Blender 4.2.6 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.6 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.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Render freezing during rendering in middle of process (Principle Hair BSDF with the Huang model - Chiang model is fine). (#131240)
  
• 'Select' button in bone Selection Sets panel doesn't select the correct bones after using 'Selection Set Select'. (#129416)
  
• EEVEE Next decreases in performance as a animation is played on repeat. (#131134)
  
• Fix: Deps: Fix building dpcpp on many core box. (b28c47c81a8)
  
• Fix #131927: Cycles: Reduce uncertain light tree traversal in scenes with one distant light. (a53b6a54f18)
  
• Only Insert Available Prevents Camera View Navigation From Auto Keying if Camera Object Is Not Active. (#131669)
  
• Fix LibOverride bug when clearing invalid liboverride data. (19dc3d79d50)
  
• Fix: Uninitialized variable in MTLSafeFreeList. (d222a0172ac)
  
• Vertex Edge slide. (#132264)
  
• Using gizmo to adjust image empties does not immediately update the corresponding values in its properties. (#128633)
  
• Fix Alembic importer generating invalid edge crease values. (5ddeb0d63ef)
  
• Fix: Random crash in Cycles BVH2 build. (ccfcacc02b9)
  
• Cloth animation crash during Cycles CPU rendered viewport playback. (#131933)
  
• Memory leak when context.temp_override() is called without using a context-manager. (#132615)
  
• Crash when rendering animation in scene with drivers after cancelling extension update check. (#131195)
  
• Extensions: suppress resource leak warning on WIN32. (0b575856077)
  
• Cleanup: replace Generator type with Iterator where appropriate. (813aff7288d)
  
• Crash/Assert on F3-Search with 3D Viewport Pie Menus add-on. (#130744)
  
• Refactor: adjust the URL/file-system data iterators for extensions. (3ee045724fe)
  
• Pose Library: Create Pose Asset Operator fails on some property types. (#131495)
  
• Text `Fast editing` overrides `Fill Mode` in object mode. (#131888)
  
• Render results of CYCLES point cloud instance different from viewport. (#132049)
  
• Deps: Update Boost library download URL. (6d29e8fa883)
  
• GeoNodes Tool does not read image input like GeoNode Modifier does. (#132760)
  
• Fix crash in weight paint's loop selection. (7f68deeb55e)
  
• Crash animating on a 1-segment path. (#132976)
  
• Rendering glitch with Points to Volume geometry node. (#132566)
  
• Array modifier + X-Ray crash on meshes with generated geometry but no own vertices. (#132991)
  
• FCurve Key via python does not create a new key with generated type. (#132548)
  
• Symmetrized Limit Location Constraint wrong enabled min/max. (#132254)
  
• Regression: Tool switching with the ctrl key is broken for grease pencil sculpt mode. (#132433)
  
• Grease Pencil shapes don't show preview before committing. (#125687)
  
• Crash when texture baking. (#131814)
  
• Fix: Cycles random crash loading images. (0a569f1)
  
• Fix: Hydra MaterialX conversion crash with some image file types. (e11daeb)
  
• Fix: Hydra memory leak when generated images are saved. (9e1cdca)
  
• ASAN: Metal: dereference of a high value address. (#131458)
  

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