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.
I bought a new 14" MacBook Pro with the M1 chip in March 2022 and was hoping to run APP on it. I can download the app, but not open it after dragging it to the apps folder. I changed preferences as instructed on this forum, no joy. I believe the laptop's OS is Monterrey. Apple tech support says to contact the developer. Please advise.
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Are you using beta 2.0 of APP? A, scratch that, I see you don't. So with our beta version we were able to fully notarize APP to pass these checks on MacOS. You can download the latest beta here: https://astropixelprocessor.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/astropixelprocessor_2.0.0-beta2-arm64-macOS.zip
Hi Susan @safinsd,
Indeed like Vincent indicates, you will want to install APP 2.0.0-beta2 for ARM64/M1 hardware. Then installation should simply work fine 🙂
Mabula
Thank you, gentlemen. 🙂
