Oolite 1.92: A New Vision

The Oolite development team is delighted to announce Oolite 1.92, a major stable release bringing significant enhancements to visual fidelity and modern hardware support.

This release includes modernized builds for Windows and Linux (AppImage & Flatpak).

🚀 Key Highlights

• Modern Visual Engine: Windows users can now experience the galaxy in HDR (High Dynamic Range) with support for wide color spaces (DCI-P3/BT-2020).
• Advanced Rendering: Featuring a new framebuffer pipeline with full-scene ACES tonemapping, Bloom effects, and Specular Anti-Aliasing to eliminate shimmering.
• Accessibility: New Color Blind Support modes, and Expansion Manager "Update All" and category filtering features for easier mod management.
• Controls: Full in-game keyboard/joystick remapping and handling of non-US keyboard layouts.
• Performance: Internal framerate caps raised to 240 fps, powered by optimized builds using modern compilers.

🛠 Under the Hood

With a radically overhauled build system, this release upgrades compiler technology and libraries for better performance and simplified development. It addresses dozens of stability issues, including logic fixes for mission screens and increases JavaScript runtime memory (now 256MB) for more complex expansion packs.

For a comprehensive list of changes, please refer to the internal changelog.

But who want's to read about it? You want to experience it for yourself. Grab the download, launch your starship and get out into the universe. There's a legend out there with your name on it. Make it yours.

Fly safe, Commander!

The Oolite development team is pleased to bring you the new stable release of Oolite, tagged 1.90. The game is available for download from the Oolite website. Windows, Linux (64/32 bit) and OS X (64 bit only) ports are available.

This release brings a much improved graphics environment, with special attention paid to planets. Atmosphere appearance on planets is now configurable and custom planets now support normal, gloss and illumination maps. Further graphics improvements include filmic tone mapping, Oren-Nayar diffuse light model, increased light source radiance for better visibility of objects in space and more. Additionally, weapons now have individual sounds assigned to them, while scripts have even more properties available for access.

As always, stability has also been further improved, with plenty of bugs from the previous version fixed. For the full log of changes, please refer to the version 1.90 changelog or the What's New page at Oolite's website.

Enough with the talking though; now it's your turn. Here is a starship and a universe. Go out there and build your legend in the spacelanes. Fly safe, Commander!

25 June 2025 Note: The original 1.90 release referenced a now defunct web URL for downloading OXP's. To correct this, we have adjusted the binaries to the correct URL, so all of these downloads should work out of the box, with no further steps required to download OXP's.