Lightroom CC 2015.5 and Lightroom 6.5 have been released today, with panorama improvements and bug fixes, as well as the usual new camera/lens support and bug fixes. (For the update links, skip to the end of the post.)
So what’s new?
Dust or sensor spots appear in the same place on every image, and retouching them individually can take a long time on a huge panorama. Until this release, any spot removal already applied to the source photos was ignored when merging. No more! Now you can fix your dust spots on one photo, and they’ll automatically be applied to the other selected photos during the merge process.
One thing to note is that these spot corrections are ‘burned in’ to the resulting merged image data, so you can’t go back and edit them in the finished panorama. Other spots that only need to be removed on a single image are best left until the finished merged image is available.
Other smaller updates are listed with the bug fixes at the bottom of the post.
New camera support:
Canon EOS1D X Mark II
Canon EOS 80D
Canon EOS 1300D (Rebel T6, Kiss X80)
Nikon D5
Nikon D500
Olympus PEN-F
Olympus SH3
Panasonic DMC-CM10
Panasonic DMC-GF8
Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (DMC-ZS110, DMC-TZ100, DMC-TZ101, DMC-TZ110, DMC-TX1)
Samsung NX3300
Sony Alpha a6300 (ILCE6300)
Yuneec CGO4
Click to view the full list of supported cameras
Tethering for new cameras:
No new tethering in this release.
Click to view the full list of cameras supported for tethering.
Note that tethering Leica cameras on Mac 10.11 El Capitan is still not working – it’s waiting on an update from Leica.
New lens profiles:
Android
Huawei Nexus 6P
LG nexus 5X
Canon EF Mount
SIGMA 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM A016
Canon EF-M Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Fujifilm X Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Nikon F Mount
Nikon AFP DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.55.6G VR
Nikon AFP DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.55.6G
Nikon AFS NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR
Nikon AFS ZoomNIKKOR 28-70mm f/2.8D IFED
Olympus Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Bower 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC DN C016
Panasonic Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Pentax K Mount
HD PENTAXDA 55-300mm F45.8 ED WR
Samsung NX Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Bower 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
SIGMA Mount
SIGMA 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM A016
Sony E Mount
Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC DN C016
Sony FE Mount
Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM
Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM
Click here for the full list of available Adobe Lens Profiles
Further user-created profiles can be downloaded using the Lens Profile Downloader (scroll down slightly, it’s at the end of the Resources section on that link)
Loads of bug fixes:
There are a number of bug fixes. These are the main ones:
Mobile Sync
Mobile sync is now faster thanks to a number of sync-related bug fixes.
Fixed – Sync wasn’t automatically being logged in on first launch.
Import
Fixed – Rename failed if raw+jpeg pairs were copied to a second location.
Fixed – The tethering toolbar wouldn’t move.
Library
Fixed – Scrolling through photos with the mouse in Loupe view was broken.
Fixed – The video cache was not correctly limited to the size set in Preferences.
Photo Merge
Improvement – Boundary Warp in Panorama Merge is improved.
Fixed – Auto checkbox in Panorama Merge is removed as it always selected Spherical.
Fixed – Merge failed when source photos were virtual copies.
Export
Fixed – Droplets no longer worked with Export Actions.
Slideshow
Fixed – Slideshow was displaying low resolution.
Fixed – Impromptu slideshow gave error message “video support is disabled”.
Book
Fixed – The scroll bars in the Book module have been reinstated.
If you find another bug, click here to report it.
How do I update?
To update, go to Help menu > Updates or click the Update button in the CC app. The update servers take a while to push the updates around the world, to avoid crashing the servers, but if you’re in a hurry to update, here are the direct links to the patches: Windows – Mac