Home windows 11 KB5050009 & KB5050021 cumulative updates launched

Microsoft has launched the Home windows 11 KB5050009 and KB5050021 cumulative updates for variations 24H2 and 23H2 to repair safety vulnerabilities and points.

Each KB5050009 and KB5050021 are obligatory cumulative updates as they comprise the January 2025 Patch Tuesday safety updates for vulnerabilities found in earlier months.

Home windows 11 customers can set up immediately’s replace by going to Begin > Settings > Home windows Replace and clicking on ‘Test for Updates.’

You can even manually obtain and set up the replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

What’s new within the January 2025 Patch Tuesday replace

After putting in immediately’s safety updates, Home windows 11 24H2 (KB5050009) can have its construct quantity modified to 26100.2605  and 23H2 (KB5050021) can be modified to 226×1.4602.

January Patch does not have many options or enhancements, nevertheless it nonetheless ships with the adjustments from November. If the options weren’t enabled in November, you’ll be able to count on them to indicate up now.

Here is the entire record of fixes and enhancements:

• New! This replace provides a brand new part for touchscreen edge gestures. Go to Settings > Bluetooth & Gadgets > Contact. There, you’ll be able to select if you want to show off the left or proper display screen edge contact gesture.

• [Input Method Editor (IME)] New! After you put in this replace, the IME toolbar will conceal when apps are in full display screen mode. This solely happens when the IME toolbar is energetic and also you sort Chinese language or Japanese characters.

• [File Explorer]

  
  

  • New! You’ll be able to share content material to an Android system from the context menu in File Explorer and on the desktop. To make use of this characteristic, you need to set up and configure Cellphone Hyperlink in your PC.

  • Fastened: There is perhaps more room than you count on between the objects listed within the left pane.

  • Fastened: The search field is minimize off when the File Explorer window is small.

• [Dynamic Lighting Settings page]

  
  

  • New! Its web page will present a placeholder message when there is no such thing as a suitable system connected to your pc. Additionally, the Brightness and Results controls can be off.

  • New! This replace provides the Ahead, Backward, Outward, and Inward course choices to the Wave impact. The Gradient impact now has the Ahead course choice.

• [Jump lists] New! Should you maintain Shift and CTRL and click on a bounce record merchandise, this opens the merchandise as an admin.

• [Speech in Windows] New! This replace improves the speech-to-text and text-to-speech options in Home windows. You may get a message that asks you to replace your language information manually. You will get these information from Microsoft Retailer. This transformation impacts these of you who use Narrator, voice entry, stay captions, stay translations, and voice typing.

• [Display]

  
  

  • Fastened: App home windows may accumulate within the nook of a monitor after your system goes to sleep. This happens whenever you use a number of displays.

  • Fastened: Mica materials won’t show appropriately. This happens whenever you use a slideshow background.

  • Fastened: Some secondary shows may expertise lag and display screen tearing when a window is in full display screen.

• [Mouse] Fastened: If you use the “Present location of pointer once I press the CTRL key,” the circles is perhaps tiny on some shows.

• [Clipboard] Fastened: Clipboard historical past (Home windows emblem key plus signal (+) V) may present no content material. This problem happens although it’s on, and you’ve got copied textual content and pictures.

• [Narrator] New! We’ve got added new capabilities to Narrator scan mode. Skip previous hyperlinks (N) means that you can go to the textual content after a hyperlink. That is most useful whenever you learn lengthy emails, information articles, and wiki pages. Soar to lists (L) means that you can rapidly entry a listing on an online web page or in a doc. To make use of these new capabilities, activate Narrator first (Home windows emblem key + Ctrl + Enter). Then flip scan mode on by urgent Caps lock + Spacebar. Notice that scan mode is on by default on most net pages (like information articles, wiki web page, and so forth).

You’ll be able to test for updates manually to get the adjustments as quickly as attainable.

Microsoft isn’t conscious of latest points.