Blender — Blender 4.2.16 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.16 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

• Fix (unreported) Collada: missing finish call on some modified attribute. (3e6fd24bb89)
• anim_transforms_to_deltas resets non-keyframed object transforms values. (#147796)
• install_linux_packages: Fix for Fedora ≥ 41 (DNF5). ((https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/e5a5e475903))
• Blender Timeline animation, SHIFT vs CTRL selection difference. (#147996)
• Rigify doesn't check existence of collection properly. (#148454)
• Missing Runtime Libraries if Blender is Built with py-Infix in Path. (#149070)
• Cant delete new raytracing preset if called "Default". (#142647)
• Default Preset protection interacts with custom Presets, leading to them not being deletable. (#140719)
• Depsgraph doesn't build relations for camera markers. (#149172)
• Blender 4.2 LTS reports the wrong minimum GPU driver requirements for HIP on Linux. (#149519)

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

LTS Program

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Happy blending, The Blender team