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.
Astro Pixel Processor 2.0.0-beta13 release notes
- UPGRADED development platform to GraalVM 22.3 based on OpenJDK 19
This upgrade enables us to further optimize APP processing speed and memory usage going forward. We have also adjusted the internal memory usage and cleanup.
- IMPROVED integration frame and weights loading giving significant performance boost !
We have optimized the loading of frames and their weights into the integration engine. This part was a big bottleneck and this improvement greatly enhances the integration performance and performance overall of Astro Pixel Processor. For regular integrations without Drizzle nor Multi-Band Blending, the speed increase overall for APP is about 30-50%. With Multi-Band Blending enabled, this increases to 50-75%(so almost twice as fast). And with drizzle enabled for 2.0X scale, the spead increase is very big, roughly 2-3x faster ! All depends on the image dimensions and available hardware resources. Computers with a lot of CPU threads will see great speed increase and users with big camera sensors will really benefit here 🙂 Below you will see some graphs of testing for integrating 120 frames with calibration masters with 32 cpu threads and 32GB of RAM:
- IMPROVEMENT framelist space bar select/deselect
You can now use the space bar to select/deselect frames in the frame list and this works on multiple files at the same time.
