Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
kevinj@jupiter:~$ astropixelprocessor
Dec 14, 2022 11:04:57 PM com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl startup
WARNING: Unsupported JavaFX configuration: classes were loaded from 'unnamed module @1189dd52'
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: TRANSLUCENT translucency is not supported.
at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.setOpacity(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Dialog.setOpacity(Unknown Source)
at mK.<init>(Unknown Source)
at hD.<init>(Unknown Source)
at gI.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.ariesproductions.astropixelprocessor.AstroPixelProcessor.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.ariesproductions.astropixelprocessor.a.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
And to add:
Beta6 works OK
Beta7 does not work (does not start)
Beta8 does not work (does not start)
@itarchitectkev Same for me with Opensuse 15.4. Mabula is working on that issue. I reported it on Dec. 9th.
Hi @itarchitectkev & @juergenn,
Thank you both for reporting this issue on Linux.
FYI: All is fine on our Linux test systems which are Fedora28 and Mint20 and the thrown error is related to our implementation of using the native file choosers since 2.0.0-beta7. I would almost think that your Linux distributions are missing an OS dependency in the window manager somehow, so I will be investigating:
- adjusting code so it just works
- or finding the required OS dependency so it will work on your systems.
Will keep you updated, this issue is now at the top of our ToDo list to get to 2.0.0-stable.
Mabula
I have solved this issue @itarchitectkev & @juergenn and will soon provide a fixed version 
Mabula
Great to hear 🙂
Hi @juergenn & @itarchitectkev,
Please try 2.0.0-beta9 which has just been released. It should work now on your linux installations 😉
Mabula
I can confirm this is now working on Ubuntu 22.04. Thanks!
@mabula-admin :
I can also confirm that Beta 9 is working for me with OpenSuse 15.4, thank you Mabula!
Excellent ! Thank you all for your quick feedback 🙂 it's my pleasure !
