COMPATIBILITY_NOTES_6.7.0

Compatibility Notes - Moira 6.7.0

Additive API, strictly verified astronomical corrections

Moira 6.7.0 preserves the public Python signatures and REST schemas of existing routes while delivering precision upgrades to coordinate transformations, time scales, and apsidal passage detection.

Orbital elements and frames

• osculating_elements is the strict, shape-safe modern API returning OsculatingElements with explicit provenance receipts.
• The legacy orbital_elements_at adapter retains its positional signature; its epoch_jd is now truthfully labeled as TT rather than UT1.
• Frame bias is owned solely by precession, eliminating duplicate bias in affected planetary, comet, eclipse, occultation, and lunar-limb routes.

Apsidal passages and distance extremes

• apsidal_passages provides the versioned live-ephemeris extremum root-finder.
• distance_extremes_at remains the planet-only compatibility adapter; its returned perihelion_jd and aphelion_jd are truthfully in TT.
• Legacy approximations based on mean motion are deprecated in favor of numeric radial velocity passage solutions.

Planetary nodes

• planetary_nodes.geometric_node now operates over TRUE_ECLIPTIC_OF_DATE and respects the [1900.0, 2100.0] temporal domain.
• Small bodies (asteroids and periodic comets) compute true geometric nodes without requiring special-case branching.

Shadbala Chesta Bala

• B.V. Raman's classical doctrine is fully restored for Chesta Kendra and Chesta Bala.
• Systems depending on the previously emitted raw values of Chesta Bala will observe numerical shifts for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun, and Moon. In particular, Sun and Moon no longer compute Chesta Kendra from fake mandocchas; their Chesta Bala equals their Ayana Bala.
• Output Virupas are bounded strictly in [0, 60].