Blender 4.2.15 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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* Tools: Add cleaner of bpy install folder for wheel. (ec25ae240a6)
* Glare Node from 4.5.x LTS will immediately crash 4.2.x LTS once you switch to Compositor Editor. (#145896)
* Fix: VSE: Metastack channel preview with negative values. (2c97ac8785)
* Crash when switching view layer after undoing deleting/unlinking of certain object types. (#145848)
* Fix: Cycles: MetalRT motion curves setup bug. (#146568)
* Blender crashes when using the Align Bones operator across two armatures with different mirror settings. (#146242)
* "'NoneType' object is not subscriptable" error in "follow active quads" operator, on some non-manifold geometry. (#132734)
* 4.2.5 LTS - 5.0.0 alpha: Crashing after using UV Sculpt Tools in New Scene. (#145879)
* Crash deleting library from which the current scene is linked. (#147759)
* Animation: Keyframe position is wrong when pasting after changing clip start in the NLA. (#138695)
* Sequencer: crash with sequencer in sequencer. (#147477)
* VSE: "Swap Data" breaks strip alignment, then crashes. (#146682)
* Setting sequence channel to a negative index causes crash in 4.2 LTS. (#141659)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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