Added scaling stars on a HiDPI devices (GH: #2846).

Added new sky culture - Modern (IAU) (GH: #2835).

Added indicator of max exposure time for moving objects in Oculars plugin (GH: #2789).

Added support the Region parameter for skycultures (GH: #2760).

Added support new archive formats for generator of source packages (GH: #2820).

Added temporary hook for Qt5-based macOS bundles (GH: #2890).

Added one extra check for updates Satellites (GH: #2860).

Added new sky culture - Tikuna (GH: #2812).

Added new sky culture - Seri (GH: #2863).

Added context support for proper names of pulsars.

Added support for anisotropic filtering of textures (GH: #2881).

Added names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin.

Added translation hints in Calendars plugin.

Added options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone (GH: #2790).

Added new projection: plate carree (GH: #2856).

Added linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin (GH: #2898).

Added Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (GH: #2898).

Added support elongation in ecliptic longitude for Pointer Coordinates plugin (GH: #2700).

We are looking for telescope users with programming skills to help us fixing this issue. It seems the Telescope Control plugin at least on Windows works better in the Qt5-based releases.

Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)īehind the scenes, several minor issues were fixed.

Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures.

Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes.

New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen).

This release mostly aimed at fixing issues but also brought a few new features:

The Stellarium Team has released version 1.2. The installers are located in the 'Assets' section at the end of these release notes!

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