ANNOUNCE: Celestia 1.4.1 Released.

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Greetings,

A new release of Celestia is available for the masses. This is mostly a
bugfix release, though there are several new textures and models, as
well as some UI enhancements.


What is Celestia?
=================

Celestia is a cross-platform OpenGL space simulator. By using
state-of-the-art OpenGL it provides an accurate, comprehensive,
educational, and fun space simulation for astronomers and casual users
alike.

Celestia/GTK: a front-end designed to require the minimum number of
libraries for the maximum number of features provided by the OpenGL core.

Celestia/GNOME: an expanded Celestia/GTK with GNOME integration features
such as GConf and URL handling.


Where to get more information
=============================

The official Celestia site:

	http://celestia.sf.net/

The Celestia/GNOME screenshots and information:

	http://pat.suwalski.net/celestia/


Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1
===========================

Celestia 1.4.1 is a bugfix release. There are a few tweaks to the UI as
well.

Full ChangeLog:
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/celestia/celestia/ChangeLog?rev=1.114

Abridged ChangeLog:
* Changed number of eclipse shadows in OpenGL2.0 renderer to 3
* Corrected bad ring shader calculation
* Added spiffy splash screen with progress indicator
* Added 'configure' options to disable cairo/composite in splash screen
* Corrected flickering of brightness of Milky Way
* New Phoebe textures from Cyclops cylindrical maps
* Removed GeForce FX render path, GLSL preferred
* Added lunar elevation map
* Updated/added Tethys textures
* Added Phoebe locations labels
* Added new Phoebe mesh
* Updated Iapetus texture
* Fixed time scale issue from cel:// URLs
* Reviewed 'make install' saving ~5M from typical binary packages


Downloading Celestia
====================

Source code:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.4.1.tar.gz?download

Celestia/GTK x86 AutoPackage:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-gtk-1.4.1.x86.package?download


--Pat Suwalski