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've encountered a strange problem, which seems to have popped up after I upgraded my Mac Studio to macOS Ventura (Note: I also renewed my APP license and 'upgraded' from APP 2.0.0 ARM64 M1 beta 4 to 2.0.0 beta 6).
When trying to load multiple Lights from a folder with many files, I can only select one file at a time, or multiple when keeping the command key pressed and selecting them one by one using the mouse.
Keeping 'Shift' pressed and using the 'option + arrow keys' to select all files at once does not seem to work anymore in APP (while this DOES work in e.g. Finder).
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks.
@jbazelmans Hi Jos,
I haven't tried this yet on Ventura. Do CMD-A and CTRL-A still select all files?
Thanks, Wouter
This may be different as the file list needed a bit of an update regarding selection of files etc. It's not the same as you have on the MacOS system completely, but like Wouter mentioned, I assume Ctrl-A still works.
@vincent-mod Okay, that update you mentioned may explain it then. And yes, CMD-A and CNTRL-A still selects all files so this is only a minor annoyance - and encouragement for maintaining a clean workflow which groups lights, darks, etc in separate folders. 🙂Â
Thanks for the feedback.
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Hi all,
We think that we might have a fixed Astro Pixel Processor version for macOS Ventura. Can you all try the following 2.0.0-beta7test version and let us know if this solves it and works properly?
intel hardware:
new M1/M2/arm hardware:
Release notes for this version:
Looking forward to your feedback!
Mabula
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