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WWTExplorer 6.1.2.0 (2022-07-12)

Code changes

  • Update the version of the Newtonsoft.Json library. This should not change anything.

Data updates

  • Add today’s JWST image release! The new data are available in a new top-level “JWST” folder in the Explore ribbon.

WWTExplorer 6.1.1.0 (2022-03-31)

Code changes

  • Tweaks to how tour files are created to ensure interoperability with the web client when including progressive HiPS catalog data sets (#208, @Carifio24).
  • Fix mirror-imaging of .OBJ 3D model files (#207, @Carifio24).

Data updates

  • Add six new Mercury planetary maps (@astrodavid10)
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS Global Basemap BDR 166m
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS Global Basemap LOI 166m
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS Basemap MD3 Color Global Mosaic 665m
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS Global Color Mosaic 665m v3
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS Basemap Enhanced Color Global Mosaic 665m
    • Mercury MESSENGER MDIS DEM Global Color Shaded Relief 2km v1
  • Add “constellation” information to all of the core catalog records (@pkgw). This is mostly a matter of tidyness but should be helpful for updating the search indices used by the web client.
  • Remove a smattering of images with bad astrometry with no clear path to recovering the correct coordinates (@pkgw). Fix up negative zoom levels for some other images

WWTExplorer 6.1.0.0 (2022-02-15)

No code changes from the previous version. This is the official, non-beta WWT 6.x release! See the WWT 2022 edition notes, especially the Windows client release notes, for a description of the changes in WWT since the 5.x series.

WWTExplorer 6.0.908.0 (2022-02-11)

We expect this to be the final beta release before 6.1.

Code changes

  • Update the built-in default WMS server URL to NASA's GIBS: https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/wms/epsg4326/best/wms.cgi (#206, @pkgw, @astrodavid10)
  • Add a query-string ?client=wwt6windows to the end of HiPS tile URL requests, to enable HiPS providers to do some analytics on their traffic (#206, @pkgw). Considering just the Windows client, it would be nicer to change the User-Agent header, but the web clients won't be able to do that. This approach should allow us to be consistent across platforms.
  • When a reference frame's mean radius is changed in the UI, mark all of that frame's layers as dirty, so that altitudes to properly recomputed (#205, @Carifio24).
  • Add an explicit call to OnResize on app startup, as a workaround to remove jagged lines in some HiDPI display setups (#204, @Carifio24).

Data updates

This release updates the built-in data bundle to version 2022-02-15. We expect this to be the final data update before 6.1.

  • Remove some Crab studies with bad astrometry
  • Add a bunch of updated planet maps
  • Add the Curiosity rover Navarro Mountain panorama
  • Annotate that our built-in SDSS is DR7, and built-in DSS is based on DSS2
  • Update informational URLs for hundreds of Spitzer images

WWTExplorer 6.0.907.0 (2022-01-24)

  • Update the built-in data bundle to version 2022-01-20, deploying the WWT2022 data updates. This includes hundreds of new HiPS datasets; PR images from ESO, NOIRLab, Hubble, SOFIA, Spitzer, WISE; new planetary maps and panoramas; and much more!
  • Fix it so that if you edit the color of a spreadsheet data layer while creating a tour, the change sticks (#197, @Carifio24).

WWTExplorer 6.0.906.0 (2022-01-06)

No code changes from the previous release. Making a new release so that the auto-update functionality can be exercised.

WWTExplorer 6.0.905.0 (2022-01-06)

  • This is why we have the betas: the previous couple of releases didn't get the auto-update functionality right. In this iteration, we revert the msiexec changes but use a newer version of Cranko that ought to (more) correctly update some of the installer metadata when making releases, which I believe will fix auto-update. With these changes the auto-update user experience isn't as smooth as it could be, since you have to go through steps like to re-confirming the installation directory, but it seems that there are significant limitations to getting the "smoother" mode to work reliably.

WWTExplorer 6.0.904.0 (2022-01-05)

No code changes from the previous release. Making a new release so that the auto-update functionality can be exercised.

WWTExplorer 6.0.903.0 (2022-01-05)

  • Attempt to fix the auto-updating functionality with current installers (#194, @pkgw). The old method of launching msiexec /i doesn't seem to work anymore, resulting in an error with a refusal to reinstall an already-installed application. We'll put out an additional release so that we can exercise the changed behavior (which now uses msiexec /fvomus).
  • Make it so that the auto-update setting can be controlled from the command line, using msiexec ... AUTOUPDATE=OFF to disable auto-updates (#133, #194, @pkgw). This should be helpful for scripted installations. (All settings besides OFF should result in the default behavior of auto-updating being enabled.)

WWTExplorer 6.0.902.0 (2022-01-04)

This release contains only non-functionality updates as we test the continuous deployment infrastructure and release automation.

  • Update some URLs embedded in the app
  • Remove the "Tour Music/Resources" UI link, which we no longer (want to) support
  • Update the location of AutoUpdates registry key to not mislead people about the creator of this software
  • Update and improve the software license text shown in the installer
  • Update the installer UI and metadata to try to be more correct
  • Update the release automation infrastructure to include a bigger complement of preloaded data files in numbered releases (such as this one!)

WWTExplorer 6.0.901.0 (2021-12-29)

No code changes from the previous release. Working on the continuous deployment infrastructure.

WWTExplorer 6.0.900.0 (2021-12-29)

This is a trial release created using automated Azure Pipelines processing. Use it at your own risk.

  • Update the splash screen and refresh credits (#190, @pkgw)
  • Homogenize "AAS WorldWide Telescope" branding more thoroughly, including app installation and data storage directories (#190, #177, #176)
  • Use a new login API endpoint so that we can push updates to this series of clients without triggering updates in the older install base (#189, @Carifio24)
  • Make it possible to adjust VOTable layer properties via the layer manager, and add support for colormaps (#187, @Carifio24)
  • Respect the units when creating fixed spherical reference frames (#186, @Carifio24)
  • Respect the units in trajectory reference frames (#185, @Carifio24)
  • Fix auto-hiding tabs when the Layer Manager is closed (#182, @Carifio24)
  • Support distance axes in VOTable layers (#181, @Carifio24)
  • Don't continually try to download errored-out HEALPix tiles (#171, @imbasimba)
  • Only hide eclipsed moons in realistic-lighting mode (#167, @pkgw)