Microsoft, along the more than a few Ignite 2024, bulletins, additionally launched the primary hotpatch replace for Windows 11 24H2 LTSC Enterprise the day gone by. This replace is a preview and has been launched as Build 26100.2240 below KB5046696.

The changelog says:

Improvements and fixes

This safety replace contains high quality enhancements. Below is a abstract of the important thing problems that this replace addresses whilst you set up this KB. If there are new options, it lists them as smartly. The daring textual content throughout the brackets signifies the article or house of the alternate we’re documenting.

• This replace makes miscellaneous safety enhancements to inside OS capability. No further problems had been documented for this liberate.

Hotpatching, because the identify suggests, signifies that the replace does now not require any gadget reboot, nor does it want any consumer intervention and they’re carried out right away. However, Microsoft assures no include within the degree of safety supplied. Thus it’s going to be put in robotically by the use of the Windows Update. It explains:

Hotpatch generation already has a confirmed, two-year document for Windows Server. Expanding hotpatching to Windows 11 Enterprise, model 24H2 shopper gadgets provides a large number of advantages:

• Devices obtain the similar degree of safety patching as the usual per 30 days safety updates launched on Patch Tuesday.
• Hotpatch updates take impact right away and don’t require consumer consideration.
• Users care for productiveness and safety with out the desire for a tool restart.

This isn’t the one primary alternate to the way in which updates are delivered on Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025. The corporate additionally introduced checkpoint cumulative updates previous this 12 months which are supposed to scale back replace sizes and thus the specified obtain bandwidth and garage footprint.