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.
Very excited to try the new beta on my large Ha-O3 integration of the Veil with FLI KL4040 camera. Running it now but could not select the Local Normailzation Correction box. Does this depend on other settings?
Wayne
Hi,
On my installation if the filter drop-down box is set to 'no rejection' then the select normalisation rejection check-box is inoperable.
If any other option in the filter rejection drop-down is selected then the check-box becomes operable.
Probably an element of redundancy here because if 'no rejection' is an option what is the value of the check-box?
Mike
As you can see there is now a new weights option, which is set to "Auto". This will take care of these settings automatically on the basis of your data. If you still want to adjust it yourself (I would first test the auto setting), you can change the weights to e.g. median.
@vincent-mod
Got it - thanks!
wayne
Hi @whixson & @mestutters & @vincent-mod,
If the integration mode is set to automatic it will control:
- average or median integration
- choose equal or quality weights (equal is preferred choice with little frames to stack for noise/Signal to Noise characteristic reasons)
- enable/disable outlier rejection
- choose the outlier rejection settings if enabled
- enable/disable local normalization rejection when outlier rejection is enabled.
So when you set the integration mode to either average/median: you can control the outlier rejection settings yourself including local normalization correction.
And off course, if you set it to no rejection, the local normalization rejection selectbox is turned off naturally as an option, because if you would be able to turn it on, it would do nothing. That selectbox only applies when an outlier rejection filter is used...
Probably an element of redundancy here because if 'no rejection' is an option what is the value of the check-box?
Exactly 😉
Hope this clarifies the new automatic integration setting.
Mabula
It does yes, apart from the things you can still select.
Thanks! So choosing automatic integration kind of manages everything else?
wayne
Hi Wayne @whixson, indeed 😉
I have implemented this, because it should greatly improve usability of APP for many users, especially in the multi-channel/session modes where you will have integrations of different sizes and which would warrent different settings like median/average and the outlier rejection settings.
Mabula
Thanks Vincent, Mabula!
Sounds like a great addition. Simplified and probably makes better decisions than I would.
wayne
