Microsoft released new cumulative updates for supported versions of the company's Windows 10 operating system on September 20, 2018.
The updates KB4458469, KB4457136, KB4457141 and KB4457127 address a huge number of issues in the Windows 10 versions 1803, 1709, 1703 and 1607.
Microsoft released the updates ten days after the release of Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018. The updates include "quality improvements" only; they don't introduce new features or fix security issues.
Microsoft plans to release the next feature version of Windows 10, Windows 10 version 1809 in the coming weeks.
Note: All updates include a Telemetry change
Addresses an issue with evaluating the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.
Here are the Support page links:
Microsoft Update Catalog links:
KB4458469 is a massive update the fixes a lot of issues. It is for Windows 10 version 1803 and includes the following fixes:
The updates for Windows 10 version 1709, 1703, and 1607 share most of their fixes with 1803 but fewer issues are fixed.
Here is the list of updates not found in 1803.
Should you install these updates? Unless you are affected by a described issue in a major way, it is recommended that you wait with the installation. Updates are designed to fix issues but they sometimes introduce issues of their own. If you do want to proceed with the installation right away make sure you create a system backup before you do.
Addresses an issue that may cause setup to fail during OEM-OOBE implementation if French or Spanish language setting is selected on the Hyper-V host. : Did you install these updates?
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in all my oc’s with windows 10 1803 Home this update is not available
Tor Browser 8.0 sends OS+kernel+TOTAL_PING_COUNT in update queries to Mozilla
– Tails 3.9, which ships with TB 8.0, is also affected.
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User report:[1]
https://blog.torproject.org/comment/277375#comment-277375
Sanitize the add-on blocklist update URL
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16931
related, old, closed ticket (unresolved):
TBB-Firefox sends OS+kernel in update queries to Mozilla
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734
[1]: “TBB-Firefox sends Linux kernel version in extensions blocklist update queries to Mozilla. 6 years old ticket closed https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6734 without fix this privacy issue.
From Ubuntu 18.04.1 LiveCD
/v1/blocklist/3/%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/60.2.0/Firefox/20180204030101/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/en-US/release/Linux 4.15.0-29-generic (GTK 3.22.30 libpulse 11.1.0)/default/default/1/1/new/”
“about:config
extensions.blocklist.url”
“Also it send TOTAL_PING_COUNT to tell mozilla how many days you use TBB.”
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Tor 8.0 is messed up. It also adopts your windows title bar colors. What else is it doing?
Use 7.5.6 and disable the update feature in:
Tor Browser\Browser\update-settings.exe
by changing the only line in it to: ACCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=0
The update onion in the browser will flash, but no big deal; it won’t auto update any more.
@ULBoom:
You meant to type “update-settings.ini” (not.exe), but it was obvious once you were in the folder. Still, at first I half freaked out! (How do I edit an EXE file?).
I kept a separate install of Tor Browser 7.5.6 going, both because I like my legacy extensions and because I wanted to give time for problems with Tor Browser 8 to shake out … and it looks like there were some.
Anyway, thanks for the tip!
After researching the good documentation Microsoft provided on 2018-09-20, I used WU to install KB4458469 that day, as I am in favor of installing Quality updates and Security updates, and much less interested in Feature updates. No problems were observed so far for me.
“The updates KB4458469, KB4457136, KB4457141 and KB4457127 address a huge number of issues in the Windows 10 versions 1803, 1709, 1703 and 1607.”
I bet they do nothing to fix the real issues with W10.
Hey, still waiting for 1809, no needs for Updates, i got NO good Results when doing Updates,…only doing new Upgrades to keep mee System and PC running flawlessly.
1809 will be released in October, i guess?
This isn’t the first time I see your recommending people not to update their software, so I now feel obliged to fill you in on how you’re wrong.
The idea that someone should only update if they were facing issues is just not true at all. The vast majority of people will update their software without any issues, this time and always.
There’s really no need to be poisoning people’s minds by telling them to steer clear of software updates.
There is no need to rush this update. I’m not saying that you should never upgrade. With this particular update, it makes no difference if you wait until the next Patch Tuesday unless you are affected by one or multiple of the issues described.
The question is why has Microsoft issued this update out of the blue ? It doesn’t fix some 0-day security bug or any thing important. People don’t have to stop their work 4 times in a month on Microsoft’s whim. Once in a month is more than enough. Once in 3 months is much better.
Delaying updates long enough for everyone to test them first is always sound advice.
the kb4458469 won’t update, keeps showing error and when downloaded from windows catalogue keeps searching for installed updates for ever
Good LORD, that’s a long and heterogeneous list of bugs! My dad, who’s on the Enterprise Semi-Annual Channel, was forcibly upgraded from 1709 to 1803 last weekend. He’s getting pretty old, and I’m afraid if I go through the entire list with him to ask if he’s been affected by any, he might lapse into a coma!
@Martin
What about all the other tiny updates happening in the background?
Every single windows app wants to connect to the internet on it’s own and update constantly.
I use WFC and have “Secure Rules” enabled so this fails and causes my PC to get stuck trying to update apps in the backround. I disable the secure rules and let them all update then I can go look at the rules list and see all the new ones that were added. Every single app gets it’s own rule.
This makes me uncomfortable having every single app allowed to connect on it’s own instead of them all being updated by WU. Especially because no one is saying what exactly these little updates or for.
On Windows 10 x64 Home at 17134.319, WU offered KB4458469 (and probably KB4456655 by install observation). The 1803 is now at 17134.320 .
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4458469/windows-10-update-kb4458469
My new tab page in Chrome Version 70.0.3538.35 (Official Build) beta (64-bit) is now blank white instead of using the long available Google Arts and Culture extension. Chrome More Tools – Extension shows it as still turned on.