The first public beta of Lightroom 2 is available for download from the Adobe Labs. Support for localized corrections seems like a great new feature. Not for production use, though:
While data loss is not expected, this is a very early ‘beta’ quality build and you should always work on duplicates of files that are securely backed up.
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Develop settings applied in Lightroom 2.0 beta are not guaranteed to transfer correctly to the final version of 2.0. This is particularly true for localized corrections.
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