Tara Overfield

Senior Software Engineer, .NET Framework Servicing

Tara is a Software Engineer on the .NET team. She works on releasing .NET Framework updates.

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.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update

September 16th, 2020
The September 16, 2020 update includes cumulative reliability improvements in .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8. We recommend that you apply this update as part of your regular maintenance routines.

.NET Framework September 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

September 8th, 2020
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

.NET Framework September 3, 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004

September 3rd, 2020
Today, we are releasing the September 3, 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 - Addresses an issue with a crash on COM interop to properly return the hresult for the Out of Memory Exception - Addresses an issue in ...

.NET Framework August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

August 20th, 2020
Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WPF2 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative...

.NET Framework August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

August 11th, 2020
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004

July 31st, 2020
Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview

July 21st, 2020
Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an allowed value in config for the '...

.NET Framework July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

July 14th, 2020
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

.NET Framework May 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

May 12th, 2020
Revised 6/8/2021: On June 8th, 2021, this update was released to replace a previous update to address a “revocation server was offline” error that may occur during installation. If you've already installed a previous release of this update, no action is required. Revised 4/15/2021: On April 13th, 2021, this update was released to ...

.NET Framework March 2020 Update for Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) and Windows Server 2016.

March 17th, 2020
Today, we are releasing an update for .NET Framework 4.8 on Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) and Windows Server 2016. Security This update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and ...