en:news:version_4.0

# Version 4.0

#### New functions:

- Set the tool bar button arangement, size and text in Setup / Toolbar editor. Increase default button size.
- The tool bar editor allow you to edit the button bar layout. The function is available from the menu Setup / Tool bar editor.
- New performance options from menu File/Reset chart and options…
- New tool box function you can activate with the keys F1 to F8.
- Scripting functions and custom tool box capabilities.
- New representation for the Milky Way. This can be activated from the menu Setup / Display / Lines by unchecking “Milky Way - Line mode”.
- Updated Solar system information window with more functionallity
- Plot images for the main planetary satellites
- More color and label options
- Update the artificial satellites TLE files automatically.
- Option to add a crosshair to the chart center.
- Option to add the meridian line with any projection.
- Show comet and asteroid hourly motion in the detail window.
- Update download URL for asteroids and comets
- New observing list Tour function
- Add cursor or telescope position to observing list
- Add Tcp/Ip connection to the LX200 telescope interface.
- Use INDIstarter to manage the INDI server.
- New INDI control panel.

#### Catalog:

- OpenNGC replace NGC2000, it is now include with the base version
- Use official IAU star name
- The following catalog change require to install the new version with 4.0 in the file name from the catalog download section.
  - New version of GCVS and WDS catalog
  - New version of PGC/LEDA with 5 million galaxies
  - Add index to search planetary nebula by name
  - Add Sh2 and Barnard catalog
  - Update the pictures using better coordinates from OpenNGC

#### Corrections:

- Performance improvement with image display
- Artificial satellites TLE files can use .txt extension.
- Move some menu from File to View and Chart.
- Now the program scale the window correctly on high resolution screen. You can set the old behavior in Setup/General.
- No more store the program data location in the configuration file. If you need a non-standard location use the new command line option “–datadir=”.

For more details about the change you can look at the bug tracker change log and at the source code log