Blender — Blender 4.2.13 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.13 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

• OpenVDB cache Mantaflow Gas has Hollow Emission. (#91174)
• Cycles Render: Volume (Before Baked Simulation Starts) still trying to be rendered. (#105546)
• 4.2 backport: Fix: crash displaying negative numbers in WM_cursor_time. (cf4c65d8d6e65579777c3e0ab6db0fb422332ade)
• Fix: Only last tangents layer is exported to fbx when mesh has multiple uv layers. ((https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/b40856b76d7))
• Crash adding subsurf with invalid material indices. (#142245)
• Crash selecting an armature with over 65k objects. (#143161)
• Cleanup bpy builds on PyPI and archive them on Download. (#146)
• Ctrl + H "Hide Other Collections" Pie Menu – Shift to Extend Not Working. (#140548)
• Vertex Weight Proximity sets Normalize Weights checkbox to default state after options switch. (#143360)
• Nuked my C: drive accidentally using Blender. (#139585)
• Dyntopo detail size drawing with Shift + D seems broken. (#83623)
• Removing and then redefining override causes a crash. (#144373)
• Fix: execute_node_group only accepting positive values for arguments. (26d3ea18beb)
• Blender crashes opening certain file. (#144749)
• Regression: ASAN heap-use-after-free crash when pasting node group after undoing or opening a new file. (#141415)

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

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