• All of the out-of-band patches were re-issued in the past few hours

    Posted on October 5, 2019 at 06:13 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Every. Single. One.

    I just woke up to discover that all 50 of the 2019-10 patches in the Microsoft Update Catalog have been re-issued. They used to be dated Oct. 2. Now they’re dated Oct. 4. That kind of wholesale change is common when Microsoft changes “metadata” — the part of the patches that control how the patch gets installed. But it appears as if some of the patches (all of them?) have been yanked from Windows Update.

    @PKCano reports that the Win7 out-of-band patch, KB 4524157, has disappeared from Windows Update.

    The KB 4524157 Knowledge Base article says that it’s still available via Windows Update. But, apparently, the KB article lies. No surprise there.

    I just ran a wushowhide check on my Win10 1809 product machine, and it doesn’t show KB 4524148 — the 1809 out-of-band patch — as pending.

    Ztrucker on Tenforums reports, for Win10 version 1903:

    I had to get the Servicing Stack Update and Cumulative Update from the MS Catalog since Check for updates did not give it to me.

    Let me do a quick run through my virtual machines and the blogosphere and check back.

    The official Windows Update Status page doesn’t say anything about the new turn of events.

    @PKCano theorizes that MS isn’t even going to change the KB numbers, when the “for real” Patch Tuesday patches arrive on Tuesday. Kinda sweep everything under the rug.

    Oh. And the bugs are pouring in. Mayank Parmar at Windows Latest just published an article about the Sept. 26 patch for Windo 1903 — the third September cumulative update, KB 4517211 – breaking VMWare Workstation. Yesterday, Abhay Venkatesh at Neowin talked about the broken Start menu after installing the latest (fourth September cumulative update, KB 4524147) patch for Win10 1903. Venkat at Techdows has a smorgasbord report of bugs in KB 4524147 as well. Sergiu Gatlan has a report in BleepingComputer about the broken Start menu in KB 4524147. He, too, talks about the ongoing print problems.

    I just spot-checked the update downloads in the Catalog, and they contain files dated Sept 30 and Oct 1.

    We’re still at MS-DEFCON 1, folks. There’s absolutely no good reason to install ANY September patches.

    … and if you still think that the monthly patches are getting better, I know a fine opthamologist…

    Windows Patches/Security
DON'T MISS OUT!
Subscribe to the Free Newsletter
We promise not to spam you. Unsubscribe at any time.
Invalid email address

View the Forum

  • Recent Replies
  • My Replies
  • My Active Topics
  • New Posts in the Last day
  • Private Messages
  • Knowledge Base
  • How to use the Forums
  • All Forums

    • Recent Topics

    My Profile

    March 2025
    S M T W T F S
     1
    2345678
    9101112131415
    16171819202122
    23242526272829
    3031  

    Want to Advertise in the free newsletter? How about a gift subscription in honor of a birthday? Send an email to sb@askwoody.com to ask how.

    Mastodon profile for DefConPatch
    Mastodon profile for AskWoody

     

    Home • About • FAQ • Posts & Privacy • Forums • My Account
    Register • Free Newsletter • Plus Membership • Gift Certificates • MS-DEFCON Alerts

    Copyright ©2004-2025 by AskWoody Tech LLC. All Rights Reserved.