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 use APP for all of my processing and I noticed that when I use the computer with the 64 core 128 thread setup APP seems to limit itself to showing 64 threads and using 63 threads. Is there a way around this? I already knew it wouldn't recognize a second processor in a dual processor setup, but I was surprised that it seems to limit itself to 64 threads. Before anyone says that it is showing 64 cores, it is not, because on my old 18 core/36 thread setup it always showed as #36 CPU and on the dual Xeon E5-2696 setup it shows #44 CPU for using one of the 22 core/44 thread processors.
Hi @imnewhere,
The amount of threads that APP can work with is not limited by our own code I think. It must be caused be the code of our development platform which detects the hardware and thus the amount of available threads.
Maybe that AMD Epyc 7742 cpu is not yet fully supported for the latest Oracle GraalVM JDK that we use, it is based on Oracle Java JDK 21. I would expect it to work correctly...
I see from AMD's specification : https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7742
that it does have 128 threads like you indicate, so normally APP would let you use it.
I will do some more research 😉 thank you for notifying me about this !
Mabula
I noticed something similar.
I am using a dual EPYC 7551 system, 2x 32 cores.
In Windows 10 Pro APP only uses 64 threads. In Linux it uses 128 threads (but it seems much slower and fills up all the usable RAM).
