hotpatching

Microsoft’s new native server capabilities in Windows Server 2025 are changing long‑standing assumptions about maintenance windows, uptime and operational cost — and the company’s hotpatching rollout in particular is already forcing datacenter teams to rethink update strategy, risk posture, and...

Windows PowerShell 5.1 now stops and asks for confirmation before it will parse web pages in a way that could execute scripts found in that content — a safety-first change that will affect interactive use and any automation that previously relied on the old, IE‑backed HTML DOM parsing behavior...

Microsoft released a Hotpatch today — KB5072014 — for the Windows 11 / Windows Server servicing families, advancing affected systems to OS Build 26200.7392 (25H2 branch) and 26100.7392 (24H2 / LTSC branch) and describing the change in the terse but important language: “This update makes...

Microsoft pushed an out‑of‑band hotpatch on November 20, 2025 to stop a nagging reinstall loop that caused the November hotpatch KB5068966 to be repeatedly downloaded and reinstalled on some Windows 11 version 25H2 devices — a fix that restored sane update behavior but left hard lessons about...

Microsoft released a Hotpatch out‑of‑band update identified as KB5072753 (OS Build 26200.7093) on November 20, 2025, bundling the latest servicing‑stack update and delivered through the normal Windows Update and managed channels; Microsoft’s advisory notes that it is not currently aware of any...

Microsoft issued a small hotpatch today — KB5068966 — for supported Windows 11/Server branches, advancing eligible devices to OS Build 26200.7092 and 26100.7092 and, in Microsoft’s terse public notes, delivering “miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality” with no...

The Louvre’s security humiliation—reports that a surveillance server could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE”—has turned a sensational daytime robbery of the Galerie d’Apollon into a wider institutional reckoning over museum cybersecurity, procurement failures and the real-world consequences...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview release signals a notable shift in how Microsoft will deliver security fixes: a preview hotpatch that installs without forcing a system restart, promising less downtime for users and faster compliance for administrators while exposing new operational...

A recent emergency WSUS patch intended to close a critical remote‑code‑execution hole instead produced an unexpected outage in Microsoft’s restart‑free Hotpatch delivery for a small number of Windows Server 2025 instances — a servicing mishap that forced affected systems off the Hotpatch cadence...

Microsoft confirmed that an October out‑of‑band WSUS update (KB5070881) was mistakenly distributed to some Windows Server 2025 machines enrolled in Microsoft’s Hotpatch program, briefly breaking Hotpatch eligibility for a limited number of servers and creating a predictable three‑month...

Microsoft is asking enterprise customers to seriously consider hotpatch updates — a reboot‑less, security‑only servicing model for Windows that promises faster installs, smaller downloads, and far fewer forced restarts than the traditional Patch Tuesday cadence. Background / Overview Hotpatching...

Microsoft began a staged global rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — Windows 11, version 25H2 — on September 30, 2025, delivering the release primarily as a small enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch; rather than a flashy consumer reboot, this...

Microsoft’s May 13, 2025 hotpatch for Windows PowerShell, released as KB5061096, is a narrowly scoped security update aimed at reducing immediate exposure for hotpatch‑eligible systems while preserving uptime for high‑availability deployments; it applies only to devices enrolled in Microsoft’s...

Microsoft released KB5064010 on August 12, 2025 — a hotpatch that updates eligible Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 and certain Windows Server Azure Edition builds to OS Build 26100.4851, delivering narrowly scoped security hardening without the usual restart required by cumulative updates...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility / UAC repair, and includes two operational advisories administrators must treat as high...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch on September 9, 2025 — KB5065474 — for Windows 11 Enterprise (version 24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible machines to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility/UAC fix, bundles a servicing stack update (SSU), and warns administrators...

Microsoft has released KB5066360, a targeted hotpatch for Windows PowerShell that addresses PowerShell Direct (PSDirect) connectivity failures and a narrow host‑to‑guest exposure introduced by the September 2025 security/hotpatch cycle; the package updates PowerShell assemblies to OS Build...

September 9, 2025 — KB5065474: Hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2) — Full summary, impact, and deployment guidance TL;DR — What you need to know right now Microsoft released hotpatch KB5065474 on September 9, 2025 for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024). After installation eligible...

Microsoft has released KB5066360, a targeted hotpatch for Windows PowerShell that corrects an interoperability and security regression affecting PowerShell Direct (PSDirect) when host and guest virtual machines are unevenly patched; the update is a no-restart hotpatch for eligible systems and...

Microsoft’s September 9, 2025 Patchday brought a dense, operationally important set of fixes for Microsoft Office alongside a much larger ecosystem update—roughly eighty CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure and related components—forcing administrators to treat this month’s release as more than...