Windows 11 release information
Observed content change
10 edited passages (78 words changed). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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… General Availability Channel 2026-09-29 2028-10-10 2029-10-09[removed: 2026-09 D 2026-09-29 26300.9550][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26300.9711] 26H1 General Availability Channel 2026-02-10 2028-03-14 2029-03-13[removed: 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 28000.3086][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 28000.3231] 25H2 General Availability Channel 2025-09-30 2027-10-12 2028-10-10[removed: 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 26200.9550][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26200.9711] 24H2 General Availability Channel 2024-10-01[removed: 2026-10-13][added: End of updates] 2027-10-12[removed: 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 26100.9550][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26100.9711] 23H2 General Availability Channel 2023-10-31 End of updates 2026-11-10[removed: 2026-09 OOB 2026-09-14 22631.7584][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 22631.7652]
… Servicing Channel (LTSC) 2024-10-01 2029-10-09 2034-10-10[removed: 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 26100.9550][added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26100.9711]
… Build KB article General Availability Channel [added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26300.9711 KB5127648 General Availability Channel] 2026-09 D 2026-09-29 26300.9550 KB5124010 General …
… Build KB article General Availability Channel [added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 28000.3231 KB5127646 General Availability Channel] 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 28000.3086 KB5124006 General …
… Build KB article General Availability Channel [added: 2026-10 B 2026-10-13 26200.9711 KB5127648 General Availability Channel] 2026-09 D 2026-09-22 26200.9550 KB5124010 General …
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Sections to inspect
- Servicing channels
- Enterprise and IoT Enterprise LTSC editions
- Windows 11 release history
- Windows 11 hotpatch calendar
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 18 Oct 23:34 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 18 Oct 23:34 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 13 Oct 21:41 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 18:04 UTC
- Next check due
- 20 Oct 00:04 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of 18 Oct 23:34 UTC- 3 dates
- 1 undated section
- 2 with conditions
- 2 recorded changes
- this window includes todayyear windowearly
- GuidanceScope
Windows 11, version 26H1 is scoped to support new devices that started coming to market in early 2026 and is not designed as a feature…
- in 2 years
- in 7 yearsuntil
Requirements, exceptions and scope
Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.
How this timeline changed
Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.
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early 2026 -
early 2026
Observed history and review priority
Captured 18 Oct 23:34 UTC; extracted 18 Oct 23:35 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review · A published date window is near
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 4
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- 18 Oct 23:34 UTC · 4 candidates
- 12 Oct 19:35 UTC · 4 candidates
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC · 0 candidates
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC · 0 candidates
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- 18 Oct 23:34 UTC · shown above
- 12 Oct 19:35 UTC
4 removed passages (about 30 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC
Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
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