Stellarium 0.10.6 is out!

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The latest stable version of Stellarium, 0.10.6, has been released.

Quote from stellarium.org:

The Stellarium development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.10.6 of Stellarium.

This release brings some interesting new features:

- New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.

- New plugin: Solar System editor.

- New plugin: Time Zone manual override.

- Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.

- Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine with orbits.

- Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.

- Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox/epoch override.

There have also been a large number of bug fixes and some performance improvements.

New users will find that some plugins have been enabled by default. Computers where an older version of Stellarium has been run will continue with the old settings unless defaults are reset.

An installer for Windows can be downloaded from the usual place on the website.

The build for Mac OS X will be a little late. For now, a pre-release build can be downloaded from the usual place on the website.

Packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and Maverick Meerkat (10.10) are available from Stellarium’s Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive):

https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+archive/stellarium-releases

Actually, it is not necessary to visit the website. The PPA can be added to Ubuntu’s software sources in the Software Center or the Synaptic package manager:

ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases

It also can be added by running these two commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases
sudo apt-get update

After that, Stellarium can be installed or upgraded from the Software Center, Synaptic or the command line.