Photoshop 21.2 is now available.

[Pete.Green]

We are happy to announce the release of Photoshop 21.2.

What’s in the 21.2 update? 

• New features and enhancements
• Improved Select Subject for portraits
• Auto-activation of missing Adobe Fonts
• Rotatable patterns
• and more!
• Bug fixes

To update Photoshop to 21.2, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. 

More detailed instructions for updating

[DaveJCummings]

Great build,  digging the new icon

[srphoto]

My Creative Cloud on both of my computers doesn't show the updates, they just say Open, for both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Both apps are still the older version.

[John Waller]

Have you tried clicking Check for updates? That's what made them appear for me.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Rotatable Patterns – great! 

But the reports on new problems already trickle in … 

[Guest]

21.2 isn't recognising older GPU's, reverting to 21.1.3 fixes the issue

[c.pfaffenbichler]

As Legacy Compositing now malfunctions on some configurations at least the question arises:

Does the current Compositing Engine realiably work as intended now with »all« recognized GPUs? 

[calm_determination0D44]

Already uninstalled this update.

[Soothing_warrior16B8]

The latest update isn't showing up on my CC desktop app - it still shows that 21.1.3 is the most recent version.  Is there a delay to certain users?

[Guest]

There's some bugs in this new update as is always the case with Adobe, if you have an old GPU 21.2 may not detect it

[Soothing_warrior16B8]

My GPU is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX....is that old already? 

[Guest]

The GTX 680mx was release in 2012, it may work, the only way to find out is to install the update and check the performance tab in preferences

If your GPU doesn't show up there, you'll need to revert back to 21.1.3

You can check for updates via the CC app

[Soothing_warrior16B8]

My problem was that the update to 21.2 isn't showing up as available on the Creative Cloud app dashboard online so I can't install it.  Creative Cloud is telling me that the latest version available is 21.1.3, which I'm already running (but the bugs are making it really annoying).  Thanks for trying to help though, I appreciate it!

[Pete.Green]

Thanks Sea16, sorry the update isn't showing up for you. 

Typically that means you'll want to check for updates as Ged suggests above. 

More info on that and some other ways to get the app updates to show up here: Updates not listed in Creative Cloud desktop app

[Trevor.Dennis]

Pete, are updates still rolled out by time zones to ease the load on servers?  I remember a few years ago we could log out of the Desktop Application Manager and log back in to get the jump on that feature, but I have a feeling it doesn't work like that now.

[Pete.Green]

Trevor, I'm not sure exactly how the updates are rolled out timewise/loadwise geographically. From what I can tell these days, logging out and back in is no better than choosing the "Check for Updates" option or CMD+Option (Ctrl+alt) + R to relaunch Creative Cloud desktop.

Cheers

[Guest]

Hi Pete

The issue with Photoshop version 21.2 not detecting older GPU's has been fixed in version 21.2.1 but there's no mention of it in the bug fixes

Find issues fixed in the latest release of Photoshop

[Trevor.Dennis]

I can remember threads about issues with the 600 series GPUs from a while back, but a lot of those old threads have been deleted sad to say.  The bottom line is that yes, your GPU could be causing your problem.  In order to make the most of newer hardware, it seems that older hardware and operating systems can become incompatible with the latest software versions.