Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate Now Available
Adobe has posted the release candidate version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 on the Adobe Labs website. The direct link to information and download is http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Lightroom_2.3.
The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The Lightroom team would like the community to help verify the quality of this update through normal usage as this will ensure that the application is tested on a diversity of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.
If you do experience an issue with this release candidate please report it here: Bug Report Form
Installing the Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate
- Mac: The Mac Lightroom 2.3 release candidate can be installed alongside Lightroom 2.2.
- Windows: By default, this Lightroom 2.3 release candidate will remove or overwrite your existing Lightroom 2.2 installation. If you wish to return to Lightroom 2.2 after installing Lightroom 2.3, simply reinstall Lightroom 2.2 from your original download after uninstalling Lightroom 2.3 using the Windows add/remove program utility.
Release Notes
Here are the release notes from Adobe:
The goal of this release is to address several bugs and provide additional camera raw support. A list of issues fixed in this release is included below:
Bugs – Fixed
- In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
- Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
- A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
- Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
- Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.
Camera Support
Newly supported camera models include:
- Nikon D3X
- Olympus E-30
Additional Languages
Lightroom 2.3 now provides language support for the following additional languages:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Dutch
- Italian
- Korean
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Spanish
- Swedish
Both versions of the application share the same catalog format allowing your catalogs to be opened by either version without complications.
Download
Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate for Macintosh and Windows.
Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate new language versions:
- Macintosh – Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish
- Windows – Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish
Your Thoughts?
If you install this release candidate, please let us know in the comments if you see any improvements or issues. Thanks.
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