Adobe Lightroom Classic release notes

تاريخ آخر تحديث 9 نوفمبر 2026

Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Adobe Lightroom Classic releases.

November 2026 release (version 16.0)

  • Automatically detect and remove skin blemishes, moles, and freckles with the AI-powered blemish removal tool. Refine the results using Remove and Restore brushes, and adjust individual faces in group photos.
  • Quickly find and select photos to import using the redesigned import filter bar. Filter photos by file type to simplify your import workflow.
  • Manage history steps for individual photos, folders, or collections to reduce catalog size. Clear steps manually or schedule automatic cleanup while preserving your photos' current appearance.
  • Enhance your photos with Glow effects, including Bloom, Halation, Diffusion, and more. Use the Masking panel to adjust the style, range, and spread for creative lighting effects.
  • Give your photos a soft, film-inspired, or cinematic glow with presets such as Sheer, Dream, Soft Bloom, Strong Bloom, Gentle Aura, Cinematic Glow, and more. Fine-tune the look using adjustable sliders.
  • Evaluate skin tones, color balance, and color distribution using the new Vectorscope in the Histogram panel. Switch between Adobe RGB and sRGB color spaces.
  • Display your camera's autofocus points directly on photos in the Library and Develop modules. Review focus points while zooming, cropping, flipping, or transforming images.
  • Use AI-generated depth maps to select and adjust the foreground, background, or areas in between, even when your photos don't contain embedded depth information.
  • Adjust the colors of shadows, midtones, and highlights within individual masks using Color Grading controls for precise, localized color adjustments.
  • Personalize the Masking panel by rearranging adjustment sections and adding frequently used sliders to Favorites for quick access.
  • Extend the Temp slider range by lowering the minimum value from 2000 to 1500 for raw images and from -100 to -150 for non-raw images, allowing greater control over warm photos.
  • Connect additional supported camera models to Lightroom Classic for tethered shooting.
  • Enhance photos shot with newly added camera models and lenses in Lightroom Classic.
  • Find details on critical bug fixes.

Feature updates

  • Explore cleaner reflection removal and erase reflections from windows, glass, and water without lingering smudges or ghosting.
  • Use the Check All option to easily select all landscape and people mask options in the Masking panel. Select Check None to clear all selections.
  • Enhance photos shot with newly added camera models and lenses in Lightroom Classic.
  • Find details on critical bug fixes.

Feature updates

  • Adjust the new Feather and Edge controls when masking photos for more control and creative effects.
  • View the cropped-out areas by adjusting the photo's opacity, so you can crop your photos with precision and finesse.
  • Save photos as rendered DNG files with all current edits permanently applied using the Render to DNG option, giving you a non-raw file to build on when you want a clean starting point. Right-click your photo, and then select Render to DNG to create a rendered DNG file.
  • Repair the lrcat-data when prompted, Lightroom Classic automatically detects issues and prompts you to fix the lrcat-data.
  • Enhance photos shot with newly added GoPro camera models and GoPro, Laowa, and SIGMA lenses in Lightroom Classic.
  • Find details on critical bug fixes.

Feature updates

  • Find more information on the bug fix, as part of which the Delete Rejected Photos option is turned off from the Photo menu for the Duplicates view.

Feature updates

  • Use the Faces panel in Assisted Culling Info to view every detected face in a photo, along with its Eyes open and Eyes sharpness scores, to quickly identify the best shot.
  • Auto-detect and find exact duplicate files across different folders in your catalog and group them into stacks so you can review and clean them up in one place.
  • Distinguish your subject from busy backgrounds with improved subject detection and selection when masking.
  • Sync the keywords attached to a photo with the Lightroom ecosystem so you can use them across different surfaces, like Lightroom desktop, web, and mobile.
  • Filter and organize photos in the Library using new AI-focused metadata filters, such as Has AI, Has Generative AI, Needs AI Update, and more.
  • Experience more responsiveness when brushing for masking. 
  • Enhance your photos with DeNoise, featuring improved performance supported by Apple Neural Engine.
  • Track when Lightroom Classic is analyzing photos for Assisted Culling, Address Lookup, Duplicate Detection, or Face Detection using the background process indicator   icon on the Identity plate.
  • Experience more reliable and faster tethering while working with Canon cameras. 
  • Edit HDR photos in Photoshop with 16-bit depth.
  • Enhance photos shot with newly added DJI and Canon camera models and Canon and Sony lenses in Lightroom Classic.
  • Find details on critical bug fixes.

Feature updates

  • Enhance photos from the latest Sony Alpha 7R VI camera in Lightroom Classic.

Feature updates

  • Assisted Culling updates:
    • The Reject section now offers improved handling of multiple reject reasons and greater control over exposure-related issues.
    • Subject Focus scoring has been improved for photos with a shallow depth of field, especially when the subject is only partially in focus.
  • AI edits updates: 
    • When exporting photos, you may see a new AI Updates Required dialog box if some selected photos contain AI settings that need updating. 

Performance improvements

  • Slider performance is now interactive for global and local edits.
  • Better memory utilization for Full Screen Window.
  • Experience improved Cloud sync download speed.
  • Critical bug fixes and stability improvements. 

Feature updates

  • Support for Sony A7 V compressed and Compressed HQ RAW photos.

Feature updates

  • Enhanced Assisted Culling with improved results.
  • Improved Denoise quality for some Ricoh and Pentax cameras.
  • Critical bug fixes and stability improvements. 

Feature updates

  • Edit in Photoshop now supports the PSB file format. 
  • View higher-quality embedded previews while reviewing your photos before import.
  • Export photos directly to the PSB format for very large files that exceed PSD limits. 
  • Tethered capture support added for additional Leica cameras. 
  • Sidecar writes is optimized when saving small edits such as Ratings, Flags, Labels, etc. 
  • Critical bug fixes. 

Feature updates

  • Performance improvements:
    • Experience faster photo previews while hovering over Presets, History, and Snapshots. You can now pause the live preview by holding down the Shift key.
    • Experience smoother performance while cropping, especially with Soft proofing enabled. Photo rendering is now quicker when editing in the Crop view.
  • Edit:
    • Access 8 new Adaptive Landscape presets, including Spring, Summer, and more.
    • The Detect objects tool now detects an object with its shadows or reflections to better remove it.
    • With the new Snow element in the Landscape mask, you can now detect and edit snow in your winter shots.
    • Quickly adjust the HDR headroom with the HDR Limit slider.
    • The Reflection Removal tool is now better and faster. 
  • External Editing:
    • Experience a more organized and intuitive workflow in External Editing preferences. You can now export photos to Photoshop in 16-bit or 32-bit HDR formats, which support three widely used color profiles: HDR sRGB, HDR Rec. 2020, and HDR Display P3.
    • For SDR photos, you now have the flexibility to select from an expanded range of color profiles, including Rec. 2020 and other custom ICC profiles that are pre-installed on your system.
  • Library:
    • You can now see an Alert icon in a parent folder when any of its subfolders are missing and need to be relinked.
    • Lightroom Classic now splits large metadata into XMP and ACR sidecar.
    • Lightroom Classic preserves capture-time details with millisecond precision, displaying them consistently across time-related fields in the Metadata panel. You can modify capture time details in the Edit Capture Time dialog box.
    • You can filter photos by Likes and Comments in the Attributes panel and Smart Collection.
    • Quickly filter photos by stacked and non-stacked status directly from the Attributes panel.
  • Export:
    • You can now export videos and slideshows in 4K quality.
  • Sync:
    • You can now see notifications for Likes and Comments made on 'Invite only' albums, shared after upgrading to v15.0.
  • Tethered capture:
    • You can choose between the native tethered capture or the installed Fuji and Leica tethering plugins. If these plugins are installed, you can select your preferred mode when starting tethered capture with a Leica or Fujifilm camera.