Not enough collected about this plugin to judge yet.
One of four things: its support forum has not been swept yet, there are too few earlier releases to know what normal looks like, no thread on this release or the ones before it could be tied to a version at all, or the last sweep is too old to read silence from. That is a gap on our side, not a finding about the release — it is neither safe nor unsafe here. Check the plugin's own support forum on wordpress.org before updating.
released 2024-10-261 thread attributedbaseline 0/release
Evidence readout
// this release vs Crop-Thumbnails’s normal noise level
strong evidence1weak evidence0baseline0
Strong evidence: forum threads naming v1.9.4 exactly. Weak evidence: undated complaints posted within 14 days of this release (before the next one). Baseline: this plugin’s average exact-match threads per recent release — its normal noise level.