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.
Just noticed that this is the right place to make feature requests. I note that I can only choose between sRGB (v2 and v4) and Adobe RGB when I save out my processed imaged from APP. It would be so great if users can be allowed to save out images in any colour profile of their choice, which can be loaded from the profiles directory of whatever OS one is using. Most raw conversion software support this, and PixInsight has more choices too. My primary motivation is that in many wide-field and also deep sky astro images, the subject's dynamic range is huge; there are a lot of stars that are very bright and near or at clipping. The additional gamut headroom of larger colour spaces is good to help prevent clipping of these colours, which can then be later compressed in a pleasing way into a smaller output space, for printing let's say, or sRGB for the web. But if these colours are hard clipped at an early stage, they will be lost forever and may not look as good as one might like. There may be other reasons to use colour spaces other than sRGB or Adobe RGB, maybe DCI P3 space if you are on MacOS (Instagram supports it now from iOS devices I gather) or if one is creating HDR images that are in Rec2020 colour space for HDR displays/TV, etc.