# Blender Blender 4.2.14 LTS Maintenance Release !

- Product: Blender (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blender)
- Vendor: Blender Foundation
- Date: 2025-09-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/365670/view/529856925490219086
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blender/releases/2025-09-09-blender-4.2.14-lts-maintenance-release

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- **fixed** — Dynamic Paint crash when switching displace factor from positive to negative
- **fixed** — Blender crashes when snapping after aligning in edit mode
- **fixed** — Crash when attempting to unlink linked IDs from the Unused Data Outliner
- **fixed** — Python modifying workspaces and reporting errors crashes Blender
- **fixed** — Python tooltips or data paths related to checkboxes in Video Sequencer Preview Overlays refer to wrong path
- **fixed** — HDRi lighting does not correctly apply in EEVEE Next on older AMD GPU drivers
- **fixed** — Geometry Nodes anonymous attributes are not always propagated in Trim Curve node
- **fixed** — Crash when using specific GPU compositor setup

Blender 4.2.14 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

* Dynamic Paint Crash switching displace factor from positive to negative - FYI  New light project OK. ([#142137](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/142137))
* Blender crashes when snapping after aligning in edit mode. ([#144916](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/144916))
* Crash when attempting to Unlink linked IDs from the Unused Data Outliner. ([#144840](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/144840))
* Python: Modifying Workspaces via Python and 'Reporting an Error' Crashes Blender. ([#144958](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/144958))
* In 4.2 Python Tooltips or data paths related to most checkboxes in Video Sequencer Preview Overlays refer to the wrong path. ([#145415](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/145415))
* HDRi lighting does not correctly apply in EEVEE Next on older AMD GPU drivers. ([#124984](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/124984))
* Fix: Geometry Nodes: anoymous attributes are not always propagated in Trim Curve node. ([181a932fbc5](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/181a932fbc5))
* 4.4 Crash when a specific GPU compositor setup. ([#134259](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/134259))

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see [ 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org](https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/)

##### LTS Program

Learn more about the [LTS program on blender.org](https://www.blender.org/download/lts/)

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Happy blending,
The Blender team