What's Changed Full list of changes:

• Added new IAU names since Nov 2025
• Added IAU star names with only Gaia numbers
• Added scripting command for Equation of Time (GH: #4975)
• Added territory.geojson data for sky cultures
• Added Chinese Yuan Dynasty sky culture (GH: #4948)
• Added storage permission request for Android
• Added a workaround for Intel's garbage GLSL sin & asin
• Added a new lightweight atmosphere model
• Added mutiple search path for plugins and data (GH: #4958)
• Added ability translation of designations for axes of celestial coordinate systems (GH: #4962)
• Added util to fetch new orbit data elemets from JPL for ssystem_major and updated orbital elements of the moons (GH: #4894, #4908)
• Added visualization of star trails (GH: #1888)
• Added "Common names" tab into SkyCultureMaker plugin (GH: #4657, #4912)
• Added missing part of scripting docs
• Added a filter to list only enabled surveys
• Added new plugin: Planes (GH: #4926)
• Added support for zooming the map in Location dialog
• Added Byzantine calendar into Calendars plugin (GH: #4910, #4868)
• Added AndroidManifest.xml and an icon
• Added support building main executable for Android
• Added support for high graphics mode on GLES3
• Added hook for AstroCalc/Almanac tool to updating values when the date is changed (GH: #4906)
• Added context for 3 constellation names to avoid conflicts with minor planets names (GH: #4898)
• Added automatic update data after toggling the decimal degrees flag in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #4896)
• Added support for CelesTrak CSV instead of TLE in Satellites plugin
• Added byname to constellation information and adjust format to SC editor in Sky Culture Maker plugin (GH: #4879)
• Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Added ability to use inex and tritos as periodic cycles
• Added Gamepad Controller support for Remote Control plugin (GH: #4813)
• Added ability to let SSO's have multiple epochs (GH: #4878)
• Added missing package for qt6-based AppImage (GH: #4880)
• Added improvements for ephemeris visualization (GH: #4850)
• Added waitForKeypress() to support Bluetooth remote presentations (GH: #3556, #4864)
• Fixed InfoString issue
• Fixed blending issue in Satellites plugin
• Fixed Exoplanets plugin: Ignore atmospheric extinction when distribution mode is enabled (GH: #4857)
• Fixed coordinates of Boyden Observatory (GH: #4870)
• Fixed nebula names in search results (GH: #4867)
• Fixed grammar in typo reporting sentence in CONTRIBUTING.md (GH: #4861)
• Fixed DSO names
• Fixed showing the distance data in Pulsars plugin
• Fixed error in LocationService in RemoteControl Plugin (GH: #4988)
• Fixed Solar Corona refraction (GH: 4973)
• Fixed outline data for M20 (GH: #4971)
• Fixed drawing the protractors in Oculars plugin
• Fixed drawing reticle in Oculars plugin
• Fixed old-fashioned config store of dynamic moon scaling (GH: #4969)
• Fixed asterism reference exclusion (GH: #4891)
• Fixed build without media
• Fixed Windows build with INDI
• Fixed precision of GLSL ES StelProjector project and unproject
• Fixed GLSL ES refraction precision
• Fixed logic of survey/model choice
• Fixed saving preferences for TextToSpeech feature
• Fixed compiling with INDI 2.2.2 on NetBSD (GH: #4959)
• Fixed single-constellation issue in AstroCalc tools (GH: #4874)
• Fixed null pointer dereference
• Fixed typos
• Fixed rounding issue in Equation of Time plugin (GH: #4938)
• Fixed scripting docs
• Fixed missing translatable type of object
• Fixed observing list designation column sorting (GH: #4916)
• Fixed type of comment in the UI file
• Fixed compilation on Android when missing fseeko()
• Fixed compatibility of viewDialog with Qt5
• Fixed missing excludes (GH: #4930)
• Fixed broken outline shape on the top-left side of the map
• Fixed the obtaining of distance in Pulsars plugin according to changes in ATNF Pulsars Catalogues v2.8.0
• Fixed coordinates and altitude of North Georgia Astronomical Observatory (GH: #4923)
• Fixed compilation of PFNGLMINSAMPLESHADINGPROC on Android
• Fixed the WaitForKey script command (GH: #4866)
• Fixed FOV of Trees landscape (fisheye example)
• Fixed Calendars plugin: allow playing in dialog while main display is off (GH: #4917)
• Fixed Calendars plugin: improve dialog visibility on Linux (GH: #4917)
• Fixed tracked object jumps while zooming with viewport offset (GH: #4915, #4887)
• Fixed visibility of progress bar for HiPS after surveys are disabled (GH: #4310)
• Fixed internal format of dithering texture in GLES
• Fixed shortening names of asteroids (GH: #4895)
• Fixed build on GLES2-based Qt 6.9.3
• Changed core: Don't create dithering texture in low graphics mode
• Changed core: Protect the whole jpl_pleph with the mutex (GH: #5003)
• Changed core: Make planet hint circle better visible again on scaled hiDPI screens
• Changed core: Prevent occasional race condition in SolarSystem::computePositions()
• Changed core: Don't show lunar 'halo' during solar eclipse
• Changed core: Only suppress earth shadow when moon is actually scaled up
• Changed core: Make RTS independent from scaling (GH: #4981)
• Changed core: A few clarifications in skyculture names (GH: #4891)
• Changed core: Pass log messages to the default handler on Android
• Changed core: Use a gamma to reduce LW atmo banding on GLESv2 even more
• Changed core: Use default atmosphere as the fallback
• Changed core: Don't use GL_RGBA8 internal format in TextureAverageComputer
• Changed core: Add a fallback for systems without VAO support in TextureAverageComputer
• Changed core: Don't use GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER{,_BINDING} in LW atmo and TextureAverageComputer
• Changed core: Reduce banding of LW atmosphere in GLESv2
• Changed core: Don't try to use RGBA16F FBO in GLESv2
• Changed core: Don't require HighGraphicsFunctions in TextureAverageComputer
• Changed core: Don't use RGBA16F for texture averaging in LW atmosphere
• Changed core: Enable INDI client support on Windows
• Changed core: Move sinh/asinh functions to the global shader prefix
• Changed core: Use highp in all projections' shaders
• Changed core: Project vertices of the Moon on the GPU instead of the CPU
• Changed core: Render the Moon using a proper 3D model
• Changed core: Compute Moon texture coordinates inside fragment shader
• Changed core: Make TextureAverageComputer fully usable in GLESv3
• Changed core: Make TextureAverageComputer check GLES-compatible
• Changed core: Make atmosphere model selectable in GLES mode
• Changed core: TextureAverageComputer: Wrap OpenGL calls in GL() macro
• Changed core: Restore compilation without GUI (GH: #4849)
• Changed core: Colored trails (GH: #4881)
• Changed core: Make sure splash screen preserves OpenGL context
• Changed Location dialog: Add a threshold for map clicks
• Changed Location dialog: Use bilinear interpolation for upscaling the map
• Changed Location dialog: Allow panning the map beyond ±180° longitude
• Changed Location dialog: Move map point ↔ lon/lat conversion to separate methods
• Changed Location dialog: Don't resize Location dialog map on every paint
• Changed Location dialog: show location filter circle
• Changed Satellites plugin: draw satellites in point mode also in penumbra
• Changed Satellites plugin: Switch to using CSV instead of TLE in default sources
• Changed Satellites plugin: Move unzipping to a separate function
• Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid nested resets of SatellitesListModel
• Changed Satellites plugin: Print out the failing TLE line
• Changed Satellites plugin: Print download error in addition to error string
• Changed Telescope Control plugin: simplify initialization
• Changed Japanese Yasui Map sky culture (GH: #4948)
• Changed Korean Sky Culture (GH: #4968)
• Updated Bali skyculture: Apply image compression
• Updated the default list of satellites
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
• Updated the orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• Updated the list of contributoirs
• Updated the names of DSO
• Updated the discovery circumstances data for comets and minor planets
• Updated the territory data for 2 Arabic SC (GH: #4983)
• Updated the default eyepieces reticles in Oculars plugin
• Updated the translations
• Updated the default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
• Updated the planetary features data
• Updated the photometry data for satellites
• Updated the list of groups of satellites
• Updated the ephemeris for Himalia (Jupiter VI) (GH: #4708, #4894)
• Updated rules for dependencies
• Removed deleted constellations from Chinese SC (GH: #4987)
• Removed deprecated TimeSpec use for UTC cases in Satellites plugin
• Removed assertions for quite possible situations