1.6.2 Beta 1

The 1st beta of the upcoming 1.6.2 release.

Changes since 1.6.1:

Bug fixes

• Options dialog is hidden on delete event instead of removed (GTK+ frontend)
• Fixed crash when loading of a celx script failed
• Localization support enabled early on startup (GTK+ frontend)
• Fixed compilation on MIPS platform
• Add missing gettext calls to make units (km, Kpc, ...) translatable
• Fixed compilation with modern compilers (Apple Clang, GCC9, LLVM7, MSVC2015)
• Fixed syntax error in GL2 shader called when there is no light sources
• First object in Guided Tour can be selected (Windows frontend)
• Fixed errors reported by PVS studio and Coverity
• Fixed compilation for 64 bit target of Windows frontend
• Removed a few deprecations of macOS frontend

Platform-specific changes

• Unix: GTK+ frontend made translatable
• Unix: celestia.desktop updated for GTK+ frontend
• Unix: build infrastructure updated for newer autotools
• Windows: tilde (~) can be used in filenames to represent home directory
• Windows: Use Segoe UI font instead of MS Sans Serif in dialogs
• macOS: Fully 64 bit, support for 32 bit is dropped, with a minimum deployment target as OS X Lion
• macOS: Application is sandboxed and part of the application bundle is codesigned
• macOS: Support dark mode on macOS Mojave or higher
• macOS: Add a dialog for choosing celestia.cfg and CelestiaResources directory

Code optimization and reorganization

• Warnings reported with `-Wall' mostly fixed or suppressed

Features

• Leap seconds added for 2012, 2015, 2017. Dropped for 1 Jan 1972
• Add support for Lua 5.2 and 5.3, drop Lua 5.0
• Favorites file by default is saved to user home directory:
  • Unix: $XDG_DATA_DIR/Celestia (~/.local/cache)
  • OS X: ~/Library/Containers/space.celestia.Celestia/Data/Library/Preferences
  • Windows: %APPDATA% (~/AppData/Roaming)

Scripting

• Add titles for example scripts

Translations:

• Add Norwegian Bokmål translation