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.
Hey 😉
I just got my new M1 Pro Macbook and of course the first thing I did after getting it was to test out app.
It was more or less fast with my old 15 inch MacBook Pro but app takes ages to complete a complete stack on my new notebook.
is there any benefit, in regards to speed, if I download the newest app beta versions?
what also bothers me is that the resolution of app on m1 looks quite a bit lower than on intel Macs.
I hope the dev team is aware of that problems and will resolve them asap. I love app but a program at this price point should run without any problems on such a widely used system.
cs
Andreas
@yellowhorsehead Hi Andreas,
Thank you for posting your comments here. All of what you write has been addressed in several other posts on this forum. In short, the version of Java used for APP 1.083 doesn't perform well on M1 hardware. Please use 2.0.0-beta4. The download links for that version are at the top of each forum page.
HTH, Wouter
