Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5017308 and KB5017315 cumulative updates for versions 21H2, version 21H1, version 20H2, and 1809 to fix security vulnerabilities and resolves twenty bugs and performance issues.
This update is not available for Windows 10 1909 or Windows 10 2004.
This Windows 10 cumulative update is mandatory and will automatically be installed by Windows Update during your servicing window. However, Windows users can manually install the updates by going to Settings, clicking on Windows Update, and selecting 'Check for Updates.
All of the Windows 10 updates released as part of today's Patch Tuesday updates are listed below:
- Windows 10 version 1507 — KB5017327 (OS Build 10240.19444)
- Windows 10 version 1607 — KB5017305 (OS Build 14393.5356)
- Windows 10 version 1703 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1709 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1803 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1809 — KB5017315 (OS Build 17763.3406)
- Windows 10 version 1903 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1909 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 2004 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 20H2, 21H1 and 21H2 — KB5017308 (OS Builds 19042.2006, 19043.2006, and 19044.2006)
For a list of vulnerabilities fixed today, you can read our dedicated September 2022 Patch Tuersday security article.
What's new in Windows 10 KB5017308
After installing this update, Windows 10 20H2 will be updated to build 19042.1826, Windows 10 21H1 will be updated to build 19043.1826, and Windows 10 21H2 will be updated to build 19044.1826.
The official release notes, "This update contains miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality. No additional issues were documented for this release".
However, based on the preview update released in August, the KB5017308 cumulative update includes fixes for 22 bugs and two new features.
The new features are the ability for IT admins to remotely manage language-related features on a Windows 10 device and increased protection from ransomware and advanced attacks in Microsoft Defender.
Some of the notable bugs fixed with this cumulative update include a fix for an issue causing game installations to fail because of a licensing issue.
It also fixed an issue that affects the icon colors of the list in the Search app and '0x1E' errors when attempting to shut down or restart Windows.
Another interesting bug that was fixed is an issue that caused performance issues when BitLocker was enabled.
A full list of bugs fixed in the KB5017308 update can be found in the KB5016688 preview update, released on August 26th.
Comments
noelprg4 - 1 year ago
actually Mayank the KB5017308 update has builds 19042.2006 for 20H2, 19043.2006 for 21H1 & 19044.2006 for 21H2
MikeBWarren - 1 year ago
Microsoft had done a bad thing, I will explain. KB5017308 is a update that removes your previous updates and replaces them with new updates, not only this, if you get the message that your device is missing security updates and Kb5017308 does not finish installing, you will find that if you wanted to revert back to say 21H1 or 20H0 etc through Microsoft’s catalogue you will find in the catalogue that although the descriptions are saying 21H1 or 20H0 etc the actual update is KB5017308, which is the end of update support for Windows 10. And this can be verified by looking at the dates this updates were put on the catalogue. I strongly suspect this was done to force people to update to Windows 11 if the machine is capable and compatible with Windows 11 and if not, force people to buy another computer that is compatible with Windows 11. This is not the time to force people to pay out for new machines as thousands will not be able to afford it due to rising costs of energy etc. Please note that Opensuse Linux will run on the majority of machines and is free and a very capable operating system that has free software that had been vetted and inspected by Novell. Regards Mike Warren Advanced Consultant Engineer In Information Technology.