P: Bleeding color with Healing Tool

Update: My tweet citing this thread did get their attention. They say they are working on the issue. 

We can dream, right?! 

Perhaps if everyone posted on Twitter, tagging Adobe and Lightroom, we'd get some results? It's just an idea, but worth a try ...? 

I'm trying to imaging transferring all of my work to something else and that is more than overwhelming. A simple fix by them and we'd all be set. HOW can they not see this problem?

Oh ... and the person responding implied that the problem was at MY end, not theirs. Do they not READ these posts here? 

I had tweeted about the issue the other day and whoever responded implied it was the first he/she had heard about this! I'm so fed up. Adobe gets my monthly fee. Is that all that matters to them? Someone had once told me that that was their reputation and I denied it, thinking they were better than that. PLEASE, Adobe, fix this! At some point the old version won't work if we get newer updates to the iOS (from what I've heard), and then we are all going to be completely stuck. 

By now, I'm quite certain that we're stuck with this. I'm still on LR 9.2.1 for that reason - at least until Adobe will confirm that the new 9.3 etc. behavior is the standard now.

I wish they'd bump the Process Version when they mess with something that alters how edits are rendered.

Adobe have known about this issue for at least three months now. The spot removal tool used to work well, now it doesn't, and as drubb has said it also 'reverse affects' images that had been previously touched up, looked great, and now look terrible. This is a professional tool. I don't want to use a previous version of it because one of the most basic, essential tools has been messed with. I want to use the current version, and I want it to work. Adobe needs to fix it, what is the update Rikk???

I've had this before and just noticed something that might help.

In my photo I have an intruding tree coming into the photo which is uncropped

 

This is pretty much the default position of the source for the heal (I moved it around a bit during the demonstration).  But if I move the source to the edge of the image then the problem disappears

This might not work for every image as not every one will have a suitable edge to clone from, but its definitely helped this morning in a couple of images.  It seems like the heal behaviour is slightly different if the source is near the edge.