Stellarium 25.4

What's new in this version:

Added:
- new sky culture: Balinese
- new sky culture: Indian
- new sky culture: Norse
- new sky culture: Chinese
- initial support of narration
- discovery circumstances for newly discovered comets
- missing timezone
- Latin zodiac in Greek
- Latin zodiac in Greek
- Greek zodiac in Greek
- Greek zodiac in Greek
- report failures to load textures obtained from network too
- constellation descriptions to Modern sky culture
- VS2026 multi-config section and fix VS2022 statement in BUILDING.md
- more logging categories
- missing context in Modern sky culture constellation names
- ability to inhibit screensaver in fullscreen via CLI
- object type support for custom object
- obj type in search result, indicating SIMBAD result with fetched object types
- all native names to name search
- the star “Celestial Pig’s Eye” in Chinese sky culture
- Visual Studio 2022 build instructions
- ability to see colored labels for satellites in both modes
- polar distance info into InfoMap data
- extinction effect into drawing of satellites
- new set of navigational stars
- ability to use polar distance instead of declination in equatorial coordinates
- Nova Centauri 2025
- support for translating separated Constellations section

Fixed:
- crash when ENABLE_SPEECH is not defined
- typos
- structure of many sky cultures
- observe magnitude limit
- discovery circumstances for minor planets
- some debug messages with paths
- hardware detection in linux/aarch64
- hardware detection in OpenBSD
- typo in Babylonian
- checking updates
- build with Qt6.10
- IPA for Russian Siberian sky culture
- GUI issue in Solar System Editor plugin
- altitude representation in decimal degrees in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- deleted lines during creation of a constellation end up in the output in Sky Culture Maker plugin
- Observability Analysis plugin crash
- start with empty observing list
- documentation
- getting screenshot HiDPI scaling on Wayland
- bookmarks for minor planets orbital elements
- indication satellite in penumbra
- helplabel font in bottom bar
- a use after free
- loading localization in some specific cases
- translations issue
- loading star catalogs
- setting SkyculturePartition colors
- reading the setting for enabling abbreviations of constellations
- missing config option
- tooltip
- the positioning of the star “Auxiliary Road “ in Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture
- description of few scripts
- classification issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin
- issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Drawn constellations are not reset after “Export and Exit”
- issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Stop drawing line key
- issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Not all sky culture description input fields that are marked required are actually checked
- issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: No formal checks for ‘Constellations’ input field in sky culture description
- some issues in the Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture
- Sardinian sky culture: Allow elongation-dependent name for Venus
- abbreviations in Indian sky culture

Changed:
- Changed core: Allow negative hour angles
- Changed core: Compute correct longitude position even if skyculture partition is not shown
- Changed core: Recreate viewport effect on screen scaling change
- Changed core: Take changes in magnitude due to proper motion when getting vmag with extinction
- Changed core: Retrieve all cultural names on search
- Changed core: Extend global zone in lv0-2 catalogs to 200,000 years due to GH #4501
- Changed core: Need to normalize binary stars’ cartesian position to fix wrong parallax effect for binary stars
- Changed core: Minor dynamic resolution changes
- Changed core: Don’t forget to run markdownToHTML on an SC description section
- Changed core: Scale Custom Object pointer with the screen
- Changed core: Scale nomenclature pointer with the screen
- Changed core: Scale star pointer with the screen
- Changed core: Properly scale SolarSystem pointer with the screen
- Changed core: Properly scale meteor shower icon on the screen
- Changed core: Scale meteor shower, satellite, DSO pointers with the screen
- Changed visual type of monthly graph in AstroCalc tool
- Changed GUI: Don’t force button sizes in ScriptConsole
- Changed GUI: Make combobox dropdown actually drop down
- Changed NLS: Simplify ‘pronounce’ .po entries of Chinese sky cultures
- Changed Calendars plugin: Allow exporting displayed list
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Remove “test only” warning and enable translation signal
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Tell what fields are incomplete on export error
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Use artIntensity from ConstellationMgr
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Tweak the Close dialog text
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Use better button labels in the Close dialog
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Fix UX issues with aborting and hiding dialogs + missing translations
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Fix Thickness of constellation lines in SCM is not tied to Stellarium’s settings
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Move constellation descriptions to the Constellations dialog
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Option to merge constellation lines into polylines
- Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Don’t exit on “Export and Exit” when export failed
- Changed Oculars plugin: Try a drop shadow to increase GUI panel clarity

Updated:
- DSO catalog
- CalcMySky to v0.4.0
- Babylonian sky cultures
- Chinese
- BAS_Messier_Tour.ssc script
- Maori sky culture
- Modern
- Arabic
- description of Arabic
- Chinese sky cultures: complete the entries on planets
- IAU-star names in Modern
- the list of contributors
- photometry data of satellites
- default list of satellites
- the default list of locations
- the default catalog of exoplanets
- default catalog of pulsars
- names of DSO
- orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- discovery circumstances for comets and minor planets
- translations
- Stellarium User Guide
- template for Stellarium User Guide
- planetary nomenclature data

- Restored mistakenly altered Sun texture
- Removed copies of images from root directory
- Removed extraneous brackets in IPA of Balinese sky culture
- Removed outdated core: Unuse StelSkyDrawer::getBortleScaleIndex in ZL
- Removed the kludge in Constellation