Iridient N-Transformer Version History

4.0 - November 7, 2025 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • All new Iridient HiFi color demosaic processing. Better image quality and up to 35% faster demosaic processing compared to prior N-Transformer demosaic methods.
  • All new Iridient HiFi monochrome demosaic processing with B&W color filter emulation and extended dynamic range modes.
  Support for advanced JPEG XL lossless compression methods added in DNG version 1.7. Provides smaller DNG file size and faster compression compared to older lossless mode. Support for advanced JPEG XL lossy compression methods added in DNG version 1.7. Provides much higher quality, support for high bit depth and smaller DNG file size than the old lossy JPEG compression method available in DNG version 1.4.
  • Supports the new macOS 26 (Tahoe) liquid glass user interface controls.
  • New macOS 26 (Tahoe) liquid glass application icon with support for light, dark, clear and tinted modes that are newly available in latest macOS release.
  • Now supports dark mode on Windows.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z5 II.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Coolpix P1100.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 18 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe XMP SDK (2025.03).
  • Updated to the latest version of the OpenCV library (4.12.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libRAW library (2025-11).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (3.1.2).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWidgets library (3.3.1).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (4.2.1).

3.4 - November 26, 2024 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z50 II. Currently there is no support for lossy High Efficiency compression modes.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 17.0 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (3.0.4).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWidgets library (3.2.6).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (4.0.0).

3.3 - June 27, 2024 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z6 III. Currently there is no support for lossy High Efficiency compression modes.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes display scaling of main window logo at some screen resolutions and scale sizes on Windows.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 16.4 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the OpenCV library (4.10.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libRAW library (2024-05-30).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (3.0.3).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWidgets library (3.2.5).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.9.2).

3.1 - November 2, 2023 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z f. Currently there is no support for lossy High Efficiency compression modes.
  • New File menu option to extract the RAW preview image as a JPEG sidecar file.
  • New File menu option to store the RAW preview image as a high quality macOS file icon (macOS only).
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 16 update.
• Bug fix:
  • Fixed a bug that caused the menu item for choosing a custom camera profile to not appear on Windows.

3.0 - August 28, 2023 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z 8. Currently there is no support for lossy High Efficiency compression modes.
  • New option to use a custom camera color profile from an Adobe DCP or DNG file.
  • New options added to the Setting's menu to beep on file and/or queue completion.
  • Enhanced AppleScript scripting support on macOS including the ability to script preset file changes.
  • Enhanced command line support on both macOS and Windows for specifying a preset file for conversion.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 15.5 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe XMP SDK (2023.07).
  • Updated to the latest version of the OpenCV library (4.8.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (3.0.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWidgets library (3.2.2.1).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.7.3).

2.5.1 - July 22, 2022 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z 30.

2.5 - June 22, 2022 (Major Update)

• Improvements:
  • The vary sharpening with ISO option is now disabled by default giving default sharpening levels more similar to versions prior to 2.0.
  • Adobe Lightroom plug-in now displays version information directly in the Plug-in Extras menu header so it's no longer necessary to go into the Plug-in Manager dialog to check version information.
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 14.4 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe DNG SDK (1.6.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe XMP SDK (2022.06).
  • Updated to the latest version of the OpenCV library (4.6.0).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (2.1.3).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWidgets library (3.1.7).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.5.3).

2.0.1 - January 7, 2022 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z 9. Currently there is no support for lossy High Efficiency compression modes.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z fc.
  • New image processing pipeline. Now optimized for both Intel and Apple silicon (M1/Pro/Max) processors.
  • The macOS application is now native for both Apple silicon (M1/Pro/Max) and Intel processors. Application launch is now faster and most operations are 30-50% faster on Apple silicon Macs.
  • The macOS application is now optimized for macOS 12 Monterey.
  • Improved luminance noise reduction algorithm.
  • Improved color noise reduction algorithm.
  • Wider adjustment range for sharpening and noise reduction options.
  • New clarity adjustment added.
  • Support for sharpening masking to more selectively sharpen edge/detail areas.
  • New option to automatically taper sharpening strength off as image ISO increases.
  • Settings presets can now be saved to and loaded from files.
  • Adobe Lightroom plug-in now supports a preferences dialog with file prefix/suffix customization and sub-folder options.
• Improvements:
  • Improved RAW processing.
  • Adobe Lightroom plug-in should be more reliable at finding RAW master images.
  • Updated camera calibration and DNG color profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 14.1 update.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with the default RAW cropping for some cameras which could result in a default image size that differs from the camera JPEG or NEF.

1.6.6 - September 25, 2020 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z 5.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 12.4 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (2.0.5).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWdigets library (3.1.4).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.1.4).
  • Updated build with latest Apple and Microsoft development tools.

1.6.5 - June 8, 2020 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon D6.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 12.2.1 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe DNG SDK (1.5.1).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.1.2).
  • Updated build with latest Apple and Microsoft development tools.

1.6.4 - April 9, 2020 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Coolpix P950.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 12.2 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe XMP SDK (CC2020.01).
  • Updated build with latest Apple and Microsoft development tools.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Workaround some sporadic macOS 10.15.4 specific crashing issues.
  • Fixed a macOS 10.7 specific issue with sporadic crashing when using drag and drop to select images for conversion.

1.6.3 - January 31, 2020 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon D780.

1.6.2 - January 15, 2020 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Added metadata to force Adobe Lightroom/ACR CC 2018 or later to use the embedded DNG camera profile by default rather than "Adobe Color".
  • Added new option to the default camera profile menu to use "Adobe Color" in Adobe Lightroom/ACR CC 2018 or later rather than the embedded DNG camera profile.
• Improvements:
  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 12.1 update.
  • Updated to the latest version of the Adobe DNG SDK (1.5).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (2.0.4).
  • Updated to the latest version of the wxWdigets library (3.1.3).

1.6.1 - October 25, 2019 (Maintenance Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Nikon Z 50.
• Improvements:
  • Single, unified macOS build now supports 10.7 through 10.15.
  • Now built with the final macOS 10.15 Catalina libraries and developer tools from Apple.
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (2.0.3).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (3.0.2).
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with the Lightroom plug-in on Windows which could result in the NEF image not being found.

1.6 - June 27, 2019 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • New "Iridient Standard v2" is now the default camera profile.
  • Support added for registration using license files generated from new e-commerce providers. The eSellerate e-commerce service that was previously used for sales and license generation is being shut down in June, 2019.
• Improvements:
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (2.9.2).
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with the File Naming panel's sequence increment not properly incrementing the sequence number.

1.5 -March 7, 2019 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix A1000.
  • Support added for lossy DNG compression which can radically reduce DNG file size.
• Improvements:
  • Greatly improved image compression speed on export. Depending on processor core count and drive speed may be as much as 2-10x faster for the lossless and lossy DNG compression stages.
  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe's latest DNG Converter 11.2 update (Coolpix A1000).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (2.0.2).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (2.8.3).

1.0 - December 6, 2018 (Major Update)

• New Features:
  • Support added for macOS 10.14 Mojave's Dark Mode.
  • Support added for automatic digital lens corrections based on NEF/NRW metadata for the new Z models and Coolpix P1000.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Z 7.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Z 6.
  • Support added for RAW images from the D3500.
  • Support added for RAW images from the D700.
  • Support added for RAW images from the D300S.
  • Support added for RAW images from the D300.
  • Support added for RAW images from the D3.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix P1000.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix B700.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix P340.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix A.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix P7800.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix P330.
  • Support added for RAW images from the Coolpix P7700.
• Improvements:
  • Compressed NEF decompression speed improved by 30-40%!
  • The macOS version is now optimized for macOS 10.14 Mojave.
  • The Lightroom plug-in should be more reliable with finding images located on some external drive types (NAS, software RAID), using case sensitive file formats or using some unusual/special file name characters like '$'.
  • The Log window is now automatically displayed if an error occurs during processing.
  • System sleep prevention improved for large batches.
  • Updated baseline metadata for new camera models to match Adobe's latest DNG Converter 11 values.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed uncompressed NEF support for some older models (D800).
  • Fixed crashing issue with macOS 10.7 - 10.9.

1.0 beta 1 - July 26, 2018 (Initial Public Release)