Gaia Sky 3.7.0
Release notes — Build 3187fcbc6
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Release Notes

Features

  • Gamepad mapping changes: map labels on/off to button X, unmap minimap, map A to camera speed-up (hold to make camera faster). RB and LB mapped to vertical movement (up/down) in free camera mode.
  • Replace ‘displays’ section in about window with ‘graphics cards’.
  • Add infrastructure to be able to create and load ray-marching effects on-demand in the background. Make sure that ray-marching effects stay at their designated location by allowing addition of effects at a particular position in the post-processing chain.
  • Enable IDs in particle groups. Trim down IDs in camera info pane from 14 to 12 characters.
  • Improve ’no connection’ dialog, with more information and hints as to whether the issue is with our server or with the local internet connection.
  • Do not show blocking dialog if base data is present when we can’t connect to the datasets server. Show a popup notification instead. In the dataset manager window, make installed datasets tab the default view in some cases.
  • Add support for pulling cloud textures from online resources.
  • Add calls to clear label regexp filtering. Improve documentation on some API calls.

Bug Fixes

  • Guard OS code name getter behind NPE check during Flatpak discovery. This fixes a crash at startup with macOS Tahoe.
  • Remove UI window shadow, as it messes with the internal padding due to the 9-patch implementation in Libgdx.
  • Gamepad focus order in welcome GUI. Decrease poll delay for gamepad axes.
  • Misalignments in about window layout.
  • TLEParserTest does not initialize settings, leading to NPE.
  • Synchronize TLE initializer to prevent multiple creations/editions of TLE data and derived JSON files at the same time.
  • Size issue in gamepad image in gamepad settings window. Increase maximum value of axis power slider to 15. Set value of vertical movement (RB/LB) to 1 instead of 0.1, to match other camera motion inputs.
  • Reduce range of sensitivity and axis power sliders in gamepad config window.
  • Connect LABEL_CLEAR_FILTER_REGEX_CMD event to scene observer. This fixes the clearLabelFilterRegexps() method.
  • Increase maximum eye separation in stereo mode, fix star/particle label positioning in stereoscopic mode.

Build System

  • Update bundled JRE in install4j scripts to Java 25 (jdk-25+36).
  • Remove -XX:+ZGenerational flag from run script, as support was removed in Java 24.
  • Clean up gradle build file, and separate dist task into multiple sub-tasks to increase granularity and improve tracking in case of errors. Make it compatible with Gradle 9.1.x.
  • Migrate from multi-string notation to single-string notation for dependencies to prepare for Gradle 10.
  • Upgrade Jackson version to 2.20.0.
  • Upgrade OSHI to 6.9.0.
  • Add additional languages to installer (French, Deutsch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish).

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