# Blender Blender 4.5.7 LTS Maintenance Release !

- Product: Blender (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blender)
- Vendor: Blender Foundation
- Date: 2026-02-17
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/365670/view/696504883028689204
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/blender/releases/2026-02-17-blender-4.5.7-lts-maintenance-release

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- **fixed** — Separate By Selection issue
- **fixed** — VSE: Adding Freeze Frame to either end of a video or image sequences crashed
- **fixed** — VSE crashes when doing edits
- **fixed** — VSE: Rendering a still preview while using proxies produces a broken image
- **fixed** — Crashing in sculpt mode, multires, Ctrl+Z
- **fixed** — Blender instantly crashes when loading an incomplete exr file
- **fixed** — Restore accidentally changed default for 'Allow Negative Frames' preference
- **fixed** — Crash on Redo in Sculpt Mode specific to Material Preview/Rendered Viewport
- **fixed** — PyAPI: Potential loss of image due to unclear behaviour of Image.pack()
- **fixed** — Outliner: Remap Users spawns multiple dialogs on top of each other
- **fixed** — White artifacts when using Subsurface scattering in EEVEE
- **fixed** — Compositor: Grouping a node with animation data and removing sockets leaves values without animation
- **fixed** — Hard crash when jumping timeline with grease pencil object
- **fixed** — Dropping images into image editor fails
- **fixed** — Very intermittent 'Writing to ID classes in this context is not allowed' when updating any property after rendering
- **fixed** — UI: Instanced panels are drawn in incorrect tab
- **fixed** — Freestyle: Crash in FRS_do_stroke_rendering when rendering during geometry updates due to mesh batch cache race condition
- **fixed** — Can't drop asset from custom asset shelf if view scrolled
- **fixed** — Bind Camera to Marker operator does not update all windows

Blender 4.5.7 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the _v4.5 - 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 **v4.5 - Stable - Stable**.

##### Patch Notes

* Separate By Selection Issue. ([#153227](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/153227))
* VSE: Adding Freeze Frame to either end of a video or image sequences crashed. ([#147374](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/147374))
* VSE crashes when doing edits. ([#146493](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/146493))
* VSE: Rendering a still preview while using proxies produces a broken image. ([#150166](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/150166))
* crashing in sculpt mode, multires, Ctrl+Z. ([#152087](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/152087))
* Blender instantly crashes when loading an incomplete exr file. ([#152619](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/152619))
* Fix: restore accidentally changed default for 'Allow Negative Frames' pref. ([b991f26937f913cb845617d3441ec7752f40ea95](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/b991f26937f913cb845617d3441ec7752f40ea95))
* Crash on Redo in Sculpt Mode (Specific to Material Preview/Rendered Viewport). ([#152005](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/152005))
* PyAPI: Potential loss of image due to unclear behaviour of `Image.pack()`. ([#152638](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/152638))
* Outliner: Remap Users spawns multiple dialogs on top of each other. ([#93814](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/93814))
* White artifacts when using Subsurface scattering in EEVEE (LTS 4.5.6). ([#153373](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/153373))
* Compositor: Grouping a node with animation data (and removing sockets) leaves values without animation. ([#148664](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/148664))
* Hard crash when jumping timeline with this grease pencil object. ([#151908](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/151908))
* Dropping images into image editor fails. ([#141496](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/141496))
* Very intermittent 'Writing to ID classes in this context is not allowed' when updating any property after rendering. ([#114455](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114455))
* Fix: UI: Instanced panels are drawn in incorrect tab. ([6c7146532fc](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6c7146532fc))
* Freestyle: Crash in FRS_do_stroke_rendering when rendering during geometry updates (mesh batch cache race condition). ([#151868](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/151868))
* Can’t drop asset from custom asset shelf if view scrolled. ([#154248](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/154248))
* Bind Camera to Marker operator does not update all windows. ([#152250](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/152250))

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see [ 4.5 LTS releases on blender.org](https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-5/)

##### 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