================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.30 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - AUG 31, 2023 ================================================================================ * New: The Robson Fixed Stars set has been added * Improved: A request to update the program does not now appear on the first use of Solar Fire. * Improved: On exiting Solar Fire the second dialog requesting confirmation to save or not save charts has been removed. * Updated: Interpretations for Transits, Progressions, Solar Returns and Synastry * Updated: latest Australian Data Collection (Aussie charts) * Updated: the ACS Atlas ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.29 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - NOV 13, 2019 ================================================================================ * Improved: In Zodiacal Releasing for a chart, when the Part of Spirit and Part of Fortune both occur in the same sign, the Part of Spirit is moved forward to the next sign before generating the data. According to Chris Brennan this is in line with ancient practice regarding these situations. * Minor updates to the Help * Updated the ACS Atlas * Updated the Swiss Ephemeris: full update of core files and all asteroid ephemerides that ship with Solar Fire, to version 2.08 * Fixed: If Solar Fire was left running for many hours (eg. 12 hours or more) an error message occurred then the program crashed. * Fixed: When non standard User Defined Points are in effect it is not possible to create a midpoint composite chart from two progressed and/or directed charts. Non standard points are points that cannot be selected as Displayed Points. When an attempt is made to create a midpoint composite chart from two progressed charts when non standard UDP are in effect, a message now pops up regarding this. The Help has also been updated to fully explain this situation. ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.28 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - MAR 4 2019 ================================================================================ * Improved: The Help has been updated regarding User-Defined Points * Improved: When viewing a Dynamic Report the mouse scroll wheel initially works on the events not the header text. This now always applies after changing the sorting method too. * Fixed: Entering a date like 'Aug 162016' in the Animation window was causing a crash * Fixed: Solar Fire mistakenly thought unsaved Retained charts were saved * Fixed: Solar Fire would say a transits chart auto generated by the Assistant at startup was saved when it wasn't If it's not deleted you will now be asked if you want to save it when closing Solar Fire. Additionally the processing of unsaved charts when exiting Solar Fire has been streamlined. * Fixed: Adding new places sometimes caused an error on start up * Fixed: Midpoint and Derived Asc Composite charts would sporadically display some planets from one of the source charts when re-accessed from the Calculated Charts list. * Fixed: Exported Ephemeris file type was incorrect; used .xls but wasn't in XLS format. When loaded in Excel this caused an error at startup, plus the displayed layout of the text and the last line of text were incorrect. ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.27 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - JAN 18 2019 ================================================================================ * Improved: Updated time change data in the ACS atlas. Applies to Australia, Brazil, Tonga, Mongolia, Fiji, Namibia, Turks and Caicos, Uruguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Portugal, North Korea, Russia, China, Morocco, Chile ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.26 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - OCT 25 2016 ================================================================================ * Improved: Updated time change data in the ACS atlas. Applies to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt. * New: New quadrant page style by Zane Stein. ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.25 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - JUN 09 2016 ================================================================================ * New: Interpretations for lunar returns added. * New: Chart file of over 150 charts of famous astrologers added. * Improved: Update to famous Australians chart file. * Improved: With new installation, program no longer prompts to check for updates. * Improved: Updated time change data in the ACS atlas. Applies to Venezuela, Morocco, Hungary. ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.24 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - OCT 30 2015 ================================================================================ * Improved: Updated time change data in the ACS atlas. Applies to Turks and Caicos, Tunisia, Samoa, Namibia, Lithuania, Syria, Israel, Iran, Haiti, Cyprus, Cuba, New Zealand, Greenland, Bulgaria, Portugal, Australia, Chile, Mexico, Norfolk Island, Fiji, Turkey, Finland, Greece, Paraguay, North Korea. ================================================================================ SOLAR FIRE GOLD Version 9.0.23 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.7) - AUG 26 2015 ================================================================================ * Fixed: Slight progression inaccuracy over a long period of time. * Fixed: Solar maps maps listing. Listing of maps was blank in windows 8.1 and 10. * Fixed: Fast moving transiting points. Dynamic report wouldn't show Transiting angles and parts. * New: Added NVCH and AstrolabeReports to the view menu, works like solar maps * New: Changed copyright on about screens and splash screen * Improved: Updated time change data in the ACS atlas. Applies to Michigan, Brazil, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Chile, Paraguay, Mongolia, Russia, Fiji, Jordan, Belarus, Moldava, Uruguay. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.22 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.5) - December 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fixed: Single bug fix for problem with inverted Asc/Dsc lines in Solar Maps in 9.0.21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.21 (and Solar Maps version 5.0.4) - December 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor improvements: * General precision improvements across program. Dynamic reports previously accurate to the minute now accurate to the second. * Page Browser now shows helpful messages when there are no suitable pages available in a category. Bug fixes: * Fixed, crash in editing user-defined points if a font was missing. * Fixed, Dynamic report with Void of Course events was giving tropical angles even for Sidereal Zodiacs. * Fixed, Void of Course start time sometimes altered by applying aspect with planet that moves to next sign before moon does. * Fixed, slight Sidereal Difference inaccuracy over several millenia. * Fixed, Solar Fire main screen time display can show the wrong Time Zone name. * Fixed, Venus sometimes labeled Stationary on Helio chart. * Fixed, Current Settings box on main screen has too small of a font. * Fixed, crash when minimizing and restoring clock. Eclipse Search bug fixes: * Fixed, allow user to select multiple eclipses to add to chart list. * Fixed, can't change Point set in Eclipse Search * Fixed, changing points or aspects resets chart selection back to original * Fixed, changing charts in Eclipse Search can lead to report with wrong user-defined points. * Fixed, "Include Aspects" checkbox should be greyed out when the search isn't based on aspects. Solar Maps bug fixes: * Fixed, Solar Maps not remembering point color changes. * Fixed, Star glyph boxes too narrow * Fixed, Point and Star selection doesn't work on Windows Surface. * Fixed, horizontal green-blue lines sometimes going across rectangular whole earth map. * Fixed, land sometimes miscolored as sea * Fixed, PgUp/PgDown zoom often gets wrong cities (wrong detail map) * Fixed, Solar Maps load parans has inactive "Create" button * Fixed, Solar Maps doesn't support Mailto: email protocol. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.20 - September 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes: * Fixed, crash on startup when printer missing or inaccessible. (Sometimes looked like a crash while writing to "Objects.dfn".) * Fixed, occasional user getting missing "NakGlyphs.dat" file. * Fixed, Electional search complains inappropriately when switching aspect set and "Any Soft" or "Any Hard" aspects are used. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.19 - August 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major Changes: * The Appointments Manager has been redesigned to improve ease of use, with separate feature windows for Appointments, the Client List, Client Details, the Session Recorder, the Session Timer, Receipt Settings, and Client Import. * Clients can now be imported from the existing Charts files, and can be imported or exported to CSV. * We've added support for display of the Nakshatra in Solar Fire wheels, using a new "Et Nakshatra" font developed by Hank Friedman. Smaller Changes: * The Calendar and the Ephemeris are now both freely resizable. * Added Chris Brennan's new design (the Greek Phi character) as an option for the Part of Spirit glyph Bug Fixes: * Fixed, Dynamic Report sometimes generating aspects to many points at once. * Fixed, "Parallels aren't parallel" in report results. * Fixed a crash in Dynamic Reports when running a report with extra radix asteroids. * Fixed, crash when launching Animated Chart directly from Electional Search. * Fixed, Sun reported as "Out of Bounds" on some Solstices. * Fixed, "Beginning" items in dynamic report have simple degrees, rather than signs and degrees. * Fixed, changing the Dial Orb doesn't work the first time. * Fixed, generating a second Time Map doesn't work if the first wasn't closed. * Fixed, Zodiacal Releasing UI not going away when switching to Reports * Fixed, Retrograde color not shown in color customization dialog * Fixed, changing Display options doesn't update all the windows that need it * Fixed, crash in Queue for Printing in Dynamic Reports * Fixed, some users reporting error because of missing "Solfire9.mnu" file. * Fixed, Dynamic Report interferes with existing Ephemeris results (&vice versa) * Fixed, "Save Settings on Exit" should default to False in new installations. * Fixed, multiple selection now possible for Composite Charts without using control key. (Issue for Windows tablets.) * Fixed, crash in TimeMaps when using stationary points. Time Zone and Chart Animation bug fixes: * Fixed, switching time zones in Clock leads to extra time shift when switching to Animated Chart * Fixed, stepping an animated chart by a month can lead to dates like April 31 * Fixed, current clock time used for transits even when default place has different time zone. * Fixed, current planetary positions on home screen are wrong when system time zone doesn't match default place. * Fixed, wrong time in "Now" chart when default place has different time zone. * Fixed, stepping by an hour around Daylight Savings transitions doesn't get the missing or extra hour. * Fixed, daylight savings gets stuck in the default place. Pages and Wheels bug fixes: * Fixed, Page Browser blank after being dragged off screen and back on. * Fixed, new page with Temperaments object crashes Solar Fire * Fixed, can't save new page from Page Designer * Fixed, screen not updating after creating new page size. * Fixed, default Wheel Designer size too small. * Fixed, Help not working in Wheel Designer. * Fixed, newly created wheels from Wheel Designer crashing Solar Fire. * Fixed, Wheel Designer not using user's custom color settings. * Fixed, Wheel Designer crash on exit when used from Solar Fire New pages and user files: * Jessica Adams' Roman Astrology package (http://jessicaadams.com) * New single-chart page, RomanAstrology.pag * Aspects, wheels, and points used in that page, with file names beginning with "AsteroidAstrology-JessicaAdams". * Two-chart pages: * DualCenterCap.pag - two wheels in different colors, with synastry tables. * dualudp.pag - Two wheels, each with its own User-Defined point grid * synastrygroup.pag - Four wheels: Chart 1, chart 2, a biwheel with 1 in the center, and a biwheel with 2 in the center. * Single-chart pages: * Horary_trad_planets.pag - Horary chart using traditional (pre-Uranus) planets, major aspects, and Ptolemy's fixed stars. * Horary2_trad_planets.pag - a second arrangement of a traditional planet horary chart. * Tradit3.pts - traditional point set used by the above pages. * LotsOfPtsGrids.pag - what it says, lots of grids of data, no chart. * Whl_Ext_Usr_Ecl.pag - a wheel with Extra pts, User pts, and Eclipse pts. * uniudpl.pag - a page with a larger user-defined points table. * wheel.pag - A page with nothing but the chart, nice and simple. * wheel_lat_dec.pag - Chart with Latitude, Declination, and Longitude Equivalent Declination boxes * New "Three Liliths" page * Includes new glyph for the "Dark Moon" * New wheel files: * Uni11.wh1 - clean and minimal, with lots of space for writing. * Uni12.wh1 - another simple wheel, similar to the old printed chart blanks. * Updates to the Solar Fire "Et Symbol 3" and "Et Asteroids 1a" fonts, along with the new "Et Nakshatra" font. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.18 - May 14, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Updated help files for Solar Fire 9 and Solar Maps 5 Bug fixes: * Fixed, full install of version 9 was overwriting some user files from SF8. * Fixed, "No text available" still turning up in interpretations. * Fixed, transits not showing up in "Dynamic Item Summary". * Fixed, 2nd point house info mistakenly included in Dyn Report Eclipses. * Fixed, Calendar printout not using whole page. * Fixed, user-selected font not used in Preview window. * Fixed, user-selected font mistakenly used in Eclipse report. * SF9 Background screen now higher resolution -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.17 - March 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes: * Fixed, Animate page sometimes coming up blank * Fixed, "Save As" failing in Page Designer * Fixed, crash when attempting to run an Ashtkoot report. * Fixed, Copy from Dynamic Report had a lot of blank lines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.16 - March 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Dozens of new wheels and dials * Several new page files * New house system: South node on 1st house cusp Bug fixes: * Page Browser was only showing single-chart pages when launched from the main window of Solar Fire. * Fix for crash when right-clicking in the background of certain pages. * Removed "No text available" from interps reports, simply leaving the space blank if there is no interp info for a particular aspect or position. * Fix for house display in Dynamic Reports when using User-Defined Points with special fonts. * There had been some oversized text in certain pages. * Using the Hyleg page was causing Solar Fire to forget the current aspect file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.15 - March 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Page Designer and Page Browser in Solar Fire heavily revised to make it easier to work with the wide range of pages available in Solar Fire. * Page Browser now available in Page Designer as well * Graphic backgrounds visible in Page Designer, and in Page Browser if desired. * Click-and-drag interactions in Page Designer more intuitive. * Can Shift-Drag pages in the Page Browser to add them to a second category. * 8 New Page Designs from Hank Friedman; loads of information available at a glance. Bug fixes: * Page designs with BMP graphics were colormapped, and looked bad. * Animated chart was still "twitching" after switching to Clock * Animated chart always had "Pointer" menu in upper-left corner. (Should just be a right-click menu for Dials.) * It was possible to launch multiple animated chart windows, leading to instability. * Couldn't assign new Johndro glyph to aspect. * User-Defined Points looked wrong in Dynamic Reports. * Aspect report was using Point glyphs instead of Aspect glyphs. * Couldn't click to animate when viewing a non-standard page style. * Some Norwegian towns were not recognized in the atlas. * Art_AngelPair page style was crashing on print. * Art_BeautifulValley page style was missing the beautiful valley. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.14 - February 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Eclipse Report heavily revised and updated to match other reports in style (both for viewing and for printing) * New Background screen (SF9Back.jpg) to celebrate the release of Solar Fire 9 * Added an option to display the opposition between the North and South Nodes of the Moon * Automatically using our new glyph for Part of Spirit * Fixed, Aspect file changes after using Calendar * Fixed, Dynamic Report deletions cause problems in subsequent reports User-Defined Points issues: * Fixed, User-Defined Points lead to crash in Midpoint reports * Fixed, User-Defined Points still showing up on Calendar after None.ptu selected Solar Maps issues: * Fixed, Tooltip missing for Solar Maps Parans mode button * Fixed, Solar Maps lines for Asc/MC not updating after relocation * Fixed, Solar Maps needs to refresh the map after editing the city list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.0.13 - January 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New features in Solar Fire 9: * Zodiacal Releasings report * Ability to graph financial data in the Graphical Ephemeris * Chart file merging * Lunar Gardening Calendar * Primary Directions improvements * Primary Mundane or Primary Zodiacal options * Placidus or Regiomontanus methods for computing directions * Several new Primary Directions Rate Keys * Classical or modern definitions of Converse directions * Whole Sign Part of Fortune house system * Toolbar toggle button to switch between Geocentric and Heliocentric * New improved icons for the Solar Fire suite of programs * New symbols for Salacia, Orcus, Vulcano, Galactic Center, and Super Galactic Center * Charubel and Solar Returns interpretation files * Email features (such as mailing a chart, email registration, etc) have been extended to work with non-MAPI email systems. * New Wheel Styles (Bizod2, Bizod3, Euro5c, Tri4) * New Chart files * Horse racing charts – 100 charts of well-known jockeys and horses * Over 200 new chart files for Politics, Entertainment, Royalty, and more * Aus2014 expanded selection of Australian charts New features in Solar Maps 5: * Viewport navigation has been substantially improved. * The Move mode is now directly interactive; the map moves as you're dragging, rather than waiting until you release. * Zoom is now available in any interactive mode, by using the Page Down to zoom in and Page Up to zoom out. * Using Shift with Page Up / Page Down zooms by a more gradual amount. * Zooming works around the mouse point. For instance, if you have your mouse positioned over London, and you press Page Down to zoom in, the new map is positioned so that your mouse is still over London. * There's a new Paran command mode, with a symbol like an asterisk * Using this mode, you can click on a Paran line to turn it off, or click on the intersection of displayed planetary lines to turn that paran line on. * While in this mode, when you hover over an existing paran line, or over an intersection that could be used to generate a paran line, the middle line on the cursor lights up to let you know you can click. You also get a tooltip indicating the two points involved. * Any operation done with this mouse mode shifts you into a "Custom" paran mode. This can be seen on the Select Lines dialog (Charts / Displayed Lines), in the Parans section. You can click on the other Parans options to undo your custom changes. * You may also save or load custom paran sets (*.paran files), if there are particular parans you like to work with. (Save and Load buttons are located in the Select Lines dialog.) * You can now save a map image as a JPG (using the Chart / Copy To menu item) * Support for more displayed points from Solar Fire (such as Selena, Sedna, and Eris) * Clicking on a point in "Relocate" mode will automatically display the relocated chart. * New "Options / Enable Chart Angles" menu item to enable display of a chart's Ascendant, Midheaven, Vertex, and Part of Fortune (normally not displayed in Solar Maps). Bug fixes: * Primary Directions bugs: * "Beginning" values (for Enter/Leave Orb) were inaccurate * Transits to Directions were broken for Primary Mundane * Getting "Transits to Directions" and "Directions to Radix" at the same time led to errors * Dynamic Report issues: * Aspect Selection was blank in Dynamic Reports after using Ephemeris * Tertiary Progression setting was affecting Transits to Solar Arc * Turning on Lot of Spirit was crashing the Ephemeris * Asteroid font had problems in Windows 8 * Reporting many Lunar Returns (in Chart / Lunar Phase tool) led to small cumulative errors * Error in "Direction of Divisions" tabulation when using rate keys other than 1 * 12-12-1977 date format was not recognized * Harmonic Age charts were not showing Descendant * "View Stellarium" wasn't remembering where Stellarium is installed. * "Import Charts and Settings" weren't working for current backup format. * Firdaria reports were missing many entries, instead saying "No text available - old interpretation file version." * Inconsistent results in certain electional searches involving aspects * A crash would occur if electional searches were interrupted. * Email technical support wasn't finding all user files. * The Asteroids "Amor" and "Amphitrite" had their symbols reversed. * Solar Fire wouldn't let you create a file with spaces in the name, it was replacing the spaces with underscores. * Solar Maps "Relocate" line always started at the upper-left corner