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All releases of Xplanet

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• 1.2.1

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•  13 May 2009 12:38
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Release Notes: Minor accumulated feature enhancements were added.

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• 1.2.0

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•  16 Jun 2005 22:54
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: Bump mapping, the icosagnomonic projection, and tracking of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were added. Other minor bugfixes and features were made.

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• 1.1.1

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•  23 Jul 2004 13:19
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: Cloud maps from the Space Science and Engineering Center can be used.

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• 1.1.0

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•  21 Jun 2004 01:32
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: A -fork option was added to run the program in the background. A bug where stars were not drawn the first time when using the -proj option was fixed.

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• 1.0.8

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•  24 May 2004 00:54
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• Minor bugfixes

Release Notes: A bug with drawing eclipse shadows was fixed.

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• 1.0.6

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•  21 Apr 2004 08:51
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• Minor bugfixes

Release Notes: Markers on the far side of a planet were being drawn when they shouldn't have been, and satellites were not drawn for some locales. Both of these bugs were fixed. "-projection random" was added, which picks a random projection.

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• 1.0.5

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•  23 Mar 2004 11:14
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• Minor bugfixes

Release Notes: This release fixes some locale-related bugs, particularly for locales which use the ',' character as the decimal separator.

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• 1.0.3

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•  07 Jan 2004 23:12
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: Jupiter and Saturn are now drawn as ellipsoids.

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• 1.0.2

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•  22 Dec 2003 20:12
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: Xplanet can now use JPL digital ephemeris files for much better accuracy. A new projection was added: Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area. Markers can be drawn using Pango for international language support. Markers and arcs can be drawn on the background star field. A constellation arc file is included, as is a marker file containing the names of the brighter stars.

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• 1.0.1

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•  17 Mar 2003 10:52
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: This version has native Aqua support (but no GUI yet). Subset maps are now supported with the mapbounds configuration option.