January 2024 cumulative update preview

Released January 23, 2024

Summary of what's new in this release

Security improvements

There are no new security improvements in this release. This update is cumulative and contains all previously released security improvements.

Quality and reliability improvements

This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

ASP.NET

Addresses an issue with "System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path" in some ASP.NET MVC requests. (Applies to: .NET Framework 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1.)

.NET libraries

Addresses an issue where version of the OSS zlib library is out of date. (Applies to: .NET Framework 4.8, 4.8.1.)

Known issues

This release contains no known issues.

Summary tables

The following table outlines the updates in this release.

Product version Cumulative update preview
Windows 11, version 22H2 and Windows 11, version 23H2
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.8.1 5034467
Windows 10, version 22H2 5034582
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.8 5034468
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.8.1 5034466

The operating system row lists a KB which will be used for update offering purposes. When the operating system KB is offered, the applicability logic will determine the specific .NET Framework update(s) will be installed. Updates for individual .NET Framework versions will be installed based on the version of .NET Framework that is already present on the device. Because of this the operating system KB is not expected to be listed as installed updates on the device. The expected update to be installed are the .NET Framework specific version updates listed in the table above.