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# (2025 AUG) Cumulative Updates for Business Central

[Read the post](https://gerardorenteria.blog/2025/08/05/2025-aug-cumulative-updates-for-business-central/) · Gerardo Renteria (Gerardo Renteria) · 2025-08-05 · 273 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> August 2025 list of the latest Business Central cumulative updates: 26.4 for 2025 release wave 1, 25.10 for 2024 release wave 2 and 24.16 for 2024 release wave 1. It advises always installing the latest update because some fix vulnerabilities, links the on-premises update lists for each version, and names v23 back to v13 as no longer updated.

## Key points

- Three actively maintained versions have cumulative updates: v26 (2025 Wave 1), v25 (2024 Wave 2), and v24 (2024 Wave 1)
- Latest updates should always be installed due to security vulnerability fixes
- Updates include both global hotfixes and localization-specific hotfixes
- Versions v23 and earlier are no longer receiving updates

## Quotes

- "Some updates additionally fix vulnerabilities, so the latest update should always be installed." (Clarifies that installing the latest cumulative update is a security imperative, not just a feature update)
- "Updates include hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes that apply to specific local versions." (Shows that updates address both global issues and localization-specific concerns)

## Context

- Features: cumulative updates, security vulnerability fixes, localization-specific hotfixes
- Versions: 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19

Source: Gerardo Renteria, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.