June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
Astro Pixel Processor 2.0.0-beta10 release notes
- FIXED & IMPROVED STAR DETECTION/ANALYSIS
Several users reported low star counts on some datasets relative to the older 1.083 version. This beta10 version should have this fixed now. Star counts will be much higher when compared to beta9 and we also have added a new option in 3) ANALYSE STARS: cosmic ray / noise reducer. This option enables you to disregard small-scale noise in your images like cosmic rays. It will help you to prevent that cosmic rays are mistaken for stars.
- FIXED read support for old Hubble Fits files
As reported in this topic https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/main-forum/unable-to-load-many-lights-as-fits-files-from-mast/ APP could not read some of these fits files. This is now fixed.
- IMPROVED macOS DMG installer
We have adjusted the DMG installers for both intel and apple silicon platforms to show readable fonts in the DMG, a new background image and we changed the layout a little bit. We think this should make the install process a little bit more intuitive. The arrow indicates that you need to drag the APP icon to the Applications folder.
- IMPROVED GENERAL BUILD PROCESS for new and faster releases
We have added more build steps to our build script that we were doing manually still. This will make it a lot easier for us to provide new releases of APP more often. The installers will be automatically zipped with a preset naming convention per Operating System and architecture (macOS) and we have included Apple notarization and stapling the notarization ticket to the installer in the build process for the macOS installers.
