New Cumulative update for Windows 10 now available

Though it is not a Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft’s update team is working in full swings. Microsoft has released KB4015438 yesterday for Windows 10 version 1607. The build number has been incremented to 14393.959.The changelog isn’t that big, but two critical things have been fixed. Here is what MS wrote about it:

This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

• Addressed a known issue with KB4013429 that caused Windows DVD Player (and 3rd party apps that use Microsoft MPEG-2 handling libraries) to crash.

• Addressed a known issue with KB4013429, that some customers using Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 1607 Client with Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) enabled might experience a deadlock or when changing the physical adapter’s link speed property. This issue is most commonly seen as a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION or when verifier is enabled a VRF_STACKPTR_ERROR is seen in the Memory dump.

Head over to Windows update to get this update now. You can always use Microsoft update catalog as well to download this update.