Home windows 11 KB5048667 & KB5048685 cumulative updates launched

Microsoft has launched the Home windows 11 KB5048667 and KB5048685 cumulative updates for variations 24H2 and 23H2 to repair safety vulnerabilities and points.

Each KB5048667 and KB5048685 are obligatory cumulative updates as they include the December 2024 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 ‘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 December 2024 Patch Tuesday replace

After putting in immediately’s safety updates, Home windows 11 24H2 (KB5048667) could have its construct quantity modified to 26100.2605  and 23H2 (KB5048685) can be modified to 226×1.4602.

Putting in December patch will take away the bell icon from the taskbar, and in addition make the date and time shorter, so you’ll be able to have more room for the apps. Likewise, Begin menu now helps bounce lists.

This is the whole checklist 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 need to show off the left or proper display edge contact gesture.

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

• [File Explorer]

  
  

  • New! You may share content material to an Android machine from the context menu in File Explorer and on the desktop. To make use of this function, you will need to set up and configure Telephone Hyperlink in your PC.

  • Fastened: There could be more room than you count on between the gadgets listed within the left pane.

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

• [Dynamic Lighting Settings page]

  
  

  • New! Its web page will present a placeholder message when there isn’t any appropriate machine hooked up to your laptop. Additionally, the Brightness and Results controls can be off.

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

• [Jump lists] New! When you maintain Shift and CTRL and click on a bounce checklist 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 would possibly get a message that asks you to replace your language information manually. You may get these information from Microsoft Retailer. This alteration impacts these of you who use Narrator, voice entry, dwell captions, dwell translations, and voice typing.

• [Display]

  
  

  • Fastened: App home windows would possibly gather within the nook of a monitor after your machine goes to sleep. This happens while you use a number of displays.

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

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

• [Mouse] Fastened: While you use the “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key,” the circles could be tiny on some shows.

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

• [Narrator] New! We now have 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 while you learn lengthy emails, information articles, and wiki pages. Bounce to lists (L) means that you can shortly 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 internet pages (like information articles, wiki web page, and so forth).

Microsoft is rolling out these enhancements steadily, so they might not present up instantly after putting in the replace.