{"id":11985,"date":"2018-04-11T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/news-5754\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:30:04","slug":"news-5754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/news-5754\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the new spring update, Windows 10 version 1803?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:42:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of us expected Microsoft to drop its latest and greatest version of the last version of Windows yesterday. The highly anticipated version 1803, Redstone 4 \u2014 which many of us have been testing for weeks \u2014 looked ready to go \u2026 until it wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rumors are flying but, as of this writing, the actual cause for the delay isn\u2019t public. <\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft, of course, has never committed to a release date. Or a build number. Or even a hokey \u201cSpring after Fall Creators Update\u201d style name, for that matter. (I\u2019m still plugging for \u201cTerry Myerson Swansong version\u201d but doubt it\u2019ll gain traction.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of a new version, all we got was a little patch, KB 4100375, that raised the build number from 17133.1 (which was released to the Fast ring on March 27) to 17133.73. The <\/span>official blog post<\/span><\/a>, co-authored by Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc, says:<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 4\/10: We have released KB4100375 (OS Build 17133.73) to Windows Insiders running Build 17133 in the Fast, Slow, and Release Preview rings. This update includes the following quality improvements (no new OS features):<\/span><\/p>\n

Which seems suitably generic, but it leaves a lot of wiggle room \u2014 and absolutely no explanation for the delay. <\/span><\/p>\n

The download is coyly labeled \u201cCumulative Update for Windows 10 Version Next.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Zac Bowden, reporting on <\/span>Windows Central<\/span><\/a>, attributes the delay to a \u201cblocking bug\u201d \u2014 which, in normal English, just means \u201ca bug so bad that Microsoft figured they better stop the rollout\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

According to my sources, over the weekend Microsoft found a blocking bug that, while apparently rather rare, is impactful enough to hold the release until the issue is fixed. \u2026 \u00a0Thanks to feedback from Insiders in the Fast, Slow, and Release Preview rings, this bug was caught before rollout began.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is rather remarkable, because \u201cWindows Insider\u201d beta testers have had 17133.1 for two weeks \u2014 Fast ring got it on March 27, Slow ring on March 30, and Preview ring on April 10. Hard to understand how it could take two weeks to discover a bad bug.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bowden goes on to <\/span>tweet<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Not sure if bug was fixed in 17133.73 or if it’ll come in another patch. RS4 will likely begin rollout in a couple weeks now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft, of course, is mum. <\/span><\/p>\n

My guess \u2014 and it\u2019s only a guess \u2014 is that Microsoft found some conflict with this month\u2019s Patch Tuesday crop that blew two weeks of Fast ring testing out of the water.<\/span><\/p>\n

Got a better guess? Join us on the <\/span><\/i>AskWoody Lounge<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Don’t forget to block the forced upgrade<\/a> to Win10 version 1803, when and\/or if it’s released.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:42:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Most of us expected Microsoft to drop its latest and greatest version of the last version of Windows yesterday. The highly anticipated version 1803, Redstone 4 \u2014 which many of us have been testing for weeks \u2014 looked ready to go \u2026 until it wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rumors are flying but, as of this writing, the actual cause for the delay isn\u2019t public. <\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft, of course, has never committed to a release date. Or a build number. Or even a hokey \u201cSpring after Fall Creators Update\u201d style name, for that matter. (I\u2019m still plugging for \u201cTerry Myerson Swansong version\u201d but doubt it\u2019ll gain traction.)<\/span><\/p>\n

To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[714,10525],"class_list":["post-11985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-security","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}