What changed in Adobe Lightroom Classic from 14 to 15

15.5Aug 1, 2026

• 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 .also in15.4

15.4Jun 1, 2026

• 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.

15.4.1Jun 1, 2026

• 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.

15.3.1May 1, 2026

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

15.3Apr 1, 2026

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

15.2.1Mar 1, 2026

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

15.2Feb 1, 2026

• Enhanced Assisted Culling with improved results.
• Improved Denoise quality for some Ricoh and Pentax cameras.

15.1Dec 1, 2025

• 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 .

15.0Oct 1, 2025

• 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.

15.3Apr 1, 2026

• Critical bug fixes and stability improvements.also in15.215.1.1