Microsoft yesterday announced a change for the updates under Windows 11 22H2. The .NET Framework (3.5 and 4.81) updates have now been integrated into the Unified Update Platform (UUP). This will make a reboot less necessary. We already noticed it yesterday at Patchday (as an example).
Previously, the function update had to be installed first. After a restart, the current .NET Framework update was found, installed and you had to restart again. That is no longer necessary. Because both are downloaded and installed at the same time. This of course saves time.
With the
optional update in January, the function was also integrated that the .NET Framework Preview Updates will appear as optional updates. They are therefore no longer necessarily installed. They now appear as an optional update under Settings > Windows Update > Advanced options > Optional updates.
So also one restart less if you only want to install the final version. So if you had already installed the optional update
KB5022845 , or yesterday the security update KB5022845, you will have to restart less from now on.