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Lightroom 5.2 now available

Lightroom 5.2 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 5.  The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

The Lightroom 5 Software Development Kit (SDK) is also now available.  The Lightroom SDK allows developers to extend and customize Lightroom through the use of plug-ins.

Release Notes

New Features in Lightroom 5.2

    A Smoothness adjustment slider has been added to the Detail Panel under Color Noise Reduction. This helps to reduce low-frequency color mottling artifacts
    Refinements to the Spot Healing Tool:
        New Feather control
        Auto find source method now works better for images with textured areas like rocks, bark, and foliage
        Auto find source method now prefers source areas within the crop rectangle
    Auto Exposure has been improved to be more consistent across images and across different image sizes.
    Smart Preview size has been updated to 2560 pixels on the long edge.
    Refinements to the Local Adjustment Brush:
        Right Click (PC) / Control-click (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to bring up a context menu to duplicate or delete
        Control+Alt+Drag (PC) / Command+Option+Drag (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to clone (duplicate) that adjustment

Newly added support for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.2

    Canon EOS 6D
    Canon EOS Rebel T5i / EOS 700D / EOS Kiss X7i
    Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / EOS 100D / EOS Kiss X7
    Nikon D7100

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.2

    Canon EOS 70D
    Canon PowerShot G16
    Canon PowerShot S120*
    Casio Exilim EX-ZR800
    Fujifilm FinePix HS22EXR
    Fujifilm FinePix HS35EXR
    Fujifilm FinePix S205EXR
    Fujifilm X-A1
    Fujifilm X-M1
    Leica C (Typ 112)
    Olympus OM-D E-M1*
    Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
    Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ70
    Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72
    Pentax Q7
    Pentax K-50
    Pentax K-500
    Sony DSC-RX100 II
    Sony A3000 (ILCE-3000)
    Sony NEX-5T

* denotes preliminary support

New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.2
Mount  Name
Sony  Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS
Hasselblad  Hasselblad LF16mm F2.8
Hasselblad  Hasselblad LF18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
Hasselblad  Hasselblad LF18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS
GoPro  GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition
GoPro  GoPro Hero 3 Silver Edition
GoPro  GoPro Hero 3 White Edition
Leica  Leica TRI-ELMAR-M 16-18-21 mm f/4 ASPH.
Canon  SIGMA 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM A013
Canon, Nikon, Sigma  SIGMA 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM S013
Nikon  SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013
Olympus, Sony  SIGMA 60mm F2.8 DN A013
Pentax, Sony  SIGMA 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM C013
Pentax, Sony  SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG HSM A012
Nikon  Nikon 1 NIKKOR 32mm f/1.2
Sony  Sony DSC-RX1R

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.2

    Output Sharpening and Noise Reduction were not applied to exported images that were resized to less than 1/3 of the original image size.
    Slideshow Exporting process fails for time-lapse sequences.
    Unable to export a Book.  This only occurred after a customer deleted a background photo.
    Catalog containing images processed with PV2003 were adding a post-crop vignette when catalog upgraded to Lightroom 5.
    JPEG decoding produced a red colorcast.
    Unable to scroll through photos when in Full screen mode.  This only occurs when more than 1 photo is selected.
    "Store presets with this catalog" preference is not preserved when upgrading catalog from previous versions of Lightroom.
    Crash when scrubbing Size slider with existing spot selected.
    Landscape crop not maintained on portrait oriented photos
    Pressing the Reset button while holding the Shift key results in an internal error.
    Crash when attempting to move brush spots.
    Gray area is shown when zooming in/out after cropping image.
    A row of vertical artifacts appears along bottom edge of photo when applying Grain.
    Defringe Color Sampler is inaccurate on photos that have Upright applied.
    All of the images on a Compact Flash card did not appear in the Import Dialogue.
    Metadata panel displayed incorrect information after modifying published photo. Please note that this only occurred when metadata was changed after the photo was published.
    Soundtrack does not fade at the end of a slideshow.
    The Esc key did not exit the slideshow after right clicking screen with mouse during slideshow playing.
    Import dialog remained blank for folders that contain PNG files with XMP sidecars.