github Stellarium/stellarium v24.1
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one month ago

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

Github Release

Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released version 24.1.

The major changes of this version:

  • Added low graphics mode
  • Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
  • Improvements in Scripting Engine
  • Updates in Core

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

TELESCOPE USERS

We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.

Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems. If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

  • Added missing stars (GH: #3575)
  • Added ability to following the current position in Search Tool/Position (GH: #3643)
  • Added ability to set a sub-arcminute lower limit for angular size (GH: #3647)
  • Added note on Ephemeris table (GH: #3634)
  • Added special case for SIMBAD/NCP in Search Tool
  • Added ability to toggle visibility HIPS surveys via scripting engine (GH: #3613)
  • Added ability to use comma as decimal separator in Remote Control plugin
  • Added translations to Lithuanian language
  • Added distance and heliocentric distance info for Solar system objects into scripting engine
  • Added major axis, minor axis and orientation angle info for DSO into scripting engine and Remote Control plugin (GH: #3605)
  • Added an option to force low graphics mode (GH: #3590)
  • Added code to automatic updating the TLE sources from Celestrack website (GH: #3588)
  • Added a tabular view for distances of Solar system objects (InfoString).
  • Fixed bug in Meteor shower plugin (GH: #3616)
  • Fixed south azimuth usage in Search Tool/Position
  • Fixed landscape transparency issue (GH: #3512)
  • Fixed alignment for note in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
  • Fixed CCD frame rotation after changing language (GH: #3627)
  • Fixed computation of phase angle for satellites
  • Fixed selection the title of observing lists when he is saved or imported (GH: #3623)
  • Fixed a tiny bug in Observing Lists dropdown menu
  • Fixed installation path for manpages in FreeBSD (GH: #3612)
  • Fixed the major digit of version: automatisation has been removed
  • Fixed license data for AppData file according to SPDX License List v3.22
  • Fixed Rise/Transit/Set info (GH: #3602, #3610)
  • Fixed updating Rise/Transit/Set info after switching location if the object was selected in AstroCalc/RTS tool
  • Fixed a serious bug in Observing Lists (GH: #3586)
  • Fix: reduce notification popups in Observing Lists (GH: #3587)
  • Fixed possible issue for transparency in landscapes (GH: #3512)
  • Fixed typo in coordinates of Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy (GH: #3576)
  • Fix: clearing up refs to a few star names
  • Fixed the informational data (InfoString) for comets
  • Fixed visibility for orbital properties in the View/SSO dialog
  • Fixed build without PCH
  • Fixed missing reference.fab files (GH: #3681)
  • Fixed find objects from search history (GH: #3671)
  • Changed core: fall back to fast_float when C++ stdlib doesn't provide from_chars for floats
  • Changed core: use std::from_chars for parsing ints in OBJ files
  • Changed core: updating StelLogger (GH: #3614)
  • Changed SolarSystem: add IAU designation for comets if missing
  • Changed SolarSystem: add the perihel year to the comet name in case of loading older-style ssystem_minor.ini
  • Changed Solar System Editor plugin: allow overwrite if possible (GH: #3641)
  • Changed Exoplanets plugin: switched to use surface temperature for potentially habitable planets
  • Changed Exoplanets plugin: updated priority to selection of objects
  • Changed Meteor Showers plugin: Use NELM for local meteor rate (GH: #3549)
  • Updated Greek (Almagest) sky culture
  • Updated Remote Control plugin (GH: #2995)
  • Updated dependencies: QXlsx 1.4.7
  • Updated dependencies: CalcMySky 0.3.2
  • Updated default list of locations
  • Updated catalog of pulsars
  • Updated translations
  • Updated discovery circumstances for minor bodies of Solar system
  • Updated orbital elements and default list of minor planets and comets
  • Updated list of contributors
  • Updated list of financial contributors
  • Updated nomenclature data
  • Updated SUG: document --low-graphics option
  • Update properties for CPack-generator of DEB packages
  • Updated instructions for building planetarium from the source code
  • Removed fixed sizes from Oculars dialog
  • Removed "scale" option from desktop file
  • Removed outdated translatable lines
  • Removed link to TLE for Starlink satellites with very old orbit data
  • Removed extra shortcuts from (common|user) desktop in Windows (GH: #3579)

Packages notes

package note
stellarium-24.1.tar.gz Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code).
MD5: 240f71a2a707d7b5cf321b20963cc82e
SHA256: 5a48fb2c5b17c9ebfa23153604f470dc87a5eab5fafb0510f71e115ac76072a8
stellarium-24.1.tar.bz2 Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code).
MD5: 4f456afc2376136841b8fbf97a9b0bd3
SHA256: 403ab602a7cb6a7e114bbe3ad80f00b4046c0eb11e089623744f9ed3a0915b43
stellarium-24.1.tar.xz Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code).
MD5: ad88695629e1c71ed66fa19b0a95771a
SHA256: c5ce5efb6de0108b4b8d798bf1ba887c42b39f29197400ec3fcfc9fe5c96f4d7
stellarium-24.1.zip Stellarium 24.1 for UNIX/Linux (source code).
MD5: 6113cb9ff0ea5737b10e37ff17516b63
SHA256: 8213c89e6f91c7fa7d09ea13dcf091c81aa378a901de7609f75d04d1fb295151
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win32.exe Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017).
MD5: a85e5a7e7a3d8d41ec0177152171e959
SHA256: 0f7963b69f0acb8192b91ab12e15f2ccda953ed39c0c3c47e34bfd53f6ce02a8
stellarium-24.1-qt5-win64.exe Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017).
MD5: fc98ea2a43f4a1bacb689995c83d0322
SHA256: cb0241677b878167f1c2b45477b0c4a3dd11bf9c2806e950193480de7632ebfa
stellarium-24.1-qt6-win64.exe Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019).
MD5: 9bb771c93364092286f0bb062ce90bc4
SHA256: d9db848d9d11597c2a916f0ababf5c489103714834706ab1c79f1b374c954cb2
stellarium-24.1-qt6-arm64.exe Stellarium 24.1 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022).
MD5: 554c7900cc2d624b5be67a77048c3c30
SHA256: 7e445b9d213e305b67f6e004ebe2e463cee6df5a6515b82adf79ee9db95e9a54
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-macOS.zip Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 15.0.0).
MD5: e5517c6263827a38356b8781c3c4296a
SHA256: ca0fa67fb193d4c7aa5bd1f51840a4d40b3637c009ad228d9108664aa36a7776
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.zip Stellarium 24.1 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.14+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0).
MD5: 936a817705578383d63769a91c7eaa40
SHA256: 64174eac7608146397ba1d3bbafbcc005e3d8f863590db87c4cdd31abdd7cd01
Stellarium-24.1-qt5-x86_64.AppImage Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0).
MD5: d5948720914d2c1d2d51b23840fa1253
SHA256: 206374680710683a4db9e87daeeec6925236ca33712f8cbbb0533f1f8650d7c3
Stellarium-24.1-qt6-x86_64.AppImage Stellarium 24.1 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0).
MD5: 825b2126faa81b849d03636fc02ca221
SHA256: 853a26c5dab168b3190e1376e5b00bc7a9b9b50c2ca1985df0b650a1245c2da7

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-24.1.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.1.tar.gz
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