Release Notes

Features

• add first implementation of new component: location log
• add „“ characters to font files, remove unused fonts
• improve logging in shader loader
• increase font size of dataset name in catalog selection and data manager windows
• multiple directional lights in per-pixel-lighting shader
• do not render -Z in cubemap mode if mode is planetarium and aperture > 180
• add dynamic resolution flag to configuration file - for testing purposes only!
• update docs ref
• spacecraft GUI is now a table with a background
• expose backbuffer scale factor to configuration
• add new logo to README file
• separate max num of billboards, labels and velocity vectors in config
• new mwsc description
• improve error dialog, saner default properties
• bump source and config version numbers
• replace BigDecimal with faster Apfloat
• first use of bigdecimal vector to model sgn translation
• add arbitrary precision floating point vector
• add RGB color channels to filter attributes, add XOR operation
• condense date/time in control panel into a single line
• add transition control to dataset settings window
• add number of objects and size to datasets pane
• add support for versioning in metadata binary files
• max octree depth set to 19
• add per-object visibility API calls
• add per-object vis to focus info panel
• add per-object visibility controls
• move visibility property from fade nodes to scene graph nodes

Merge requests

• Bulgarian translation, contributed by Georgi Georgiev

Bug Fixes

• update list of JRE modules for appimage
• untranslatable strings, fixes #356 #356
• music module omited if initialization fails, fixes #360, #362 #360
• appimage not using bundled JRE. Fixes #361 #361
• readme docs URL
• attitude navigator ball UI scaling
• free camera stops when very close to stars
• particle passing parent translation to children instead of its own
• minimap crash due to shader version not found on some macOS systems
• free mode coordinate command gets doubles instead of floats
• float/double errors and little bugs
• reformulate plx/plx_e > crti
• pad catalog num in launch script
• fix metadata binary verson 1 with long children ids
• wee typos and fixes
• keyframes arrow caps, leftover focus when exiting keyframe mode
• dataset highlight size factor limits consolidated across UI and scripting
• ‘make all particles visible’ fix in highlighted datasets
• loading particle datasets crashed sometimes
• STIL loader fails if stars have no extra attributes
• octant id determination in creator
• typo ‘camrecorder’ -> ‘camcorder’

Build System

• upgrade to install4j 9.0.3
• use jlink instead of manual method to build packaged JRE (appimage)
• remove vamdc repo, add jsoup target version
• add metadata to appimage
• switch to local jsmap library, as vamdc repo looks down
• upgrade libgdx to 1.10.0, bump gs version in build script
• upgrade build system to gradle 7.0
• jsamp maven is down, adding jar to lib

Documentation

• clean up javadoc comments
• add missing acknowledgements and contributors

Style

• migrate missing strings to i18n system, move all I18n.bundle to new I18n.txt
• rename some variables and format some files
• clean up and refactor render code, organize imports in whole project
• some shader formatting