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.
I've been using APP for a a little over a month now and I'm really impressed at the results that I'm getting. In fact, with time I've found that a lot of features that I thought were missing can simply be done differently in APP. For example, a slight adjustment of the HL slider is great at preventing stars from getting overstretched. With practice I've been able to get great results with the remove light pollution as well as the calibrate star colours tool. However It would be much easier to be able to undo a setting to compare before and after versions of the image. Is this something that could be added to the dropdown image viewer window?
Keep up the good work!
Marc Ricard
Yes that is a nice one as well, I moved the post to the RFC forum so Mabula will see it a bit easier. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hey, this would indeed be a great feature. I have started testing APP today and cannot find this? Has it been implemented or still on the todo list?
