Blender 4.2.2 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.

* Wayland: tiny mouse cursor with 125% fractional scaling. (#105895[projects.blender.org])* OpenGL: Enable High Quality Normals for Legacy AMD Drivers. (#126483[projects.blender.org])* Blender 4.2 - Entering Grease Pencil 'Weight Paint' mode (in a new scene) crashes Blender. (#126419[projects.blender.org])* Fix #126434: Boid particle fight rule crash involving non-boid psys. (#126494[projects.blender.org])* Geometry Nodes: Crash in Sample UV Surface node. (#126450[projects.blender.org])* Blender has impractically long startup time opening old files with many objects. (#126526[projects.blender.org])* Crash while bridging faces. (#123405[projects.blender.org])* Hex values in color popup are written with 1 or 2 digits mixed, instead of always using 2 digits. (#126551[projects.blender.org])* VDB sequence gets imported multiple times and gets chopped up. (#124832[projects.blender.org])* Wrong cursor icon after saving with multiple windows open. (#124693[projects.blender.org])* Crash when unlinking scene from render layers node in compositor when using GPU device. (#126552[projects.blender.org])* Alembic: Issues importing Hair in 4.2 but not in 3.6. (#126324[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Group ID in Fill Curve Evaluate inconsistantly. (#126595[projects.blender.org])* Fix missing error check for fork() failing. (2c9e26acc56[projects.blender.org])* Fix soft-delete hanging on *nix when the command was not found. (70475861cda[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Graph Editor: broken f-curve line. (#120950[projects.blender.org])* Extensions: Update the example license on the manifest template. (e877bedac72[projects.blender.org])* 4.2.1 EEVEE Cryptomatte pass doesn't match Cycles. (#126556[projects.blender.org])* Data passes have wrong alpha with macOS GPU compositor. (#126412[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Outdated tooltip on Principled BSDF. (1e9ae10e904[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash & other errors creating fallback path for buttons. (c3916026773[projects.blender.org])* Cryptomatte doesn't work when its source is EXR file packed into blend file. (#126567[projects.blender.org])* Build: Ambiguous call to isfinite for MSVC 17.11. (fc31352b706[projects.blender.org])* Black transparent BSDF is invisible. (#126459[projects.blender.org])* Backface culling keeps "face orientation" overlay. (#126351[projects.blender.org])* USD drag-drop import crash after undo. (#124752[projects.blender.org])* USDA import crashes Blender during material assignment to geometry subsets. (#125184[projects.blender.org])* Fix: USD: Use correct data type for UsdPreviewSurface normal input. (f50e4cbb62d[projects.blender.org])* Steam launcher script refuses to launch on drive mount points that contain spaces. (#126734[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Typo in extensions repository lock info message. (7ceedb5f4c3[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE-NEXT - Shadows Break with Subdivision Surface (RDNA2 only?). (#123787[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE Command Line Rendering on the Mac freezes, memory usage constantly increases up until freeze. (#125333[projects.blender.org])* Group input socket missing subtype when created from Gamma shader node Gamma socket. (#126535[projects.blender.org])* Segmentation Fault Upon Blender Startup. (#126573[projects.blender.org])* Objects displayed as Wire occlude objects behind when Face Orientation is on. (#126225[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Cycles memory leak in HIP-RT. (357fb5c5ffd[projects.blender.org])* Pin to last issue on Library override object. (#126677[projects.blender.org])* Missing vcruntime140.dll when running blender-launcher.exe on Windows. (#126798[projects.blender.org])* Compositor has no independent Texture access. (#126856[projects.blender.org])* Fix incorrect location from SpaceText.region_location_from_cursor. (fb14083ff54[projects.blender.org])* Multiresolution modifier: Using 'Unsubdivide' while the mesh has faces hidden in edit mode results in Blender freezing completely. (#126633[projects.blender.org])* Fix multi-res un-subdivide skipping faces & leaking memory. (574d096f784[projects.blender.org])* Crash on clicking 'Lock Camera to View' widget after running 'Reload Scripts' operator. (#126852[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: Fix UI after Blender changes. (fc9b876f25a[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: Fix custom prop when apply modifier. (e38cda52808[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: avoid double export. (4f660c3b2c6[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: Regression: RGB to Shader socket unlit management. (f82b50654ab[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: fix error message if hook failed. (f59641b6b04[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE: Background turns black when only single visible volume object is present. (#126986[projects.blender.org])* PLY export does not clamp vertex colors when they exceed 1.0 (instead they are wrapped). (#127022[projects.blender.org])* Fix BMFace/BMLoop.copy_from_face_interp() functions. (b22dd61a47d[projects.blender.org])* `copy_from_face_interp` needs tuple input, loses reference, returns nothing. (#120861[projects.blender.org])* atan2(0,0) evaluates to NaN on Metal but 0 on all other platforms. (#126799[projects.blender.org])* Default Cube has `Transparent Shadows` off. (#126038[projects.blender.org])* Fix incorrect use of exit() when execv() fails on *nix. (374da29f6aa[projects.blender.org])* Fix: prevent free of nullptr during bone collection undo processing. (50506c79455[projects.blender.org])* Crash with "Extrude Mesh" geometry node on from_pydata edge only mesh. (#127085[projects.blender.org])* 3D viewport background color affects attribute text color. (#126908[projects.blender.org])* 4.2 oneAPI "Embree on GPU" (HWRT) no hair strands in viewport. (#124811[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Cannot render Victor and Spring with embree disabled on Intel GPUs. (b72ad1209a8[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash entering edit-mode for text objects from old blender versions. (7bc471630b0[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash reading files from v2.66. (0b42a3aabc1[projects.blender.org])* Fix memory leak loading legacy meshes without any edges. (a9745f2a16c[projects.blender.org])* 4.2 Regression: UI popover can not be scrolled upwards. (#127012[projects.blender.org])* Loop cut and Curve Modifier stop working properly. (#123138[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Crash if `cls.bl_rna` after unregister_class(). (#127165[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Connecting node lines disappear. (#127039[projects.blender.org])* Fix missing import in cli command registration example. (73c27fd6509[projects.blender.org])* Fix missing check for "-c" to terminate argument parsing. (b49c8bd8dad[projects.blender.org])* Geometry Nodes Crashes Blender - Access Violation in mesh_sample.cc - Windows 11. (#127319[projects.blender.org])* GP Objects Flicker in Video Sequencer when Material Preview mode. (#125506[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE: Can not use Curves Info->Length. (#126463[projects.blender.org])* Cleanup: pass const depsgraph for viewport funcitons. (fcc87f44886[projects.blender.org])* Fix missing redraw when setting the view axis. (f06c7a50c63[projects.blender.org])* Fix local view failing to restore axis-roll. (0cb427c9119[projects.blender.org])* Console Keyboard Interrupt does not work on Blender 4.2.1. (#127329[projects.blender.org])* EEVEE: Black surfaces on Intel GPU. (#122837[projects.blender.org])* Blender 4.2 - Compress Saving option gets removed when recovering from AutoSave. (#126821[projects.blender.org])* Can't change viewport text overlay color. (#124549[projects.blender.org])* Blender adds Grease Pencil Objects to Scene when appending IDs with annotations (e.g. in their shader editor). (#127142[projects.blender.org])* UI broken in 4.2 when preferences are saved with 4.3. (#126706[projects.blender.org])* Crash when switching an area to asset browser and back and creating a new file. (#124167[projects.blender.org])* Crash on undo: Unlinking Scene Collection from Object Properties panel. (#126549[projects.blender.org])* Area light resize gizmo (amongst other gizmos) missing undo step?. (#69164[projects.blender.org])* 4.2 backport: Core: flush outputs before calling exiting on `execvp` failure. (8159824a1c8ff1a6165b2c37b399c8b3784bea88[projects.blender.org])* glTF: hook UI, distinct import & export draw code. (79d64e293ce[projects.blender.org])* glTF exporter: fix missing hook parameters leading to crash. (cf0a1b04204[projects.blender.org])* glTF: Fix typo in a previous commit. (062a574786f[projects.blender.org])* Fix back-slash character filtering in the outliner & UI list. (73ef17c17bf[projects.blender.org])* Crash after unlink -> undo -> select (linked copied scene). (#127213[projects.blender.org])* Extensions - fail to install extension from cli. (#126792[projects.blender.org])* Fix crash scrubbing in the animation player with 1 frame loaded. (9d571a11f22[projects.blender.org])* Fix error in stereo3d side-by-side display. (420043d7271[projects.blender.org])* BKE_lib: avoid potential read uninitialized memory in BKE_id_copy_*. (b4cfb0c8168[projects.blender.org])* Fix: error in node wrangler format string. (84ed03ec12e[projects.blender.org])* active_framebuffer_get v framebuffer_active_get. (#127636[projects.blender.org])* Fix batch renaming object data from the outliner. (c6b39783aa6[projects.blender.org])* oneAPI Embree GPU, transparent shadows will render opaque if transparent bounces is 1024. (#125093[projects.blender.org])* Meshes or Curves with just "wire" edges disappear in the viewport if SubD is used while in Viewport "Wireframe" mode. (#126524[projects.blender.org])* Regression: Deinterlace checkbox makes video invisible. (#127654[projects.blender.org])* 4.2 backport: Fix fake_retiming_key_init returning uninitialized stack memory. (06ad4d64312ed97c2cacbd4736a4a1e88712bd03[projects.blender.org])

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/


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