Tuesday 21 October 2008

Windows CE QFEs for month of September 2008 arrived

Hi Folks,
the latest Windows CE updates have been recently released and are available for download. Some critical issues (e.g. in kernel) have been resolved so get them now! More information for each update is provided in the Readme document available after the individual update(s) has been installed.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder Monthly Update (September 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F90D86F6-4B44-4786-8FAC-69945BD1BCC2&displaylang=en
Description: Download this set of updates for Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder released during the period of September1 - September30, 2008. These updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
It contains critical update of the CoreOS component:
Component: CoreOS
080911_KB957304 - NULL termination character may get ignored when user specifies -1 as the input string length.

Windows Embedded NavReady Monthly Update (September 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AAAA0048-9F23-4F84-90C1-DDAF0FD062FB&displaylang=en
Description: Download this set of updates for Windows Embedded NavReady released during the period of September 1 - September 30, 2008. These updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
It contains following updates:

Component: Bluetooth
080908_KB956719 - This update addresses the following issues:
- Incorrect COM GUID is being used in SyncML code
- SyncML run-time dependencies (SAX, Coreloc) are missing from sysgen code
- Document SyncML host name registry key

Component: Servers
080919_KB956579 - The MSN Direct Emulator sample DAT file was missing some source type content. When the custom rolls and SDK containing DBRLib.lib, linking against the library may cause a number of linker problems when using update versions of the compiler.

Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (September 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91396D23-43EE-48C1-9CAD-775628B0BD95&displaylang=en
Description: Download this set of updates for Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder released during the period of September 1 - September 30, 2008. These updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
Fixes made in this update:
Component: CAPI 2.0
080925_KB957639 - This update adds ASN1 decoder and encoder to address some issues related to certificate processing.

Component: CoreOS
080911_KB957314 - NULL termination character may get ignored when user specifies -1 as the input string length.

Component: DirectX
080912_KB956452 - This updated allows more control over the audio device used by the DShow audio renderer.

Component: Drivers
080911_KB956296 - This update adds support of DRVM_MAPPER_PREFERRED_SET.

Component: Shell
080910_KB957139 - SHChangeNotifyRegister and SHChangeNotifyDeregister may not work correctly when dealing with more than 1 registered HWND.

Component: TimeSVC
080930_KB958079 - Time Zone data are out of date resulting in DST transition time being wrong for some of the time zones. This update also adds a number of new time zones.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Monthly Update (September 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D192EA1F-E968-4D57-835E-DDF248BA3FC2&displaylang=en
Description: Download this set of updates for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 released during the period of September 1 - September 30, 2008. These updates are fixes for Windows Embedded CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.

Fixes made in this update:
Component: CoreOS
080911_KB957315 - NULL termination character may get ignored when user specifies -1 as the input string length.

Component: Display
080925_KB956505 - GPE::EmulatedBlt_Bilinear may not reset the initial step value before each horizontal line stretch. This causes some visual errors in the resulting bitmap.

Component: Network Projector
080919_KB956842 - Windows Vista's Network Projector is not able to connect to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Network Projector device if none of the resolutions that it supports are part of capability blob. This update allows optional customization registry, for example, 800x600 to be send along in capability blob. This makes Network Projector connection succeed, however it does not change the resolution of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Network Projector.

Component: NK
080909_KB957302 - This update addresses an issue with slow registry flushing.

Component: NTLM
080911_KB956352 - The proxy call for QueryContextAttributes for SECPKG_ATTR_SESSION_KEY is missing the context handle from the invocation.

Component: Redirector
080911_KB957428 - Redir component may not always use Server Local time for file modification timestamp.

Component: TimeSVC
080930_KB958080 - Time Zone data are out of date resulting in DST transition time being wrong for some of the time zones. This update also adds a number of new time zones.

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