August 2023 Cumulative Updates for Windows 11 and 10

This Patch Tuesday brings a portion of general improvements and fixes to supported versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10. The updates are now available to Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 21H2, and for Windows 10, versions 22H2, 21H2, and 1809.

Windows 11

Windows 11, version 22H2, KB5029263 (OS Build 22621.2134)

This update addresses security issues for your Windows operating system. Besides, it includes the following improvements.

  • This update makes brightness settings more accurate.
  • This update addresses an issue that affects certain display and audio devices. They are missing after your system resumes from sleep.
  • This update addresses an issue that affects Widgets. They unpin from the taskbar when you do not expect it.
  • This update addresses an issue that affects virtual private networks (VPN). There might be excessive Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests to the network gateway. This occurs when the VPN is on a wireless mesh network that uses an aggressive throttling algorithm. Because of this, network performance is poor.

The support article is here. You can also manually download this update from Microsoft Update Catalog .

Windows 11, version 21H2, KB5029253 (OS Build 22000.2295)

This update makes miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality. Here are some of them.

  • This update addresses an issue that affects virtual private networks (VPN). There might be excessive Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests to the network gateway. This occurs when the VPN is on a wireless mesh network that uses an aggressive throttling algorithm. Because of this, network performance is poor.
  • This update addresses an issue that affects certain display and audio devices. They are missing after your system resumes from sleep.

Links:

Windows 10 patches

  • Windows 10 "2022 Update", version 22H2: KB5029244 (OS Build 19045.3324).  Microsoft Update Catalog .
  • Windows 10 "November 2021 Update", version 21H2: KB5029244 (OS Build 19044.3324).  Microsoft Update Catalog .
  • Windows 10 "October 2018 Update", version 1809: KB5029247 (OS Build 17763.4737). Microsoft Update Catalog .

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

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