April 2013 Office Update Release

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The April 2013 Public Update release for Office is now live and the updates are available from downloads. This month release contains 19 non-security updates and 8 security updates.

 The breakdown of non-security updates are as follows:

  • 16 updates for 2013
  • 1 update for 2010
  • 1 update for 2007
  • 1 update for 2003

 Security Updates

  • 7 updates for 2010
  • 1 update for 2013

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-030

  • Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2737969) 64-Bit Edition

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-035

  • Security Update for 2010 Microsoft Business Productivity Servers (KB2760408)
  • Security Update for Microsoft Groove Server 2010 (KB2687424)
  • Security Update for Microsoft InfoPath 2010 (KB2687422)
  • Security Update for Microsoft InfoPath 2010 (KB2760406)
  • Security Update for Microsoft Web Applications (KB2760777)
  • Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2687421)
  • Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2810059)

Non-Security Updates

Updates to improve internationalization, stability and performance for Microsoft Office 2013

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760343)
  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2767860)

 Updates to improve the proofing tools for Microsoft Office 2010

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2810010)

 Updates to improve logos, stability and performance for Microsoft Visio 2013

  • Update for Microsoft Visio 2013 (KB2810008)
  • Update for Microsoft Visio Viewer 2013 (KB2768338)

Updates to improve the stability and performance for Microsoft Word 2013

 Updates to improve the encoding for Microsoft Outlook 2013. Please note that both patches need to be applied to get the full fix

  • Update for Microsoft Word 2013 (KB2768007)
  • Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB2738013)

 Updates to improve the webpart functionality for WAC 2013

  • Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB2810007)

Updates to improve stability and performance for SharePoint 2013

Note that that the pre-requisite for these updates is to have already installed the Description of the Project Server 2013 update: March 12, 2013. When you install from the Microsoft Download Center, the following smaller packages are also available: Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2013 update: March 12, 2013 and Description of the SharePoint Server 2013 update: March 12, 2013

  • Improvements to the time zone functionality for Access 2013: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2760623)
  • Improvements to the stability and performance: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2767862)
  • Improvements to the linguistic components: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2726959)
  • Improvements to the internationalization, stability and performance: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2760626)
  • Improvements to the telemetry, stability and performance: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2737975)
  • Improvement to the connection between SharePoint and Excel WAC: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2738048)
  • Improvement to Office applications functionality, stability and performance in SharePoint 2013: Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2760360)

And the Junk E-mail filter updates

  • Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter (KB2810049)
  • Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter (KB2768021)
  • Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 Junk E-mail Filter (KB982726)

The Click-to-Run update are documented here.