Blender 4.2.12 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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* Cycles BVH2: Point clouds do not render properly when using `spatial splits`. (#138509)
* Blender corrupts videos saved in the image editor. (#140375)
* Assert displaying render. (#139918)
* Proportional editing with "connected only" ignores some parts of a mesh. (#139828)
* oneAPI: Rendering artifacts in barbershop scene. (#141171)
* When hiding an object and its children only the parent gets a keyframe. (#136372)
* VSE: Swapping cross dissolve sources via Python causes crash. (#140885)
* VSE: Some strips wrongly occlude strips below, when render resolution scale is small. (#139552)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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