Not long after installing the recent Photoshop CS5 update Windows users discovered some pretty nasty bugs, some of which would crash the application. At the same time a security glitch in the Windows code was also discovered. So here we are just over a week later and Adobe have released an further update. However, the update is only for Windows as Mac users were not affected by the problems in 12.02
The most significant fixes in the Photoshop 12.0.3 update include the following:
- Windows XP tool tip font issue introduced by 12.0.2
- A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
- Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
- A number of performance issues have been addressed
- Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
- Color Engine crash has been resolved
- Intermittent file format issues addressed
- Shift scrolling bug fixed
- Sharpen crasher fixed
- Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
- Metadata focus distance issue addressed
- File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg’s
- TWAIN crashers fixed
- Brush cursor bug fixed
- Histogram progress bar issue fixed
- Droplet issues addressed
The new release can be obtained via the Auto Update feature in Photoshop or downloaded directly from the Adobe file servers.