Editing Adobe Lightroom: Perpetual to Subscription Transition (section)

===Transition timeline===
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!Date
!Event
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|May 2013
|Adobe announces its shift to the Creative Cloud model,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Harrison |date=6 May 2013 |title=After nearly 10 years, Adobe abandons its Creative Suite entirely to focus on Creative Cloud |url=https://thenextweb.com/news/after-nearly-10-years-adobe-abandons-its-creative-suite-entirely-to-focus-on-creative-cloud |url-status=live |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=TheNextWeb}}</ref> with plans to still offer Lightroom 5 as a standalone, perpetual-license application, and no plans for Lightroom CC<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hogarty |first=Tom |date=6 May 2013 |title=Lightroom and the Creative Cloud |url=http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/05/lightroom-and-the-creative-cloud.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151234/http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/05/lightroom-and-the-creative-cloud.html |archive-date=10 May 2013 |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=[[Adobe]]}}</ref>
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|June 2013
|Adobe releases Lightroom 5<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 |url=https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611023215/https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html |archive-date=11 Jun 2013 |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=[[Adobe]]}}</ref>
|-
|September 2013
|Adobe releases a new Lightroom and Photoshop $10/month subscription package<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shankland |first=Stephen |date=4 Sep 2013 |title=Adobe to offer Lightroom, Photoshop for $10 a month |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/adobe-to-offer-lightroom-photoshop-for-10-a-month/ |url-status=live |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=CNET}}</ref>
|-
|April 2015
|Adobe releases Lightroom 6 under both perpetual licenses and subscription packages<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC |url=http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422103340/http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html |archive-date=22 Apr 2015 |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=[[Adobe]]}}</ref>
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|October 2017
|Adobe declares Lightroom 6 to be the last standalone version of Lightroom, remaining on sale for "an undetermined amount of time", and that "Lightroom 7 will have no perpetual [license] offering"<ref name=":02" />
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|December 2017
|Final cutoff for support and updates on perpetual licenses (on Lightroom 6)<ref name=":02" />
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|2018–Present
|Continuous rollout of subscription-based updates and features
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|November 2018
|Map feature becomes unavailable in Lightroom's Maps module for everyone on a perpetual license<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 Nov 2018 |title=How to Re-enable Google Maps View in Lightroom Classic 6.14 |url=https://robertreiser.photography/re-enable-maps-view-in-lightroom-classic/ |url-status=live |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=Robert Reiser Photography}}</ref>
|-
|February 2019
|Adobe stops selling and supporting standalone Lightroom 6<ref name=":0" />
|-
|August 2022
|Adobe ends support for syncing in Lightroom 6<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=31 Dec 2023 |title=End of Support {{!}} Lightroom 6 Downloads and Syncing |url=https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-6-end-of-support.html |url-status=live |access-date=16 Mar 2025 |website=[[Adobe]]}}</ref>
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|December 2023
|Adobe ends download support for purchased copies of Lightroom 6<ref name=":1" />
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