Release v7.4

weewx-celestial 7.4

A translation release: a complete French translation of the sample skin
ships (Beta, awaiting native-speaker review — corrections and reviewers
very welcome). Drop-in upgrade from 7.x — install over it, no config
changes, no loop-data field changes; an English or German page looks
exactly as before. Released alongside weewx-skyfield 1.14 and
weewx-loopdata 6.5, which add French to the Sky page and the LoopData
sample report.

What's new

• French ships (Beta). lang/fr.conf is a complete translation
  whose shared vocabulary — body names, moon phases, compass points and
  all 88 constellation names — is copied verbatim from weewx-skyfield's
  French, and a test keeps the extensions in step (as it does for the
  German). Because the live loop-data values follow the language of
  loopdata's target report, one line switches the whole page, labels
  and live values alike:

  [StdReport]
      [[CelestialReport]]
          lang = fr
  

  Beta until a native speaker has reviewed it; corrections are very
  welcome as issues or pull requests.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or later
• WeeWX 5.2 or later
• weewx-loopdata
  5.0 or later
• weewx-skyfield
  strongly recommended (required for Proxima Centauri), or PyEphem

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-celestial.zip from this release, then install right over
the existing 7.x:

weectl extension install weewx-celestial.zip

Restart WeeWX. No weewx.conf changes are needed when upgrading from 7.x.
(Upgrading from 6.x or earlier follows the README's upgrade instructions —
those paths do need the uninstall step, and from 5.x the migration
utility.)