The new Windows 10 20H2, October 2020 Update , is here. The new Windows update has started to reach all users this week. Some can install it from Windows Update, while others have to wait, or force the update. Despite being in the Insider Beta channel for several weeks, the new October update has reached all users with quite a few bugs and problems, errors that Microsoft must fix before this update begins to appear to more and more users.
Changes in update KB4580364 of October 2020
This new KB4580364 patch for Windows 10 has arrived full of changes to the new version of Windows 10. Some of these changes are minor fixes, while others may affect the correct operation of the update. Therefore, we recommend installing it as soon as it is available.
The bugs (and other changes) that this update has fixed are:
- Meet Now comes to the stable version of Windows 10. Now meeting is easier and faster than ever, without logins and without downloading anything.
- Various fixes in Windows 10 Pro group policies, especially related to Internet Explorer.
- Suspicious URLs that are opened with Internet Explorer will now go through Microsoft Defender Application Guard to the Edge browser.
- Fixed various bugs in Windows 10 developer tools.
- Fixed a bug that caused nothing to appear on the screen for 5 minutes or more when connecting from Internet Explorer.
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain Windows Virtual Desktop users from searching in File Explorer.
- Fixed a bug that would crash the PC after having been using a stylus for several hours.
- Fixed a bug that caused some programs to stop responding temporarily.
- Fixed an issue that caused some DDE apps to stop working.
- Fixed various bugs in IME keyboards.
- Fixed a strange bug that caused the keyboard layout to change when logging in via Remote Desktop Services and misspelling the password.
- The CPU frequency for certain processes is now much more accurate.
- Fixed a bug that caused the time format to be incorrect.
- Now Microsoft’s User Experience Virtualization can be applied to Outlook signatures.
- Fixed a bug that prevented computers connected to a Hybrid Azure Active Directory from updating their information.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Smart Cards for Windows service from starting.
- Added a new Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) provider for Windows 10 20H2 called “Microsoft-Antimalware-UacScan.
- Fixed various bugs in system VPN connections.
- The recovery partitions now appear again in the new disk manager.
- Fixed 0xd1 error in sys.
- Fixed IAutomaticUpdatesResults :: get_LastInstallationSuccessDate error when no updates are available.
- Added support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when connecting to a SQL Server using Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). Performance issues for SQL Linked servers have also been fixed.
- LanmanServer performance issues fixed.
- Improved data deduplication performance for ReFS file systems.
- Fixed a bug in Windows TCP / IP that could cause the system to stop working.
- Fixed a bug that made Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) not detect new connections.
- Fixed a bug that prevented using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) on ARM64 machines.
When will I receive this patch
So far, Microsoft has only brought KB4580364 to Beta channel Insider users. This is because the company probably wants to test it thoroughly before bringing it to all users via Windows Update. Users who install this update will be downgraded to OS build 19042.608 and therefore all these known bugs should be gone from the system.
It is likely that, when the KB4580364 patch is ready to reach all users, Microsoft will decide to expand the scope of its October 2020 to more users so that, little by little, most users, especially those who already use 1909 and 2004, you can make the jump as soon as possible to the new Windows 10 20H2.