Adobe has released a release candidate of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3. The release candidate is beta tested version but still need more community testing.

Working with Lightroom 2.3

• Mac: The Mac Lightroom 2.3 release candidate can be installed alongside Lightroom 2.2.
• Windows: By default, this Lightroom 2.3 release candidate will remove or overwrite your existing Lightroom 2.2 installation. If you wish to return to Lightroom 2.2 after installing Lightroom 2.3, simply reinstall Lightroom 2.2 from your original download after uninstalling Lightroom 2.3 using the Windows add/remove program utility.

Both versions of the application share the same catalog format allowing your catalogs to be opened by either version without complications.

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Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate for Macintosh and Windows.

Release Notes

The goal of this release is to address several bugs and provide additional camera raw support. A list of issues fixed in this release is included below:

Bugs – Fixed

• In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
• Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
• A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
• Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
• Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.

Camera Support

Newly supported camera models include:

• Nikon D3X
• Olympus E-30

Additional Languages

Lightroom 2.3 now provides language support for the following additional languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Dutch
• Italian
• Korean
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Spanish
• Swedish

Download New Language Versions

Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate:

• Macintosh – Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish
• Windows – Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

The translation effort for these languages is over 90% complete in this release. We appreciate your feedback as we complete this work so that we can ensure that the final release provides a high quality update for all of these new languages. If you find a translation error or problem with these new language versions please report them here: Bug Report Form

Release Notes

• Localized help is not yet available for these additional language versions.
• The new language build cannot be installed simultaneously with the English/French/German 2.3 RC build.

And for more information, visit Adobe Labs page here.