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,
I just installed v2.0.0-beta1 which I am testing with a dataset that works perfectly with version 1.083.4.
I have the following message:
I include the contents of the console
Seems to be a similar problem like I reported yesterday evening... Same error, unkown root cause. Strange thing is, the whole process went 100% fine from Calinbration through Integration, except the auto-save. Sadly there is no visible Integration in the imae viewer which one could attemt to save manually
Thanks for reporting, we've not seen this before and I'll inform Mabula about it.
@jochen-scharmann I see a question mark in the file name in the popup. This may indicate that there is a non-ascii character in the filename and given the location of the question mark I suspect a degrees symbol º. Can you rename the file(s) to not have that character and see if that works? If it does then we will know what to fix in APP. Thanks!
thanks Vincent,
what would be helpful for such type of error message is providing information to the user, what value exactly is wrong, so as a user I could take appropriate action. "Invalid" can mean anything, from special characters, naming, file size, numbers or other values
Jochen
True, however APP should be able to handle all filename characters, so in this case (if we can fix it) it should not happen again.
I confirm that the problem was the character °.
I renamed my files and everything works fine.
Good, that means it's the same issue. We're working on it, thanks for letting us know!
