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 reporting that I just had my first full Windows crash and reboot (no blue screen even!) using APP for as long as I can remember.
I was doing a quick integration and HaRGB combination and had saved the raw combined FITS - then I went to save the stretched version as well (something I normally do) and the system froze before rebooting - no file save window appeared and not even a blue screen so no message or dump file. I checked to see if there was a new version and updated just prior to doing the sub calibration/combination
I was doing some data analysis for work earlier so APP wasn't the only program open but this workstation isn't short of system resources. I didn't touch the 47 out of 48 threads - I'll drop that back a bit in case it caused Windows to choke. I have to get back to some work so I can't repeat the process for the moment but will take another look later.
These are the workstation specs. Windows 10 (build 19044), Threadripper 3960X, 128GB RAM (not ECC), Quadro GV100 GPU
Best regards
Pam
Thanks for sharing, this does sound like a system issue possibly, which can happen sometimes. What version of APP are you using right now?
@vincent-mod
the latest beta release. It’s just a little odd as it’s a long time since I had any system crash that bypassed the blue screen. Cosmic ray perhaps? 😂
Ha! Well you never know. 🙂 If it happens more often, please post here and we can maybe have a closer look.
