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Release notes:

Released 2010-12-06

The Stellarium development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.10.6 of Stellarium.

This release brings some interesting new features:

  • New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.
  • New plugin: Solar System editor.
  • New plugin: Time Zone manual override.
  • Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.
  • Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.
  • Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox / epoch override.

There have also been a large number of bug fixes and some performance improvements.

New users will find that some plugins have been enabled by default. Computers where an older version of Stellarium has been run will continue with the old settings unless default.

Changelog:

New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.
New plugin: Solar System editor.
New plugin: Time Zone manual override.
New translatable strings: stars and nebulae.
Selected plugins loaded by default.
Fixed on change of sky culture. (LP: #595914).
Fixed clearing of single constellation selection. (LP: #600889).
Fixed constellation art engine, removing distortion of images. (LP: #629405).
Changed GUI styles (all dialogs now use "Title Bar", the two different tabbed widget implementations are styled consistently).
Changed Solar System engine, allowing "Comets" and "Minor planets" to be handled as classes of objects separate from "Planets".
Translatable plugin names, descriptions and some other strings.
Oculars plugin: now uses a configuration file instead of SQL (LP: #596453).
Oculars plugin: added manual override of keyboard shortcuts (LP: #514530).
Oculars plugin: CCD sensors formula fixed (LP: #604975).
Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine.
Satellites plugin: added trajectory visualization.
Satellites plugin: fixed problems leaving satellite TLEs out of date (LP: #616627).
Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.
Satellites plugin: satellite visibility can now be saved from satellites dialog.
Telescope control plugin: fixed bad serial port names on Windows (LP: #596167).
Telescope control plugin: fixed telescopes disappearance on startup (LP: #608533).
Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox/epoch override (LP: #608544).
Various rendering problems resolved (LP: #569701, #596678, #641855, #642990, #666837, #629405, #591971, #615006, #671633).
SQLite dependency dropped. The Qt SQLite driver no longer needs to be packaged with Stellarium.

Files:

  • stellarium-0.10.6.1.exe [MD5:8a60b39bdc6d2f458a8bd9d31af3d065] - Stellarium 0.10.6 for Windows (32-bit)