Blender 4.2.6 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
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* Render freezing during rendering in middle of process (Principle Hair BSDF with the Huang model - Chiang model is fine). (#131240)
* 'Select' button in bone Selection Sets panel doesn't select the correct bones after using 'Selection Set Select'. (#129416)
* EEVEE Next decreases in performance as a animation is played on repeat. (#131134)
* Fix: Deps: Fix building dpcpp on many core box. (b28c47c81a8)
* Fix #131927: Cycles: Reduce uncertain light tree traversal in scenes with one distant light. (a53b6a54f18)
* Only Insert Available Prevents Camera View Navigation From Auto Keying if Camera Object Is Not Active. (#131669)
* Fix LibOverride bug when clearing invalid liboverride data. (19dc3d79d50)
* Fix: Uninitialized variable in MTLSafeFreeList. (d222a0172ac)
* Vertex Edge slide. (#132264)
* Using gizmo to adjust image empties does not immediately update the corresponding values in its properties. (#128633)
* Fix Alembic importer generating invalid edge crease values. (5ddeb0d63ef)
* Fix: Random crash in Cycles BVH2 build. (ccfcacc02b9)
* Cloth animation crash during Cycles CPU rendered viewport playback. (#131933)
* Memory leak when context.temp_override() is called without using a context-manager. (#132615)
* Crash when rendering animation in scene with drivers after cancelling extension update check. (#131195)
* Extensions: suppress resource leak warning on WIN32. (0b575856077)
* Cleanup: replace Generator type with Iterator where appropriate. (813aff7288d)
* Crash/Assert on F3-Search with 3D Viewport Pie Menus add-on. (#130744)
* Refactor: adjust the URL/file-system data iterators for extensions. (3ee045724fe)
* Pose Library: Create Pose Asset Operator fails on some property types. (#131495)
* Text `Fast editing` overrides `Fill Mode` in object mode. (#131888)
* Render results of CYCLES point cloud instance different from viewport. (#132049)
* Deps: Update Boost library download URL. (6d29e8fa883)
* GeoNodes Tool does not read image input like GeoNode Modifier does. (#132760)
* Fix crash in weight paint's loop selection. (7f68deeb55e)
* Crash animating on a 1-segment path. (#132976)
* Rendering glitch with Points to Volume geometry node. (#132566)
* Array modifier + X-Ray crash on meshes with generated geometry but no own vertices. (#132991)
* FCurve Key via python does not create a new key with generated type. (#132548)
* Symmetrized Limit Location Constraint wrong enabled min/max. (#132254)
* Regression: Tool switching with the ctrl key is broken for grease pencil sculpt mode. (#132433)
* Grease Pencil shapes don't show preview before committing. (#125687)
* Crash when texture baking. (#131814)
* Fix: Cycles random crash loading images. (0a569f1)
* Fix: Hydra MaterialX conversion crash with some image file types. (e11daeb)
* Fix: Hydra memory leak when generated images are saved. (9e1cdca)
* ASAN: Metal: dereference of a high value address. (#131458)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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