Stellarium 0.10.6

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Project:
Stellarium
Series:
0.10
Version:
0.10.6
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Registrant:
Matthew Gates
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2 Alexander Wolf, 5 Bogdan Marinov, 5 Matthew Gates, 3 Paolo Cancedda, 4 treaves
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3 Implemented
Bugs:
40 Fix Released

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Release notes 

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 defaults
are reset.

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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Satellites plugin: fixed problems leaving satellite TLEs out of date (LP: #616627).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.

3 blueprints and 40 bugs targeted

Blueprint Priority Assignee Delivery
Localize the names of Deep-Sky Objects Localize the names of Deep-Sky Objects 1 Undefined Alexander Wolf  11 Implemented
Localize the names of stars of different cultures of the sky Localize the names of stars of different cultures of the sky 1 Undefined Alexander Wolf  11 Implemented
Align time with location Align time with location 1 Undefined   11 Implemented
Bug report Importance Assignee Status
569701 #569701 All fonts in v10.4 on MacOS are reverse mirrored 2 Critical   10 Fix Released
592874 #592874 won't restart if spheric mirror distorter is selected 3 High   10 Fix Released
595914 #595914 Stellarium crashes after find change skyculture 3 High Paolo Cancedda  10 Fix Released
596453 #596453 Stellarium crashes on night mode 3 High   10 Fix Released
596678 #596678 Characters in mirror 3 High   10 Fix Released
604975 #604975 Ocular : error in formula for CCD sensors 3 High treaves  10 Fix Released
608533 #608533 Auto-connected scopes lost if they fail to connect 3 High Bogdan Marinov  10 Fix Released
621335 #621335 Star label for Regulus missing the g 3 High   10 Fix Released
641855 #641855 object labels garbled 3 High   10 Fix Released
642990 #642990 0.10.5 - The letters in names looks odd, and the only direction identified is N. When you rotate the other directions do not show up. It's hard to determine E, W, or S. 3 High   10 Fix Released
666837 #666837 [development version] Sky labels are not rendered properly 3 High   10 Fix Released
677874 #677874 time rate set in scripts resets at end of script 3 High Matthew Gates  10 Fix Released
682486 #682486 Problems in loading old style landscapes non 8 panel 3 High   10 Fix Released
591139 #591139 set year at -11000 then time out of control 4 Medium Paolo Cancedda  10 Fix Released
600889 #600889 core.selectObjectByName clearing function is not working for constellation selection 4 Medium Matthew Gates  10 Fix Released
608544 #608544 TelescopeControl: Incorrect epoch for Celestron scopes 4 Medium Bogdan Marinov  10 Fix Released
632408 #632408 Position of Pointe-à-Pitre 4 Medium   10 Fix Released
671794 #671794 Incorrect Orbit planets lines drawing with not stereo projection modes 4 Medium   10 Fix Released
677875 #677875 script: solar eclipse sometimes points in the wrong direction 4 Medium Matthew Gates  10 Fix Released
682031 #682031 0.10.6 beta crashes with Ocular plugin 4 Medium treaves  10 Fix Released
581287 #581287 Toolbar does not scale with added flip buttons 5 Low Paolo Cancedda  10 Fix Released
607951 #607951 numerically setting seconds in date/time dalog fails 5 Low   10 Fix Released
608238 #608238 Date-time dialog: seconds change when changing hours or minutes 5 Low   10 Fix Released
608306 #608306 Oculars: change verbiage 5 Low treaves  10 Fix Released
613844 #613844 Gravity labels don't affect cardinal points 5 Low   10 Fix Released
629405 #629405 lynx constellation - image shifted 5 Low   10 Fix Released
648071 #648071 Static plugins are compiled with -fPIC in non-Win32 systems 5 Low   10 Fix Released
648348 #648348 Patch to allow the use of KDE's Phonon 5 Low   10 Fix Released
657467 #657467 Drag/drop duplicates items in the Landscape list 5 Low Bogdan Marinov  10 Fix Released
670203 #670203 Satellites plugin draws behind moon 5 Low Matthew Gates  10 Fix Released
678417 #678417 Landscape descriptions contain "\n" 5 Low   10 Fix Released
685462 #685462 Language list in config dialog incorrect on first run 5 Low Matthew Gates  10 Fix Released
514530 #514530 Ocular Plugin: Hotkeys on non-US/UK keyboards 1 Undecided treaves  10 Fix Released
591971 #591971 0.10.5 and 0.10.4 Mac blinks @ 2 Hz on 500 MHz Mac with OS X 10.4.11 1 Undecided   10 Fix Released
596167 #596167 TelescopeControl: Bad serial port names on Windows 1 Undecided Bogdan Marinov  10 Fix Released
604258 #604258 Landscape::setZRotation() doesn't work correctly for old_style landscapes 1 Undecided   10 Fix Released
615006 #615006 Menus display no buttons in Fedora 13 on AMD 890 onboard graphics 1 Undecided   10 Fix Released
616627 #616627 Satellites plug-in does not update some TLEs 1 Undecided Bogdan Marinov  10 Fix Released
671633 #671633 [GUI] Troubles with progress bar 1 Undecided   10 Fix Released
676462 #676462 Lost translations lines 1 Undecided   10 Fix Released
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