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.
As I was going through calibration I was alerted to missing master dark flat. (The MDF was there but maybe APP made a mistake, or my NAS connection was bad - it worked the second time.) However, when I ran "calibrate" again it first recreated every master dark, master dark flat and master flat. This is obviously a good feature but if this happens again, how do say "don't recreate masters"?
Similarly, is there a way to only run processing workflows on parts of the file list? e.g. if I want to try a different filter or integration mode, to only do one channel?
@tcatterall APP will always create a master file if raw files for that type are loaded. So if you want to avoid that, you will need to check if the master files exist and, if yes, unload the raw files and load the masters instead.
