Dear Fellow Mac users,
Very soon, KStars 3.0.0 will be released. In preparation for this release, it would be good if we could get feedback from Mac users on any issues or bugs that you might find. Linux users can get the current bleeding edge version with all the latest updates from git and Windows users can get the latest version using the daily builds from craft. But until we can get some major updates to craft, we can't get daily builds for Mac. I still have to build each one at home. I have written some recipes for craft and hope to get them up there in the near future so that we can get daily builds, but until that time, we will have to keep doing it the same way that I have been doing it for the last 2 years.
So in that vein, please check out the latest version and check out everything to see how its working. Please note that there is one issue in this build with the Serial Port Assistant that Jasem recently wrote because I built this dmg before he was done with it, so that just means it will pop up even when Stellarmate is not detected. He has fixed that issue, but it is not in this build. You can just click the check box to make it not come up all the time.
Some cool new things that you can check out include:
-A little addition that I have been working on for the FITSViewer called the FITSTools Panel, which is a slide out panel that includes statistics, a histogram, FITS Headers, and recent images.
-Improvements to the 3D Star Profile/3D graph view
-Some new INDI drivers including Altair, Toupcam and of course all of the other updates in the last couple of months.
-A complete rewrite of the Scheduler code by Eric (You can see those details in all their glory here:
www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/4184-d16429-t...r-changes.html#32429)
-And much more!
If you find any issues or have any comments. please note them here in this forum so that we can take care of it.
Note that I do not recommend that you replace your current KStars 2.9.8.app with this beta version and then go out into an observing field where you cannot download the old version if you have to go back to it. . .yet
. Test it out first to make sure you are having no issues.
indilib.org/jdownloads/kstars/kstars-3.0.0beta.dmg
Thanks,
Rob