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.
This would pertain to the Tools area obviously. Right now you can only remove selections in a LIFO fashion except in light pollution removal where you can remove red/yellow boxes. It would be great to be able to select a box and change its size and position of a selection area.
In the same way, I would like to see the crop tool have a movable selection area so you can more easily drag corners or sides to reposition different crop ideas. Maybe even a tool to suggest an auto crop based on problems in the edge pixels.
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, I agree and will forward this to Mabula. I think he already has this in mind for a future version.
In addition to being able to move selection boxes, it would be useful to be able to delete any box.
Also I'd often like to save the pattern of boxes so it could be reloaded for use on other images (for example, use the same selection boxes in light pollution removal tool for other filters in a set registered files).
