ASAP 25.02.01 IS NOW AVAILABLE
October 1, 2025 – Tucson, AZ – Breault Research Organization is pleased to announce the release of ASAP 25.02.01. The latest release of ASAP includes exciting new features, enhancements to ASAP Help Facility, and a major security update.
Forbes Q Asphere Surface – New Feature
Now ASAP offers the ability to represent aspheric surfaces using an alternate representation developed by G.W. Forbes. The representation avoids the pitfalls encountered when defining aspheric surfaces using the even-ordered aspheric power series representations by defining the departure (or sag) series in terms of polynomials forming an orthonormal basis.
ASAP 25.02.01 supports definitions of both the Forbes Qcon (QCON) asphere for departure from a conic and Qbfs (QBFS) asphere for a best fit departure from a sphere. Each representation accommodates the first six Qcon and Qbfs polynomials which can produce up to a 14th order asphere.
Expanded Thermal Irradiance Environment – New Feature
ASAP 25.02.01 includes enhancements to the recently introduced Thermal Irradiance environment. These enhancements provide access to more data and increased control for the user.
The environment now supports the following command and sub-command enhancements: GO, THERM, TABLE, SRC OBJECT, and UPDATE. Learn more about the expanded functionality within ASAP Thermal Irradiance, here.
TOWARDS DIR Command – Renovation
With the release of ASAP 25.02.01, users can now scatter rays into a cone of directions subtended by an arbitrary angle where axis of the cone is parallel to an arbitrary direction vector angled from +z axis.
This is accomplished by adding a DIR option to the TOWARDS command. Previously, it was only possible to scatter rays into a cone about an axis parallel to the global X, Y or Z axis; or parallel to the specular, surface normal, or retroreflection directions.
ASAP Help Facility – Renovation
This ASAP release builds on the ASAP Help Facility renovations introduced in ASAP 2025 V1. ASAP Help Facility now includes the new features introduced with this release.
Major Security Update – Infrastructure
In addition to new features, ASAP 25.02.01 includes a major security update to the ASAP License Runtime Environment (RTE) provided by Thales Sentinel LDK 10.x. The primary reason for the Sentinel update was to accommodate the forthcoming MS Windows 10 End-of-Life (EOL) occurring on October 14, 2025. The update addressed Windows 10 vulnerabilities and were resolved with the release of Windows 11. However, this update required all software vendors to update to Sentinel LDK version 10.
The combined effects of both the Window 10 EOL and the Sentinel LDK RTE version 10 update will drastically impact ASAP 2025 V1 and all previous versions of ASAP.
ASAP 25.02.01 incorporates the critical upgrade to Thales Sentinel LDK 10. By installing ASAP 25.02.01 on Windows 11, users with a current Support Maintenance Plan who install the new release, are ensured that their ASAP installations will execute in the most secure and up to date environments currently available.
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About BRO
Breault Research Organization (BRO) is an optical engineering and software firm founded by Dr. Robert Breault and headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. BRO provides optical software products – ASAP, APEX and ReflectorCAD – and training courses that help optical scientists and engineers turn creative visions into working prototypes. BRO is regarded throughout the industry for its work in space instrumentation and beyond state-of-the-art projects for top government labs, research institutions, and Fortune 500 companies.