Blender 4.2.3

What's new in this version:

- “Auto-Save Preferences” does not work in all preference menus
- 4.1 splash screen won’t render in Blender 4.2.1 with MetalRT
- BKE: id_delete: Do not forbid layer collection resync in non-Main case
- Black rectangle artifact in mask feather
- Changing enum props in redo menu doesn’t update the menu drawing
- Combining two Shader to RGB nodes destroys the Normals AOV
- Compositing Using Multiple Utility Levels Node Freeze Blender
- Crash applying object transform for multi-user objects
- Crash deleting mask vertices
- Crash if expanding the fonts directory fails
- Crash making objects single user
- Crash on load after id_properties_ui type change
- crash to desktop when baking texture from selected mesh with no faces to active
- Crash using “~” in the file selector when the “home” is null
- Cryptomatte segmentation error
- DRW: Rename draw_debug_info.hh to avoid conflict with main branch
- EEVEE: Inconsistent DOF Preview
- EEVEE: Mesh Plane Disappears on Some Angles
- EEVEE: Refractive materials do not refract emissive materials
- EEVEE: Volume Lightprobe: Division by zero if no object is visible
- Extensions: Manifest polishing
- Fix ARRAY_HAS_ITEM macro on 64bit systems
- Fix IDPropertyUIManager.as_dict() non-array default for arrays
- Fix inconsistency between *BKE_appdir_folder_{home/default} on macOS
- Fix mask duplicate failing to set the active point
- Fix: ‘Snap to Grid’ defaults to ‘Center’ instead of ‘Median’ when ‘Closest’ is selected
- Fix: Error in builds without OCIO
- Fix: Snap grid point of Rotate operator is closest to the constraint axis
- Fix: Snap to Grid with constraint limited to floor level
- Fix: Uninitialized variable in versioning code
- glTF exporter: fix crash using full collection hierarchy export
- GPU compositor glare node does not work properly on high resolution images
- HDRI Screen tearing
- Incorrectly displays texture transparency when face orientation is enabled
- Keys deleting when moving key(s) in Graph Editor with shared animation across multiple objects
- Large VDB files crashing Blender 4.2 RC – macOS Metal
- License: Outdated HDRi license file
- macOS: Splash Screen notice to about reduced performance on Rosetta
- macOS: UV islands display issue – macOS Metal
- Memory leak selecting meshes in multi-object edit-mode
- Parent to triangle changes child location
- Regression: Corrupted output when changing render regions in script with cycles without denoising
- Regression: file selector automatically creates paths & warns
- Regression: Multires Unsubdivide destroys the vertex groups
- Regression: Snapping related performance regression in 4.2
- Regression: STL importing files in with smooth shaded faces
- Regression: Toggle Maximize Area slower with geometry nodes
- render view with Cropped render region result in line offset / distortion with GPU compositor set to GPU
- Snaping in solid mode (Xray 1.0) doesnt snap other geometry
- Tooltips unnecessary large padding
- Uncheck “Load UI” causes failure in direct manipulation of nodes with certain files
- Video: Error in video decoding on either Linux or AVX512 CPU (ffmpeg alignment issue?)
- WIN32: Extension update failed and removed the addon instead