2025-06-22$$$Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.2 for all platforms. This is our second release in 2025 with exciting features and many$$$bug fixes.$$$$$$The major changes of this version:$$$$$$Many changes in support of sky cultures$$$Added 2 new plugins: Mosaic Camera and Custom Nebula Textures$$$Many improvements in Core$$$Updates in sky cultures (include new one)$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #4356)$$$Added ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin$$$Added ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)$$$Added support zodiac and lunar systems$$$Added code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms$$$Added Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in (GH: #4003)$$$Added context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin$$$Added fields for translating planet names$$$Added ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions$$$Added ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement$$$Added ability mix of cultural and common star names$$$Added ability to excluding star names from unwanted references$$$Added context and tooltips for new menu items$$$Added support for Dark Constellations$$$Added new GUI elements (sky cultures)$$$Added adjustments for MinGW compilation (GH: #4311)$$$Added an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin$$$Added a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins (GH: #4264)$$$Added Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4300)$$$Added parallax data in WUI$$$Added Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4005)$$$Added installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage (GH: #4248)$$$Added skyculture Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands (GH: #4274)$$$Added support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin(GH: #4373)$$$Fixed saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions$$$Fixed context data support for zodiac and lunar systems$$$Fixed font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin$$$Fixed wrong output size$$$Fixed registry records for Windows installer (GH: #4202)$$$Fixed comet discovery data$$$Fixed a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC (GH: #3913)$$$Fixed data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines (GH: #4304)$$$Fixed description of sky cultures (GH: #3879; #3876)$$$Fixed labeling native/pronounce$$$Fixed extra IPA handling$$$Fixed showing duplicate names in native and translation$$$Fixed screen updates when setting changes$$$Fixed discovery date/name$$$Fixed changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin$$$Fixed searching$$$Fixed DSO name rendering$$$Fixed Qt5.15 building$$$Fixed missing space in front of translated Added$$$Fixed typos in src/core$$$Fixed typos in skycultures/$$$Fixed typos in plugins/$$$Fixed typos in guide/$$$Fixed crash: Restore OpenGL context after initialising StelAudioMgr$$$Fixed issues found by PVS-Studio$$$Fixed configuration when innosetup isnt installed (GH: #4297)$$$Fixed packing sky cultures (GH: #4281)$$$Fixed categories in Linux/UNIX menu (desktop file)$$$Fixed adding new locations (GH: #4257)$$$Fixed issue for custom time zone in Location dialog$$$Fixed numbers in DSO textures file$$$Fixed compiling with Qt 5$$$Fixed building on Windows (GH: #4256)$$$Fixed a warning message$$$Fixed missing negation of a condition (HiPS)$$$Fixed problems with IP-based location lookup (GH: #4253)$$$Fixed minor issues in Mosaic Camera plug-in$$$Fixed one-off assertion bug (GH: #4249)$$$Fixed astrometry tests (GH: #4246)$$$Fixed compiling in macOS when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed linking macOS package when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed compilation with Qt 6.9$$$Fixed modern asterism TA8$$$Fixed typo in Khoi-San SC$$$Fixed links in documentation (GH: #4260)$$$Fixed calculation the duration of astronomical night (GH: #4381)$$$Fixed localization support in new plugin (GH: #4383)$$$Fixed cmake for Satellites plugin$$$Fixed

2025-03-23 $$$Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.1 for all platforms. This is our first release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.$$$The major changes of this version:$$$Switching to using Gaia DR3 catalog (extra catalogues with more than 220 milliones stars)$$$Full 6D astrometry (2D sky positions; 2D proper motion; parallax; radial velocity) compute for most bright stars (V<10.5)$$$Modelling movement for 15 couples of binary stars$$$New powerful data format for sky cultures$$$Many improvements in Core$$$Improvements in Telescope Control plugin$$$Updates in sky cultures (include new one)$$$Incorporated whole GCVS 5.1 catalog$$$New tool in AstroCalc dialog$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added new star catalogs with Gaia DR3 (GH: #3992)$$$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)$$$