The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!
Release notes
The Stellarium Team has released final version in this year - 24.4.
The major changes of this version:
- Changes in DSO rendering
- Improvements in Core
- Improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Updates in sky cultures
Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.
What's Changed
Full list of changes:
- Added optional drop shadow behind InfoText
- Added ability of immediate-store for (hopefully) all main program properties (GH: #3987)
- Added designation for η Car star (GH: #633)
- Added code for Tachelhit language
- Added sidereal time in degrees to StelObject InfoMap
- Added test to avoid missing colors for NebCl type
- Added new nomenclature
- Added alias for Asia/Choibalsan time zone (GH: #3955, #3953)
- Added proper name for LDN43
- Fixed kerning of curved text (GH: #4006)
- Fixed application of text baseline shift
- Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #3995)
- Fixed typos (GH: #3993, #4015)
- Fixed mistakes in Korean SC (GH: #3994)
- Fixed proper motion for pulsars
- Fixed minimum target version for macOS when Qt5 is using
- Fixed color for NebCl type
- Fixed sizes of proportional hints for DSO
- Fixed description of Arabic (Lunar mansions) SC (GH: #3938)
- Fixed description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) SC (GH: #3944)
- Fixed typos in Arabic (Indigenous) skyculture (GH: #3939)
- Fixed BOM char in source code
- Fixed constellation Pleiades (HR -> HIP) in Greek (Leiden Aratea) SC (GH: #3931)
- Fixed translating months in AstroCalc/Graphs after changing language (GH: #3907)
- Fixed typos in Mongolian skyculture (GH: #3913)
- Fixed typos in Indian skyculture (GH: #3908)
- Fixed typos in Romanian skyculture (GH: #3912)
- Fixed few security alerts for JS code (GH: #3918, #3920, #3917)
- Fixed compiling planetarium in some systems (GH: #3905)
- Fixed missing parts of refactoring
- Fixed setting 2 lines in ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #3909)
- Fixed saving selected object information (GH: #3910)
- Fixed coordinates in '20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars' script (GH: #3835)
- Changed core: keep FOV search radius in hiDPI screen consistent from user perspective (GH: #3985)
- Changed core: attempt to resolve HIP first (GH: #3980)
- Changed core: Refactoring drawing nebulae markers (GH: #3968)
- Changed core: Allow dimming of DSO hints and labels
- Changed core: Make some landscape variables static, and properties of LandscapeMgr (GH: #3951, #3574)
- Changed core and Solar System Editor plugin: improved size of small asteroids
- Changed core: Rewrite spheric mirror to make it more efficient (GH: #3535, #3954)
- Changed core: Remove a useless OpenGL call
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: Show an even more clear hint that ASCOM is disabled in Qt6 builds
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: INDI support is optional now
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: switch to INDI v2.1.1 (GH: #3269)
- Changed Satellites plugin: User can decide if newly added satellites are visible by default now (GH: #3986)
- Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid bad orbit lines (GH: #3934)
- Changed Satellites plug-in: small speedup
- Changed Calendars plugin: add drop shadow for better readability
- Updated Norse SC (GH: #3990, #3991)
- Updated default list of locations
- Updated default list of minor bodies
- Updated list of planetary features
- Updated discovery circumstances for comets and for minor planets
- Updated photometry data for satellites
- Updated translations
- Updated infrastructure: Let system-installed fast_float be found (GH: #3949)
- Updated WebUI in Remote Control plug-in (GH: #3929)
- Updated JS libraries in Remote Control plugin-in (GH: #3923)
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Removed texture of NGC104
Packages notes
| package | note |
|---|---|
| stellarium-24.4.tar.gz | Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: eabf3b7357a40073245f29faa5ee5c83 SHA256: 433bb8a0380313e6d9e4caf62395b724f4d74262c8aae426a0fe1a5e61a29cbb |
| stellarium-24.4.tar.bz2 | Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: cc976adc3d31831a0c2e4fa11ceb585f SHA256: 103359554d41cf195d8200ea74de83515eb2f595260587783d3135ed9acf1d2c |
| stellarium-24.4.tar.xz | Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: dc317cfd181e79043de2c38d6104908e SHA256: 84386ad6261bbad7851a56febe673ec73adc7a3b49156b33af6c534e85ac8f8d |
| stellarium-24.4.zip | Source code of Stellarium 24.4. MD5: 7c7ddfd42a75a8216f37562c8a73f68a SHA256: 7c3211a341449cadd4fe592f0ab3e0f03db06b2f86e5aa210b47cc396ce4f3c7 |
| stellarium-24.4-qt5-win32.exe | Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_32; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: be04387af333b42db8fb2c3ce81e68f8 SHA256: 71b620f40b330af0444791181684942df7b8bd51c73b72a32b3e2c3d0109a127 |
| stellarium-24.4-qt5-win64.exe | Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017). MD5: 7a94fcaa6f4c466965128a51d67d421f SHA256: e662ce010c6fb18bf7138f7209a0b0fb0f4127be30d0c053842942639975dcdd |
| stellarium-24.4-qt6-win64.exe | Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2019). MD5: dabcb566eed1a97304d727737841ddb8 SHA256: c52a7a2da4e0639457d1c4a2010d4bdbf47594710fac179fdfa69718d83bc36b |
| stellarium-24.4-qt6-arm64.exe | Stellarium 24.4 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (Visual Studio 2022). MD5: 28250785a9f64e578042c997d6c2ad38 SHA256: 8219feea683696b2fe36ea02c68581cc02d4e5aa8b5a1593676b05888a0f5a87 |
| Stellarium-24.4-qt6-macOS.zip | Stellarium 24.4 for macOS (universal; macOS 11.0+) based on Qt 6.5.3 (AppleClang 16.0.0). MD5: ed1e9ec3b3ff376ce2812530c2af42f2 SHA256: e3a8c9ac2c7e52b4eb971b84941e801affaa69f156b844f806c42dbd9f08f63c |
| Stellarium-24.4-qt5-x86_64.zip | Stellarium 24.4 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0). MD5: da227cf4d3bb0168fbf519693876a431 SHA256: 2474235caf179cdc0d1fe0b70b6da39a13c16aaf24faf9740ced2ea3c3543ad7 |
| Stellarium-24.4-qt5-x86_64.AppImage | Stellarium 24.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.31) based on Qt 5.12.8 (GCC 9.4.0). MD5: bb6f74d11b3eee3f7c738ab4d8be4310 SHA256: d87bad1be41495c743b253267a79b1873f357b75589f2e976ee158f4f3cdf3a0 |
| Stellarium-24.4-qt6-x86_64.AppImage | Stellarium 24.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0). MD5: 8ba2aa3e7425d395c8de9bfa4057be37 SHA256: 79a5bd45375cc952587aa44ac44efcd37303684cff6d488b8f4b59a6257eefb6 |
Verify
GPG signature
- Import Stellarium's GPG key
curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg - 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 - Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-24.4.tar.gz.asc stellarium-24.4.tar.gz