Blender 4.2.18 LTS Maintenance Release !
Blender Patch Notes — February 17, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Blender 4.2.18 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
* PyAPI: Potential loss of image due to unclear behaviour of `Image.pack()`. (#152638)
* Very intermittent 'Writing to ID classes in this context is not allowed' when updating any property after rendering. (#114455)
* Fix: UI: Instanced panels are drawn in incorrect tab. (ef52ac91b13)
* Bind Camera to Marker operator does not update all windows. (#152250)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org
LTS Program
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Happy blending,
The Blender team