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.
Hi Mabula -
APP 1.062 looks like another fantastic release, thanks for all your hard work! I've set up a large multi-session / multi-channel integration run now.
1.061 required us to redo the master calibration frames (Dark, Bias, etc.). Can I use master frames created with 1.061, or does 1.062 also require me to re-create the masters?
Cheers,
Rowland
Hi Mabula -
APP 1.062 looks like another fantastic release, thanks for all your hard work! I've set up a large multi-session / multi-channel integration run now.
1.061 required us to redo the master calibration frames (Dark, Bias, etc.). Can I use master frames created with 1.061, or does 1.062 also require me to re-create the masters?
Cheers,
Rowland
Hi Rowland @rowland-f-archer-jr,
Thank you very much 😉 I am glad that you like it !
APP 1.062 had some fixes, adjustments, additions in the calibration engine, but the actual calibration algorithms to apply the calibration data to your light frames wasn't changed. From APP 1.060 to 1.061 the complete engine changed including these algorithms, requiring new masters to be created, at least the Masterdarks to make sure that everything works as expected.
A major flaw that required to rebuild the calibration engine had to do with black clipping of data in the calibration process when bias and darks were both used, that issue is now solved 😉
As it is right now, I don't expect that you will need to recreate new master in future versions because I think it all works perfectly now. So the masters of APP 1.061 should work in APP 1.062 and later 😉
Off course for new data, you should probably create new flats, but the MasterBias and MasterDarks already created should work fine (provided exposure, iso/gain & temperature match or dark scaling can be used effectively).
Kind regards,
Mabula
