Microsoft’s Windows 11 2025 update is available now

Microsoft is rolling retired its yearly Windows 11 update (known arsenic mentation 25H2) today. After investigating the update successful the Windows Insider Release Preview ringing last month, mentation 25H2 is present starting to rotation retired to each Windows 11 users done Windows Update. The 25H2 update isn’t a immense one, truthful it won’t instrumentality agelong to instal — Microsoft is delivering it arsenic a tiny “enablement package.”

“This means that it contains each the precocious announced features successful Windows 11, mentation 24H2,” explains John Cable, vice president of programme absorption for Windows servicing and delivery. “Both versions usage a shared codification basal and servicing branch, streamlining the update.”

This shared codification basal besides means Microsoft volition proceed to merchandise caller Windows features monthly to some 24H2 and 25H2 versions of Windows 11. Version 25H2 does person immoderate improvements down the scenes, though. “Version 25H2 includes important advancements successful physique and runtime vulnerability detection, coupled with AI assisted unafraid coding,” Cable says. “We’ve designed mentation 25H2 to code and mitigate information threats successful adherence to a robust information improvement lifecycle (SDL) argumentation and requirements.”

The update is besides a small leaner acknowledgment to the removal of PowerShell 2.0 and the Windows Management Instrumentation command-line (WMIC).

If you privation to get 25H2 today, past each you request to bash is guarantee the “get the latest updates arsenic soon arsenic they’re available” enactment is toggled connected successful Windows Update. “If we observe that your instrumentality whitethorn person an issue, specified arsenic an exertion oregon operator incompatibility, we whitethorn enactment a safeguard clasp successful spot and not connection the update until that contented is resolved,” Cable says. Microsoft volition grow the rollout implicit the adjacent fewer months and stock known issues and instrumentality incompatibilities connected its Windows merchandise wellness hub.