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Mitigating Spectre variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows

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Mehmet_Iyigun
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Dec 06, 2018
Updated May 14, 2019:  We're happy to announce that today we've updated Retpoline cloud configuration to enable it for all supported devices!* In addition, with the May 14 Patch Tuesday update, we've...
Updated May 14, 2019
Version 16.0
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TheJAC
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Mar 01, 2019

Could you please explain how to tell if retpoline is enabled? You mentioned the powershell command, but I don't see anything in the results related to retpoline or it is not obvious to me which of the results relate to it.

 

*EDIT* Nevermind, apparently the Skip Ahead 20H1 builds do not include it yet