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.
Have any of you brave people updated to Mac OS 12 (Monterey) yet? And if so, any early compatibility issues with APP?
I am running an M1 Macbook Pro and have been supremely unhappy with Big Sur and it's sh*$%ty performance in general (not APP specific). I have Monterey on another Mac, but it's an intel chip and I don't have APP installed on that machine. So it really wouldn't help much in a determination.
Thanks in advance
Christine
Edit: I will say, that APP runs particularly well now, on Big Sur. It is extremely fast on the M1s. Not so much other applications.
@christinez Yes, there was a post about this a few days ago. A simple search on this forum leads you to
https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/macos/macos-monterey-app-doesnt-start/
Good to know that APP runs well on this version of macOS. I still need to upgrade my MacBook.
