Adobe Apologizes For Botched Lightroom Update, Issues Fix

A new version fixes a severe crash problem in the photo editing and cataloging software, but Adobe still must mollify customers unhappy with features that were removed.

Adobe Systems has apologized for releasing a bug-plagued update to its Lightroom software but still faces customer wrath over changes to the program for editing and cataloging photos.

The new Lightroom, version 2015.10 for Adobe's Creative Cloud subscribers, or version 6.2 for those buying a perpetual license to the software, was supposed to bring a handful of improvements when it arrived October 5. Among them were flexibility when removing haze from photos, the ability to correct problems with many new lenses and a simplified process to import photos into Lightroom's catalog.

Instead, the release brought a crash-inducing bug related to the new import function and displeasure that the import function stripped out some useful features. Adobe fixed the bug with an update Friday, and Tom Hogarty, Adobe's director of product management for photography, apologized for mishandling communications about changes to features

Source : techgignews.com