Adobe Lightroom Classic release notes

October 2025 release (version 15.0)

Feature updates

• 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.
• Performance improvements:
  
  • Experience faster image 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. Image rendering is now quicker when editing in the Crop view.
• Experience a more organized and intuitive workflow in External Editing preferences. You can now:
  • You can now export images 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 images, 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.
• 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. 
• The Color Labels applied to an image can now be saved or exported as part of its metadata.
• You can now export videos and slideshows in 4K quality. 
• Lightroom Classic preserves capture time details with millisecond precision, displayed consistently across time-related fields in the Metadata panel. You can modify capture time details in the Edit Capture Time dialog box. 
• Quickly adjust the HDR headroom with the HDR Limit slider. 
• You can filter images by Likes and Comments in the Attributes panel and Smart Collection. You can also sync Likes and Comments in albums shared as an 'Invite only'.
• Quickly filter photos by stacked and non-stacked status directly from the Attribute panel.
• 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.
  
• The Import options are now easily accessible in the top bar via a drop-down menu.
• The Reflection Removal tool is now better and faster. 

August 2025 release (version 14.5)

Feature updates

• Generative Remove and Distracting People Removal are now enhanced with improved and speedy results.
• Use GPU to generate previews. 
• Create and manage custom subsets in Copy-Paste settings, with options to select only the modified Develop settings. 
• Experience better Generative Remove and People Distraction Removal.
• Support added for more Fujifilm and Sony cameras for tethered capture.

June 2025 release (version 14.4)

Feature updates

• You can now access Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution in the Detail panel, as these features are now available as standard edit panel features.
• The Auto-XMP write process is optimised to improve overall performance and responsiveness. Lightroom Classic now temporarily pauses automatic XMP writing during imports, resuming once the import is complete. Additionally, XMP data for the active image is written every 10 seconds, rather than after each edit, reducing interruptions during editing workflows.
• Lightroom Classic now remembers your last image selection for up to 25 of the most recently accessed sources, including collections and folders. If there is no prior selection for a source, Lightroom will default to the first image or preserve any overlapping selection from the previously viewed source. To access this, select Preferences > File > Remember the Last Selection from a Source During the Session.
• If the Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing preference is turned on, you'll now see a warning dialog at start. 
• Previously, files with different names weren't recognised as duplicates, even if their content matched. Duplicate detection now also allows renamed files to be accurately identified as duplicates.
• The following new options have been added under Library Metadata Filters > Develop and in the Smart Collection creation dialog box:
  
  • Has Reflections removal 
  • Has Distracting People removal 
  • Has Denoise 
  • Has Raw Details 
  • Has Super Resolution
• In earlier versions, Color Labels for Folders took time to appear, particularly when expanding complex folder structures. With this update, labels now load much faster, providing a smoother and more responsive experience.
• Lightroom Classic now retains CaptureTime data with millisecond precision. This update should resolve issues where some images captured in burst mode were incorrectly detected as duplicates. This update does not address other capture date/time precision issues.
• While locating a missing file, you can now easily locate the missing folder, in addition to the existing option to locate missing images.

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