Microsoft is switching Windows 11 clients to hotpatching by default for enterprise customers with Windows Autopatch.

Hotpatching comes to Windows 11? As reported by Windows Latest, Microsoft accidentally published a support page on “Hotpatch for Windows,” referring to a feature that may or may not be coming ...

Microsoft Autopatch will enable hotpatching by default for Windows updates starting June 23, 2025, reducing reboots and ...

Windows 11 hotpatching comes to enterprise devices. In a blog post, Microsoft's David Callaghan explained hotpatch” updates take effect immediately upon installation, providing rapid protection ...

Microsoft has introduced a new update method for Windows 11 Enterprise users called "hotpatching," which, as reported by Windows Latest, hopes to reduce the number of required system reboots. This ...

Currently, hotpatching is mainly a feature for virtual machines. Microsoft says it works by "patching the in-memory code of running processes without the need to restart the process" and without ...

Hotpatching has been studied by hackers since its addition to Windows. At Black Hat 2006, Alex Sotirov did a talk on the risk of hotpatching and Alex Ionescu followed that up with a talk in 2013 ...

To enable hotpatching for Windows client devices, you will need a Microsoft subscription (i.e., Windows 11 Enterprise E3, E5, or F3, Windows 11 Education A3 or A5, or a Windows 365 Enterprise ...

Hotpatching is a process in which Windows components are updated while still in use by a running process. As you can imagine, this handy feature eliminates the need to reboot, ...

"Hotpatching is available at no charge to preview now, but starting in July with the subscription launch, hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 will be offered at a subscription of $1.50 USD per ...

News. Windows Server vNext To Bring Hotpatching for All and Other Perks. By Kurt Mackie; 12/01/2023; Microsoft will be bringing a bunch of improvements to Windows Server in its "vNext" release ...

The hotpatching preview can be accessed here. WSUS Deprecation In related news, Microsoft also announced that it is deprecating Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), nearly 20 years after it was ...