Microsoft yanks botched patch KB2949927, re-issues KB2952664

[quietman7]

Windows 7 upgrade compatibility patch gets a tweaked installer, while the SHA-2 hashing patch is summarily removed without explanation...

Microsoft has pulled a patch -- KB 2949927, a patch so important it rated its own Security Advisory -- and there's no official notification that the patch was yanked, no explanation as to why it's been pulled, and no instructions for removing (or keeping) the patch if it did somehow get installed...

Microsoft yanks botched patch KB2949927, re-issues KB2952664
Significant problems with four more October 2014 Black Tuesday patches

[Wingman]

Thanks for the heads up QM.

You have to question the QA for creating and releasing patches. This kind of thing seems to happen more and more these days.

[quietman7]

Yes...it's starting to be a pattern each month. Some folks are going to become afraid to apply updates.