Added Bino support - contribution by Nikita-Kudrin

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue with colour touptek cameras when R and B swapped
• Attempt to workaround a strange crash related to double start of OLS service

New:

• Driver of Touptek and Meade updated to latest versions
• Meade and ToupTek drivers are now split into two separate drivers
• Experimental manual control of Alpaca focuser added
• ASTAP Updated to latest version

Meade/Touptek split
Alpaca focuser support

New Features:

• Added extracting object from mount coordinates (Find Obj. button) for better integration with SkySafari, Stellarium etc

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed parsing of negative DEC values that caused sending incorrect coordinates to the mount for both goto and sync
• Fixed running bin/ols_gui without ./ on Linux.

New (45 + 46):

• Added Windows support and windows version
• Added Alpaca camera and mount support (remote only)

Android specific:

• Updated to SDK36/Android 16
• ASTAP updated to latest 2025-07-25 version

Windows Notes:

• You may need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Bugs fixed since 45:

• Added workaround for ASCOM Remote issue: ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMRemote#71
• Fixed issue with missing some of the code that didn't allow use proper axis move rates

New:

• Added Windows support and windows version
• Added Alpaca camera and mount support (remote only)

Android specific:

• Updated to SDK36/Android 16
• ASTAP updated to latest 2025-07-25 version

Windows Notes:

• You may need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Alpaca Notes:

• ASCOM Remote 6.7 may crash with OpenLiveStacker while using camera, 6.6 is known to work well

First Windows version, 64 bit only!

• Supported cameras: Alpaca, ZWO, ToupTek, SVBony, Meade.
• Mounts - Alpaca
• You may need to install MSVC redistributable https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

v2 updates:

• fixed error reporting in case 8080 is taken
• added clientid/transationid to get requests as well

OLS_windows_focuser.zip: added manual control of focuser via Alpaca. in

New Features:

• Added support of Polar Alignment
• Added support of Dithering
• Added support of ISO for Indi camera interface (for DSLR) (contribution by calhaus from CN)

Major Fixes

• Major fixes in indi protocol making skywatcherAltAz, EQMod and its derivatives stable and practical to use: indilib/indi#2250
• Make sure meridian flip starts only if it is reported more than once

Linux Specific:

• Added SVBony support via direct SDK

Test release

UI/UX:

• Added pinch zoom and wheel zoom and dragging image with mouse
• Increased main buttons size, added padding of stats in case round corners on the screen are used
• Stacking UI rework - split into sectionsions

Remote Access Improvements:

• Added http port support and allow/disable remote access for Android #111
• Moving settings to the app/server rather than browser so setting are shared when accessing via remote session

Misc:

• Flag for saving tiff files added
• Added auto-save for dynamic-non-tracking mode
• ASI ZWO Added black level support
• Improved control over stacking after movement better restart

Bugs Linux:

• Fixed #116 handle a case when desktop files directory does not exist