2026-10-09 APP 2.0.0-beta48 has been released !
This is mainly a bug fix release for the reported bugs in beta47. In addition it has a significant User Interface performance improvement noticable when you need to process 1000s of images in APP.
2026-10-03 APP 2.0.0-beta47 has been released !
This is a very big release... many code optimizations/rewrites, many parts of APP are much faster and more precise, especially star analysis and registration are much faster ! Big mosaics will go much faster 🙂
And we introduce a new preview filter, which includes the new Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch and a General Levels Stretch, this has been long over due. The old preview filter (the panel on the right side to stretch and preview your data) has not been updated for a couple of years and it is a critical part of any APP session.
Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch or ADSS is a much more intuitive stretch algorithm. It is also color preserving (which is a great new addition in itself ! ) which means that the highlights are no longer bleached, color is maintained from the linear data while stretching. You can simply stretch your data using the sky background level and signal width sliders which work much easier and more intuitive. You no longer need to fiddle with the old complicated sliders with zoom buttons. All the zoom buttons for the sliders are made redundant. And you can enter slider values in the slider value fields yourself. I will make a youtube video in the coming days to explain and fully introduce ADSS. Once the video is ready, it will be highlighted on the forum.
RGB Combine upgrade !. The RGB Combine Tool has been rewritten mostly. The tool is faster and easier to use and most importantly, the Luminance slider to inject a luminance channel or channels into the RGB composite is now working correctly. It no longer bleaches the RGB colors. Combined with the new ADSS preview, you will get much better and easier great composites with great color! I will also explain this in a new youtube video.
Hi all,
I trialled APP a year or so ago but didn't really know what I was doing. I've since learned a lot, using DSS, and have been very generously given another trial period.
I'm liking a lot of what I see, but there's one really big sticking point, big enough to make me consider not purchasing a license after this trial: the lack of a file list save feature, which DSS supports and which I use all the time.
I've searched high and low in the software and online, and keep coming across requests for this, and responses such as 'a file with the file list details would be no problem to create', or saying it's a high priority with no roadmap (?), going back to 2017, maybe even further.
So, if I want to return to a project and try different settings, or need to recover from a crash, is the only option really just to reload everything again from scratch? This is tedious enough for my situation with a DSLR, I cannot imagine what it must be like for people using filters.
Any suggestions? Am I missing something? If it really isn't a feature yet, will it be soon?
Thanks, BrendanÂ
Yep, we know people want this so that's exactly what Mabula is targeting to implement for 1.084. 😉
Cool! When will 1.084 candidate be released? 🙂
Great question and unfortunately I have no date. But, as 1.083 is getting close to release and we want to speed up the updates, I hope it's a lot faster than 1.083 took. 😉
