The weekly patch run

Hi all.
Please note to admins.
3 spam comments were trashed this morning after I returned from vacation.
Yesterday was patch day for all systems.
I won’t list everything that appeared, but google, mozilla dropbox and microsoft had updates to their software.
Adobe also had an update.
A small note, as of this writing while firefox 145 is out thunderbird simply jumpped to 146 without a 145 stable release which either means a major feature or it just didn’t release for some reason.
Also zoom didn’t update either.
For those using windows, issues with the update extender are now fixed as are the issues with weird task manager issues and taskbar behaviours.
Right now, the update patches are still in the catalog meahing you potentially can download them I guess manually.
For devs out there dotnet 10 stable is now out so download that and update your files.
A note that all users will need initial versions on all systems.
A note, on windows 10 while you can get the lib any fixes will not be supplied for it or anything else unless I assume secure but they will appear on the site so if you need to you can download them I guess.
There is an interesting article loadout from an x ms enginier about the servicing modle of windows 11 to read online and it may be worth it for users to read.
I never got this one, but its come out unofficially that the cryptolocker being pushed automatically to users is and will cause more harm than good.
I have stated many times that forcing things on users is not a good thing.
And the way its going it will get worse.
Keep your system updated and backed up and make sure you have multiple coppies of your data so when the system fails to login at least you can reinstall.
Lets hope that the multiple reformats and wipes users do to fix their systems every time things go out of sync will eventually lead to legal action and force microsoft to be reasonable they don’t seem to respond to anything else
The holiday can be found in my blog.
I am playing expantion packs to games and generally mucking about.
The trip was good.
It didn’t rain and that was good.
I did some cave exploration learning about what various places were used for and other cultural things.
I also explored more gardens and had food, mucked with friends.
I then moved to a city that was prity much a tropical island feel.
All good but it was time to return.
I will be back to the grindstone now.
Everything is done at least and I should be back to what I was doing.