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[p]Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS![/p][p][/p][p]Featuring artwork from DOGWALK, the videogame by Blender Studio. Read the announcement. [/p][p][/p][p]Blender 4.5 LTS builds on the previous release’s focus on stability, with nearly 500 bugs fixed, while introducing key features that make it ideal for long productions, thanks to two years of support (until 2027!).[/p][p]Major improvements include full support for Vulkan, faster startup and EEVEE shader compilation, a more flexible compositor (now with a new Grease Pencil pass!), enhancements to the animation timeline, support for importing multiple formats in Geometry Nodes, UV visibility in all modes, a faster Video Sequencer with HDR support, and so, so much more.[/p][p]Watch the video summary on Blender’s YouTube channel.[/p][p]Explore the release notes for an in-depth look at what’s new![/p][p]
This work is made possible thanks to the outstanding contributions of the Blender community, and the support of the over 7500 individuals and 38 organizations contributing to the Blender Development Fund.[/p][p]Happy Blending! [/p][p]The Blender Team
July 15th, 2025[/p]

Blender 4.2.12 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]

• Cycles BVH2: Point clouds do not render properly when using `spatial splits`. (#138509)
  
• Blender corrupts videos saved in the image editor. (#140375)
  
• Assert displaying render. (#139918)
  
• Proportional editing with "connected only" ignores some parts of a mesh. (#139828)
  
• oneAPI: Rendering artifacts in barbershop scene. (#141171)
  
• When hiding an object and its children only the parent gets a keyframe. (#136372)
  
• VSE: Swapping cross dissolve sources via Python causes crash. (#140885)
  
• VSE: Some strips wrongly occlude strips below, when render resolution scale is small. (#139552)
  
  

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

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

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Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 3.6.23 LTS comes with important bugfixes. It is released on the v3.6 - 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 v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• ASAN-reported heap buffer overflows resulting from missing file loading checks. (#137870)
  
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.6 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

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Blender 4.2.11 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]

• Cycles Render Viewport breaks in Blender 4.2.9 LTS, but works fine in 4.2.7 LTS and 4.4.3. [
  
• Fix out-of-bounds write with Wayland compose-key event handling. [
  
• ASAN-reported heap buffer overflows resulting from missing file loading checks. [
  
  

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

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

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Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 4.2.10 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]

• Move tests data and assets into the main repository as Git-LFS. (#137215)
  
• Drag and drop does not work on Windows 10 from P4V, but does in other DCC Tools. (#135672)
  
• Attempting Undo after toggling back into Sculpt mode crashes Blender. (#137751)
  
• Crash when compositor references another scene. (#137821)
  
• Intel OpenGL: Camera gizmo can not be shifted with gizmo while Drag Select box is active. (#132196)
  
• Crash in Blender 4.4.1 related to custom properties and drivers. (#138073)
  
• Build configuration: SUPPORT_SSE42_BUILD may be false positive for old CPUs. (#134933)
  
• Crash when editing muted node groups if there is a Viewer node inside, in Compositing Editor. (#134073)
  
• 4.2LTS: Extensions: forward any errors setting up wheels to reports. (7629abe43513dd32a4cbc3f635bac60ae66b62ca)
  
• `FileNotFoundError: [WinError 206] The filename or extension is too long` while installing extension with packed wheels. (#132924)
  
• Crash with Python 3.12+ & Manta flow. (#129926)
  
• 4.2LTS: PyAPI: support Python 3.13. (8299e073cfa3acbd4994ad0630899414cd9d138b)
  
• Blender fails to build against Python 3.13 due to use of various functions that have been moved to internal API. (#123871)
  
• Opening files from Splash executes scripts even from excluded folders. (#137314)
  
• Crash when add a driver to Axis property in SimpleDeform Modifier. (#129225)
  
  

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

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[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