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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)
  

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

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Happy blending,
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Blender 3.6.20 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]

• Error in Message of Linked data is Missing. (#109186)
  
• Fix: Uninitialized variable in MTLSafeFreeList. (cdc3421f33d)
  
• Fix: Random crash in Cycles BVH2 build. (ddedcaa0695)
  
• Cloth animation crash during Cycles CPU rendered viewport playback. (#131933)
  
• Render results of CYCLES point cloud instance different from viewport. (#132049)
  
• Deps: Update Boost library download URL. (5c141586f98)
  
• Crash when texture baking. (#131814)
  
• Fix: Cycles random crash loading images. (e5957da)
  
• Rendering glitch with Points to Volume geometry node. (#132566)
  
• ASAN: Metal: dereference of a high value address. (#131458)
  
  

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

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It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 4.3.2 addresses 7 issues present in the initial release.



This is a corrective release, meaning it doesn't contain new features, only fixes. It is highly recommended for everyone currently using Blender 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 to upgrade, since it fixes several crashes and improves functionality in many areas.

Read the full list of changes on https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.3/corrective_releases/

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The Blender team,
December 17th, 2024

Blender 4.2.5 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]

• make license: Tweak on generated comments. (565593a764)
  
• Fix (unreported) unclear potential invalid readfile behavior on unknown BHead type. (7a43565654a)
  
• Keyframes get hidden in the timeline when panned in the up direction. (#127949)
  
• Eevee: Viewport Render Animation causes white/black flashes of materials. (#130235)
  
• Blender Python API gpu.types.buffer Always Returns Float Type Buffer Regardless of Declared Format. (#116551)
  
• Crash renaming a modifier in the Outliner and then toggling its "Realtime" / "show_viewport" property. (#130536)
  
• UI: Show File Name on Recent Item Tooltip. (3f332faf9ab)
  
• Regression: First input stops being hidden when a node is dragged above a link. (#130967)
  
• Tests: correct hard coded version string in extensions test. (bdc8d6963e2)
  
• Extensions: fix building packages containing macos universal wheels. (68df34ecf0e)
  
• Extensions python wheels incompatible with 3.11 error in Blender 4.3 and 4.2.4 LTS (Extensions disabled). (#130561)
  
• Viewer node toggle button strange cursor detection (eye icon). (#130244)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix crash with extra channel. (a8714eaa3df)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix debug logging. (383b780b976)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix crash when animation on not used material. (a5a8cd9e6a0)
  
• Fix failure to reinstall an extension uninstalling the extension. (bce84bcbcce)
  
• Dragging on bone transform property won't go below zero. (#131045)
  
• Error installing extension - Acess is denied, `os.rename(filepath_local_pkg_temp, filepath_local_pkg)`. (#130211)
  
• Correct error printing error in f03fba614d354c0a3a5d952798803715488679e6. (19a8ec27091)
  
• Extensions: suppress noisy prints for extension wheel filtering. (0eabdc27f24)
  
• Extensions: use replace exists with lexists to check a path can be used. (948ddd86dc6)
  
• Fix error enabling extensions with an empty wheel list. (3ab3157fdd8)
  
• snapping to grid disabled when toogle x-ray. (#131215)
  
• Fix 3D text styling buttons in edit-mode. (1cf6e989717)
  
• Weight Paint Alt+H not un-hiding Bones when in Bone Selection. (#130053)
  
• While in pose mode, pressing alt+e will disable wireframe overlay. (#130061)
  
• 4.2 LTS Dyntopo shape key crash. (#131472)
  
• Crash When Using "Fill Mask". (#130482)
  
• Blender crashes every time i try to use "Smooth" set on negative direction with stylus. (#126939)
  
  
  

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 3.6.19 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]

• Fix 'missing files' operator not reporting which ID is using the missing filepath. (48fdd62ec27)
  
• Crash renaming a modifier in the Outliner and then toggling its "Realtime" / "show_viewport" property. (#130536)
  
• 3.6 LTS: EEVEE Non-Color different bit depth JPEGs UDIMs crash. (#130722)
  
• Dragging on bone transform property won't go below zero. (#131045)
  
• While in pose mode, pressing alt+e will disable wireframe overlay. (#130061)
  
• Geometry node - setting lacunarity to 0 crashes Blender (musgrave texture) [fine in 4.1, request to ackport]. (#100838)
  
  

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

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

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