Security News > 2024 > July > Microsoft announces new Windows 'checkpoint' cumulative updates

Microsoft will introduce checkpoint cumulative updates starting in late 2024 for systems running devices running Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11, version 24H2 or later.

This new type of update will deliver security fixes and new features via smaller, incremental differentials that include only changes added since the previous checkpoint cumulative update.

The goal is to save Windows users' bandwidth, hard drive space, and the time spent installing new cumulative updates every month.

Subsequent updates will consist of update package files associated with the checkpoints and new update package files with incremental binary differentials against the last checkpoint.

Admins who manage updates with Windows Update, Windows Update for Business, Windows Autopatch, or Windows Server Update Services will not be required to take any actions following the introduction of checkpoint cumulative updates.

The announcement comes five years after Microsoft discontinued Windows 10 Delta and Express updates on April 9th, 2019.

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