For some reason I don’t have a backup of this release and 2.9.7 has got issues with Pentax k-5 captures.
I have stellarmate 1.3 which has Kstars 2.9.6 and on my Mac Kstars 2.9.7 and now the image download times are more than a minute for native and more than 2 minutes for fits images. It used to be about 20 secs.
I fear it may not work at all when I get in the field tomorrow.