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Microsoft has released a large new cumulative update for Windows 11 in the form of the KB5029263 update.

Microsoft shipped an update to Windows 11 this week that includes several fixes. Screen brightness, widgets, and VPNs should all work better following the update.

Microsoft released the August Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 users. To get them, just open up Windows Update and apply any available updates. You can also download them for offline installs.

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As part of this months batch of update previews, weve already seen the KB5028245 update for Windows 11 21H2. For those who are running the more recent Windows 11 22H2, however, there is now the KB5028254 update.

Windows 11 Builds 22631.2115 and 22631.2115 ship to the Beta Channel

The Windows 11 version 22H2 non-security update build 22621.2070 (KB5028254) makes some improvements so that brightness settings are more accurate, along with a number of bug fixes.

Two new Windows 11 Insider builds 22621.2115 and 22631.2115, have been released to the Beta channel under KB5028251. The build fixes repeated restarts, a CPU bug related to L2 cache, and more.