Stellarium 24.4 ڈاؤن لوڈ

## Release notes

The Stellarium Team has released final version in this year - 24.4.

The major changes of this version:

- Changes in DSO rendering
- Improvements in Core
- Improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Updates in sky cultures

Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.

## What's Changed

Full list of changes:

- Added optional drop shadow behind InfoText
- Added ability of immediate-store for (hopefully) all main program properties (GH: #3987)
- Added designation for η Car star (GH: #633)
- Added code for Tachelhit language
- Added sidereal time in degrees to StelObject InfoMap
- Added test to avoid missing colors for NebCl type
- Added new nomenclature
- Added alias for Asia/Choibalsan time zone (GH: #3955, #3953)
- Added proper name for LDN43
- Fixed kerning of curved text (GH: #4006)
- Fixed application of text baseline shift
- Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #3995)
- Fixed typos (GH: #3993, #4015)
- Fixed mistakes in Korean SC (GH: #3994)
- Fixed proper motion for pulsars
- Fixed minimum target version for macOS when Qt5 is using
- Fixed color for NebCl type
- Fixed sizes of proportional hints for DSO
- Fixed description of Arabic (Lunar mansions) SC (GH: #3938)
- Fixed description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) SC (GH: #3944)
- Fixed typos in Arabic (Indigenous) skyculture (GH: #3939)
- Fixed BOM char in source code
- Fixed constellation Pleiades (HR -> HIP) in Greek (Leiden Aratea) SC (GH: #3931)
- Fixed translating months in AstroCalc/Graphs after changing language (GH: #3907)
- Fixed typos in Mongolian skyculture (GH: #3913)
- Fixed typos in Indian skyculture (GH: #3908)
- Fixed typos in Romanian skyculture (GH: #3912)
- Fixed few security alerts for JS code (GH: #3918, #3920, #3917)
- Fixed compiling planetarium in some systems (GH: #3905)
- Fixed missing parts of refactoring
- Fixed setting 2 lines in ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #3909)
- Fixed saving selected object information (GH: #3910)
- Fixed coordinates in '20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars' script (GH: #3835)
- Changed core: keep FOV search radius in hiDPI screen consistent from user perspective (GH: #3985)
- Changed core: attempt to resolve HIP first (GH: #3980)
- Changed core: Refactoring drawing nebulae markers (GH: #3968)
- Changed core: Allow dimming of DSO hints and labels
- Changed core: Make some landscape variables static, and properties of LandscapeMgr (GH: #3951, #3574)
- Changed core and Solar System Editor plugin: improved size of small asteroids
- Changed core: Rewrite spheric mirror to make it more efficient (GH: #3535, #3954)
- Changed core: Remove a useless OpenGL call
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: Show an even more clear hint that ASCOM is disabled in Qt6 builds
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: INDI support is optional now
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: switch to INDI v2.1.1 (GH: #3269)
- Changed Satellites plugin: User can decide if newly added satellites are visible by default now (GH: #3986)
- Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid bad orbit lines (GH: #3934)
- Changed Satellites plug-in: small speedup
- Changed Calendars plugin: add drop shadow for better readability
- Updated Norse SC (GH: #3990, #3991)
- Updated default list of locations
- Updated default list of minor bodies
- Updated list of planetary features
- Updated discovery circumstances for comets and for minor planets
- Updated photometry data for satellites
- Updated translations
- Updated infrastructure: Let system-installed fast_float be found (GH: #3949)
- Updated WebUI in Remote Control plug-in (GH: #3929)
- Updated JS libraries in Remote Control plugin-in (GH: #3923)
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Removed texture of NGC104