Has smart brush sizing made it into Photoshop CS5

With the introduction of CS4, the version of ACR changed the size of the adjustment brushes as you zoomed in and out of an image. Thus if I want to paint a fine area I could zoom to 400% but the brush would not be a huge circle, it would be proportionally smaller. Inconsistently, this behaviour was not carried into CS4. Does anyone know if it has now been implemented in CS5? It was such a great enhancement as I always have to reduce my brush size when I zoom in. Many thanks, Ian

Dear Chris,
That is interesting, but I wonder why the same logic does not apply to Adobe Camera Raw, where smart brush sizing works, and works astoundingly well. They must have considered the use case where someone is looking at a very high level of magnification and correctly assumed that they did not want a 4inch house painting brush. I figured that they just did not have time to include it in the CS4 release and was sure it would appear in CS5. Being a Wacom Cintiq user, it would have been so good to be able to zoom in and out using the slider on the left of the screen and have the brush alwasy be a sensible size when I arrived at the magnification.
Thank you for your reply,
Ian

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