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.
I changed the processor on my desktop from an i7 5820k to a Xeon e5-2699 v3 with no other hardware changes and now it is asking for my license info like it is a new computer. I wanted to know if this is going to count against my 3 licenses as an owner. It is the same computer, with the same hardware other than processor, and everything else sees the computer as exactly the same. The reason I ask is down the road I plan on building a monster processing machine and if this uses up one of my licenses by changing the processor I am out of them since I have APP on my laptop too.
Ah yes, APP uses the processor as a way to identify unique computers. However, Mabula already noticed more people have similar experience like you report so the next versions (like the beta of 1.076) use memory as a measure. If something goes wrong on your licence because of this, Mabula will fix it if you send him an email, no problem.
I changed the processor on my desktop from an i7 5820k to a Xeon e5-2699 v3 with no other hardware changes and now it is asking for my license info like it is a new computer. I wanted to know if this is going to count against my 3 licenses as an owner. It is the same computer, with the same hardware other than processor, and everything else sees the computer as exactly the same. The reason I ask is down the road I plan on building a monster processing machine and if this uses up one of my licenses by changing the processor I am out of them since I have APP on my laptop too.
@imnewhere & @vincent-mod,
As stated on the product description:
https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/product/astro-pixel-processor-owner-license/
Any license (Trial, Renter, Owner) can be activated and used at any time on 3 separate computers, independent of Operating System. You can de-activate, activated computers from within the application.
So you can always use your license on 3 separate computers at the same time 😉 And you will never loose your 3 activations, since you can always de-activate a computer if the computer is being replaced or like in your case, the computer configuration changes.
Our license server has been modified recently as well, so license activations in APP 1.076 beta3 and later will no longer use the number of cpu threads for identification (besides the operating system and OS username) but it will use the amount of RAM in the computer. Reason being that some netbooks dynamically change the number of available cpu threads so we needed to chance this.
Kind regards,
Mabula
I purchased APP and every time it checks for the license on the server. How can I disable checking because I do not always have the Internet
@dsalman1 This cannot be disabled. APP always tries to check the license server. If you don't have an internet connection, it should start up anyway.
Thanks
