Blender 4.2.9 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.9 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the [i]v4.2 - Stable - LTS[/i] branch. You can switch to this by [b]right-clicking[/b] on the [b]Blender[/b] entry in your library, select [b]Properties...[/b]. Open the [b]Betas[/b] tab and select [b]v4.2 - Stable - LTS[/b]. [h3]Patch Notes[/h3] [list] * Fix: IMBuf: Potential buffer overflow in JPEG metadata writer. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f451b984ceb]f451b984ceb[/url]) * RNA: LibraryWeakReference: make path and ID name editable. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/657c1f6912c]657c1f6912c[/url]) * Internal mode in IES texture node flagged in missing file report. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/134756]#134756[/url]) * Blender 4.4 can crash with certain compositor setups. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/136360]#136360[/url]) * python3.dll dependency in extensions cant be loaded from subprocesses..? leads to import issues in extension. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/126782]#126782[/url]) * QuadriFlow Remesh gets stuck in a specific case. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/136593]#136593[/url]) * Disabling Collections in the Outliner filters overlaps the Mode Column icons with the expansion arrows. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/100264]#100264[/url]) * Crash with Select "Shortest path" in the UV editor. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/136280]#136280[/url]) * macOS: Disable OpenMP when using Xcode 16.3 / LLVM 17. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/43dbdbd4ec7]43dbdbd4ec7[/url]) * Fix: Compilation error with XCode 16.3. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/a9f74b6dee5]a9f74b6dee5[/url]) * Fix: potential use of invalid IME window pointer on Wayland. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/044f5e06af6]044f5e06af6[/url]) * Crash open a file in early versions with a closure node output. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/136949]#136949[/url]) * Crash with object info node. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/137114]#137114[/url]) * Blender 4.2.8 Grease Pencil draw mode "Sample Color" Shortcut key do not work. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/136538]#136538[/url]) * Handling SDK/ROCm 6+ lack of backward compatibility with pre ROCm 6 in Blender 4.2. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ed1ccefb95bf0c617bdb34995181318524f4219d]ed1ccefb95bf0c617bdb34995181318524f4219d[/url]) [/list] For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see [url=https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/] 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org[/url] [h3]LTS Program[/h3] Learn more about the [url=https://www.blender.org/download/lts/]LTS program on blender.org[/url] [h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3] You can follow Blender on social media: Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever ! Happy blending, The Blender team