Frequency of Lightroom Classic releases

@johnrellis 

I didn't mean to derail your thread.

While you have kept track of how frequent LrC has been updated I have kept track of how behind Lr is compared to its father ACR.

Te biggest complain I have seen among users is that when a new camera is released it takes many weeks (a month or more even) to be able to use/develop the RAW files in LrC.

Reverse-engineering of the RAW is no small task, it takes time (users that buy a new camera camera at launch will be unable to use LrC but alas don't know that is not really Adobe's fault. )

How many users DO NOT know that Camera manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, etc..)  are not sharing with Adobe the new cameras in advance so it's really not possible for Adobe to make them immediately compatible with LrC upon release!?

Adobe is largely not responsible for the current situation.

This said many features, behaviors that ACR has (at today) that have never been ported to LrC.

@johnrellis 

To me a more alarming data to conside is the gap between ACR and LrC.

How man years do LrC users have to wait to get the same (super useful) features that ACR already has?!

I hate to be a thorn in the LrC team side, I totally hate it and my daily effort is devoted to help the LrC team but I can't pretend that LrC is "up to date".

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Data at hand LrC is years behind ACR in many areas.

In software development lingo Major versions are 9, 10, 11, 12 etc. New functionality releases.
Minor versions / dot versions are 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 etc. Minor functionality adjustments, bug fixes.
And then you have the patch versions 12.0.1, 12.0.2 etc. Bug fixes.

@johnrellis, You refer to " Versions ", maybe " Updates" would be more appropriate.

Versions are released annually LrC 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

@johnrellis  I always find this chart interesting.

One new variable I would like to point out as it affects one of the reasons for tracking this information: namely "New Camera Support"

Starting in January of 2023 the Camera Raw team began a new optional release that occurs in between the major single dot releases. CR 15.1 was released in December and 15.1.1 (which was primarily for new camera support) was released in January with 15.2 scheduled for the near future. This 'bisecting' release is planned to continue through 2023 as needed to provide a bridge (small B) between the single dot releases. While this doesn't directly affect the Lightroom clients, it does affect both the CR Plugin for Photoshop and, more importantly for your data here, the DNG Converter.  I am not sure how you will want to integrate this information (if at all) as it will have a quasi-impact on your "Camera Days" statistic.