New Features

• Performance Boost: Many AI features in Develop and Edit modes now leverage your computer’s GPU for smoother and faster processing.
• ACDSee Tabs, simplify your digital asset management by effortlessly navigating files, searches, and more.
• ACDSee Activity Manager, keep an eye on important background tasks, like importing images, AI Face Detection, and scanning for AI Keywords.
• ACDSee AI Super-Resolution, available in Manage mode and View mode, allows you to enhance your images and upscale them to unbelievable sizes.
• Mask Feathering and Shift in Develop mode.
• AI Object Masking tool, easily mask even the most complicated objects in Develop mode.
• Color Range Masks, apply masks that depend on color values in Develop mode.
• Luminance Range Masks, apply masks that depend on luminance/light values in Develop mode.
• New File Format Support: Added support for importing and editing AVIF files.
• Copy file paths instantly with Copy as Path.
• Auto Advance has been added to People Mode, streamlining the process of matching faces to names.

Improvements

• Added an option to Enable/Disable Auto Naming in Manage and View modes.
• Added the ability to delete multiple categories or keywords at once.
• Added the ability to delete categories or keywords that have no assets assigned to them.
• Added People and AI Keywords metadata options to Details View, Sort, the Info Palette, and more.
• Added 32 new skies to Sky Replacement, including two new categories: Overcast and Fireworks.
• Added the ability to set a custom keyboard shortcut for the Last Used Develop settings. 
• Added the ability for brushes in Develop and Edit mode to create straight and diagonal lines.
• Added an “Apply Layer Mask” option to the right-click context menu in Edit mode.
• Added a reset button to the Liquify Filter in Edit mode.
• Added Equilateral drawing to shape drawing tools in Edit mode.
• Added or updated 150+ cameras and lenses in the Lens Correction feature. 
• Improved Auto-migration to include Custom Keyboard Shortcuts, as well as External Editor settings.
• Improved support for pixel targeting when showing the brush mask preview in Develop mode.
• Improved the appearance of Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II RAW files with ISO lower than 200. 
• Improved Blur Background and Black & White Background in AI Actions so they are now added as a mask adjustment layer.
• Improved layer menu clarity with separate layer and mask context menu options in Edit mode.
• Improved the mouse cursor’s appearance when using Add/Subtract Selection tools in Edit mode.
• Improved the ability to draw a manual face by automatically starting to edit its name when finished.
• Improved Named View in People mode to show a more accurate display of the number of faces assigned to each name, up to 9999+.
• Fixed an issue where some H.265/HEVC videos with HDR were being quarantined and refusing to play.
• Fixed an issue where an AI Keyword searched from the Catalog pane would not properly be shown as selected after browsing or searching again, then clicking back to return to it.
• Fixed an issue where Batch Convert File Format would bypass the Recycle Bin when “Remove original files” is enabled.
• Fixed an issue where the Map pane was not appearing correctly after auto-hiding it.
• Fixed an issue where left and right arrows were missing in Media mode in a certain configuration.
• Fixed the taskbar flashing when going to View mode while it is in Full Screen. 
• Fixed a crash in Develop mode involving undoing and redoing a combination of presets and snapshots.
• Fixed several cosmetic issues in Develop mode when switching between images with and without masks.
• Fixed a text issue in Develop mode’s History pane involving the Heal tool.
• Fixed an issue where certain actions in Develop mode were not recorded in the History pane after switching between Develop and Edit mode.
• Fixed an issue in Sky Replacement where the Reflections and Output as Layers settings would forget the state they were last used in.
• Fixed an issue in Edit mode that would cause Luminance/Color Range and Channel Selection windows to forget their positions.
• Fixed a crash in the Shape Selection tool in Edit mode.
• Fixed a crash in Edit mode involving Text layers, masking, and certain filters.
• Fixed a crash in Edit mode involving pressing a mouse side button in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue where People mode was unable to add suggestions to similar faces in some circumstances.