.NET Framework November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

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November 13th, 2018

Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.

Security

No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.

Quality and Reliability

This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

CLR

Updates Japanese dates that are formatted for the first year in an era and for which the format pattern uses “y年”. The format of the year together with the symbol “元” is supported instead of using year number 1. Also, formatting day numbers that include “元” is supported. [646179]

Updating Venezuela currency information. •currency symbol changed to “Bs.S” •English currency name is changed to “Bolívar Soberano” •Native Currency name is changed to “bolívar soberano” •Intl Currency Code changed to “VES” This will affect the culture of “es-VE” [616146]

Address a situation where the System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms reference was not correctly loaded on .NET Framework 4.7.1 after the 7B/8B patch. [673870]

WF

In some .NET Remoting scenarios, when using TransactionScopeAsyncFlowOption.Enabled, it was possible to have Transaction.Current reset to null after a remoting call. [669153]

Winforms

Addressed an issue where application created numerous Windows Forms textboxes to a flowLayoutPanel, with only a few calls to comctl32.dll. [638365]

WPF

Addressed a race condition involving temporary files and some anti-virus scanners. This was causing crashes with the message “The process cannot access the file “. [638468]

Addressed a crash due to TaskCanceledException that can occur during shutdown of some WPF apps. Apps that continue to do work involving weak events or data binding after Application.Run() returns are known to be vulnerable to this crash. [655427]

Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID that you can give Microsoft Customer Support, include in StackOverflow comments or use in web searches.

Getting the Update

The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog.

Microsoft Update Catalog

You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, .NET Framework updates are part of the Windows 10 Monthly Rollup. The following table is for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016+ versions.

Product Version Security and Quality Rollup KB Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update) Catalog 4467702 .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4467702 Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) Catalog 4467686 .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4467686 Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) Catalog 4467696 .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4467696 Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) Catalog 4467691 .NET Framework 3.5, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4467691 Windows 10 RTM Catalog 4467680 .NET Framework 3.5, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 4467680

The following table is for earlier Windows and Windows Server versions.

Product Version Securty and Quality Rollup KB Windows 8.1 Windows RT 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 Catalog 4467242 .NET Framework 3.5 4459935 .NET Framework 4.5.2 4459943 .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4459941 Windows Server 2012 Catalog 4467241 .NET Framework 3.5 4459932 .NET Framework 4.5.2 4459944 .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4459940 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Catalog 4467240 .NET Framework 3.5.1 4459934 .NET Framework 4.5.2 4459945 .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 4459942 Windows Server 2008 Catalog 4467243 .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 4459933 .NET Framework 4.5.2 4459945 .NET Framework 4.6 4459942

Previous Monthly Rollups

The last few .NET Framework Monthly updates are listed below for your convenience: