Blender 4.2.8 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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* Compositor: File Output inside a group node does not work with GPU compositor. (#133225)
* Cycles render test: Add ability to control hardware raytracing. (f2b8d643edd)
* Fix #135018: EEVEE: Plane lightprobe renders incorrectly in ortho view. (#135166)
* Crash when editing Flow Domain Liquid. (#135126)
* Misleading error message when trying VR in Mac. (#135294)
* Tool shelf in 3d view misses part of tooltip with custom keymap. (#83819)
* Crash with large displacement texture. (#135441)
* Fix error saving a new imbuf from the Python API. (b2fb214010a)
* Crashing when i trace image sequence to grease pencil object. (#134969)
* Fix: Cycles: Wrong motion transform interpolation when using velocity. (80ad1187254aeffc4515866969b29d13e72ad587)
* Fix: Blender as Python Module shared library directory wrong. (1c953fca2e44291300fa29483c669823f28818d6)
* Fix: Cycles persistent data + motion blur render bugs. (b1e74d5adf11837d9977ccd1264030604c0a2937)
* Internal mode in IES texture node flagged in missing file report. (#134756)
* Cycles: Add Blackwell to Cycles CUDA binaries architectures. (c483c158100252f9cf928b0bd3821e32c87f03a6)
* Single tile UDIMs render differently between Cycles and EEVEE (Image extension related). (#127875)
* Cycles OSL: UDIM texture does not respect extrapolation setting. (#124847)
* Crash when baking light probe volume while rendering animation. (#134596)
* Uncheck Save Copy freezes on next render - Mutex is still locked. (#81768)
* Fix: Hydra incorrect assmes camera object is always a camera. (cee5b21d159920f3297ec7fc35f7d70ecfe29ce7)
* Fix: Cycles device info uninitialized variable. (08d5ffd7b3f4025e9c95217d9a8760ade5c9d718)
* MetalRT: Missing Geometry in Cycles preview on MacOS 15.2. (#132782)
* Blender crashes writing render metadata on cancelled render. (#135837)
* Fix: Cycles OSL random texture issue on macOS ARM. (2decf3792e801a15156b40ee43a3eeb94d0e2304)
* OneAPI: Embree crash on Simplify toggle. (#129596)
* Cycles: Persistent Data option make Point Cloud position is dirty for transformed objects. (#108215)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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