This is the latest update available for Windows 10

Aug 10, 2022 17:47 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just released a new Windows 10 cumulative update, obviously as part of the August 2022 Patch Tuesday rollout, so the focus is clearly on security improvements.

The new cumulative update for Windows 10 version 21H2, which is currently the most recent version of the operating system, is KB5016616, and it obviously comes with the same improvements as for Windows 10 version 21H1 – these two releases share a similar codebase, so Microsoft ships the same update for both of them.

Given it’s a Patch Tuesday release, KB5016616 is first and foremost supposed to address security vulnerabilities in the operating system.

But at the same time, it also comes with three additional fixes, including for printing and the Language Bar.

Microsoft lists the following improvements as part of cumulative update KB5016616:  

  • Addresses an issue that affects the printing of files you submit to a printer.
  • Addresses a known issue that might prevent the Input Indicator and Language Bar from displaying in the notification area. This issue affects devices that have more than one language installed.
  • Addresses security issues for your Windows operating system.

There are also several known issues in this cumulative update, and one of them has only recently been acknowledged by Microsoft. Also affecting Windows 11, this bug impacts XPS Viewer, therefore it only affects the computers where this app has been manually installed.

“After installing this update, XPS Viewer might be unable to open XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents in some non-English languages, including some Japanese and Chinese character encodings. This issue affects both XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Open XML Paper Specification (OXPS) files,” Microsoft says.

“When encountering this issue, you may receive an error, "This page cannot be displayed" within XPS Viewer or it might stop responding and have high CPU usage with continually increasing memory usage. When the error is encountered, if XPS Viewer is not closed it might reach up to 2.5GB of memory usage before closing unexpectedly.”

A fix for this issue is already in the works, Microsoft says.