You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.3 - Stable - LTS.
Patch Notes
* Regression: The start frame of NLA tracks can not be negative. (T100918)
* Cycles shows transmission in displaced shader as black. (T100914)
* Cryptomatte layers saved incorrectly with EXR DWA compression. (T96933)
* Cryptomatte EXR Output Bit Depth should always be 32bit. (T88049)
* Banding-like effect in Cycles using OpenVDB volumes. (T100714)
* Texture bake fills black when set clear texture. (T100708)
* The eevee view model failed to load the texture, causing the model to be purple. (T57759)
* EEVEE: Fix attributes node on Alpha Clip/Hashed materials. (rB5e372fca7c8)
* Regression: "Copy Location" constraint doesn't work if the control object is a vertex and we're in edit mode. (T99141)
* UI: Add shift-click hint to library overrides button tooltip. (rBc25181be4d8)
* Fix: Spreadsheet row filters unimplemented for boolean type. (rBbcdb90b9618)
* OBJ exporter does not properly export "image sequence" texture names. (T100669)
* New 3.1+ OBJ exporter UI fields order could be improved. (T96297)
* Some C++ importers/exporters (e.g. OBJ) reset file dialog Sort By mode. (T100887)
* Fix: link drag search feature only works forgeometry nodes groups. (rB568265964e9)
* Sync markers option doesn't work when sliding keyframes with a keyboard entry. (T100851)
* GPencil: Copy paste stroke(s) does not respect autokeying value. (T100999)
* GLibC Compat: Add deprecated memory hooks symbols removed from 2.34. (rBbf6a9d705f1)
* Cleanup: quiet missing-variable-declarations warning. (rBec2938c71a5)
* Fix compilation on Linux, glibc 2.34, and CentOS libraries. (rB6143b3ab382)
* Stereo Top/Bottom Render (Cycles) Missing Z Channel:. (T100886)
* Incorrect strip length when timecodes are used. (T100771)
* 3.3LTS: crash when entering sculpt mode of a wire mesh if it is a "custom object" of a bone. (T101081)
* Regression: Blender Crashes When snap roll a bone in armature. (T101040)
* Color picker colors drift value for some OCIO configurations. (T101000)
* vse group strips expanding in length on cancelled movement. (T101098)
* GPencil: Important feature request for Blender 3.3 LTS: Add new option "Forced Intersection". (T101087)
* Regression: VSE doesn't interpolate Scene Strip anymore. (T100998)
* Regression: Crash on connecting UV sphere node to transform node. (T101137)
* Regression: Crash when left click on Point Density node. (T101001)
* GPencil: Add frame number to Trace operator. (rBfe15766f463)
* Regression: Tiled rendering is not applied to texture baking in 3.x onwards, causing crash on large bakes. (T100626)
* Regression: Denoising depth pass: different result from 3.2.2 (ok) to 3.3. (T101065)
* Add oneAPI to the 'cycles_device' command line argument help text. (rBa920f32)
* obj: support importing multiple files at once. (rBdba599c8064)
* GPencil: Allow import several SVG at time. (rB345cdf71e96)
* C++ exporters (OBJ/Collada/USD/Alembic) do not remember the path/filename on subsequent exports. (T100797)
* Regression: Drag and Drop seems to be broken for image files from desktop. (T100899)
* glTF exporter: Fix crash when original texture export is packed. (rBAed9b7805)
* glTF exporter: Fix default sheen factors. (rBA0f1e12d8)
* glTF exporter: optimized animation size option was not saved when 'remember export settings'. (rBA6552dc49)
* UI Animation Render: Attribute error when running in background. (T101239)
* glTF exporter: avoid crash when apply modifiers + shapekeys. (rBA06ad75f3)
* Regression: baking procedural texture in more than 2048 pixels fails. (T101354)
* Regression: Can't save second Viewlayer as .exr. (T101365)
* No option to restore previous trackpad behavior on Windows since multitouch support. (T97925)
* glTF exporter: Fix color attribute export. (rBA4feb92043cbd)
* Regression: Export UV Layout is blurry. (T101134)
* UV editor: Console warning when hovered over tools. (T101138)
* EEVEE: Screen Space Refraction Artefacts when the viewport is narrow and non square. (T101034)
* Regression: Right aligned header. (T100141)
* Moving bone to another layer doesn't trigger a depsgraph update. (T101046)
* Blender 3.2.1 - Animation on nodes gets bugged out when dealing with Node Groups (duplicate node names). (T101109)
* GPencil: Active layer separation freezes blender if layer is empty. (T101317)
* GPencil: Crash when sculpting after "bake object transform to grease pencil". (T101370)
* Cycles: increase min-supported driver version for Intel GPUs. (rBa6c27ea49da)
* Regression: useless Snapping menu in the adjustment popup of Edge bevel weight operator. (T101343)
* Fix typo and and incorrect property initialization. (rBb4e8d03e5cf)
* Fix curves sculpting in deformed space when using Subdivide node. (rBede6c262229)
* GPencil: framechanging does not evaluate keyframed layer transform correctly (if this would result in identity matrix). (T101164)
* Regression: Console flooded with warnings when fluid type is Domain. (T101231)
* GPencil: Fix unreported memory leak in Fill inverse. (rB662ba67210b)
* Curve draw tool's cursor depth mode use a random Z value when viewport camera is orthographic. (T101347)
* Node editor: Add driver to socket slots list?. (T101341)
* Fix missing Outliner updates when adding nodetrees. (rBcc8df686ad7)
* Geometry Nodes in searching pulls nodes from other node add-ons. (T101259)
* Regression: Screw Modifier Calculate Order is broken. (T101075)
* New OBJ importer handles UVs incorrectly when some faces of an object don't have UVs. (T101487)
* Grease Pencil: New lines in Multiframe editing appear as Onion skinning overlay. (T101548)
* Grease Pencil: Selecting strokes in Edit Mode imprecise if layer transforms are animated. (T101564)
* Rain Test Animation demo crashes Blender 3.3. (T101559)
* Cycles: Spurious recompiles on Metal in Blender 3.3.x on macOS 13.0. (T101598)
* Regression: Incorrect context for running data unlink. (T101510)
* Regression: Deleting Object in outliner with a specific filter setting crashes Blender. (T101233)
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