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-beta44 release notes
- FIXED NEW MEMORY CONTROLS / FASTER AND MORE STABLE ON BIG DATASETS
We have further improved the new internal memory controls. APP should have lower latency now and should no longer stall/pause/freeze while processing big datasets. This fix should ensure that it works on all computers now.
To make APP run faster and more stable on big datasets, the new memory controls can no longer fragment the internal memory of APP. That caused the slowing down of APP in older versions. Latency of the application has improved as well. When APP starts now, it will report how much memory it can use safely without compromising the stability of the Operating System. It reports the maximum memory and also a soft maximum memory value. While processing, the soft maximum memory should not be crossed unless APP really needs the memory for a very intensive memory task after which it can never cross the maximum memory threshold. After any task, APP should also gradually release the used memory again back to the Operating System. On computers with little RAM memory (less than 16GB of RAM), the soft maximum and maximum will almost be equal or equal. On systems with plenty of RAM (more than 64GB of RAM), the soft maximum will be fixed at 32GB of RAM which should ensure fast and stable processing without consuming too much memory which can slow things down.
This is a further improvement over the below release note from beta43, this change and improvement should now work on all computers.
- IMPROVED INTERNAL MEMORY CONTROLS / FASTER AND MORE STABLE ON BIG DATASETS
As reported here : https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/main-forum/randomly-stopping-freezing-during-integrations/#post-34236 APP could stall/slow down or even freeze when processing big to very big datasets (500+ frames). The lastest APP releases have many code optimizations making it quite a bit faster, but the memory clean up internally was not able to keep up with all the GigaBytes of data that were processed. The old memory controls internally were fragmentating the memory causing these instability issues now and more quickly as well. Luckily, we are able to prevent this fragmentation completely by using a very different memory configuration internally. Technically, we have switched APP from using java's default G1 garbage collector with many G1 tweaks to using the more advanced Z garbage collector. This proves to be much better for data throughput and stability. Processing big datasets should not slow down APP at all anymore after having done several 100s of frames in integration.
