Blender 5.2.3 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
* Deleting a Material used by Geometry Nodes "Set Material" Node. (#163372)
* Crash when deleting invalid shapekey on blendfile read. (#161868)
* 3 Dimension default values not respected when calling a Geometry nodes Tool. (#163878)
* EEVEE: Tangent node produces different result in edit mode while there is no UV map. (#161651)
* Fix: Avoid repopulating Image cache from autosave on undo. (351b6478150)
* Fix: use-after-free passing non-UTF8 file-paths to RNA functions. (939c97c5e2f)
* Fix #163811: Recover XR session after global undo. (#163952)
* Fix: Various crash/bug fixes with differing active scene and sequencer scene. (cafefeccd9f)
* Fix: Cycles: Crash with SSS legacy random walk and emission. (ba920ac75a4)
* Fix: Cycles: Crash with kernel compilation without hair or SSS. (7f51a73732d)
* Fix: Cycles: Wrong handling of vertex color node in bump mapping. (312830cab3b)
* Fix: Cycles: MNEE enabled on HIP without HIP-RT in multi-device render. (6a1ab6a87d5)
* Fix: Hydra: Missing volume material after update. (8592ea0536f)
* Fix: Materials: Potential crashes with unsanitized material slots. (5e41f0d833f)
* Fix: Modeling: Proportional connected edit less accurate than needed. (8e57f84f998)
* Fix: Physics: Invalid point cache extra data read. (2e54cd605d2)
* Fix: Core: Unique naming bug with driver variables, f-modifiers,. (b0655d2347b6)
* Fix: Images: EXR writing software metadata preserved. (997639d28fb)
* Keying Sets: Shortcut K adds any UI Button to the Keying Set. (#164004)
* Vulkan: Fix "Missing features are [VK_KHR_swapchain]" on future driver release. (#164132)
* bpy.app.handlers.render_stats causes rendering process to stall. (#164164)
* Quick Fur: Modifiers should not show their Node Groups. (#163962)
* Regression: Compositing: Glare node highlights offset in viewport, in high quality mode. (#163412)
* Crash using bake in viewport from quick favorites if selected object is disabled. (#164433)
* Crash selecting edit bone with pinned viewer node. (#161981)
* CUDA Error Blender 5.2.2. (#164190)
* Bump node not working on point cloud objects anymore (Cycles). (#164326)
* Python API: bpy.context.temp_override(window=None, screen=None) crashes Blender. (#164486)
* Update All removes wheel dependencies of extensions that are not being updated. (#164227)
* Broken Library Override links that aren't packed cause an immediate crash. (#164125)
* Image Coordinates node breaks if used after a Transform node in Compositor. (#164563)
* UV Editor: Edge Ring Select (Ctrl+Alt+Click) freezes Blender with UV Sync Selection in vertex select mode. (#164323)
* Crash: viewport garbage collector reads a freed object through an inactive-scene depsgraph. (#163701)
* Grease Pencil brush aspect does not work with 5.2 material placement settings. (#162167)
* Fix: Node Wrangler: `Connect to Output` inside node groups fails for certain socket types. (ca16d26a263)
* Vector scope would crash blender if Color Management > Gamma is set too low. (#120806)
* Assets: Cannot download asset with 2.38GB. (#164924)
* Remote Asset Library never Append (always Pack). (#163648)
* Fix: Image autosave data potentially not populated to cache on file load. (a6cc63e7881)
* "Knife project" create entirely unpredictable cut at wrong places. (#158954)
* Node tools: adding a mesh to a point cloud object in edit mode crashes. (#164368)
* Python: When Creating a Mask Spline the 1st Point is Not Fully Initialized. (#164458)
* immediate hard crash while adding Opacity Modifier to Grease Pencil Object. (#162536)
* "Render Audio" produces bad sound file (when called from scripts). (#161827)
* image editor sampling incorrectly on repeated image. (#164527)
* Texture Paint: Crash after painting a stroke with symmetry. (#164752)
* Multiresolution Modifier breaks mask when subdividing in Object Mode. (#123859)
* Regression: Node Tool Options shows for Legacy Curve in Object Mode Regardless while it's not working. (#164964)
* GLTF Export - Crash exporting Unlit material with UDIM texture. (#164105)
* VSE: Scene strip has wrong bounding box. (#164944)
* Blender DELETES unsaved texture work on a texture timeout. (#164448)
* Blender crash when painting (clone tool). (#161954)
* Regression 5.2.1: crash in Texture Paint on Vulkan / freeze on OpenGL (worked in 5.1.1). (#163193)
* Rendering with HIP causes pthread_create crash when using ROCm runtime 7.14 and 10.0.0. (#161943)
* Outliner "Scroll to Active" uncollapses items undesirably. (#161013)
* Fix: glTF: Vertex Color Export - backport 5.2. (935493b6cd9e4d83cd4849fae177262905c58440)
* Nodegroup crashes Blender when being edited. (#163617)
* EEVEE OpenGL: Invalid image bindings when using texture pool. (#161575)
* UI: Remove auto-run preference from warning prompt, communicate risk. (198d44f0060)
* Fix: Core: Auto-run scripts trusted for unintended files. (01e72b8293a)
* Fix: Freestyle: Python style modules ignore auto-run setting. (2a4430733cf)
* Fix: Materials: More unsanitized material slot index issues. (ca58a34b832)
* Fix: EEVEE image texture node crash with invalid blend file. (320fa8f8e1e)
* Fix: Text Editor: Live edit should not be loaded from blend file. (4e420409783)
* Refactor: Stop using `eval()` in Rigify code. (5cada4a8b0b)
* Fix: Rigify: Consistently use getattr and repr instead of eval. (6bc8a2d77a5)
* Fix: Anim: Remove Update Animated Transform Constraints operator. (2d8b9ebe59f)
* Revert "Fix: Cycles: Hydra uses unsupported GPU when driver is outdated". (e20f4844043)
* Fix several potential errors when reading corrupted DNA data. (cf6293034a9)
* Fix: partial data used when a data-block fails to read. (cee3d63d6a0)
* Fix: out-of-bounds struct reconstruction with inconsistent DNA sizes. (8ebc1243e0b)
* Fix: out-of-bounds struct reconstruction with an invalid block count. (92da5200750)
* Fix: out-of-bounds read from an invalid block struct index. (9a4270683b7)
* Fix: null dereference reading a corrupt global or user-prefs block. (e4fe3bccffd)
* Fix: null dereference freeing a partially-read window. (c87d8c08912)
* Fix: null dereference linking a data-block that fails to read. (abf32747c71)
* Tests: add corrupt .blend reader files. (b88ab7eeb14)
* Fix: corrupt linked block silently treated as missing. (330fe8ec003)
* Fix various issues in case linking fails to read a library blenfile. (73ecdbfe9f7)
* Core: Add more early return in invalid case in liblinking part of blendfile reading. (0296b562715)
* Fix: Core: Crash with corrupt thumbnails causing integer overflow. (d723c68112d)
* Fix: Core: Crash listing datablocks and previews with corrupt blend file. (495deb9efff)
* Fix: Core: Crash with missing typeinfo freeing incompletely read node. (45d99782518)
* Fix: Core: Crash with too short blocks in blend file. (c5d6faf04bf)
* Fix: Core: Crash with blend file block of unexpected struct type. (5e1e426bddd)
* Fix: Core: Crash with link placeholder without library in blend file. (9b524b3b8a8)
* Fix: Core: Crash reading ID with missing asset metadata in blend file. (be0552fbd8a)
* Fix: Core: Crash with link placeholder in archive library in blend file. (fe166033d51)
* Fix: Core: Memory leak reading data with invalid size from blend file. (1677fb82310)
* Refactor: Point Cache: Simplify file IO functions. (eb5cb0bffae)
* Fix: Point Cache: Crashes reading corrupt files. (a0c62db3db6)
* Fix: Point Cache: Crash with corrupt point indices in file. (cd841694ab1)
* Fix: Core: Struct size check rejects files with old cloth gravity bug. (fdf7b2a22bd)
* Fix: Core: Struct and array size check not checking negative sizes. (3b3e1e07be6)
* Fix: Core: Crash freeing link placeholders after failing to read library. (3b8cf8fdae4)
* Fix: Core: Use after free with data-block failing to read from blend file. (19281632235)
* Fix: Core: Out of bounds read with too short ID name in blend file. (a0ac7a9b74b)
* Refactor: Core: Utilities to read structs with derived types. (3bd7836223f)
* Fix: Core: Crash with invalid boid rule type in blend file. (7eb2a65881d)
* Fix: Core: Crash with modifier with wrong type. (192d81f0b6b)
* Fix: Core: Crash with legacy grease pencil modifier wrong type. (cd64c336764)
* Fix: Core: Crash with grease pencil drawing or layer with wrong type. (5fcec20c8b3)
* Fix: Core: Crash with shader effect with wrong type. (bfbb687dffe)
* Fix: Core: Crash with line style modifier with the wrong type. (e1d1177f78b)
* Fix: Core: Crash with strip modifier with the wrong type. (581fd021cd8)
* Fix: Core: Crash with node interface item with the wrong type. (2bf438c1d56)
* Fix: Core: Crash with viewer path element with the wrong type. (752f2a172a1)
* Fix: Core: Crash with user menu item with the wrong type. (7de64556c3e)
* Fix: Core: Crash with space data with the wrong type. (13914d2159c)
* Fix: Core: Crash with corrupt window area edges in blend file. (7ef4a9e4abb)
* Fix: Core: Crash copying line style with invalid modifier type. (aaa607d7c74)
* Fix: Core: Crash with node tree interface root panel of wrong type. (f9d44a1836c)
* Fix: Core: Crash freeing data-block that failed to read from blend file. (fab76e95306)
For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 5.2 LTS releases on blender.org
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