Blender 5.2.2 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v5.2 - 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 v5.2 - Stable - Stable.
Patch Notes
* Release: Update license.md. (bcfe4ce3b1600931fc854f70f5146a802bf8deaf)
* Line Art does not recalculate lines on objects with animated visibility. (#162605)
* VSE Compositor Set Alpha Node preview is incorrect. (#162664)
* Fix: BKE_image_walk_all_users static cast bugs. (dbec94b04d8)
* Grease Pencil: strokes randomly merging and dissapearing with draw on back toggled ON. (#162256)
* Color Management: Improve display color interop IDs. (23e1dedd88e)
* Fix: Images: ICC profile incorrectly embedded in grayscale output. (4e2bcf30920)
* Fix: error where Mesh.vertex_colors.new() returned the wrong layer. (c80666d23e0)
* Fix: out-of-bounds read adding a vertex color layer in edit-mode. (d5c0558fff5)
* Fix: UV circle & lasso select can select hidden faces. (4166697b6eb)
* Fix: crashes passing None arguments into ActionChannelbag methods. (0e122704499)
* Crash accessing armature data from a different scene (in the outliner). (#162066)
* Sculpt Filters Pause When Press Right Mouth Button. (#160613)
* [COMPOSITOR 5.2 LTS] "Denoise Node" crashing blender. (#159584)
* Blender crashes when using GN tool in edit mode when deleting "sharp_face" on just created object. (#163147)
* Fix: Anim: Cache File Dopesheet mode was broken for 10 years. (d194bddc7f0)
* Blender can freeze/crash/or have unexpected behaviour when changing a retiming key that's before a speed transition. (#163131)
* Fix: out-of-bounds read loading vector fonts, stripping UTF8 string. (3d43f0ff41f)
* Fix: studio light names could contain non UTF8 characters. (e69de18a488)
* Push pose doesn't work. (#163273)
* Crash caused by the mask brush during sculpting. (#163313)
* Fix: Depsgraph: missing relations for collection under excluded ancestor. (22af9b504be)
* Regression: Canceling a transform (G + Esc) in Grease Pencil Edit Mode deletes the entire frame under specific conditions (post-5.0, Auto-Key on). (#162710)
* Fix #163471: Cycles GPU crash with shadow caustics and AO pass. (#163486)
* Denoising Data Pass's red channel is broken, if object shadow catcher and a small tile size. (#162908)
* MacOS: Blender icon jumps in the menu bar despite rendering in background mode. (#162602)
* Node Wrangler: "Reset Nodes" reorders links to multi-input sockets. (#155745)
* ACCESS VIOLATION (regression) when updating image datablocks from render-pre handler, but only if mouse is wiggled over compositor node editor (with lock interface enabled). (#163402)
* Compositor GPU crash: Channel Key → Color Spill → Viewer with Blank Image (Blender 5.2.0). (#163707)
* OBJ importer does not assign vertices to groups when Vertex Groups import is used with the validate mesh option. (#163596)
* Blender cli: asset_listing download fails with a python AttributeError. (#163662)
* Geometry Nodes: Density Max of -10000 in Distribute Points On Faces Causes Crash in Blender 5.2. (#163761)
* "Multires modifier returned error, skipping apply". (#163762)
* Very garbled import of specific SVG curve to Grease Pencil in 5.2, seems to work better in 5.1. (#163150)
* VSE: Can't drag and drop multiple files in the preview area. (#163610)
* Regression: Fill Curve N-gon is broken for 5.2. (#163256)
* PyAPI: add bpy.path.is_autoexec. (3d87b77263)
* Fix: Compositor asset shelf tabs not working. (9d74a7bdafa03eab70197973fa942b623fb2e545)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 5.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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