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 new star catalogs with Gaia DR3 (GH: #3992)
• Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of constellations (GH: #4083)
• Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of asterisms (GH: #4188)
• Added AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4175)
• Added support for normal and horizon maps in planetary HiPS
• Added a warning dialog if ASCOM version is outdated but telescope preconfigured
• Added constellation boundaries for Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
• Added short designations for some double stars for easy finding them
• Added Castor to binary orbital parameters data
• Added $\zeta$ Her and $\eta$ Oph to binary star orbital data to deal with their stationary companion due to lack of
• Added $\gamma$ Virginis A and B to binary orbital parameters data
• Added and updated many nebula textures (GH: #4162)
• Added support output of native names of constellations
• Added context for Japanese sky culture (GH: #3966)
• Added context for constellation names in Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures
• Added message context to chinese star "Added"
• Added support for extraction of Chinese star names with "Added"
• Added ability to see the pronounce for native names of constellations
• Added reference for 14 proper names of stars
• Added support Venetian language
• Added ability to copy HTML version of the selection info
• Added ability to keep "latest selected object" in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4127)
• Added filter of showing named DSO only (GH: #4125)
• Added ability to use absolute path to the logfile (GH: #4027)
• Added ability to re-select last selected object (GH: #4113)
• Added a scripting function for RTS with given altitude
• Added parallax effect (exaggerate parallax) to stars (GH: #4023)
• Added support for Gaia ID in other functionalities (GH: #4064)
• Added info for newly discovered comets
• Added a filter by eclipse type in AstroCalc tool (GH: #4054)
• Added Export Map button for local solar eclipses too
• Added SH2-245 as Eridanus Loop (GH: #4046)
• Added new Chinese sky culture (GH: #4234)
• Added pronounce and IPA tags in Siberian SC (GH: #4237)
• Added missing Jupiter in Lokono sky culture
• Added 0.5 arcmin padding to bounding cap because Saemundsson's inversion formula is not exact to fix clipping issue at small FOV (GH: #4231)
• Fixed computation of HiPS draw order for planetary surveys
• Fixed make sure that HiPS mesh is convex
• Fixed change of HiPS tile detalization with zoom level
• Fixed searching pot entry with msgctxt
• Fixed string comparison for equality (GH: #4163)
• Fixed translability a short name of dataset for DSO textures (GH: #4191)
• Fixed 61 Cygni binary orbital parameter epoch (should be J2016 not J2000)
• Fixed truncated StarId
• Fixed ignored constellation star ids passed as strings
• Fixed application of the aberration effect to the ephemeris markers (GH: #3867)
• Fixed sky cultures naming for 61 Cyg A
• Fixed orbit color manipulation (GH: #4213)
• Fixed endless loop in Calendars plugin (GH: #4206)
• Fixed reading star id from "HIP/Gaia DR3 XXX" names
• Fixed epoch for boundaries in Chinese (Medieval) sky culture
• Fixed designation of double star (GH: #4150)
• Fixed region entries for modern skycultures
• Fixed compilation on Windows
• Fixed splash screen text positioning on Qt5
• Fixed computation of next maximum/minimum light for variable stars
• Fixed mismatch between values of Apparent Diameter and Angular Size in AstroCalc/Graphs tool (GH: #3981)
• Fixed modifiers info for slew commands at Macs (GH: #4116)
• Fixed hiccups every few seconds (GH: #4112)
• Fixed positioning of the cardinals
• Fixed Qt/OS screen font scaling by fractional factors
• Fixed HIP 101769 and HIP 25606 are incorrectly matched to the wrong Gaia ID
• Fixed fractional OS scaling support in Wayland
• Fixed search faint stars by their id (cross-id)
• Fixed tab order in Config dialog
• Fixed comments for translators for UI elements
• Fixed typos in Modern (IAU) sky culture (GH: #4050)
• Fixed density of star name labels (GH: #4029)
• Fixed oversized angle buttons in Oculars plugin
• Fixed missing include for some linux distros (INDI)
• Fixed include correct INDI headers (GH: #4025, #4019)
• Fixed rendering telescopic asterisms (GH: #3315)
• Fixed orbit rendering: densely sampling orbit of parent planet if on its moon (GH: #4013, #83)
• Fixed wrong data for stars (GH: #1659, #1724, #364, #374, #369, #363)
• Fixed false stars (GH: #18, #2786, #777, #399, #677, #1032, #398, #1192, #1189)
• Fixed missing stars (GH: #362, #1016)
• Fixed stellar proper motion (GH: #85, #221, #348, #1541, #1061, #3108)
• Fixed star selection when big zoom mouse (GH: #3136)
• Fixed checksum for one new star catalog
• Fixed constellation line mismatch (GH: #4240)
• Fixed reload skycultures (GH: #4239)
• Fixed crash in Observing Lists: Map index from proxy model back to the source (GH: #4241)
• Fixed telescopic asterisms (GH: #4238)
• Fixed native names into native tags in Anutan sky culture
• Changed core: compute position angle and separation of binary stars system (GH: #4184)
• Changed core: compute 6D astrometry for a few binary star system
• Changed core: Use a glTF-compatible normal map for the Moon
• Changed core: Bind texture to the correct slot when loading it
• Changed core: Limit amount of time taken by texture loading per frame
• Changed core: Remove the limit on thread count
• Changed core: Don't repeatedly call ssm->getMoon()
• Changed core: Speed up loading of star cross-identification data
• Changed core: Append new additional star names instead of prepending
• Changed core: Use hips_frame and type to determine planet
• Changed core: Take updated parallax into account when drawing marker and search for star selection (GH: #4214)
• Changed core: Check for star nullptr when loading constellation data in case one of the major star catalog corrupted/missing (GH: #4207)
• Changed core: Don't load any high level star catalog if a lower level star catalog is missing (GH: #4203)
• Changed core: Avoid crash in moving between planets
• Changed core: Suppress output of meaningless coordinates (GH: #4212)
• Changed core: Handle correctly landscape labels with negative altitude angle (GH: #4174, #4176)
• Changed core: Hide the broken zero horizon
• Changed core: Exclude synchronous texture loads from time limiting
• Changed core: Don't try to get OpenGL context in StelTexture constructor
• Changed core: Filter HiPS mipmaps
• Changed core: Don't apply normal/horizon map to surveys
• Changed core: Handle extra * and ? signs at the end of Chinese star number
• Changed core: Try to localize ' Added' with space, since some locales should avoid it
• Changed core: use unsigned char for component in cross-id.cat (GH: #4164)
• Changed core: switch to use binary format for cross-id file (GH: #4158)
• Changed core: update star catalogs with astroquery 0.4.9 to improve handling of binary systems and cross-ids (GH: #4156)
• Changed core: switching to new data format for skycultures
• Changed core: Allow excluding names from unwanted references (GH: #4147, #11)
• Changed core: Point DSO name path into same (default) set.
• Changed core: Updated list of SIMBAD mirrors in Search Tool
• Changed core: Use commonNameMap instead of iterating over dsoArray
• Changed core: Pre-trim DSO string catalog numbers
• Changed core: Don't use toUpper, use compare(CaseInsensitive)
• Changed core: Use default DSO names as common names
• Changed core: Enable drawing of single-star constellations and asterisms
• Changed core: Don't reload common DSO names on each SC load
• Changed core: Don't reload default DSO names on each SC load
• Changed core: Follow [PM][+-] indicators of constellation edges
• Changed core: Redefine boundaries for modern_* skycultures
• Changed core: Allow arbitrary epochs in Skyculture boundary edge definition
• Changed core: Scale planet label shift properly
• Changed core: Scale solar halo properly
• Changed core: Scale planet halo properly
• Changed core: Scale star halo properly
• Changed core: Base star scaling on screen scale
• Changed core: Handle font size changes in Cardinals
• Changed core: Position InfoPanel taking into account font size ratio
• Changed core: Make line loops and strips continuous
• Changed core: Avoid breaking strict aliasing rules
• Changed core: Set correct light pollution level when location=auto (GH: #4216)
• Changed core: Handle the case when surface normal looks away from the camera
• Changed core: Reduce HiPS split order when tile width is small
• Changed logger: Better error message for Asterisms
• Changed logger: Print texture size in StelTexture memory usage reports
• Changed logger: Adjust log levels in StelMainView
• Changed logger: Remove "WARNING" word from logged warnings
• Changed logger: Updated level of messages for logger
• Changed logger: Add timestamp and message type to the log
• Changed logger: Direct all StelLogger::init messages to INFO channel
• Changed GUI: Avoid a freeze when loading a list of HiPS surveys
• Changed GUI: Use locale-aware compare for SC list sorting
• Changed GUI: Provide a UI for toggling atmosphere pseudo-mirror
• Changed GUI: Open Surveys tab on right-clicking HiPS button
• Changed GUI: Make it possible to filter surveys by name
• Changed GUI: Add a method to get GUI font size ratio
• Changed GUI: Apply screen scale to DSO outlines too
• Changed GUI: Scale lines according to screen font size
• Changed GUI: Scale splash screen according to font size ratio
• Changed GUI: Simplify background of hecPositionsChartView
• Changed GUI: Scale bottom and left panel buttons according to font size
• Changed InfoString: Don't write "apparent" when airmass undefined
• Changed AstroCalc tool: A slight changes in time limits for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Eclipses tools (GH: #4209)
• Changed AstroCalc tool: A small speed-up for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: Reactivate building ASCOM with Qt6 (requires ASCOM7)
• Changed Oculars plugin: Apply font size settings to Oculars plugin (GH: #4049)
• Changed Oculars plugin: Move creation of rotation buttons to a separate function
• Changed Oculars plugin: Fix centering of Ocular panel buttons
• Changed Oculars plugin: Avoid zero-mag Lens
• Changed Satellites plugin: Enforce lastUpdate is stored as UTC (GH: #4060)
• Updated Anutan sky culture
• Updated Greek (Leiden Aratea) sky culture
• Updated Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Updated Greek (Farnese) sky culture
• Updated Babylonian (Mulapin) sky culture
• Updated Modern (Sky & Telescope) sky culture
• Updated Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures: use English terms for English names of constellations
• Updated Chinese skycultures: Use real native Chinese names in skycultures (GH: #4196)
• Updated core team list: added Henry Leung
• Updated dependencies: INDI has been updated to version 2.1.2.1
• Updated dependencies: QXlsx has been updated to version 1.5.0
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated the default list of satellites
• Updated default list of locations
• Updated scripting docs
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated dependencies: CalcMySky has been updated to version 0.3.4
• Updated atmosphere model
• Updated photometry data for satellites
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated translations
• Updated color of Neptune
• Updated tool for create an AppImage packages (GH: #4105)
• Updated list of star names (GH: #4122)
• Updated bookmarks for minor SSO's in Solar System Editor (GH: #4065)
• Updated photometry for satellites
• Updated nomenclature data for planetary features
• Updated common names of DSO
• Updated list of languages
• Updated DSO textures (GH: #3999)
• Updated translations of sky cultures (GH: #4024)
• Updated discovery circumstances for comets
• Restored sky cultures descriptions mistakenly removed in version 24.3
• Restored description of Maori sky culture
• Removed outdated "Starlore" term (GH: #4070)
• Removed unneeded constellation boundaries data
• Removed useless initializers
• Removed dead URL in OnlineQueries plugin
• Removed 2 sky cultures from standard package (GH: #4197)
• Removed an outdated warning
• Removed outdated data and code
• Removed remnants of text_texture option
• Removed support 32-bit packages
• Removed Missing Stars plugin

Packages notes

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