As part of the July 2021 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released new KB5004237 and KB5004245 cumulative updates for recent versions of Windows. Today’s cumulative updates include security fixes for PCs with May 2021 Update, October 2020 Update, and May 2020 Update.
This month’s KB5004237 and KB5004245 cumulative updates are part of the mandatory Patch Tuesday updates containing numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements. Also included are security updates for 117 vulnerabilities in the OS, browsers, core components, and other basic functions.
The full list of today’s cumulative updates is below:
Windows users must install these updates as soon as possible as they contain fixes for nine zero-day vulnerabilities, with four actively exploited by threat actors.
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Like every Windows Update, you can open Settings, click on Windows Update, and select ‘Check for Updates‘ to install the updates.
If you own multiple PCs or if you would like to patch the PCs manually, you can learn more about it here.
After installing the KB5004237 update, Windows 10 2004 will be updated to build 19041.1110, Windows 10 20H2 will be updated to build 19042.1110, and Windows 10 21H1 will be updated to build 19043.1110.
KB5004237 comes with the following bug fixes:
You can find a complete list of improves and fixes and detailed explanations of the known issues in the KB5004237 support bulletin.
Windows 10 version 1909 is getting KB5004245, and it includes the same set of bug fixes highlighted abov
This update also includes additional fixes for the News and Interests feature, such as blurry text on the button and taskbar glitches when you enable the feature.
The “News and Interests” is a Windows 10 taskbar news feed based on Microsoft News (MSN), and it will give news stories, sports scores, finance, and weather information. However, a bug resulted in blurry icons.
Microsoft has fixed this bug with today’s updates.
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