v25.4

[alex-w]

The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!

Release notes

Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.4 for all platforms. This is our final release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.

The major changes of this version:

• Added initial support of narration
• Added new sky cultures
• Many improvements in Sky Culture Maker plugin
• Many improvements in Core
• Many updates in sky cultures

Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added new sky culture: Balinese (GH: Balinese Sky Culture #4625)
• Added new sky culture: Indian (Nakshatras) [from Susanne M. Hoffmann with B.S. Shylaja]
• Added new sky culture: Norse (Edda) [from the German Studies, University of Jena]
• Added new sky culture: Chinese (Journey to the West) [from two Chinese colleagues]
• Added initial support of narration (cmake flag ENABLE_SPEECH)
• Added discovery circumstances for newly discovered comets
• Added missing timezone
• Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Dante) sky culture
• Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Leiden Aratea) sky culture
• Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Farnese) sky culture
• Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Almagest) sky culture
• Added report failures to load textures obtained from network too
• Added constellation descriptions to Modern sky culture
• Added VS2026 multi-config section and fix VS2022 statement in BUILDING.md (GH: Add VS2026 multi-config section and fix VS2022 statement in BUILDING.md #4676)
• Added more logging categories (GH: More logging categories #4652)
• Added missing context in Modern sky culture constellation names
• Added ability to inhibit screensaver in fullscreen via CLI (Windows only) (GH: CLI: Try to inhibit screensaver in fullscreen (Windows only) #4507)
• Added object type support for custom object
• Added obj type in search result, indicating SIMBAD result with fetched object types
• Added all native names to name search (GH: Venus is only searchable as Evening Star even if displayed as Morning Star #4608)
• Added the star "Celestial Pig's Eye" in Chinese sky culture (GH: Add a star name to the Chinese Song Dynasty sky culture. #4598)
• Added Visual Studio 2022 build instructions
• Added ability to see colored labels for satellites in both modes (GH: Ability to see colored labels when realistic mode is used for satellites #4588)
• Added polar distance info into InfoMap data
• Added extinction effect into drawing of satellites (GH: No extinction for satellites #4585)
• Added new set of navigational stars (XIX century)
• Added ability to use polar distance instead of declination in equatorial coordinates (GH: Show polar distance #4571, Polar distance #4529)
• Added Nova Centauri 2025
• Added support for translating separated Constellations section
• Fixed crash when ENABLE_SPEECH is not defined
• Fixed typos (GH: Fix typos #4653, Fix typos for Chinese SCs  #4646)
• Fixed structure of many sky cultures
• Fixed observe magnitude limit (GH: SSO markers drawn despite magnitude limit #4633)
• Fixed discovery circumstances for minor planets
• Fixed some debug messages with paths
• Fixed hardware detection in linux/aarch64 (RPi4)
• Fixed hardware detection in OpenBSD
• Fixed typo in Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
• Fixed checking updates
• Fixed build with Qt6.10 (GH: Fix build with Qt6.10 #4667)
• Fixed IPA for Russian Siberian sky culture
• Fixed GUI issue in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: grammatical + GUI issue with Solar System Editor plugin #4661)
• Fixed altitude representation in decimal degrees in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: Oppositions with last selected object function doesn’t work #4582)
• Fixed deleted lines during creation of a constellation end up in the output in Sky Culture Maker plugin (GH: SCM: Deleted lines during creation of a constellation end up in the output #4593)
• Fixed Observability Analysis plugin crash (GH: Observability Analysis Plugin interfering with Program Language changes in Debug build from Visual Studio 2022. #4618)
• Fixed start with empty observing list (GH: Observing List Error #4641)
• Fixed documentation (GH: Outdated language settings documentation #4627)
• Fixed getting screenshot HiDPI scaling on Wayland
• Fixed bookmarks for minor planets orbital elements
• Fixed indication satellite in penumbra (GH: Indicate satellite in penumbra. #4615)
• Fixed helplabel font in bottom bar (GH: Small problem; font not changed in some hints #4614)
• Fixed a use after free (GH: Constellation Artwork not displayed when aberration is selected in Windows Debug build #4581)
• Fixed loading localization in some specific cases (GH: Fix Program Language comboBox (ref. issue #4590) and add Visual Studio 2022 (multi-configuration) build instructions #4605)
• Fixed translations issue (GH: Some of the constellation names are in a different language instead of Russian #4607)
• Fixed loading star catalogs
• Fixed setting SkyculturePartition colors (GH: Color of the Zodiac/lunar stations not saved automatically #4575)
• Fixed reading the setting for enabling abbreviations of constellations
• Fixed missing config option
• Fixed tooltip
• Fixed the positioning of the star "Auxiliary Road " in Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture (GH: Fix the positioning of the star "Auxiliary Road " in Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture. #4576)
• Fixed description of few scripts
• Fixed classification issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Drawn constellations are not reset after "Export and Exit" (GH: SCM Plugin: bug fixes #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Stop drawing line key (Double Right Click) only works when Star/DSO is selected (GH: SCM Plugin: bug fixes #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Not all sky culture description input fields that are marked required are actually checked (GH: SCM Plugin: bug fixes #4557)
• Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: No formal checks for 'Constellations' input field in sky culture description (GH: SCM Plugin: bug fixes #4557)
• Fixed some issues in the Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture (GH: Fix some issues in the Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture. #4544)
• Fixed Sardinian sky culture: Allow elongation-dependent name for Venus (GH: Allow elongation-dependent name for Venus in Sardinian culture #4549)
• Fixed abbreviations in Indian sky culture (GH: Issues in Indian sky culture #4545)
• Changed core: Allow negative hour angles (GH: Allow negative hour angles #4584)
• 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 (GH: Take changes in magnitude due to proper motions when getting vmag with extinction #4638)
• Changed core: Retrieve all cultural names on search (GH: Venus is only searchable as Evening Star even if displayed as Morning Star #4608)
• Changed core: Extend global zone in lv0-2 catalogs to 200,000 years due to GH Extended time interval #4501
• Changed core: Need to normalize binary stars' cartesian position to fix wrong parallax effect for binary stars (GH: Fix wrong exaggerated stellar parallax for binary stars #4596)
• Changed core: Minor dynamic resolution changes (GH: minor dynamic resolution changes #4672)
• 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 (GH: Simplify 'pronounce' .po entries of Chinese SCs #4538)
• Changed Calendars plugin: Allow exporting displayed list
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Remove "test only" warning and enable translation signal (GH: SCM: remove "test only" warning and enable translation in start dialog #4696)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Tell what fields are incomplete on export error (GH: SCM: Tell what fields are incomplete on export error #4697)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Use artIntensity from ConstellationMgr (GH: SCM: Use artIntensity from ConstellationMgr #4682)
• 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 (GH: A few UX issues with the SCM #4568, SCM: Fix: UX issues with aborting and hiding dialogs + missing translations (#4568) #4665)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Fix Thickness of constellation lines in SCM is not tied to Stellarium's settings (GH: SCM: Allow line thickness to be changed, or matched with constellation line setting #4659, SCM: Fix: Thickness of constellation lines in SCM is not tied to Stellarium's settings (#4659) #4664)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Move constellation descriptions to the Constellations dialog
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Option to merge constellation lines into polylines (GH: SCM Plugin: Option to merge constellation lines into polylines #4563)
• Changed Sky Culture Maker plugin: Don't exit on "Export and Exit" when export failed (GH: SCM Plugin: don't exit on "Export and Exit" when export failed #4580)
• Changed Oculars plugin: Try a drop shadow to increase GUI panel clarity (GH: Oculars: Try a drop shadow to increase GUI panel clarity #4560)
• Updated DSO catalog (v3.22; GH: SNR at wrong location #4634)
• Updated CalcMySky to v0.4.0
• Updated Babylonian sky cultures (slightly reworked, some typos, issues in "SC 2.0")
• Updated Chinese (Song Dynasty) sky culture
• Updated BAS_Messier_Tour.ssc script
• Updated Maori sky culture
• Updated Modern (IAU) sky culture: a few more bynames (GH: Some german constellation names are incorrect #4617)
• Updated Arabic (Arabian peninsula) sky culture
• Updated description of Arabic (Arabian peninsula) sky culture (GH: Arabic (Arabian peninsula) Constellations section is formatted wrongly #4535)
• Updated Chinese sky cultures: complete the entries on planets (GH: Complete the entries on planets in Chinese SCs. #4558)
• Updated IAU-star names in Modern (IAU) sky culture
• Updated the list of contributors
• Updated photometry data of satellites
• Updated default list of satellites
• Updated the default list of locations
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updating default catalog of pulsars
• Updated names of DSO
• Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated discovery circumstances for comets and minor planets
• Updated translations
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated template for Stellarium User Guide (GH: SUG: update template #4681)
• Updated planetary nomenclature data
• Removed copies of images from root directory
• Removed extraneous brackets in IPA of Balinese sky culture
• Restored mistakenly altered Sun texture
• Removed outdated core: Unuse StelSkyDrawer::getBortleScaleIndex in ZL
• Removed the kludge in Constellation

Packages notes

package	note
stellarium-25.4.tar.gz	Source code of Stellarium 25.4
stellarium-25.4.tar.bz2	Source code of Stellarium 25.4
stellarium-25.4.tar.xz	Source code of Stellarium 25.4
stellarium-25.4.zip	Source code of Stellarium 25.4
stellarium-25.4-qt5-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 7+) based on Qt 5.12.6 (Visual Studio 2017)
stellarium-25.4-qt6-win64.exe	Stellarium 25.4 for Windows (x86_64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.8.3 (Visual Studio 2022)
stellarium-25.4-qt6-arm64.exe	Stellarium 25.4 for Windows (ARM64; Windows 10+) based on Qt 6.8.3 (Visual Studio 2022)
Stellarium-25.4-qt6-macOS.zip	Stellarium 25.4 for macOS (universal; macOS 12.0+) based on Qt 6.9.3 (AppleClang 17.0.0)
Stellarium-25.4-qt5-x86_64.zip	Stellarium 25.4 for macOS (x86_64; macOS 10.13+) based on Qt 5.12.12 (AppleClang 13.0.0)
Stellarium-25.4-qt5-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 25.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 5.15.3 (GCC 11.4.0)
Stellarium-25.4-qt6-x86_64.AppImage	Stellarium 25.4 for Linux (amd64; glibc 2.35) based on Qt 6.2.4 (GCC 11.4.0)

Verify

GPG signature

1. Import Stellarium's GPG key
   curl -O https://stellarium.org/files/stellarium.gpg
2. List Stellarium's GPG key
   gpg --with-fingerprint --show-keys --keyid-format long stellarium.gpg
   id: rsa4096/BF38D4D02A328DFF 2012-04-07
   fingerprint: 7915 1C2E 6351 E727 8DA1 A730 BF38 D4D0 2A32 8DFF
3. Verify the binary file is valid (tarball for example)
   gpgv --keyring ./stellarium.gpg stellarium-25.4.tar.gz.asc stellarium-25.4.tar.gz

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This discussion was created from the release v25.4.

[ismaelcavada-max]

This version is no longer displaying the degrees of the zodiac signs. Please fix this.

[gzotti]

It does. Just use a skyculture which includes a zodiac. E.g., IAU does not include it.