The April 2022 cumulative update for Microsoft Windows 10 is now available with a series of improvements and fixes. Microsoft has released cumulative updates for Windows 10 KB5012599 and KB5012591 for versions 21H2, 21H1, 20H2, and 1909 to address security vulnerabilities and bugs.
- 1507：KB5012653 (Build 10240.19265)
- 1607：KB5012596 (Build 14393.5066)
- 1809：KB5012647 (Build 17763.2803)
- 1909：KB5012591 (Build 18363.2212)
- 2004, 20H2, v21H1, 21H2：KB5012599 (Build 19042.1645, 19042.1645, 19043.1645, and 19044.1645)
This cumulative update introduces the Search Highlights feature, which is designed to enrich the Windows Search Home page. As the name suggests, search highlights will show content related to the user’s interests, trending topics on Bing, topics of the day, or news related to the current date.
In addition, the patch fixes the following issues:
- Added the ability to change the color of the toast button to more easily identify success and critical scenarios for applications that use Windows notifications to send notifications in the operating system. This feature also makes notifications visually more compact.
- A new policy has been added for applications that use Windows notifications in the operating system to send notifications, which extends the first three notifications for applications by default in Action Center. This feature displays multiple notifications that the user can interact with at the same time.
- Addresses an issue that affects search indexer .exe and prevents offline searches for Microsoft Outlook from returning recent e-mail messages.
Microsoft warned in the announcement that this is the penultimate update of Windows 10 1909 and 20H2 (all versions), and its support will end in May 2022, please update to the next major version as soon as possible. You can find updates in Windows Settings and download and install them.