When will LR - have 5.4 now - support Panasonic DMC-GH4... need ASAP Please

Question

When will Adobe Lightroom have support for the Panasonic DMC-GH4. Really need it bad, and looking over the net I see I'm not alone in the NEED. Thanks!

Answer 1

There is already a Photoshop ACR 8.5 plug-in public release-candidate (RC) that supports the GH4 preliminarily, meaning something might change before the final release.
That RC expires the end of July, so that would be a good indication that LR would support it before then, too, since the final ACR plug-in and final corresponding LR are usually released at the same time.
In the past there has been a LR RC and a ACR plug-in RC available about the same time.  However for LR 5.4, with the addition of LR mobile that Adobe didn’t want to give away anything about, they didn’t release a beta LR, and it looks like that may happen again, since the RC for ACR plug-in has come out, but no RC for LR.
The other thing to consider, is that there is a CC 2014 Live Event on June 18, less than a week from now, that may unveil something that affects the timing of the next PS-CC/ACR and/or LR.  I don’t know so I’m just speculating.  Here is an article about the announcement:
http://prodesigntools.com/new-adobe-cc-2014-release.html
In other words, Adobe does support the camera internally and it’s just a question of release timing due to product interdependencies and marketing schedules.