Lightroom 2.1 Release Candidate - Note from Adobe

Lightroom 2.1 has been posted as a release candidate to Adobe Labs:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Lightroom_2.1
Blog post on the topic here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2008/09/lightroom_21_available_on_adob.html
From that post: The Lightroom team would like to thank all of the photographers on the Lightroom User to User forum who helped provide constructive insight into the issues that we have fixed in this release.
Regards,
Tom Hogarty
Lightroom, Camera Raw, DNG Product Manager

Much better performance right from the start. I appreciate the speed improvements--- no beach balls yet. I don't think I am alone when I say that the beach ball is a real drain not only on time spent, but the stress of "what changes were saved" , "is this going to crash and corrupt my database" and "maybe I do miss my darkroom". The rest of the problems don't seem to bother me as much, and those seem to be fixed too.
Occurs to me that we should have one sticky thread for single posts on bugs and separate ones for troubleshooting them.
Anyhow, great to have my Lightroom back running like before with more tools than LR1.4.

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