Apple released an integral software update for Aperture 3 this afternoon, which should improve overall stability and address a number of pressing issues in the latest build of the popular photo managing software.

The new update addresses the following issues:

- Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture

- Importing libraries from iPhoto and a directly from a camera

- Memory usge when heavily touching up photos

- Face recognition processing and adding undetected faces with the "Add Missing Face" button

- Printing pages with multiple images and photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata

- Editing photos with an external editor, such as Photoshop

- Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied

- Zooming photos in the Viewer and in the Loupe using keyboard shortcuts

- Accessing Aperture libraries on a network and moving oins on the Places map

- Adding and editing custome locations with the Manage My Places window

- Switching between photo types when working with RAW and JPEG pairs

Any user currently using Aperture 3 is urged to update. You can view the full details at the official Apple page, or the release notes.