Lightroom 5.3 is now available as a Release Candidate on Adobe Labs. 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 final release of Lightroom 5.3 may have additional corrections or camera support.

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.3 Release Candidate

The following bugs that were part the Lightroom 5 have been corrected. The team appreciates the very detailed feedback the community has provided on Lightroom 5 and we’re excited to correct a number of issues experienced by our customers. These issues have been FIXED:

Issues when upgrading catalog from previous versions of Lightroom.

Incorrect photos are displayed after switching away from a Publish Collection.

Catalog optimization did not finish, and was not optimizing the catalog

Feather of clone spots is set to 0 after upgrading catalog to Lightroom 5.

Auto White Balance settings are not saved to Snapshots.

Sony 18-55mm lens is detected as the Hasselblad 18-55mm lens for lens correction.

Increased Update Spot Removal history steps when in Before and After view.

Slideshows start playing automatically even when the Manual Slideshow option is enabled.

Video playback stops when dragging on the scrubber.

Errors when publishing photos to Flickr through the Publish Service.

Option + drag on Edit Pin behavior is functioning incorrectly.

Black border appears around the exported slideshow video.

Catalog containing images processed with PV2003 were adding a post-crop vignette when catalog upgraded to Lightroom 5.

Pressing the “Reset” button while holding down the Shift key caused Lightroom to exit abruptly.

Output Sharpening and Noise Reduction were not applied to exported images that were resized to less than 1/3 of the original image size.

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.

Metadata panel displayed incorrect information after modifying published photo. Please note that this only occurred when metadata was changed after the photo was published.

Please provide feedback on your experience with the Lightroom 5.3 Release Candidate in our Feedback Portal (link – http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family)

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.3 Release Candidate

Canon PowerShot S120

Fujifilm XQ1

Fujifilm X-E2

Nikon 1 AW1

Nikon Coolpix P7800

Nikon D610

Nikon D5300 (*)

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus STYLUS 1 (*)

Panasonic DMC-GM1

Phase One IQ260

Phase One IQ280

Sony A7 (ILCE-7)

Sony A7R (ILCE-7R)

Sony DSC-RX10 (*)

* denotes preliminary support

New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.3 Release Candidate

Mount Name Canon EOS M Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Nikon Nikon 1 NIKKOR AW 11-27.5mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikon Nikon 1 NIKKOR AW 10mm f/2.8 Nikon Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 58mm f/1.4G Nikon Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM A013 Sigma Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM A013 Sony Sony E 20mm F2.8 Sony Sony FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS

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