Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost applications

Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by dehugger on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:57PM (#45599866)

I'm shocked there's not more traction on this post. Breaking localhost is almost unthinkable to me. Of all the things network unit testing should cover, that's pretty close to the top.

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Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by eddie_catflap on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:44AM (#45602532)

Same. The incident calls I'm on this morning agree too

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Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by nebula8804 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:18PM (#45610766)

They probably have ChatGPT running their test suite or some nonsense like that now.

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Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by sidewndr46 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:21PM (#45611391)

I imagine Microsoft expects everything to be done in the cloud using AI, so localhost is considered deprecated now.

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Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by AnonymousPlanet on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:25PM (#45611886)

In that case localhost is their competition.

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Re:Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost app... by 1718627440 on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:29AM (#45615460)

If you the loopback address doesn't work how can every other address work, that builds on top of this.

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