Last week Microsoft had released new ones cumulative updates for Windows 10, in versions 1607, 1709, 1803 and 1809. Now it's the turn for the most recent versions, Windows 10 1909 is Windows 10 1903. Both are extremely similar and, as usual, receive the same precautions. The build numbers are also identical except for a digit indicating the respective version: 18362.628 is 18363.628.
If once it was decidedly rare to receive these "surprise" updates, then other than the releases scheduled in the Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has changed modus operandi for some months. However, there is a difference compared to the updates on the second Tuesday of the month: if the latter are mandatory and are automatically installed, updates out of traditional timings are optional.
It is the user who chooses whether to install them: therefore it is necessary to proceed manually towards the screen Windows Update, look for new updates coming and then install them. The new updates, recognizable with the code KB4532695, can also be installed manually from this address. Before moving on to the fixes in the update packages, we point out that there are no known bugs in new builds released by Microsoft. Here are the main news, as well as from changelog in English:
- Improves the accuracy of Windows Hello face authentication.
- Updates an issue that changes the user-customized order of tiles in the Start menu even though the layout is locked or partially locked.
- Updates an issue that causes a gray box to appear when you search within Control Panel and File Explorer.
- Updates an issue that prevents File Explorer's Quick access control from pasting clipboard content using the right mouse button (right-click).
- Updates an issue that prevents File Explorer's Quick access control from receiving user input.
- Updates an issue that causes the touch keyboard to close when you select any key.
- Updates an issue that, in certain cases, causes multiplayer PC games to drop the invitation to play the game in multiplayer mode.
- Updates an issue that sometimes causes an error when you unplug a USB type C hub flash drive.
- Updates an issue that displays incorrect indicators for offline and online files.
Finally we report the whole list of news on Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903):
- Improves the accuracy of Windows Hello face authentication.
- Addresses an issue with Windows Mixed Reality that occurs after upgrading to a new version of Microsoft Edge.
- Addresses an issue with download notifications that have multiple short-duration tabs and redirects.
- Addresses an issue that changes the user-customized order of tiles in the Start menu even though the layout is locked or partially locked.
- Addresses an issue that causes a gray box to appear when you search within Control Panel and File Explorer.
- Addresses an issue with a memory leak in ctfmon.exe that occurs when you refresh an application that has an editable box.
- Addresses a keyboard reliability issue for classic apps in the Windows Mixed Reality home.
- Addresses an issue that, in some instances, prevents the Language Bar from appearing when the user signs in to a new session. This occurs even though the Language Bar is configured properly.
- Addresses an issue that causes the touch keyboard to close when you select any key.
- Addresses an issue that prevents software Indirect Display drivers from being signed with more than one certificate.
- Addresses an issue that, in certain cases, causes multiplayer PC games to drop the invitation to play the game in multiplayer mode.
- Addresses an issue with unsigned program files that will not run when Windows Defender Application Control is in Audit Mode, but will allow unsigned images to run.
- Addresses an issue that causes the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process to stop working when you sign in using an updated user principal name (UPN) (for example, changing UserN @contoso.com to [email protected]). The error code is, "0xc0000005 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION)."
- Addresses an issue that sometimes causes an error when you unplug a USB type C hub flash drive.
- Addresses an issue with the Always On Virtual Private Network (VPN) that fails to remove the Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) rules after you disconnect.
- Addresses an issue that might cause the Print Management console to display script errors when you enable the Extended View option.
- Addresses an issue that causes the Windows firewall to drop network traffic from Modern apps, such as Microsoft Edge, when you connect to a corporate network using a virtual private network (VPN).
- Addresses an issue that displays incorrect indicators for offline and online files.
- Addresses an issue with ntdsutil.exe that prevents you from moving Active Directory database files. The error is, "Move file failed with source and Destination with error 5 (Access is denied.)"
- Addresses an issue in which Netdom.exe fails to correctly identify trust relationships when an unconstrained delegation is explicitly enabled by adding bitmask 0x800 to the trust object. The bitmask setting is required because of security changes to the default behavior of unconstrained delegations in Windows updates released on or after July 8, 2019. For more information, see KB4490425 and 6.1.6.7.9 trustAttributes.
- Addresses an issue with evaluating the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.
- Addresses an issue that might cause the Application Virtualization (App-V) Streaming Driver (appvstr.sys) to leak memory when you enable Shared Content Store (SCS) mode.
- Addresses an issue that corrupts a log file when a storage volume is full and data is still being written to the Extensible Storage Engine Technology (ESENT) database.
- Addresses an issue in which code refactoring breaks optimization for writing metadata, which increases Logical Volume Integrity Descriptors (LVID).
Windows 10 November 2019 Update introduces new fixes, not present on Windows 1903. This is a practice that has never happened, since since the introduction of the new rules on updates, the updates between the two versions are identical. Here's what the new update for Windows 1909 has in addition:
- Addresses an issue that prevents File Explorer's Quick access control from pasting clipboard content using the right mouse button (right-click).
- Addresses an issue that prevents File Explorer's Quick access control from receiving user input.
The installation of the fixes contained in these packages is currently optional, however all the fixes will be installed on all compatible machines during the next Patch Tuesday (11 February).
