* Tue Apr 16 2019 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 3.2.0
* Capture counting corrected
* Do not connect to EkosLive with empty username
* Also accept .fits.fz in FITSViewer
* Fix slew and sync in KStars Lite
* Clean module registration
* Use click to trigger the change since the signals are attached
to the button clicked event
* Show toolip explicitly on button click
* Add information icon to explain what the guiding rate control
is for
* Resume KStars if paused in EkosLive
* Make sure clock is ticking and sync with system time when
websocket connection is established
* Move auto star selection for calibration to main guide module
to make it more accessible
* Fix issue with online solver args
* Add RC telescope type
* Fix capture delay when using legacy polar alignment tool
* If primary or guide IDs are zero or less, set profile scope to
Default
* Add support to updating scopes and profiles
* Scope commands do not require active connection
* GET_SCOPES can now be sent before Ekos is online
* Add scope websocket functions to add and delete scopes.
Improve getScopes to cover all available telescopes
* Send profile when deleting or adding one
* Unchecking the meridian flip checkbox reset the meridian flip
state
* Do not change filter directly, use the filter manager
* Fix infobox setting not sticking for some reason under Qt 5.12
* Save focus module filter wheel and filter in options
* Fix altitude restriction log and allow restriction down to -15
degrees
* Wait until backlash builds up before moving to more aggressive
pulses that might cause overshooting the target position
* Add debug log for remaining angle for mount rotation in
alignment module
* Add websocket function to get all drivers
* Update docs
* Profile management via websocket is ready for testing
* Initial work for profile and driver exposure to ekoslive
* Bugfix: proper usage of abort() for finishing a capture
sequence queue
* Reduce calibration iterations to 3 by default as it is mostly
what is required for most cases
* Prevent rescheduling aborted jobs until all jobs are processed
* Make Scheduler robust against guiding problems
* Keep meridian flip in capture and mount in sync (kde#405325)
* Fix websocket getting called from a different thread
* Add EkosLive DBus methods and properties
* Display saved DSLR infos
* Making the StarProfile Viewer fix from 3.1.0 work for Guide
and Focus Views too
* Load captured RAW images in summary without have to
double-covert them since they are converted once in INDI::CCD
* Only remove .fits explicitly from base name instead of finding
last decimal point since this causes conflicts with exposures
in file names
* Make the mount window resizable to fit on different DPIs
* Mon Mar 11 2019 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 3.1.1
* Comment out obsolete slot connect
* Remove unrequired attributes (kde#405188)
* Notify user of error in focusing even when not in autofocus
* Add support to sending horizontal coordinates from the mount
box
* Improve behavior for dark and flat frames capture when it comes
to covering the mount
* Support converting images to FITS
* Before loading next image, check if current image is temporary
and if yes remove it from disk
* Add notification dialog for user to cover scope with flat field
light source in case of manual source
* Making the initial astrometry.net path change automatic
* More PHD2 fixes
* Add comet and asteroid orbital elements auto update on startup
* Make selection behavior single rows for the capture jobs
* Deleting arbitrary imaging sequence in the Capture module
corrected
* Fix upload issues to the cloud with compressed images
* Fix state of ekoslive button toggle on startup
* fitsviewer: Do not exit program on error, return error code
* Wed Feb 27 2019 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 3.1.0
* http://knro.blogspot.com/2019/02/kstars-v310-is-released.html
* Fixed a few bugs with the Ekos Scheduler along with making
steady improvements to cover all corner cases for multi-object
multi-night scheduling which can become quite complex
* Added a new feature to the Focus module: Ring-field focusing
* Migrated the Meridian Flip handling code to the Ekos Mount tab
* Migrated online Ekos documentation to KStars official
documentation
* Introduced manual workflow for users who would like to use Ekos
Polar Alignment Assistant Tool with manual non-GOTO mounts
* The LiveView window received a few enhancement to enable
zooming and panning for supported DSLR cameras
* The FITS Viewer window is now automatically raised to the
foreground when a new image arrives
* Dark Library now considers all DSLRs to be shutterless
* Mounts are grouped by manufacturer in the Equipment Profile
Editor
* Preliminary support for websocket to INDI::CCD on the client
side
* DBus interface expansion to provide more fine control over
KStars
* Fixed relative focuser bug in autofocus mode
* Improved multi-channel histogram by providing dedicated controls
to each channel
* Fixed Auto-Stretch affecting raw image values
* Support for compressed FITS (*.fits.fz) in INDI. This can cut
the transmission time to 30%!
* Improved display of Parked status
* KStars defaults to limited resource mode on ARM architecture
* When there is binning change, always FORCE setting of frame
values even if they did not change
- Add "AND GPL-3.0-or-later" to the license, a few source files
require that
* Thu Dec 20 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 3.0.0
* http://knro.blogspot.com/2018/12/kstars-v300-is-released.html
* New XPlanet Solar System Viewer
* Improved FITS Viewer GUI
* Ekos scheduler improvements
* Improvements to Scripting & DBus support
* Lunar Eclipses: added functionality to calculate and draw the
earth's shadow disk on the Moon from any distance. There is a
new eclipse tool in the astrocalc which can find lunar eclipses
quite fast.
* Find Dialog is now persistent so it remembers the past searches
* The capture module now incorporates a cooler On/Off button.
Additionally, user can now clear Camera configuration.
* Dedicated Binary Object channels when communicate with INDI
driver to increase throughput and responsiveness of drivers
* Fixed performance regression in Star Profile viewer
* Guide mode resets calibration when it detects pier side
changing
* Migrating code to new style Qt Signal/Slot connections
* J2000/JNow support in Mount Module
* Do not cast DSO coords seconds to int as we lose important
precision. Use full resolution as double.
* Fix issue with subframed calibration when auto-select star is
not enabled. Now subframed star position is set properly in the
internal guider before.
* Support for compressed FITS files (.fits.gz)
* Add live view support to focus module and rework existing one
in capture to be icon based
* Show loaded coords in sexigesimal format and in high precision
when possible
* Do not add any camera or ST4 devices to guide module if guider
is external. Instead put guider type in guider dropdown and
disable it.
* Honor settling time in Polar Alignment Assistant tool
* Add warning when slewing to Sun. Adjust tracking rate if
supported by the mount depending on the object type.
* Add option to control DSLR image viewer. It can now be turned
off.
* Improve PHD2 support
- Drop disable_downloading_into_system_dirs.patch, the kauth helper
that writes files to system dirs has been disabled upstream
because of reliability problems
* Mon Aug 20 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.8
* http://knro.blogspot.com/2018/08/kstars-298-released.html
* Fixed several issues in the Ekos scheduler to enable running
duplicate jobs
* Fixed many problematic i18n strings that accumulated over the
years
* Improved KStars Lite android build process and fixed touch
support
* Fixed several issues with Ekos PHD2 support
* Fixed logging out in capture module
* Fixed minor EBN issues
* Using Max RMS value as the threshold to abort the guider
instead of maximum pulse length
* Fri Jul 27 2018 jengelh@inai.de
- Trim redundancies from the description again.
* Thu Jul 26 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.7
* http://knro.blogspot.com/2018/07/kstars-v297-is-released.html
* The Ekos scheduler's behavior has been improved under a number
of scenarios
* The Polar Alignment Assistant tool received few improvements to
simplify the process, it's now literally a 1-button click
operation
* Support for EkosLive is added in this release
* KStars now offers an easy method to add INDI custom drivers
* Support for loading compressed FITS (*.fits.gz) in FITS Viewer
* Android fixes + improvements by GSoC 2018 student Csaba
* Disabled internet check for online astrometry solver to
workaround Qt bug
* Fixed PHD2 file not found issue
* Added option to restart alignment process in scheduler in case
of calibration failure
* Support for manual dither plus dithering to a specific X,Y
location
* Support for Auto Park Timer in Mount Module
* Support for Remote Drivers in the Profile Editor
* Added video exposure duration control to the Video Stream
window
- Rebase disable_downloading_into_system_dirs.patch
- Update build requirements
- Build with gcc7 on Leap 42.3, it doesn't compile with 4.8 anymore
- Update package description
* Mon Jul 09 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.6
* http://knro.blogspot.com/2018/05/kstars-296-is-released.html
* Fixed long-standing bug where Time zone was not updated
correctly from INDI GPS
* Fixed Filter Manager settings as it was not updating the
database properly
* Fixed centering & tracking of empty sky
* Fixed Polar Alignment Assistant rotation in the southern
hemisphere
* Added a method to clear DSLR info in case they were entered
incorrectly
* Added J2000 support in the Mount Control panel in addition to
the standard JNow
* Alignment FOV is now always editable
* CCD Capture format and directory are now persistent
* Guiding is aborted when mount is slewing or parking
* Clang fixes by Csaba Kertesz as part of GSoC 2018
- Drop Fix-build-with-Qt-511.patch, merged upstream
* Sun Jun 03 2018 christophe@krop.fr
- Add Fix-build-with-Qt-511.patch
- Run spec-cleaner
Version: 2.9.5-bp150.2.5
* Wed Apr 25 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.5
* http://knro.blogspot.co.at/2018/04/kstars-295-is-out.html
* New experimental adaptive HFR Thresholding algorithm that
selects the median HFR value filter-wise
* Ekos Scheduler module has received major patches from Eric
Dejouhanet to improve its reliability and fix some corner cases
* A quite illusive and annoying time-zone related bug was fixed
when using INDI GPS devices
* Align module FOV now defaults to zero on startup
* Wed Apr 18 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.4
* http://knro.blogspot.co.at/2018/04/spring-season-kstars-v294-is-released.html
* New highly efficient binary interface for asteroids that would
allow quite large (> 100MB) and distant catalogs to be loaded
into KStars without a major impact on performance
* Automatic Flat field calculations were fixed for multi-channel
DSLR frames along with an improved DSLR popup dialog
* The Ekos scheduler workflow was revamped to evaluate all jobs
every time a new job is invoked to ensure all scores are
updated accordingly and not only on the first job run
* More SEP work for star & galaxy detection is merged into the
internal guide module resulting in a better object detection
even in noisy environments
* The guide module is now a lot more tolerant to passing clouds
* Users can now instruct Ekos to take flat field frames exactly
at the same focus position where light frames of the same
filter were captured
* FITS handling code was optimized with loading times improving
on the order of 300%
- Mark license files as %license instead of %doc
* Sat Mar 03 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.3
* http://knro.blogspot.co.at/2018/02/kstars-293-is-out-with-numerous-fixes.html
* several important fixes, mostly in Ekos scheduler and capture
modules
* Mon Jan 29 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.2
* http://knro.blogspot.co.at/2018/01/kstars-292-released.html
* New theming support
* Add the found stars to the Zoom Menu
* Add Mount Control Panel access to the telescope tool bar
* Add support to Sensor FOV that can be triggered from the Ekos
tool bar, Color can be set from color scheme
* Use Human counting in the Star Profile Viewer
* Nicer icons for the Star Profile Viewer
* Only apply PA calculation on square FOVs
* Adding experimental support for differential slewing in align
module
* Sync INDI drivers list
* Remove completed jobs from sorted jobs
* Display local meridian even if grids are off or in equatorial
mode (kde#389289)
* Add option to skip sorting jobs and run them as-is in the order
they are added
* Reset to correct page in wizard
* Remove Breeze icons and relying on install theme. Changing some
icon to look better with the default KStars theme
* Add logging when saving FITS to disk
* Update appstream screenshots
* band-aid fix for cursor bug in FITS View
- Drop upstreamed fix-build-with-gcc48.patch
* Sat Jan 20 2018 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.9.1
* http://knro.blogspot.co.at/2018/01/kstars-291-is-off-to-fantastic-start-in.html
* Easier to set Park Position
* Additional PHD 2 Support
* Drift Graphics Updates
* New 3D Star Profile and Data Visualization Tool
* Bugfixes and other improvements
- Add fix-build-with-gcc48.patch to make it build with gcc 4.8 on
Leap 42
- Build with Qt5DataVisualization (new in Qt 5.7) on Tumbleweed and
Leap 15 to enable the new "3D Star Profile and Data Visualization
Tool"
* Wed Dec 20 2017 wbauer@tmo.at
- Update to 2.8.9
* kstars is released independently from KDE Applications now
* Lots of changes since 2.7.10 that was shipped with KDE Applications
17.08.3, please see http://knro.blogspot.co.at/ or the
included ChangeLog file (in /usr/share/doc/packages/kstars/)
for details
* Thu Nov 09 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.08.3
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.3.php
- Changes since 17.08.2:
* None
* Mon Oct 16 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.08.2
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.2.php
- Changes since 17.08.1:
* None
* Thu Sep 07 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.08.1
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.1.php
- Changes since 17.08.0:
* None
* Fri Aug 11 2017 christophe@krop.fr
- Update to KDE Applications 17.08.0
* New feature release
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.0.php
- Changes since 17.04.3 :
- Too many changes to list here
* Sat Aug 05 2017 christophe@krop.fr
- Update to KDE Applications 17.07.90
* KDE Applications 17.07.90
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.07.90.php
- Add disable_downloading_into_system_dirs.patch. Saving runtime files into
system directories is not allowed.
* Sat Jul 15 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.04.3
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.3.php
- Changes since 17.04.2:
* None
* Wed Jun 07 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.04.2
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.2.php
- Changes since 17.04.1:
* None
* Wed May 17 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.04.1
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.1.php
- Changes since 17.04.0:
* None
* Mon May 01 2017 wbauer@tmo.at
- Add libnova-devel and gsl-devel build requirements, necessary
when building with libindi now
* Sun Apr 16 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.04.0
* New feature release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.0.php
- Changes since 17.03.90:
* None
* Wed Apr 12 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.03.90
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04-rc.php
- Changes since 17.03.80:
* None
* Sat Mar 25 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 17.03.80
* New feature release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.03.80.php
- Changes since 16.12.3:
* Too many changes to list here
* Thu Mar 09 2017 lbeltrame@kde.org
- Update to 16.12.3
* New bugfix release
* For more details please see:
* https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.12.3.php
- Changes since 16.12.2:
* None
* Sat Feb 25 2017 asterios.dramis@gmail.com
- Enable wcslib-devel build requirement also for Leap >= 42.3.