Releases: CelestiaProject/Celestia
Releases · CelestiaProject/Celestia
1.6.4
1.6.3
Features, backported from 1.7
- Backport location updates from 1.7 version
- Allow binary orbits without text sources
Bug fixes
- Fix out-of-bounds in 3DS read
- Handle locations in object:localname()
- macOS: Re-add support for OS X 10.7 to 10.9
- macOS: Fix flickering edges on some GPU
- Unix: Fix executable name in celestia.desktop
- Unix: Fix buffer overflow in eclipse finder
Translations
- Update Bulgarian translation
1.6.2.2 - Quick fix for Windows interface
This is windows-only release. It fixes bookmark manager.
1.6.2.1 - Quick fix for Windows interface
This is windows-only release. It fixes garbage displayed it some dialog boxes in non-latin locales.
1.6.2
This is the final update for version 1.6.2. It doesn't include any data updates which will be made later.
Changes since the last beta release:
Features, backported from 1.7
- StarDB Ver. 0x0200 support, required for spectral class Y
Translations
- Update Lithuanian, Bulgarian and Chinese translations
Documentation
- Don't mention kde3, gnome and update minimal lua version to 5.1
Platform-specific changes
- macOS: bump minimal supported version to 10.10
1.6.2 Beta 3
The 3rd beta of the upcoming 1.6.2 release.
Changes since beta2:
Features backported from 1.7
- Update bolometric correction and temperature for T class
- Add Brown Dwarf spectral class Y
- Update temperatures for cool stars
- Don't render corona for T5-T9 and Y class stars
- Add binary XYZV format for sampled orbits
Bug fixes
- Fix failure if an incorrect URL is pasted
- Don't abort if starnames.dat has not been loaded
Platform-specific changes
- Windows: fix installer script to include required *.dll
- Windows: copy old favorites file to the new location
- Unix: restore incorrectly removed GtkWatcher
Documentation
- Update sites in documentation (shatters.net -> celestia.space)
1.6.2 Beta 2
The 2nd beta of the upcoming 1.6.2 release.
Changes since beta1:
Bug fixes
- Use "kpc" instead of "Kpc"
- Fix markers rendering in multiview mode
- Fix scripted orbits and rotations (broken by update to lua 5.2)
- Fix compilation with MinGW
Platform-specific changes
- macOS: add means to migrate preferences created by old version
- macOS: migrate memry management to ARC
- macOS: better support for dark mode
- macOS: update icons
- macOS: remove own code to setup fullscreen mode
- macOS: do not change app time zone when transforming date
- macOS: use gettext instead of localized string
- macOS: allow more alternative surfaces in menu
- macOS: switch to LUA 5.1
- Unix: fix celestia.desktop to reference celestia-gtk instead of celestia-gnome
- Unix: fix speed in "Time" menu (10x -> 2x)
- Windows: use SHGetFolderPathA to get Application Data directory
- Windows: convert messages written to console to OEM CP
- Windows: fix bug in favorites file directory construction
- Windows: allow to create portable builds
- Windows: don't make splash topmost window
- Windows: make "Resolution" text in "Display mode" dialog wider
- Windows: update to support CSPICE & LuaJIT
- Windows: fix sorting in a star browser
Translations
- Fix incorrect translation of Sol to Seoul
- Update French translation
- Update Belarusian translation
Documentation
- Update INSTALL
1.6.2 Beta 1
The 1st beta of the upcoming 1.6.2 release.
Changes since 1.6.1:
Bug fixes
- Options dialog is hidden on delete event instead of removed (GTK+ frontend)
- Fixed crash when loading of a celx script failed
- Localization support enabled early on startup (GTK+ frontend)
- Fixed compilation on MIPS platform
- Add missing gettext calls to make units (km, Kpc, ...) translatable
- Fixed compilation with modern compilers (Apple Clang, GCC9, LLVM7, MSVC2015)
- Fixed syntax error in GL2 shader called when there is no light sources
- First object in Guided Tour can be selected (Windows frontend)
- Fixed errors reported by PVS studio and Coverity
- Fixed compilation for 64 bit target of Windows frontend
- Removed a few deprecations of macOS frontend
Platform-specific changes
- Unix: GTK+ frontend made translatable
- Unix: celestia.desktop updated for GTK+ frontend
- Unix: build infrastructure updated for newer autotools
- Windows: tilde (~) can be used in filenames to represent home directory
- Windows: Use Segoe UI font instead of MS Sans Serif in dialogs
- macOS: Fully 64 bit, support for 32 bit is dropped, with a minimum deployment target as OS X Lion
- macOS: Application is sandboxed and part of the application bundle is codesigned
- macOS: Support dark mode on macOS Mojave or higher
- macOS: Add a dialog for choosing celestia.cfg and CelestiaResources directory
Code optimization and reorganization
- Warnings reported with `-Wall' mostly fixed or suppressed
Features
- Leap seconds added for 2012, 2015, 2017. Dropped for 1 Jan 1972
- Add support for Lua 5.2 and 5.3, drop Lua 5.0
- Favorites file by default is saved to user home directory:
- Unix: $XDG_DATA_DIR/Celestia (~/.local/cache)
- OS X: ~/Library/Containers/space.celestia.Celestia/Data/Library/Preferences
- Windows: %APPDATA% (~/AppData/Roaming)
Scripting
- Add titles for example scripts
Translations:
- Add Norwegian Bokmål translation