Windows 10’s KB5131096 lands for ESU and LTSC users, BleepingComputer reports

According to BleepingComputer, KB5131096 brings November security fixes to Windows 10 users enrolled in Extended Security Updates and those running Enterprise LTSC 2021. The catch for script maintainers: stricter PowerShell checks can reject previously accepted scripts with invalid UTF-8 encoding. The report’s changelog advises saving affected scripts as valid UTF-8 with a byte order mark and signing them again.