stop drawing line key (Double Right Click) only works when Star/DSO is selected (GH: #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Not all sky culture description input fields that are marked required are actually checked (GH: #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: No formal checks for 'Constellations' input field in sky culture description (GH: #4557)
• Fixed some issues in the Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture (GH: #4544)
• Fixed Sardinian sky culture: Allow elongation-dependent name for Venus (GH: #4549)
• Fixed abbreviations in Indian sky culture (GH: #4545)
• Changed core: Allow negative hour angles (GH: #4584)
• Changed core: Compute correct longitude position even if skyculture partition is not shown
• Changed core: Recreate viewport effect on screen scaling change
• Changed core: Take changes in magnitude due to proper motion when getting vmag with extinction (GH: #4638)
• Changed core: Retrieve all cultural names on search (GH: #4608)
• Changed core: Extend global zone in lv0-2 catalogs to 200,000 years due to GH #4501
• Changed core: Need to normalize binary stars' cartesian position to fix wrong parallax effect for binary stars (GH: #4596)
• Changed core: Minor dynamic resolution changes (GH: #4672)
• Changed core: Don't forget to run markdownToHTML on an SC description section
• Changed core: Scale Custom Object pointer with the screen
• Changed core: Scale nomenclature pointer with the screen
• Changed core: Scale star pointer with the screen
• Changed core: Properly scale SolarSystem pointer with the screen
• Changed core: Properly scale meteor shower icon on the screen
• Changed core: Scale meteor shower, satellite, DSO pointers with the screen
• Changed visual type of monthly graph in AstroCalc tool
• Changed GUI: Don't force button sizes in ScriptConsole
• Changed GUI: Make combobox dropdown actually drop down
• Changed NLS: Simplify 'pronounce' .po entries of Chinese sky cultures (GH: #4538)
• Changed Calendars plugin: Allow exporting displayed list
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Remove "test only" warning and enable translation signal (GH: #4696)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Tell what fields are incomplete on export error (GH: #4697)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Use artIntensity from ConstellationMgr (GH: #4682)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Tweak the Close dialog text
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Use better button labels in the Close dialog
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Fix UX issues with aborting and hiding dialogs + missing translations (GH: #4568, #4665)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Fix Thickness of constellation lines in SCM is not tied to Stellarium's settings (GH: #4659, #4664)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Move constellation descriptions to the Constellations dialog
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Option to merge constellation lines into polylines (GH: #4563)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Don't exit on "Export and Exit" when export failed (GH: #4580)
• Changed Oculars plugin: Try a drop shadow to increase GUI panel clarity (GH: #4560)
• Updated DSO catalog (v3.22; GH: #4634)
• Updated CalcMySky to v0.4.0
• Updated Babylonian sky cultures (slightly reworked, some typos, issues in "SC 2.0")
• Updated Chinese (Song Dynasty) sky culture
• Updated BAS_Messier_Tour.ssc script
• Updated Maori sky culture
• Updated Modern (IAU) sky culture: a few more bynames (GH: #4617)
• Updated Arabic (Arabian peninsula) sky culture
• Updated description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) sky culture (GH: #4535)
• Updated Chinese sky cultures: complete the entries on planets (GH: #4558)
• Updated IAU-star names in Modern (IAU) sky culture
• Updated the list of contributors
• Updated photometry data of satellites
• Updated default list of satellites
• Updated the default list of locations
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated names of DSO
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated discovery circumstances for comets and minor planets
• Updated translations
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated template for Stellarium User Guide (GH: #4681)
• Updated planetary nomenclature data
• Restored mistakenly altered Sun texture
• Removed copies of images from root directory
• Removed extraneous brackets in IPA of Balinese sky culture
• Removed outdated core: Unuse StelSkyDrawer::getBortleScaleIndex in ZL
• Removed the kludge in Constellation

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