Release notes:
Released 2015-01-20
The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.2. This version contains over 70 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features - like visualization of the zodiacal light and new sky cultures.
Changelog:
- Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
- Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
- Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
- Added zero landscape
- Added new sky subculture - Arabic Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture - Japanese Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture - Siberian
- Added new sky subculture - Western with R.A.Rey lines of constellations (LP: #1389360)
- Added support native names of the planets for different cultures
- Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions - zodiacal light - sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
- Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
- Added improvements for Angle Measure, Compass Marks, Solar System Editor, Exoplanets and Observability Analysis plugins
- Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
- Added changes to RA's output precision
- Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
- Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
- Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
- Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
- Added management of Zodiacal Light into core.clear() method in Scripting Engine.
- Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
- Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format - now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
- Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
- Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
- Added a tool for planning a mosaic astrophotography: shows a small cross at center of CCD's frame and equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 of that center (LP: #1404695)
- Added aliases for couple shortkeys (LP: #947937)
- Added newlines support in satellite descriptions (LP: #869126)
- Added possibility to have trail only for one planet (LP: #1318479)
- Added missing Flamsteed designations of stars (LP: #1406048)
- Added Guernsey Observatory to locations list
- Added simple method to add a Solar system object
- Added display of current Time Zone (LP: #1335513)
- Added few TNO's and comets
- Added alphabetical soft for list in Search Tool
- Added Arabic description for landscapes (LP: #1409339, #1409340, #1409341, #1409342, #1409343, #1409344)
- Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Fixed a bug that did not account for HighDPI displays when drawing a CCD in Oculars
- Fixed rendering of the orbits of Neptune's moons (LP: #834737)
- Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
- Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
- Fixed errors, related to the proper motion of some stars (LP: #1400081)
- Fixed failures for rendering of textures for some moons like Hyperion (LP: #1393083)
- We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows - was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
- Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
- Fixed underpredicted behaviour of refraction (LP: #1088413)
- Fixed click-match issue (LP: #1398899, #1409586, #1127984, #1045293)
- Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
- Fixed IP-based position lookup fails (LP: #1395480)
- Fixed crash on spherical mirror distortion
- Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
- Fixed Meade LX200 protocol support (LP: #1405397)
- Fixed wrong import of comets data through online search in the Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1358230)
- Fixed issue in Lists within Search Tool (LP: #1200054)
- Fixed getting of coordinates in the Pointer Coordinates plugin in windowed mode (LP: #1406018)
- Fixed non-display of minus sign for |equation_of_time|<1 minute, and some code simplification (LP: #1406573)
- Fixed bad UTF-8 characters in tooltips (LP: #1407659)
- Fixed select priority for radiants
- Fixed landscape names translation issue (LP: #1409333)
- Fixed compilation on Windows and on armhf with Qt 5.4 (LP: #1395655)
- Fixed memory leak on Windows x64 (LP: #1406005)
- Fixed cursor timeout restore (LP: #1383047)
- Fixed DSO's markers placement in orthographic projection (LP: #1411882)
- Fixed Moon's glow under horizon (LP: #1409188)
- Fixed wrong visualisation of grids close to "equators" for small FOV (LP: #1400686)
- Update deployment rules for Windows and OS X (LP: #1338020)
- Hide info about type when it not defined for this object of solar system (LP: #1404189)
- Improved look for Date and Time Dialog and fixed show Julian Dates - it show now JD instead a CJD (LP: #1398775)
- Meteors don't be visible without enabled atmosphere now
- Made an exclusion for moons with chaotic period of rotation (LP: #1393083)
- Reducing the number of compass marks to those on screen to improve performance (LP: #1307444)
- On returning to home position, display atmosphere and fog only if configured in config file (LP: #1391074)
- Change default settings for Windows installer: added removing cache at install of the planetarium for avoiding "missing disk in drive " problem. (LP: #1371183)
- Translation of names of the celestial bodies moved to stellarium-skycultures
- Changes in style of displaying of "celestial names" in cultures
- Language of the cultures now can be chosen in GUI
- Changes in detection of OpenGL availability
- Extend the 'restore to original FOV' feature for sensor mode also (LP: #1398890)
- Re-implemented viewing/flag_constellation_pick option to allow select single constellation only (LP: #1401745)
- Set hint visibility threshold for planets and comets to 5mag below sky limiting magnitude. (LP: #1402188)
- Updated scripting documentation (LP: #1402200, #1402224)
- Fit more realistic magnitude of the Moon for the case of lunar eclipse (LP: #1306811)
- Avoid overly bluish Milky Way.
- Extend TNO's classification
- Avoid crash for satellites with not valid orbits (LP: #1408580)
- Improvement for showing names of the stars and fixed couple typos in GCVS
- Actualize TLE's
- Minor fix for space ship translation
- Reduce minimal FOV to 5 arcsec (LP: #807841)
- Restore location settings via CLI (LP: #1409898)
- Hide and remove satellites with invalid orbits
- All relative dates in Scripting Engine are set without DeltaT correction (LP: #1310009)
Plus we added few fixes for typos and fixes for avoiding compilation warnings (LP: #1394814, #1395193)