Microsoft has launched Home windows 11 KB5051987 and KB5051989 cumulative updates for variations 24H2 and 23H2 to repair safety vulnerabilities and points.
Each KB5051987 and KB5051989 are necessary cumulative updates as they comprise the February 2025 Patch Tuesday safety updates for vulnerabilities found in earlier months.
Home windows 11 customers can set up at this time’s replace by going to Begin > Settings > Home windows Replace and clicking on ‘Verify for Updates.’
It’s also possible to manually obtain and set up the replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
What’s new within the February 2025 Patch Tuesday replace
After putting in at this time’s safety updates, Home windows 11 24H2 (KB5051987) can have its construct quantity modified to Construct 26100.3194, and 23H2 (KB5051989) might be modified to 226×1.4890.
This month’s Patch Tuesday replace has a number of new options, together with a characteristic that permits you to resume the OneDrive file that you simply edited in your telephone straight from the desktop.
Right here is the total changelog:
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[Taskbar] New! This replace improves the previews that present when your cursor hovers over apps on the taskbar. The replace additionally improves their animations.
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[ Windows Studio Effects ] New! An icon will seem within the system tray while you use an app that helps Home windows Studio Results. This solely happens on a tool that has a neural processing unit (NPU). Choose the icon to open the Studio Results web page in Fast Settings. To view the app that’s utilizing the digicam, hover over the icon for a tooltip.
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[Fonts] New! This replace provides Simsun-ExtG, a brand new simplified Chinese language font. It consists of the Biangbiang noodles character. Some apps won’t have the ability to show these new extension characters but. The font has 9,753 ideographs that assist Unicode Extensions G, H, and I. See the listing under.
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Unicode vary G 30000-3134A (4,939 chars)
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Unicode vary H 31350-323AF (4,192 chars)
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Unicode vary I 2EBF0-2EE5D (622 chars)
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[File Explorer]
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New! While you right-click objects within the left pane, the “New Folder” command seems on the context menu.
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New! Home windows restores all of the beforehand open tabs in every File Explorer window. This happens while you allow “Restore earlier folder home windows at logon.”
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New! Home windows activates particular File Explorer settings for you. This happens while you allow “Robotically save my restartable apps and restart them once I signal again in.” Go to Settings > Accounts > Sign up choices.
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Mounted: After you do a search, that search may repeat while you don’t need it to.
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Mounted: The date and time properties of a file may replace after you copy it.
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Mounted: Icons on the main points pane won’t replace as you count on while you change a theme. This makes it arduous to view the change while you change between darkish and lightweight themes.
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Mounted: The search field may lose enter focus as you sort.
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[High dynamic range (HDR)] Mounted: The show of some video games seems oversaturated. This happens while you use Auto HDR.
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[Digital/Analog converter (DAC) (known issue)] Mounted: You may expertise points with USB audio units. That is extra seemingly while you use a DAC audio driver based mostly on USB 1.0. USB audio units may cease working, which stops playback.
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[USB audio device drivers] Mounted: The code 10 error message, “This machine can’t begin” seems. This happens while you hook up with sure exterior audio administration units.
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[Chinese Pinyin input method editor (IME)] Bing will cease giving automated options within the search field for search engine websites, like Baidu. To get handbook options, use Ctrl+Tab or the chevron button (>).
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[USB cameras] Mounted: Your machine doesn’t acknowledge the digicam is on. This challenge happens after you put in the January 2025 safety replace.
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[Passkey] Mounted: This replace removes the one-minute timeout while you use a passkey on a telephone.
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[Power] Mounted: Shutdown is likely to be slower on some units when a controller is related.
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[Wi-Fi] Mounted: The Home windows Safety dialog stops responding. This happens while you check in to sure Wi-Fi networks. The identical challenge may happen for another choices in Settings.
At present, Microsoft just isn’t conscious of any new points.
You’ll be able to test for updates manually to get the modifications as quickly as potential.
To put in the updates, open Begin > Settings > Home windows Replace and click on on ‘Verify for Updates.’