2026-10-09 APP 2.0.0-beta48 has been released !
This is mainly a bug fix release for the reported bugs in beta47. In addition it has a significant User Interface performance improvement noticable when you need to process 1000s of images in APP.
2026-10-03 APP 2.0.0-beta47 has been released !
This is a very big release... many code optimizations/rewrites, many parts of APP are much faster and more precise, especially star analysis and registration are much faster ! Big mosaics will go much faster 🙂
And we introduce a new preview filter, which includes the new Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch and a General Levels Stretch, this has been long over due. The old preview filter (the panel on the right side to stretch and preview your data) has not been updated for a couple of years and it is a critical part of any APP session.
Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch or ADSS is a much more intuitive stretch algorithm. It is also color preserving (which is a great new addition in itself ! ) which means that the highlights are no longer bleached, color is maintained from the linear data while stretching. You can simply stretch your data using the sky background level and signal width sliders which work much easier and more intuitive. You no longer need to fiddle with the old complicated sliders with zoom buttons. All the zoom buttons for the sliders are made redundant. And you can enter slider values in the slider value fields yourself. I will make a youtube video in the coming days to explain and fully introduce ADSS. Once the video is ready, it will be highlighted on the forum.
RGB Combine upgrade !. The RGB Combine Tool has been rewritten mostly. The tool is faster and easier to use and most importantly, the Luminance slider to inject a luminance channel or channels into the RGB composite is now working correctly. It no longer bleaches the RGB colors. Combined with the new ADSS preview, you will get much better and easier great composites with great color! I will also explain this in a new youtube video.
Thank you for finally showing just the filename instead of very long file paths in the file list. 😀 However, there is still much improvement needed:
1) The File Name column always sizes itself to fill nearly 2/3rd of the screen when now that file names are far smaller, this chews up space forcing you resize the column to see other fields or scroll right which is annoying
2) Changes to the file list column sizing or order is lost the moment you do anything (for example, delete a file) and you have to reorganize your columns again. Your changes should persist at least for the current session.
3) There is no way to turn off unneeded columns. This wastes valuable real-estate.
4) The delete dialog shows the entire file path and name of the files(s) you want to delete. This is very annoying because you have to scroll right every time to see the filename. An option on the dialog should be made available to toggle the file path on or off.
5) It would be far better to delete file by placing them into the recycle bin rather than deleting them straight out. This is dangerous and on numerous occasions, I have inadvertently delete the wrong files. I don't know how this happens, but sometimes I choose file 1 and file 3 gets deleted. It might be a context error (where my cursor was before calling Delete from the context menu) but it happens often and it scares me. 😯
Thank You
Hi, thanks a lot for these points! Always good to hear, I'll pass them to Mabula.
Hi Vincent,
to add on points 1-2) of: jm:
It would really add value for the users to be able to save their customized column sizes , sorting and column activation in a preference file and APP would load this on each session so each screen refresh would present the data as defined by the user.
Different users have different needs so there will not be any single layout that satisfies everyone anyway. So why not empower the user to decide what he really needs?
regards,
jochen
Yes, that would be "saving my settings" which is a much heard request, it's on the top of features Mabula is planning for the next releases.
