Windows 10 October 2018 Update (also known as version 1809
and codenamed "Redstone 5") is the sixth major update to
Windows 10
Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on ...
and the fifth in a series of updates under the Redstone codenames. It carries the build number 10.0.17763.
Version history
The first preview was released to Insiders on February 14, 2018. The update was originally made available to public consumers on October 2, 2018, but its rollout was halted on October 6, 2018, due to a serious bug that deletes users' personal files after updating. On October 9, 2018, Microsoft re-released the update to Insiders, stating that all known issues in the update (including file deletion bug) had been identified and fixed.
On October 25, 2018, Microsoft confirmed the existence of another bug which overwrites files without any confirmation, when extracting from a
ZIP file
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the ...
. The ZIP bug was fixed for Insiders on October 30, 2018,
and the public rollout of the update resumed on November 13, 2018.
See also
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Windows 10 version history
Windows 10 is a series of operating systems developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an " operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing updates to its features and functionality, augmented with the ability for enter ...
References
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