Just to inform what is what, people who like to stay on the safe side can use the public on WU updates, the daredevils can go the preview route ps, MSFT published some info on the subject: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...20h1-2-vb_release.80763/page-191#post-1610553
There is nothing different between previous non-security CUs and the new Preview CUs, all contain previous security fixes + new quality fixes they just added "Preview" to the label welcome to Win 7/8.1 updating scheme, they got that "preview" term since 2016
That's what i'm saying. In the Win 7/8.1 era a "Preview update" was posted under the "Optional updates", you could choose it install it or not, and if everything was ok, it would become next month's stable update and posted on "Critical updates" on WU. Preview is beta testing for me (i have quoted a piece of their document saying that) otherwise there's no need to confuse people,if it's not a beta keep the naming and release as it is with every other update. Not to mention that a normal user cannot avoid it on his/hers machine. Why should everyone become guinea pigs. Of course you're gonna tell me that even the "stable" ones have proven more than often to be problematic updates many times and that everything is Beta. Microsoft, i love you but...
This is not beta. It's a quality update. Patch tuesday is a security update and all others are quality updates.
So, is it a "stable" update (even though non-preview updates often cause problems)? I find it odd to appear on WU.
This is stable no-security updates are always used in the next patch tuesday adding only security patches I rarely see other changes. And personally I never had any problems with them although I don't always use the latest updates. And I usually wait a few days to see if another update is coming out.
And are there only CU and .NET CU preview and not SSU preview, FU preview, DU preview, etc.? Also, are they usually released on WU like in this case or only on UUP and/or Catalog site?