Update notifications

[Paul Gilmartin]

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[ 0.541][INFO] [ This is Stellarium 25.3 (v25.3.0) - https://stellarium.org/ ]
[ 0.542][INFO] [ Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Stellarium Developers ]
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[ 0.542][INFO] 2025-11-26T19:57:50
[ 0.542][INFO] Operating System: macOS Sequoia (15.7.2)

A couple applications I opened today automatically popped
Alerts of available updates. That's a nice feature.

I see "Stellarium -> Help -> About -> Check Updates"
(a wide button at the bottom of the list.)
It does nothing. Is that a bug, or is it telling
me by doing nothing that there's nothing for
me to do?

That page contains a few working hyperlinks. Another to
<https://stellarium.org/> would be valuable.

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Thanks,
gil

[Alexander V. Wolf]

чт, 27 нояб. 2025 г. в 11:08, 'Paul Gilmartin' via Stellarium <stell...@googlegroups.com>:

    0.541][INFO]  -------------------------------------------------------------
[     0.541][INFO] [ This is Stellarium 25.3 (v25.3.0) - https://stellarium.org/ ]
[     0.542][INFO] [ Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Stellarium Developers               ]
[     0.542][INFO]  -------------------------------------------------------------
[     0.542][INFO] 2025-11-26T19:57:50
[     0.542][INFO] Operating System: macOS Sequoia (15.7.2)

A couple applications I opened today automatically popped
Alerts of available updates. That's a nice feature.

I see "Stellarium -> Help -> About -> Check Updates"
(a wide button at the bottom of the list.)
It does nothing.  Is that a bug, or is it telling
me by doing nothing that there's nothing for
me to do?

25.3 is latest release and of course Stellarium will say "This is latest stable version of Stellarium." when button "Check Updates" is pressed

 

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With best regards, Alexander

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Important note: we do not use Apple App Store and we do not provide automatic updating of planetarium

чт, 27 нояб. 2025 г. в 14:29, Alexander V. Wolf <alex....@gmail.com>:

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 11/27/25 00:29, Alexander V. Wolf wrote:
> 25.3 is latest release and of course Stellarium will say "This is latest stable version of Stellarium." when button "Check Updates" is pressed

> ...
To verify this, I dropped back to a 25.2 backup:
Stellarium 25.2
Version 25.2.0 (64-bit)
Based on Qt 6.5.3
Running on Operating System macOS 15.7

Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Stellarium Developers

When I click "Check Updates" an inconspicuous
additional line appears:
Looks like you are using the development version of Stellarium.

This is not a very clear indication that an updated
version, 25.3, is available.

A highlighted hyperlink to the download site would be valuable.

25.3 displays the identical "development version"line
when I click "Check Updates".

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Thanks,
gil

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi!

пт, 28 нояб. 2025 г. в 05:19, 'Paul Gilmartin' via Stellarium <stell...@googlegroups.com>:

Ouch... this is a bug, thanks for notification!

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 11/27/25 20:34, Alexander V. Wolf wrote:
> ...

> When I click "Check Updates" an inconspicuous
> additional line appears:
>      Looks like you are using the development version of Stellarium.

> ...

> A highlighted hyperlink to the download site would be valuable.
>
> 25.3 displays the identical "development version"line
> when I click "Check Updates".
>
> Ouch... this is a bug, thanks for notification!
> --

Thanks. My apologies for not reading closely, then
submitting an incomplete report earlier.
However, if the response to "Check Updates" were
highlighted it would be harder to overlook.

If a fix is available in 25.4, I can verify it when 25.5
becomes available :-)

That is, it's difficult for a developer to test for a
condition that occurs so infrequently.

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Thanks again,
gil