Blender 4.2.2 LTS Maintenance Release !

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.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

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• Fix: Outdated tooltip on Principled BSDF.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

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org

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