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Will non-security patches only appear in the non-security update?
Another source of confusion... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2017/04/24/new-update-options-for-windows-10-1703/
... we will routinely offer one (or sometimes more than one) additional update each month. These additional cumulative updates will contain only new non-security updates, so they will be considered “Updates” in WSUS and Configuration Manager
and the graph accompanying the article makes it clear that these new non-security cumulative updates will not include security patches. That's all well and good, unless there's an out-of-band security emergency.
But the converse situation wasn't addressed. In particular, do you anticipate relasing any new non-security patches as part of the Patch Tuesday releases?
In other words, can we rely on having only security patches on Patch Tuesday, and non-security patches through the rest of the month?
Of course, if there's an emergency security hotfix, that blows a hole in all of this, but that's always been the case.
Generally, non-security fixes would be added to the non-security updates, not directly in the Patch Tuesday updates. There are occasionally exceptions to that, e.g. more critical non-security updates.
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Generally, non-security fixes would be added to the non-security updates, not directly in the Patch Tuesday updates. There are occasionally exceptions to that, e.g. more critical non-security updates.