It displays multiple notifications that you can interact with simultaneously. There are also a variety of small new features, including a new policy that expands an app’s top three notifications by default in the Action Center for apps that send Windows notifications. To see more details at a glance, hover or click on the illustration in the search box. This build introduces Search highlights, which display notable moments about each day, including holidays, anniversaries, and other events globally and in your region.
There are three known issues in this update, including one in which devices with Windows installations created from custom offline media or custom ISO image might have Microsoft Edge Legacy removed by this update, but not automatically replaced by the new Microsoft Edge.
For details, see Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and the April 2022 Security Updates notes. This build includes a wide variety of security updates.
This build fixes a wide variety of bugs, including one that caused a remote desktop session to close or a reconnection to stop responding while waiting on the accessibility shortcut handler (sethc.exe), another that that displayed a black screen for some users when they sign in or sign out, and another that prevented you from changing a password that has expired when you sign in to a Windows device. There are three known issues in this update, including one in which devices with Windows installations created from custom offline media or custom ISO images might have Microsoft Edge Legacy removed by this update, but not automatically replaced by the new Microsoft Edge. Over the next few weeks, check for reports about problematic issues, and if all seems well, apply the update. What IT needs to know: Because this is a security update, it should be applied relatively soon. For details, see Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and the May 2022 Security Updates notes.
If you’re still using an earlier version of Windows 10 or of Windows, see the Microsoft support site for info about updates to Windows 10 1909, 1903, 1809, 1803, 1709, 1703, 1607, 1511, the initial version of Windows 10 released in July 2015, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7.Īnd if you’re looking for information about Insider Program previews for upcoming feature releases of Windows 10, see “ Windows 10 Insider Previews: A guide to the builds.” Updates to Windows 10 versions 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2 KB5013942 (OS Builds 19042.1706, 19043.1706, and 19044.1706) (Microsoft releases updates for those four versions together.) For each build, we’ve included the date of its initial release and a link to Microsoft’s announcement about it.
In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the most recent versions of Windows 10 - versions 21H2, 21H1, 20H2, and 2004. As soon as one of Microsoft’s feature updates (such as Windows 10 version 21H2) is released, the company quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process - it’s really just the beginning.