Developer Update - November 3rd, 2025

Hello Navigators!

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and got plenty of sweets and not too many jump scares!

I certainly didn’t get through it, candy in hand without a few jump scares. New bugs appearing in the beta branch and the security vulnerability (which had been resolved). A few scares to be sure 😜.

For the rest of October, it has really been a month of bug fixing and polish. I want to thank all who signed up for closed beta testing, and for all the reports you submitted to ensure this major release is ready to go live. As it stands the creation of multiple galaxies is functional, users may also import and export their galaxies, and the conversion script has been updated to accommodate the latest changes. There were also a couple bugs that had been introduced when the last major GUI refactor was done which have been resolved. While there is still much left to do for this update, including importing and exporting solar systems, it is well on its way to moving into the public beta test branch. Keep an eye out in November for more updates on that.

Looking a bit further down the road, some consideration and investigation has gone into a search function at the galaxy map level. Which would allow users to search for and select specific star systems. Not much more to say on this, but some of the functions in the import/export may tie well into the development of a search function.

For today I will leave you with a teaser of the new import/export functionality of star systems.

That’s it for this month. Until next time, keep looking to the stars!