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.
RawTherapee does all the manipulations as preview only on the visible part of the image, resampled with the display resolution.
So an image with 5000x4000 becomes only effectively 1000x800 for the simple tools and processing will be faster by magnitudes. All the manipulations will finally be applied to the whole image when necessary (at the latest when "Save" is being hit).
Tools that rely on full resolution can only be previewed in 100% Zoom. Switching between 100% and Fit in Window is done by double click. This is very fast is not as much a draw back as the slow whole image processing pauses.
Actually it is so fast, that the image can be updated while moving the slider. This would be great. Please check out the free RawTherapee tool. I believe the implementation is not that tedious.
That would be great : )
I actually have RawTherapee and an idea like that is interesting indeed I think. I'll inform Mabula about it.
