Where are the September .NET patches?

Where are the .NET updates for September?

It would kind of be nice to have all the updates when building my baselines and patching my servers…

Chris

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At first I thought this may be a concern… but now, I am wondering if there are no .NET patches actually…
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance

:edit
NOPE, there should be .NET… checked WSUS/SCCM.

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I was wondering this also.

They have been released in Patches for Windows site version 3612 as per this announcement.

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.NET Framework updates are good, but it would be nice if we could also get .NET Core updates also.

HCL, please look at these .net updates. the BIG FIX console shows kb4570720 as a Sep Cumulative update for .net 3.5 and 4.72. Microsoft shows this update as the 2020-08 (AUG) preview for 3.5 and 4.72. I cant figure out the disconnect.

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Paging @bma to look at this…

I think i have figured this out myself. Best guess is Microsoft re-used kb4570720 for the Sept update after using it for the August preview update. From the MS update catalog, kb4576627 which is the 2020-09 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 1809 (KB4576627) gives you downloads for both kb4576483 and kb4570720. The KB4570720 is the same update that is in Big Fix. Does Microsoft ever re-use KB numbers across months? Maybe they do and i just never noticed it?

.NET updates are frequently re-wrapped with a new parent/container KB numbers.

In your example, KB4576627 is what we’d consider the parent or container KB. It consists of two .NET updates (one for 4.7.2 and one for 4.8), each of which have their own KB numbers.

Next month, if there is no update to .NET Framework 4.7.2 on Windows 10 version 1809, MS would typically create a new container KB and again add KB4576627 to that.