Stellarium/stellarium v0.20.4

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

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Added Calendars plugin
• Many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium
• Many changes in plugins
• Updated DSO catalog

Change log

Full list of changes:

• Added Balinese Pawukon calendar into Calendars plugin
• Added notes on polygonal landscapes (technical restrictions) (GH: #1397)
• Added Calendars plugin (GH: #1343)
• Added configurable values for quick FOV tool (GH: #1391)
• Added new zoom algorithm (GH: #1415, #529)
• Added compass marks into core of planetarium
• Added ability to hide cardinal and compass buttons from the GUI
• Added missing time zone America/Godthab
• Added few DSO textures (GH: #1402, #1441)
• Added Galactic Center and Anticenter points
• Added a config option to use multisampling for rendering "Planet"s (GH: #1388)
• Added landers from the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program into list of locations
• Added on-screen controls for OAG in Oculars plugin (GH: #935)
• Added table view of exoplanets (GH: #1141)
• Added show angular distance between the moon and host planet (GH: #1372)
• Added classical cepheids filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added Algol-type eclipsing systems filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1355)
• Added ability to toggle to using decimal degrees for various navigational data through follow the option "Use decimal degrees" in the main GUI (GH: #1344)
• Added script with shortcut, which add ability to jump to random location for celestial navigation game and practice (GH: #1345, #1058)
• Added support flip commands into Scripting Engine (GH: #1351)
• Added new language: Central Atlas Tamazight
• Added comet icon for ephemeris points plotting for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1332)
• Added script skybox.ssc into list of translatable scripts (GH: #1335)
• Added config option to hide selection markers (default: viewing/flag_show_selection_marker = true) (GH: #1321)
• Added export list of objects as Stellarium bookmarks into AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added support capital Greek chars in Search Tool (GH: #1282)
• Added some discoverer’s original designation for double stars as their scientific designations (GH: #1282)
• Added option to hide unlabelled ephemeris markers (GH: #1315)
• Added ability to run the silent uninstall Stellarium in Windows
• Added ability use decimals value for ephemeris steps in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1289)
• Added "No" default for deletion confirmation warning (GH: #1292)
• Added ability to toggle show extra decimals in the navigational info (GH: #1303)
• Added tool for build an AppImage package (GH: #1288)
• Added ability for following an option ''Use decimal degrees" for longitude and latitude in Location dialog to define format of data (GH: #1416)
• Fixed collision calendars panel with bottom button bar (GH: #1422)
• Fixed zooming to FOV when duration is zero (GH: #1430)
• Fixed designations for star HIP 62819 (GH: #1432)
• Fixed crash when attempting to add a sensor (GH: #1407, #1403)
• Fixed UMa figure in S&T skyculture (GH: #1414)
• Fixed typos in Chinese skyculture (GH: #1413)
• Fixed text for meteor showers plugin (GH: #1387)
• Fixed the visual style of color chooser (GH: #1395)
• Fixed GUI of AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed error in GUI of AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Fixed errors in documents for scripting engine
• Fixed typos and errors in various sky cultures
• Fixed running scripting method core.quitStellarium(); (GH: #1363)
• Fixed the location of Dunsink Observatory (GH: #1370)
• Fixed rendering orbits with undefined period
• Fixed orbital elements for comet Halley (1986) in the default ssystem_minor.ini file
• Fixed typos in skycultures
• Fixed odd cyclic behaviour of HiPS (GH: #1323)
• Fixed odd survey interaction (GH: #1314)
• Fixed crash when reference.fab file has wrong format
• Fixed closing various dialogs (fix #1305, #1338)
• Fixed sorting issue in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Fixed search stars by designations (u Her and U Her are different stars!) (GH: #1282)
• Fixed adding extra designations for stars, who already has Bayer and Flamsteed designations (GH: #1282)
• Fixed sorting stars by their designations (partially) (GH: #1282)
• Fixed selecting invisible stars (GH: #1331)
• Fixed switch to native planet names when skyculture is changed in Location dialog (GH: #1203)
• Fixed installing star names for Western (O.Hlad) skyculture (GH: #1170)
• Fixed typecast: avoiding of jumping the markers of exoplanets and pulsars (GH: #1286)
• Fixed handling custom shortcuts and few spell-check fixes
• Fixed GUI issue in Observability plugin
• Fixed inconsistency of NGC/IC list in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1310)
• Fixed filling version info for Windows installer
• Fixed installer for Windows
• Fixed translatable string for Icelandic calendar
• Fixed Puppis constellation lines in S&T skyculture (GH: #1438)
• Fixed Mensa and Microscopium in S&T skyculture (GH: #1440)
• Changed rendering planets: improve planets' halos size in relation to stars' (GH: #1361, #367)
• Changed rendering of orbits in Satellites plugin: Hide invisible part of orbits when "hide invisible artificial sats" option is enabled (GH: #1349)
• Changed GUI behavior: Enlarged maximum dialog size (GH: #1318)
• Changed versioning scheme of Stellarium
• Changed few DSO textures: reduce the size of some texture files (GH: #1442)
• Updated Stellarium User Guide (GH: #1334)
• Updated DSO catalog (v3.12)
• Updated GUI of Calendars plugin
• Updated GUI: refactored block "Additional buttons"
• Updated description of Chinese skyculture (GH: #1410)
• Updated Bengali descriptions for landscapes and skycultures (GH: #1380)
• Updated nomenclature data
• Updated few DSO outlines (GH: #1368)
• Updated initial time steps for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #372)
• Updated Solar System Editor pluign: improve docs + added confirmation dialog (GH: #1304)
• Updated DSO names
• Updated upper limit for font size
• Updated GUI of AstroCalc tools
• Updated Exoplanets plugin: added extra info
• Updated Satellites plugin: cosmetic improvement the handling the visibility of satellites by their groups
• Removed Compass Marks plugin
• Removed the XPM version of the app icon (GH: #1384)
• Removed dead links from skycultures
• Removed support of shortcuts from AstroCalc tools (GH: #1293)

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