Blender 4.5.8 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.5 - 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 v4.5 - Stable - Stable.

* Regression: Sculpting: Shapekey Solo breaks undo steps. (#153226[projects.blender.org])
* Crash when quickly scrolling objects with modifier panels visible. (#154087[projects.blender.org])
* Assertion Failure: Moving Keyframe in Graph Editor beyond enum range. (#82669[projects.blender.org])
* When picking a focus distance while it's keyed + auto keyframe on, it doesn't drop a keyframe automatically. (#154399[projects.blender.org])
* Blender suddenly crashed when trying to join a rig into another a rig that is parented into another a rig. (#154651[projects.blender.org])
* Lineart Modifier seemingly using free()'d/invalid triangle data. (#154632[projects.blender.org])
* Fix: Correctly set new action user count to 0. (9663231430f[projects.blender.org])
* Principled BDSF to Shader to RGB breaks when using both sheen and subsurface scattering. (#154962[projects.blender.org])
* Odd lag with Grease Pencil Hook Modifier - dependency issue?. (#153137[projects.blender.org])
* Error loading SGI image with 2 bytes per pixel, RLE (assertion, potential out of bounds read). (#155162[projects.blender.org])
* Boundary brush symmetry bug. (#154678[projects.blender.org])
* Paint: Linear Burn not supported. (#155207[projects.blender.org])
* Assertion failure while closing Blender after rendering smoke simulation. (#155341[projects.blender.org])

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-5/

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* Sockets of linked node tree group can be added or deleted. (#133666[projects.blender.org])* Crash in Blender 4.2 when trying to enable HIP with AMD GPU driver 26.2.1. (#154921[projects.blender.org])