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.

Patch Notes

<li>Cycles Render Viewport breaks in Blender 4.2.9 LTS, but works fine in 4.2.7 LTS and 4.4.3. [<a href="https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/139180">#139180</a>]</li>
<li>Fix out-of-bounds write with Wayland compose-key event handling. [<a href="https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f1ba80eaf50">f1ba80eaf50</a>]</li>
<li>ASAN-reported heap buffer overflows resulting from missing file loading checks. [<a href="https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/137870">#137870</a>]</li>

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

LTS Program

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

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