Home windows 11 KB5089549 & KB5087420 cumulative updates launched

Microsoft has launched Home windows 11 KB5089549 and KB5087420 cumulative updates for variations 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to mend safety vulnerabilities, insects, and upload new options.

These days’s updates are obligatory as they include the Might 2026 Patch Tuesday safety patches for 120 vulnerabilities found out in earlier months.

You can set up as of late’s replace by way of going to Get started > Settings > Home windows Replace and clicking on ‘Take a look at for Updates.’

You’ll additionally manually obtain and set up the replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

That is the 5th ‘Patch Tuesday’ liberate in 2026, and it is in accordance with 24H2, because of this 25H2 will get the similar replace. There aren’t any unique or particular adjustments. You can get the similar fixes around the two variations of Home windows 11.

What is new within the Might 2026 Patch Tuesday replace

After putting in as of late’s safety updates, Home windows 11 25H2 (KB5089549) can have its construct quantity modified to 26200.8457 25H2 and 26100.8457 (24H2), and 23H2 (KB5087420) can be modified to 22631.7079.

After the replace, Xbox mode is added to the desktop, and it means that you can revel in an Xbox console-like revel in for your PC. As well as, Microsoft has patched problems with the taskbar and advanced the reliability of Home windows Hi.

This is the whole listing of enhancements and fixes:

• [File Explorer] 

  
  

  • New!  This replace expands the listing of archive codecs that can be utilized in Document Explorer to incorporate uu, cpio, xar, and NuGet Programs (nupkg).

  • With this replace, View and Type personal tastes are preserved in folders corresponding to Downloads and Paperwork when apps release Document Explorer immediately to these places.

  • This replace eliminates a white flash that might seem when opening This PC or whilst resizing the Main points pane in darkish mode.

  • This replace improves the reliability of related explorer.exe processes in order that they forestall after ultimate Document Explorer home windows.

• [Input]

  
  

  • New!  You can really feel haptic comments results on appropriate enter units when acting positive movements, corresponding to aligning items in PowerPoint, snapping or resizing home windows. Those haptic alerts may also be grew to become on or off in Settings > Bluetooth & units > Mouse, Touchpad, or Pen > Haptic alerts. This revel in is supported on Floor Slender Pen 2, ASUS Pen 3.0, and MSI Pen 2 with haptic comments. Reinforce for extra appropriate units, together with choose mice corresponding to Logitech MX Grasp 4, may transform to be had as {hardware} companions liberate updates.

  • New!  Voice typing at the contact keyboard now appears to be like more effective and extra intuitive. The up to date design eliminates the whole‑display overlay and presentations voice typing animations immediately at the dictation key, serving to you keep centered with out additional visible distractions.

  • New!  The Arabic 101 Legacy keyboard structure is now to be had. You’ll upload it when deciding on a keyboard for Arabic beneath Time & Language > Language & Area. This selection is for individuals who favor the keyboard design used earlier than fresh adjustments with AltGr.

  • This replace improves the reliability of environment customized gear beneath Settings > Bluetooth & Gadgets > Wheel.

  • This replace improves the patience of Fluid Dictation environment in voice typing.

  • This replace improves the reliability of keyboard navigation for emoji panels (Home windows brand key + Duration).

  • This replace improves the reliability of typing when the use of the ADLaM keyboard.

• [Sharing] New! Drag Tray is now known as Drop Tray. Its settings are actually beneath Settings > Machine > Multitasking (up to now Within reach sharing). Drop Tray makes use of a smaller peek view. This development is helping save you the Drop Tray from opening accidentally and makes it more uncomplicated to brush aside whilst you paintings close to the highest of the display.

• [Printing] New! This replace provides a brand new icon to turn the place a printer helps Home windows Safe Print Mode in print settings.

• [Enhanced security and performance for batch files] New!  Directors and Software Keep an eye on for Industry coverage authors now have further keep an eye on over how the device processes batch recordsdata and Command Urged (CMD) scripts. Beginning with this liberate, directors can permit a extra protected processing mode for batch recordsdata. This mode prevents batch recordsdata from converting all over execution.

  To permit this environment, upload the next price to the registry:

  Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftCommand Processor

  Worth identify: LockBatchFilesWhenInUse

  Sort: DWORD

  Information to be set: 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled)

  Coverage authors too can permit this mode by way of the use of the LockBatchFilesWhenInUse utility manifest keep an eye on, as documented within the Software Keep an eye on for Industry manifest schema.

• [Microsoft Store] This replace reduces sudden mistakes when downloading and putting in apps from the Microsoft Retailer, together with mistakes 0x80070057, 0x80240008, and 0x80073d28.

• [Fonts] This replace comprises enhancements to the Leelawadee UI font circle of relatives for the Thai, Lao, Khmer, and Lontara scripts to reinforce glyph sequencing, positioning, and rendering.

• [Audio] This replace improves third-party motive force compatibility with midisrv.exe.

• [Taskbar] This replace improves the reliability of loading the device tray house of the taskbar.

• [Windows Hello] This replace improves:

  
  

• [Storage] This replace improves:

  
  

  • Efficiency when viewing garage knowledge for huge volumes in Settings > Machine > Garage > Complex Garage Settings > Disks & Volumes.

  • The scale prohibit for formatting FAT32 volumes from the command line from 32GB to 2TB.

• [Delivery Optimization] This replace improves reminiscence utilization, decreasing chance it’ll use an abruptly great amount of reminiscence.

• [Display and graphics] This replace improves patience and availability of colour profile choices for supported displays.

• [Kiosk mode] This replace simplifies configuration for allowed packaged apps in kiosks when Microsoft Edge is without doubt one of the allowed apps.

• [General Performance] This replace improves the efficiency of launching startup apps after beginning your instrument (apps indexed beneath Settings > Apps > Startup).

• [General Reliability] This replace brings underlying adjustments to assist give a boost to explorer.exe reliability, together with at signal‑in, when interacting with taskbar menus and Activity View, when unpinning pieces from Document Explorer’s Fast Get entry to, and extra.

Microsoft isn’t acutely aware of any new problems with this month’s Patch Tuesday, and it is in large part as a result of it isn’t an enormous liberate as in comparison to earlier patch releases.

On the similar time, it is conceivable that the replace does now not have recognized problems as a result of Microsoft has dedicated to a strong and dependable Home windows revel in.

Microsoft has showed it is running on a large Home windows 11 2026 high quality replace that restores the movable taskbar and can considerably give a boost to the efficiency of recent interfaces, together with the right-click menu.

Microsoft additionally has plans to restrict Copilot integration in Home windows 11, cut back advertisements, and make the out-of-the-box revel in quicker with skippable Home windows Updates.