How to get GH4 RAW files to work natively in Lightroom 4.4

Question

I want to know how i can process Panasonic Lumix GH4 RAW files within Lightroom 4.4 like i use to do with my GH3.  I have updated camera raw to 8.6 so i can use Photoshop CS6 to process them but i much prefer doing it in Lightroom.   Any help would be appreciated!
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Tom

Answer 1

Nothing is “free”.  Adding cameras and adding new features is still work performed by people who are paid for their work.  Adobe could ask for more money, just a smaller amount, for every single release even if there were no new features, but they choose to ask for more money only for the new features releases.  You don’t get the benefit of those of us paying for new feature releases forever, only until a new-features release is available.
Adobe could “support” old versions forever, updating them for new operating systems and new cameras, but how would they pay people to do that work?  They’d either need to charge for all those new-OS/new-camera releases, just a smaller amount, or they could charge a lot more for each new-feature-release to pay for those people working on the older versions.  But both of those scenarios are less optimal because there are actually more people doing more work so the overall expense is more.  Adobe’s major-payfor-upgrades, minor-free-updates pricing model is a cost-effective compromise, but it means customers do have to pay, again, every so often, when the consumer has changed things about their own environment, either new cameras, or new operating systems.