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.
Hi -
I am using APP on an Ubuntu VM (Proxmox bare-metal host). I am being asked every time to enter my license info.. See my current 3 licenses on the same machine (The RAM varies depending on how much RAM I need in my VM environment and it varies depending on my other VMs).
How can this be fixed? Thanks!
Computer 1:
RAM(GB) : 63
Operating System : linux
User directory : homeantoine
Computer 2:
RAM(GB) : 150
Operating System : linux
User directory : homeantoine
Computer 3:
RAM(GB) : 172
Operating System : linux
User directory : homeantoine
APP : 1.083.2 Linux DEB-64bits
Hi @antoine,
Our security in machine recognition for license security works with the amount of RAM used. So if you keep changing RAM for the VM, you will need to re-activate the license for sure. I can not change that easily. The amount of RAM that you are using is very high as well. Simply set it it fixed for the APP VM on 64 GB or 32GB ?
APP was definitely not designed to run on Virtual Machines because it already runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS which are usually the host of a virtual machine. And I would advise against running it in a virtual machine because performance will always be less than running it direcly on a host.
Mabula
Hi Mabula! Great to hear from you again. Congrats on pushing the latest updates.
I fixed the issue by removing the "ballooning" memory settings in my VM host to grew depending on the VMs RAM usage. All good now after a restart, the RAM licensing issue is fixed.
Just for your education 🙂 This VM system is not a regular VM application like you are used to have on your computer for emulation. It is a "bare metal" virtualization platform like the ones used on Amazon/Google servers and gives 98-99% of RAW performance to the VMs... Coupled with a 64 cores 256GB Ram Server and 100TB NAS for high volume astro-imaging generating 10GB data every night, It gives me and my team full remote access to both Linux VM and Windows VM as each have its pros and cons for Astro and imaging applications.
Sounds like an awesome solution! Very nice system.
Hi Mabula! Great to hear from you again. Congrats on pushing the latest updates.
I fixed the issue by removing the "ballooning" memory settings in my VM host to grew depending on the VMs RAM usage. All good now after a restart, the RAM licensing issue is fixed.
Just for your education 🙂 This VM system is not a regular VM application like you are used to have on your computer for emulation. It is a "bare metal" virtualization platform like the ones used on Amazon/Google servers and gives 98-99% of RAW performance to the VMs... Coupled with a 64 cores 256GB Ram Server and 100TB NAS for high volume astro-imaging generating 10GB data every night, It gives me and my team full remote access to both Linux VM and Windows VM as each have its pros and cons for Astro and imaging applications.
Excellent @antoine, happy to hear that you solved it 😉 and thanks for the compliment !
Yes I fully understand the hardware that you are using 😉 Please also consider the fact that more than 99% of all APP users worldwide will not have such a system 😉 to their disposal. It must be a great pleasure to be working with such a system though 🙂 !
