Blender 4.2.9 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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* Fix: IMBuf: Potential buffer overflow in JPEG metadata writer. (f451b984ceb)
* RNA: LibraryWeakReference: make path and ID name editable. (657c1f6912c)
* Internal mode in IES texture node flagged in missing file report. (#134756)
* Blender 4.4 can crash with certain compositor setups. (#136360)
* python3.dll dependency in extensions cant be loaded from subprocesses..? leads to import issues in extension. (#126782)
* QuadriFlow Remesh gets stuck in a specific case. (#136593)
* Disabling Collections in the Outliner filters overlaps the Mode Column icons with the expansion arrows. (#100264)
* Crash with Select "Shortest path" in the UV editor. (#136280)
* macOS: Disable OpenMP when using Xcode 16.3 / LLVM 17. (43dbdbd4ec7)
* Fix: Compilation error with XCode 16.3. (a9f74b6dee5)
* Fix: potential use of invalid IME window pointer on Wayland. (044f5e06af6)
* Crash open a file in early versions with a closure node output. (#136949)
* Crash with object info node. (#137114)
* Blender 4.2.8 Grease Pencil draw mode "Sample Color" Shortcut key do not work. (#136538)
* Handling SDK/ROCm 6+ lack of backward compatibility with pre ROCm 6 in Blender 4.2. (ed1ccefb95bf0c617bdb34995181318524f4219d)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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