[Latest Windows 11 Update] What’s new in KB5044284?

In a Windows operating system, updates are provided via Windows Update feature. This feature helps you to get several kinds of updates essential for your system. Security updates or critical updates mitigate vulnerabilities against security exploits against your Windows system. While cumulative updates usually bundle multiple updates, both new and previously released updates. Cumulative updates were introduced with Windows 10 and have been backported to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. For a properly licensed Windows system, Microsoft offers automatic updates. In this article, you’ll learn about latest Windows Update for Windows 11.

Microsoft usually releases updates on the second Tuesday of each month which is well known by the name of ‘Patch Tuesday’. However, the company can provide them whenever a new update is urgently required to prevent a newly discovered or prevalent exploit. These updates are often called Out-of-band updates. Apart from these, Microsoft may also release preview updates to preview some upcoming features.

What’s new in KB5044284 for Windows 11?

The latest update for Windows 11 atm is KB5044284 and it updates the latest version to build number 26100.2033. The update applies to Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Windows 11 2024 Update). It was released on Oct 8, 2024.

According to Microsoft, this KB:

• This update addresses security issues for your Windows operating system.

You can go to Settings app > Windows Update and check for latest updates and this update should be available for download, followed by installation. You can also install this update via Windows PowerShell. To know complete list of files changed with this update, check this link.

Windows 11 Update History

Here’s the list of updates released for Windows 11, till date. Covers only updates for current version.

In above list, ** indicates preview updates and * indicates Out-of-band updates. The preview updates will offer upcoming features while Out-of-band updates are released to fix an emergency issue raised after previous updates.

For complete changes about this update, you can refer this support article.

That’s it!