Adobe Systems has announced the release of Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5, updates to its photography and digital photo decoding software, respectively. Both are available for download through Adobe’s Web site or through the update mechanisms in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.

According to Adobe Blog:

• Camera Raw 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 include a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Bayer sensor cameras with unequal green response. Olympus, Panasonic and Sony are among the more popular camera manufacturers affected by this change. But the demosaic correction provides only a subtle visual improvement to the processing of those raw files.
• Lightroom 2.5 corrects for the following problem in Lightroom 2.4. Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display the import dialog when a memory card was detected regardless of the preference setting "Show import dialog when a memory card is detected."

Both releases update support for new digital camera models. Newly supported cameras include Nikon’s D300s and D3000, Olympus E-P1 and Panasonic DMC-GF1 and DMC-FZ35 cameras. Adobe notes that in Europe and Japan, the DMC-FZ35 is sold as the DMC-FZ38, and has metadata differences that won’t be supported until the next revision.

Download Adobe Lightroom 2.5

Download Camera Raw 5.5