OneSky Forecast Download

Setup

For assistance with setting up OneSky Forecast for the first time, checkout the OneSky Forecast Setup page.

Releases

1.5.5

Fixes

• Weather Alerts: Unresolved dates default to “–” instead of throwing an inline exception.
• Corrected AQI value on ARM systems to not be so bold which affected the UI alignment.

1.5.4

Features

• Multi-Language Support – Added comprehensive localization for 11 languages including Arabic,
  Persian, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean with full RTL support.
• Instant Language Switching – Language changes now apply immediately without restarting, including
  localized weather descriptions and culture-aware date/time formatting.
• Culture-Aware Displays – All dates and times now respect your selected culture’s formatting
  conventions, with special handling for RTL languages.
• Optimized Location Management – Completely refactored locations view with improved performance and
  eliminated binding errors through better MVVM patterns.
• Enhanced Font System – Automatic font fallback for non-Latin scripts and new font stretch
  controls in Preferences for optimal text display.
• UI Polish – Added pointer cursor feedback to info buttons, improved scrolling,
  and refined window themes for better cross-platform consistency.

1.5.3

Features

• New Languages available: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Persian
• Real-time language switching
• Chinese rendering fixes. Chinese now switches to the backup font without requiring a reload, improving glyph coverage across the app.
• RTL and localization polish. Improved Arabic and Persian RTL rendering, plus language ordering and translation updates.
• UI polish. Updated font stretching preferences, pointer feedback for info buttons, and several font and bold display fixes.

Fixes

• Weather alert reliability. Refined alert timing and timeout handling so valid alerts appear more consistently.

1.4.0

Features

• New View: Weather Alerts
• Dashboard: When a weather alert is present, you can see an indicator under “Current Weather” which allows you to tap or click that tile and go right to “Weather Alerts”
• Dashboard: Daily Forecast – Updated headers from “Day of Week” to add the day number for better date visibility
• Dashboard: AQI has a cleaner visual transition between levels
• Precipitation: totals changed to “today” from “current hour”

Fixes

• Added additional visual messaging when services fail to load

1.3.1

Fixes

• Precipitation View: Fixed a bug with precipitation graphs showing correctly after running application for the first time.

1.3.0

Features

• Heat map on pressure vs simple color. Match UV Index.

Fixes

• Rain Dashboard: Update hourly and daily views when data is present. This was not refreshing correctly when data was absent previously.

1.2.0

Features

• New View: Added Pollen Data from Atmospore API.
• New View: Precipitation View to show hourly and daily precipitation trends as well as current totals.
• Dashboard: Added UV Index Panel to replace Precipitation Panel.
• Dashboard: New information icons added for UV Index and Pressure (MSL).
• Improved Weather Codes: link.
• Several performance improvements.

Fixes

• Location data now accounts for missing values to avoid weird floating commas.
• Status Bar: City alignment stays centered.
• MacOS: Fixed About Bar to show “OneSky Forecast”.
• Fixed tooltips not showing in Desktop Mode.

Updates

• Reorganized folder structure to better access logs, settings, and cache files.

1.1.0

• Sun/Moon Data and Location API’s no longer require API keys.
• Sun/Moon Data only refreshes once a day and caches the daily content to reduce number of API calls.
• Moon: Replaced “Moon Angle” with “Golden Hour” content.
• Preferences: API Keys removed.
• About: Has been changed to parallel the ReadMe for the project to give more version and functionality details about the application.
• Several UI performance improvements.
• Platform updated to Avalonia 12.

1.0.9

• Astronomy Weather is now OneSky Forecast!
• Windows: Setup and application are now signed to avoid issues with the OS.
• Refresh mask has been made more transparent to be less disruptive during updates.

1.0.8

• Windows Only: Glass and Mica Windows styles added.
• Threading updates added to improve multi-threading performance.
• Avalonia Framework updates.
• Minor UI updates.

1.0.7

• Formatting fix on Last Updated stamp in the Status Bar to ensure AM/PM formatting is consistent between platforms.
• Minor AQI Progress Bar updates to make the arrow better align with the AQI value on the graph.
• Minor UI updates to correct fallback values for XAML binding to limit warnings in Linux.

1.0.6

• Added API Backend to allow for easy application integration.
• Breakout of Models, Services, and Helpers as Nuget packages.
• Minor UI changes.
• New logo

1.0.5

• Adjusted Current Forecast to handle longer status text without strangely scaling the window.
• Mac: Updated configuration to refer to Astronomy Weather correctly in the Application manager vs “Avalonia Application”.
• Various code improvements.
• A few minor UI tweaks.

1.0.4

• Corrected Support and Help URL’s for Windows installation.
• Added a message to the locations lookup screen when the API key is invalid.
• Removed preferences.json by default. Only create if it doesn’t exist. Should avoid overwrite on upgrade.
• AQI: Reduced description length.
• AQI: Added color coding to each pollutant to give more indication why the AQI level is where it is.
• Preferences: Refresh no longer allows a more aggressive update time than 10 minutes to avoid capping out API usage requirements.
• Performance: API’s now load asynchronously, improving load times.
• Reliability: In situations where certain views do not get data in time, the previous data remains instead of appearing blank.

1.0.3

• Temperature Values: Changed “-0” readings to appear as “0”.
• Pressure: Changed “Normal” to “Norm” to take up less space on the view which can force truncation of the graphic.
• Hourly Forecast: Fix consistencies with AM / PM text in ARM mode.
• Sun/Moon: Align 6AM, 6PM to be closer to graphic when stretching horizontally.
• Preferences: Fix formatting to match “Locations” and “About Us”.
• Multiple Views: Hide Text-based ToolTips in Pi mode. They are more distracting than helpful.

1.0.2

• Official Production Release for Windows, Linux x64, Linux ARM, and Mac OS.