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-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.
