- 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