January 17, 2019—KB4480974 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)
Applies To
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2Release Date:
17/01/2019
Version:
Preview of Monthly Rollup
Improvements and fixes
This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of KB4480968 (released January 8, 2019) and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update:
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Ensures that protections against an additional subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-2018-3639) are reported accurately after running the Get-SpeculationControlSettings PowerShell Script.
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Addresses an issue with the Japanese date format that wrongly adds a single digit with “0” to the year value.
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Addresses an issue with the Japanese date format that causes the .NET parser to stop working.
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Addresses an issue that causes GetCalendarInfo() to return the wrong current era when the New Japanese Era is enabled.
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Addresses an issue that causes the abbreviated Japanese era name to not refer to the ligature.
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Addresses an issue that may prevent some applications from displaying the Help (F1) window correctly.
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Addresses an issue in the Universal CRT that sometimes causes the AMD64-specific implementation of FMOD to return an incorrect result when given very large inputs. FMOD is frequently used to implement the modulo operator in JavaScript and Python implementations that use the Universal C runtime.
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Addresses an issue that causes the GetCalendarInfo function to return a wrong value for the Japanese Era. For more information, see KB4469068.
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Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character as the abbreviation for the Japanese Era name. For more information, see KB4469068.
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Supports Japanese Era registry settings for .NET 3.5. For more information, see KB4469068.
Known issues in this update
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Symptom |
Workaround |
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Applications that use a Microsoft Jet database with the Microsoft Access 97 file format may fail to open if the database has column names greater than 32 characters. The database will fail to open with the error, “Unrecognized Database Format”. |
This issue is resolved in KB4487023. |
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After installing this update, virtual machines (VM) may fail to restore successfully if the VM has been saved and restored once before. The error message is, “Failed to restore the virtual machine state: Cannot restore this virtual machine because the saved state data cannot be read. Delete the saved state data and then try to start the virtual machine. (0xC0370027).” This affects AMD Bulldozer Family 15h, AMD Jaguar Family 16h, and AMD Puma Family 16h (second generation) microarchitectures. |
This issue is resolved in KB4490514. |
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After installing this update, the first character of the Japanese era name is not recognized as an abbreviation and may cause date parsing issues. |
This issue is resolved in KB4489880. |
How to get this update
This is provided as an Optional update on Windows Update. For more information about how to run Windows Update, see How to get an update through Windows Update. To get the stand-alone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.
File information
For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update 4480974.
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