Windows 10: Office 365 Semi-Annual (Targeted) v1908 build 11929.20300 - Sept. 10

Brink · Sep 10, 2019

Version 1908: September 10

Version 1908 (Build 11929.20300)

Security updates listed here

Feature updates

Access

Zoom with more room: Make the Zoom box bigger, change the font, and Zoom remembers it all. Learn more

Keep tabs on your database objects: Clearly see the active tab, easily drag tabs to rearrange them, and close database objects with just one click.

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Excel

Discover more about your data: The new Ideas button looks for patterns in your data, and uses them to create intelligent, personalized suggestions. Learn more

Find that file fast: Looking for a file you worked on recently? Just type in the Search box on the File > Home page to find the file you're looking for.

Increase the reach of your content: Need to make your presentations accessible? Let the accessibility checker keep an eye on it for you, without getting in the way. Try it by clicking Review > Check Accessibility – we’ll tell you when we find something you need to look at in the status bar.

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Watch your worksheet come alive: Insert animated 3D graphics to see hearts beat, planets orbit, and T-Rex rampage through the workbook. Learn more

Collaboration just got easier: Co-authoring improvements mean that when working with conditional formatting, cell styles, and more, your changes are merged seamlessly with those of your collaborators.

Join tables on similar columns: Get & Transform (Power Query) now features approximate text matching logic (also called fuzzy matching) when comparing columns for merging tables. Learn more

Code quickly with Power Query enhancements: Get to code completion quickly with auto-complete and syntax coloring. Easily discover functions, columns, and parameters, too.

Outlook

Keep working while moving messages: Outlook now moves messages in the background, so you can keep working while moving lots of messages between folders.

Build in time between back-to-back meetings: Give attendees time to catch their breath or travel between locations by setting meetings to end 5-10 minutes early by default.

They'll see what you meme: When text or static images just won't do, use an animated GIF to make your point. Learn more

Focused Inbox settings remain the same across devices: Your Focused Inbox preferences are now stored in the cloud. Enjoy the same experience when you use Outlook for Windows on any computer and Outlook on the web. Learn more

We’ve updated the Outlook user experience for you: A simplified experience, previously available for preview with Coming Soon, designed to help you focus on what matters most. Learn more

Relaxed or tighter layout? You choose: Tighter Spacing lets you decide if you want more space between items, or a tighter layout to see more.

A simplified ribbon that's customizable, too: Enjoy a streamlined, single row of the most frequently used buttons. Easily switch between classic and Simplified views, and pin/unpin commands. Learn more

A quicker way to add accounts: Thanks to account setup improvements, it's easier than ever to add Outlook.com and Gmail accounts that use 2-factor authentication to Outlook. Learn more

Pick your favorite action: Don't use Flag and Delete? How about Archive or Mark as Read? Customize the quick action menu with the commands you use most.

Say goodbye to sync limits: Outlook improvements mean the folder limit is gone so go ahead and synchronize your shared mailboxes.

PowerPoint

Ask your audience with a quiz or survey: Put a quiz or survey on a slide. Office collects and stores the responses for you. Learn more

Find that file fast: Looking for a file you worked on recently? Just type in the Search box on the File > Home page to find the file you're looking for.

Increase the reach of your content: Need to make your presentations accessible? Let the accessibility checker keep an eye on it for you, without getting in the way. Try it by clicking Review > Check Accessibility – we’ll tell you when we find something you need to look at in the status bar.

Save your changes as they happen: Upload your file to OneDrive to make sure all your updates are saved automatically.

Inserting an online video is easier than ever: Want to put a video from Vimeo or YouTube on your slide? The video page link is all you need. Learn more

Better shapeshifting: Name your shapes for more control over how they morph. Learn more

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Online videos have a new home: Save a video to Microsoft Stream so anyone in your organization can see it. Insert the video link and enjoy a multimedia presentation at a fraction of the file size. Learn more

Project

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Visio

Say goodbye to broken Excel links: Can't find the Excel workbook linked to your Data Visualizer diagram? Relink it, and you're back in business. Learn more

Azure stencils built right in: Design a cloud app or plan an architecture using dozens of Azure stencils. Learn more

Double-take on data flowcharts: Gorgeous new layouts for Data Visualizer flowcharts are clean, crisp, and easy to understand. Click the Design tab for options.

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Export process diagrams to Word: Automatically add diagram content, such as shapes and metadata, to a Word document. Then customize the document to create process guidelines and operation manuals. Learn more

Export Visio visuals from Power BI: Visio Visual for Power BI will now display properly when you export Power BI reports as PDFs, PowerPoint files, and more. Learn more

Word

Editing comes naturally with Ink Editor: With a single stroke, split or join words, add a new line, or insert words using your pen. Learn more

Take your doc from static to stunning: Transform your document into an interactive, easy-to-share web page that looks great on any device. Learn more

Get Their Attention with @Mentions: Use @mentions in comments to let others know when you need their input. Learn more

Improve comprehension with Line Focus: Move through a document line by line without distractions. Adjust the focus to put one, three, or five lines in view at a time. Learn more

Find that file fast: Looking for a file you worked on recently? Just type in the Search box on the File > Home page to find the file you're looking for.

Save your changes as they happen: Upload your file to OneDrive to make sure all your updates are saved automatically.

Increase the reach of your content: Need to make your documents accessible? Let the accessibility checker keep an eye on it for you, without getting in the way. Try it by clicking Review > Check Accessibility – we’ll tell you when we find something you need to look at in the status bar.

Add color to your page: New page colors mean that if an all-white or all-black background isn't for you, it's a snap to change it up.

Switch seamlessly: The new account manager shows all of your Office 365 work and personal accounts in one place. Switching between them has never been easier. Learn more

Say goodbye to distractions: A favorite Mac feature comes to Windows. Switch to Focus on the View menu to remove distractions and concentrate on your work. Learn more

Office Suite

Share and upload your documents with the new exposed buttons in the Info Place: Previously Share, Copy Path to Clipboard, and Open File Location buttons were only accessible behind the document save path. Now they're buttons you can clearly see in the Info Place! Navigate to File > Info as you normally would to see these new buttons.

Save your changes as they happen: Upload your file to OneDrive to make sure all your updates are saved automatically.

Privacy controls: New, updated, and improved controls for diagnostic data and connected experiences. Learn more

Office icons have a new look: The Office icons have been redesigned to reflect simple, powerful, and intelligent Office experiences.

Non-security updates

Excel

Fixed an issue in Excel where macros assigned to shapes or form controls may show incorrect error message, or may work on incorrect target ranges.

Fixed an issue where changing the way a PivotTable is sorted and refreshing it while in a coauthoring session with other users could cause it to fail.

Fixed an issue that caused Waterfall and Funnel charts to get out of sync with tables when cells were inserted or deleted.

Fixed a merge conflict issue in Excel that would result in users being prompted to reopen workbook to pick up the changes.

Fixed an issue that caused cut and paste operations next to a table to fail when co-authoring with others.

Outlook

Fixed an issue where users having their mailbox upgraded from basic to modern authentication were ending up with the wrong account associated with their Outlook profile.

Fixed an issue that caused a subset of POP3 users to see all of their emails formatted at plain text, regardless of settings. This fix will restore the view of the HTML formatted messages.

Fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to access location suggestions via a screen reader.

Fixed an issue that caused some users to encounter authentication errors when trying to retrieve their cloud settings for Outlook.

Fixed an issue that caused ambiguity for managers around whether or not a delegate had already responded to a given meeting request.

Fixed an issue that caused Outlook users to get stuck in the "Needs Password" state in certain scenarios.

Fixed an issue that caused current folder search to intermittently fail.

Fixed an issue that caused users to see room suggestions for meetings that occurred outside of that room's availability hours.

Fixed temporary service issue that caused users to see the error "Cannot find this file. Verify the path and file name are correct" when using cloud attachments. Learn More

Fixed an issue that caused users to see uploaded files from Outlook to OneDrive or Sharepoint have the file name changed where several characters replaced by underscores.

Fixed an issue for non-English users where the subject line in a mail would be incredibly small.

PowerPoint

Fixed an issue where some add-ins would throw unexpected errors around shapes in charts.

Fixed an issue to restore the accessible name for PowerPoint video controls.

Fixed an issue which could prevent some animations from starting

Project

Fixed an issue to enable users on Windows 7 to be able to open projects from Project Web App and SharePoint sites.

Visio

Export to SVG from Visio was not working for a variety of shapes.

Word

Fixed an issue where users would get error messages while collaborating with others on a Word document.

Office Suite

Fixed an issue where in some instances, a sync-engine backed sharepoint file could show 'Saved' but not have actually saved any changes.

Fixed an issue where large tree views were failing.

Fixed an issue of incorrectly identifying the new era name “Reiwa” in Hiragana and Kanji as a misspelled or ungrammatical expression.

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Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...-targeted-2019

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Office 365 Semi-Annual (Targeted) v1902 build 11328.20230 - April 9

UPDATE 5/14: Office 365 Semi-Annual (Targeted) v1902 build 11328.20286 - May 14

Version 1902: April 9

Version 1902 (Build 11328.20230)

Outlook: Non-Security updates

Addresses an issue that caused customers to experience a crash when loading pictures on the contact card.

Addresses an issue that caused some customers to experience crashes when starting office applications.

Fixed an issue in which windows would not appear in the correct location when the system task bar was kept at the left or top of the screen.

Word: Non-Security updates

If a file is opened in read-only mode and you click 'Save As' from the 'Info' pane, fixes issue so that the save UI is displayed.

Office Suite: Non-security updates

Fixed an issue which was causing excessive sign-in prompts on Windows 10 (version 1803 or later) devices.

Fixed regression that causes hangs when downloading linked pictures.

Fixed blurriness of large EMF files pasted in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Fixed the bug in version history parsing logic that in few cases caused the documents to be opened in read-only.

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Source: Release notes for Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) releases in 2019 | Microsoft Docs

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Office 365 Semi-Annual Targeted v1803 build 9126.2259 - July 10

These release notes provide information about new features, security updates, and non-security updates that are included in Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) updates to Office 365 ProPlus in 2018.

Note

The following also provides information about new features, security updates, and non-security updates for Visio Pro for Office 365 and Project Online Desktop Client.

This information also applies to Office 365 Business, which is the version of Office that comes with some Office 365 plans, such as Business Premium.

Semi-Annual Channel was named Deferred Channel prior to January 2018.

Version 1803: July 10

Version 1803 (Build 9126.2259)

Access: Security updates

CVE-2018-8312: Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Use After Free Vulnerability

Outlook: Security updates

CVE-2018-8310: Microsoft Office Tampering Vulnerability

Office Suite: Security updates

CVE-2018-8281: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Excel: Non-security updates

Fix an issue where the wrong year is shown when Japanese Era calendar is used in date cell format.

When importing data into the Excel Data Model, incoming values of negative zero would result in an error. The fix imports such values as zero.

PowerPoint: Non-security updates

Fixes issue where tables are rendered incorrectly with thick borders.

Project: Non-security updates

Fixed an issue where if a task is split with a cost resource, the cost resource isn't correctly updated and the cost is lost.

Fixed an issue where in the Timeline view - Add Existing Tasks to the Timeline dialog, only tasks from the first summary task would show up.

Fixed an issue where saving as XML may fail for master projects from Project Online or Project Server.

Office Suite: Non-security updates

Fix a bug that caused update install to take a long time in certain scenarios.

Fix an issue where SVG tests are failing

Fix an issue where, when deploying updates using System Center Configuration Manager to a client that has running Office applications the update is not applied after restarting the device while Office applications are running.

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Source: Release notes for Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) releases in 2018 | Microsoft Docs

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Office 365 Semi-Annual Extended v1708 build 8431.2280 - July 10

These release notes provide information about new features, security updates, and non-security updates that are included in Semi-Annual Channel updates to Office 365 ProPlus in 2018.

Note

The following also provides information about new features, security updates, and non-security updates for Visio Pro for Office 365 and Project Online Desktop Client.

This information also applies to Office 365 Business, which is the version of Office that comes with some Office 365 plans, such as Business Premium.

Semi-Annual Channel was named Deferred Channel prior to January 2018.

Version 1708: July 10

Version 1708 (Build 8431.2280)

This is the Semi-Annual Extended Channel release that's been available since September 2017. It will continue to be supported and receive security updates until March 2019. But, a new Semi-Annual Channel release is now available — Version 1803 (Build 16.0.9126.2259) — which contains new features, security updates, and non-security updates*

Access: Security updates

CVE-2018-8312: Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Use After Free Vulnerability

Outlook: Security updates

CVE-2018-8310: Microsoft Office Tampering Vulnerability

Office Suite: Security updates

CVE-2018-8281: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Source: Release notes for Semi-Annual Channel releases in 2018 | Microsoft Docs

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