Blender 4.2.3 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.2 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v4.2 - Stable - LTS.

* HDRI Screen tearing. (#127590[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE Next - Refractive materials do not refract emissive materials. (#126455[projects.blender.org])* "Auto-Save Preferences" does not work in all preference menus. (#127678[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Multires Unsubdivide destroys the vertex groups. (#93911[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash making objects single user. (3e582bf531e[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash applying object transform for multi-user objects. (70bac72b003[projects.blender.org])* Changing enum props in redo menu doesn't update the menu drawing. (#126521[projects.blender.org])* Combining two Shader to RGB nodes destroys the Normals AOV. (#124567[projects.blender.org])* macOS: Splash Screen notice to about reduced performance on Rosetta. (656fc04478c[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE-NEXT: Inconsistent DOF Preview. (#124514[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE-NEXT: Inconsistent DOF Preview. (#124514[projects.blender.org])* Parent to triangle changes child location. (#127803[projects.blender.org])* Regression: STL importing files in with smooth shaded faces. (#127932[projects.blender.org])* Crash on load after id_properties_ui type change. (#127952[projects.blender.org])* Fix IDPropertyUIManager.as_dict() non-array default for arrays. (4d95b2b69cd[projects.blender.org])* Snapping related performance regression in 4.2. (#125646[projects.blender.org])* Snapping related performance regression in 4.2. (#125646[projects.blender.org])* Snapping related performance regression in 4.2. (#125646[projects.blender.org])* Uncheck "Load UI" causes failure in direct manipulation of nodes with certain files. (#128012[projects.blender.org])* Keys deleting when moving key(s) in Graph Editor with shared animation across multiple objects. (#127758[projects.blender.org])* Outdated HDRi license file. (#128095[projects.blender.org])* UV islands display issue - macOS Metal. (#126542[projects.blender.org])* Eevee Next: Mesh Plane Disappears on Some Angles. (#127774[projects.blender.org])* Eevee Next: Mesh Plane Disappears on Some Angles. (#127774[projects.blender.org])* DRW: Rename draw_debug_info.hh to avoid conflict with main branch. (c68bd4b16f9[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Snap to Grid with constraint limited to floor level. (e19916d82cc[projects.blender.org])* Snaping in solid mode (Xray 1.0) doesnt snap other geometry. (#128074[projects.blender.org])* 4.1 splash screen won't render in Blender 4.2.1 with MetalRT. (#127622[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: fix crash using full collection hierarchy export. (7389b08a08c[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Uninitialized variable in versioning code. (0b33f52c8ca[projects.blender.org])* crash to desktop when baking texture from selected mesh with no faces to active. (#127964[projects.blender.org])* Fix: 'Snap to Grid' defaults to 'Center' instead of 'Median' when 'Closest' is selected. (4447c64bbc2[projects.blender.org])* Memory leak selecting meshes in multi-object edit-mode. (#128226[projects.blender.org])* Cryptomatte segmentation error. (#128315[projects.blender.org])* Incorrectly displays texture transparency when face orientation is enabled. (#128113[projects.blender.org])* Extensions: Manifest polishing. (54fa2513b52[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Error in builds without OCIO. (c6f0d10a0d2[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Snap grid point of Rotate operator is closest to the constraint axis. (bc7f896f237[projects.blender.org])* WIN32: Extension update failed and removed the addon instead. (#128175[projects.blender.org])* WIN32: Extension update failed and removed the addon instead. (#128175[projects.blender.org])* WIN32: Extension update failed and removed the addon instead. (#128175[projects.blender.org])* WIN32: Extension update failed and removed the addon instead. (#128175[projects.blender.org])* Large VDB files crashing Blender 4.2 RC - macOS Metal. (#124720[projects.blender.org])* GPU compositor glare node does not work properly on high resolution images. (#126998[projects.blender.org])* Fix: EEVEE: Volume Lightprobe: Division by zero if no object is visible. (8a8ecabecd4[projects.blender.org])* Fix ARRAY_HAS_ITEM macro on 64bit systems. (c0f0a451cd4[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash deleting mask vertices. (8146e75140f[projects.blender.org])* Fix mask duplicate failing to set the active point. (eb36fbe0889[projects.blender.org])* Black rectangle artifact in mask feather. (#127692[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Corrupted output when changing render regions in script with cycles without denoising. (#126565[projects.blender.org])* render view with Cropped render region result in line offset / distortion with GPU compositor set to GPU. (#128551[projects.blender.org])* Tooltips unnecessary large padding. (#128231[projects.blender.org])* Regression: file selector automatically creates paths & warns. (#128567[projects.blender.org])* Compositing Using Multiple Utility Levels Node Freeze Blender. (#127051[projects.blender.org])* Fix inconsistency between *BKE_appdir_folder_{home/default} on macOS. (7318206d2e2[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash using "~" in the file selector when the "home" is null. (76e11bedfa8[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash if expanding the fonts directory fails. (8c1d59c0618[projects.blender.org])* Video: Error in video decoding on either Linux or AVX512 CPU (ffmpeg alignment issue?). (#125446[projects.blender.org])* BKE: id_delete: Do not forbid layer collection resync in non-Main case. (adf990f5e1[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Toggle Maximize Area slower with geometry nodes. (#126205[projects.blender.org])

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