14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released new previews of the monthly rollups that it plans to ship to Windows 7 and 8.1 devices as part of the June 2019 Patch Tuesday cycle.
Windows 7 testers can thus download and install preview of monthly rollup KB4499178, while on Windows 8.1 Microsoft has started testing update KB4499182.
There aren’t a lot of changes in these updates, and the most notable are refinements for time zone information for certain regions, as well as the typical bug fixes for Japanese date formats.
You can find both changelogs embedded in the box after the jump.
The Windows 7 update comes with a single known issue, and it concerns a problem with McAfee security software that could cause devices to freeze on boot. The issue also exists in the latest monthly rollup shipped to Windows 7 devices on the May 2019 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft says a fix is still in the works.
Public rollout set for June 11
In the case of update KB4499182 for Windows 8.1, there are three bugs that have already been acknowledged, all of them confirmed to exist in previous monthly rollups too.
In addition to the McAfee compatibility glitch mentioned above, Windows 8.1 devices could experience file renaming issues on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and problems with the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE).
In all cases, Microsoft says it is already working on a resolution, and it is expected to go live “in an upcoming release.” No specifics have been provided.
These monthly rollups are projected to be pushed to all Windows 7 and 8.1 computers next month on June 11 when Microsoft begins another Patch Tuesday cycle. Both updates will come alongside security-only patches that would only include the security fixes that Microsoft uses to resolve vulnerabilities in its products.