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.
Hello,
I have been using APP for 3 years and I am dismayed by the lack of some basic functions that are still missing. I thought in 2018 that those would come quickly as APP was young back then and it would evolve. To my regrets, we are still waiting for those to happen in 2021.
THREE of them are basic software-expected-features in 2021:
1- an UNDO/REDO button;Â to bring you back in an instant to a previous version of an image while editing,
2- a SAVE USER PRESET when stretching images.  It is impossible right now to save settings that works well on my images after an editing session. This is true for stretching less than 10%. Â
3- A "save session" capabilities.
This one is a bit more complicated to implement:
4- There is no preview available before making a change on the entire image which often take time.
I will strongly consider Pixinsight when my year subscription will end.
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Best Regards
Hi Stephan,
Yes, some of these are missing and we know it's something quite a few would love to see. I can say that Mabula is changing the way he releases software a bit going forward. There will be more incremental updates again and he has prioritized the saving of settings now. In the past he said 1.085 would have that and he now has made that a priority for 1.084. 1.083 is also around the corner now.
