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This page lists all of the released Cumulative Updates (CU) and Service Packs (SP) for Microsoft Project  2013, both Standard and Professional.  They are listed in reverse date order - newest at the top.  Each of these packages is cumulative, including all the previous fixes back to the last baseline (either the initial release or a Service Pack).   I have also recorded the version you will see in the File, Account, About Microsoft Project link Project 2013. 

If you are running a click to run installation - such as Project Pro for Office 365 see http://support2.microsoft.com/gp/office-2013-365-update for details of the update schedules - but the version numbers and fixes should be roughly in line with the CU releases below.

December 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/KB/2910920

15.0.4675.1000

• When you move assignments around in the Team Planner in Project 2013, Project may stop responding or crash.
• Assume that the Youdao Dictionary application is running. When you copy information or perform actions like resizing columns, task GUIDs are renumbered with the result that task dependencies no longer connect properly.
• Consider the following scenario:
  • On a Project Server, you have at least two user accounts defined by using the following properties:
    • Both have the same name.
    • One is defined that the User can be assigned as a resource check box is selected and the other is not.
  • You start Project 2013 and connect to Project Server.
  • You add an enterprise resource to a project and you save it.
  • You make some changes in the project and try to save the changes.
  In this scenario, the saving operation may fail.
• Consider the following scenario:Assume that you open and edit a project from Project Server in Project Professional 2013, and the Protected Actuals feature is enabled. You try to change an assignment's time-phased work (remaining work) values. In this situation, you receive the "Your action may result in actuals in this project becoming out of sync with the actuals updated from timesheets" message.
  • You create a task that contains a long name in a project in Project 2013.
  • In another project, you create a task dependency to the task with the long name.
  • You review the relationship information by clicking the Links Between Projects button in the Project tab.
  In this scenario, the Task column is not scrollable so that you cannot see the whole task name in the Links Between Projects dialog box.
• Assume that you have at least two Project Web App (PWA) sites, and you have different profiles in Project Professional for each sites. In this situation, when you browse to the Project Center and then click to open a project in Project Professional, the wrong profile may be used and information in the profile is overwritten with the wrong details.

November 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2899569

15.0.4667.1000

• Assume that you have previously opened a given project from Project Web App (PWA) into Project Professional 2013. Then, you start Project Professional 2013, you click File, and you click Open. When you select the project in the Recent Projects list, Project 2013 may crash.
• When you run a macro that executes the Calendar.Reset method in Project 2013, Project may crash.
• When you open a .mpp file that is created from an earlier version of Project in Project 2013, Project 2013 may stop responding.
• Assume that you open a .mpp file that is created from an earlier version of Project in Project 2013, and that the "Save files in this format" option is set to the same version as the .mpp file that you are opening. When you try to save the .mpp file, Microsoft Project 2013 asks whether you want to save the project to the Project 2013 MPP format, which is unnecessary.
• When you run a custom report that uses parameter queries to filter results it may take a long time for the report to display. You may also notice that Project consumes a large amount of memory and the size of the file grows significantly.
• Assume that you apply a custom date based interactive filter to a view in a project in Project 2013. Then, you switch to a different view. When you change back to the original view, the Date/Time Picker control associated with the interactive filter may not work.
• Assume that you have a project that has a budget resource assigned to the project summary task. When you view the project in Project Center within Project Web App, the Gantt bar does not correctly display the progress status of the project.
• If you start Project 2013 and try to connect to Project Server before you log on to Project Web App (PWA), Project may crash.
• Assume that you create a text enterprise custom field that contains a lookup table in Project Web App. When you use the text enterprise custom field to apply a grouping to an enterprise view in the enterprise global template in Project 2013, Project 2013 crashes and then restarts.
• When you print a note of a task, and the note spans a page break, the remaining part of the note after the break is missing in Project 2013.

October 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2889957/

15.0.4659.1001

• Project 2013 may crash in the following scenarios when Lync 2013 or 2010 is running:
  • When you perform actions such as opening projects.
  • When you move the mouse pointer over the fields such as resource names.
• Consider the following scenarios:Consider the following scenario:
  • You create a lookup table in Project Web App (PWA), and the lookup table contains multiple values. The total length of the values exceeds 255 characters.
  • You create a custom field that uses the lookup table, and you set the option that requires information in this field.
  • You create a project in PWA for the custom field, you select multiple lookup table values so that the total length exceeds 255 characters.
  • You save, check in, and close the project.
  • You open the project in Project Professional.
  • You make a change in the project and then save it.
  In this scenario, the project cannot be saved, and you may receive the following error message:
  
  Project cannot save the project to Project Web App. You must first specify values for all required project fields. These fields are indicated with an asterisk in the Project Information dialog box, available from the Project tab.
  In another scenario, you add resources to tasks from PWA.
  
  • You have multiple resources defined in the server, and the combined length of the names exceeds 255 characters.
  • You open the Project Center in PWA, open a project, select the Schedule project detail page, and then you click the Edit button.
  • You open the Resource Names field for a task and select multiple resources. The total length of the names exceeds 255 characters.
  • You save and then close the project.
  • You open the project and then view the resources assigned to the task.
  In this scenario, some of the resources that you added to the task are not saved. For the resource names that straddle the 255 character limit, only partial resource names are displayed.
  To resolve these issues, you must install both the fixes in this knowledge base article, and you must also install the fix in KB 2889957.
• • You add an outline code field to a project, and you enter a value in the field, and then you save the project as a XML Format (*.xml) file.
  • You open the file and select the As a new project option, and then you add the outline code field.
  In this scenario, the value of the outline code field is lost.

September 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2889883

15.0.4649.1000

• Consider the following scenario:Assume that you add a task, resource or assignment note that contains many lines of text. When you print the project, you select the Print notes check box on the View tab of Page Setup. In this situation, the last line of the note may not be printed.
  • You create a project plan, and assign a Work value to a task.
  • You do not assign any resources to the task. 
  • You publish the project plan to a Project Server 2013 server where the Only allow task updates via Tasks and Timesheets option is enabled on the Task Settings and Display page in Project Web App.
  In this scenario, when you assign an enterprise resource to the task, the value for total work in the Work field may be changed to zero. 
• Consider the following scenario:Views, tables, filters and groups that are added to Enterprise Global do not save the Show in Menu option correctly. Therefore, this option is always enabled.
  • You install the April 2014 cumulative update for Project Server 2013.
  • You do not set the Open Project Template global permission on the Add or Edit Group page in Project Web App.
  In this scenario, Project may crash when you try to connect to the Project server.

August 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2883080

15.0.4641.1000

• When you use VBA UserForms and controls in Project 2013, you may experience one of the following issues:When you input double-byte characters (for example, Japanese or Chinese characters) in a text box in a report page in Project 2013, the characters are duplicated.
  • You may receive the following error message:
    System error &H80070057 (-2147024809). The parameter is incorrect.
  • Project 2013 may crash.
• Assume that you insert a task after an empty row in an enterprise project. When you publish the project to a Project server, the time-phased work may be incorrect.
• You cannot change the values in the Physical % Complete column when the Protected Actuals feature is enabled.
• Consider the following scenario:Assume that you start Project 2013 to open a project that has an expanded subproject. When you update time-phased data in the Work field in Resource Usage view, the operation may fail, or Project 2013 may crash.
  • You create an Enterprise custom field that refers to a lookup table.
  • You insert the Enterprise custom field to a project.
  • You create a new project and you insert the first project as a subproject.
  • You unlink the subproject from its source project.
  In this scenario, the value of the Enterprise custom field is lost.
  
  
• Assume that you create a Group by and the Group assignments, not tasks option is enabled. The time-phased baseline cost values for cost and material resources may not rollup to the grouping row in Task Usage and Resources Usage views.
• Assume that you enable the Move end of completed parts after status date back to status date advanced scheduling feature in Project 2013. When you try to update the value in the % Work Complete field or in the Actual Work field, Project may crash.
• Assume that you use Save As to save a project file with a new name in Project 2013, and then you close the file. When you reopen the new file, the value of time-phased actual work has been changed unexpectedly. 
• Assume that you open a project from Project Server in Project Professional 2013, and the project contains an enterprise project type custom duration field. Values that you enter into the field may be saved incorrectly. For example, you enter the value "5d", and then you click to save and close the project. When you reopen the project, you find that the value is "0d".
• Assume that you open and edit a project from Project Server in Project Professional 2013, and the Protected Actuals feature is enabled. You try to change an assignment's start, finish and remaining work values. In this situation, you receive the "Your action may result in actuals in this project becoming out of sync with the actuals updated from timesheets" message.

July 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2882986

15.0.4629.1000

• Assume that you use somelocal custom fields that contain some lookup tables in a project in Project 2013. Then, you save the project to Project Server. Later, you delete the project from the cache. When you open the project and save the project again, the lookup tables may be corrupted and you receivean error message that resembles the following:
  The following job failed to complete
  
  Jog Type: Save
  Error ID: 9000(0x2328)
  Error
  
  Additionally, you may see part of an error message that resembles the following in the Unified Logging Service (ULS) log:
  
  
  Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.WinProjUtility.WinProjException: LookupTableItemInvalidLookupTable for lookup table value.
• When you use Project 2013 to open a Microsoft SharePoint task list, you receive email message notifications unexpectedly.
• When you open a project that contains multiple baselines, the time-phased baseline cost for tasks or assignments is displayed incorrectly. For example, when you check the time-phased Baseline1 cost values, they display the values for the time-phased Baseline cost instead.
• When the ProjectBeforeAssignmentChange event is raised, the Assg.Index property returns -1 instead of the correct value. For example, this issue occurs when you add a new resourceto a task.

June 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880493

15.0.4615.1000

• You cannot resize or scroll the list on the Manage Deliverables window in Project 2013. Therefore, when you have many deliverables in the list, not all are visible.
• Assume that you check the Only allow task updates via Tasks and Timesheetsoption in the Project Web App. When you open a project in Project 2013, you may be unable to indent the tasks. Additionally, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
  Change would modify work entered by a team member. We can't make that change because Project Web App is set to only allow actual work to be entered by team members through Timesheets or My Work.
• When you try to open a project that contains Summary Resource Assignments (SRA) in Project 2013, you may experience slow performance. This issue occurs when the SRA has work where the resources do not have working time.
• Assume that you open a project in Project 2013 from a Project server. Then you click File > Share > Email > Send as Attachment or File > Save As to save it as another file. In this situation, when you try to save the project to the server, the save operation may fail silently. As a result, the Resource Assignments are deleted.
• You may be able to change actual work values by using Project Professional 2013, even though the administrator turns on the Only allow task updates via task and timesheets option.

April 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878276

15.0.4605.1000

• Enterprise project templates are not sorted alphabetically in Project Professional 2013 making it difficult to find a specific template if you have a large amount.
• When you try to print a file that has grouping applied with the Maintain hierarchy option enabled, Project 2013 crashes.
• If you use a split view with the usage view on the bottom in a project, Project 2013 may crash.
• When you use Project 2013 on a high DPI device, dropdowns in dialog boxes may not be drawn correctly.
• When you create a security category, category rule is ignored that results in incorrect effective permissions.
• When you try to level resources in some projects that contain combinations of task constraints, Project may crash.
• When you run a macro that uses the DeliverableUpdate method, the time component of the deliverable start date and finish date is not updated correctly. For example, if the deliverable start date and time is March 31, 2014 10:00 AM, the deliverable start date is updated instead to March 31, 2014 12:00 AM.
• You cannot reference assignments with a unique ID as returned by the object model. Additionally, you receive the following error message: 
  Run-time error '1101'. The argument value is not valid
• When you log on to a Project Server that uses Project Professional, it may take longer than expected if the server has many lookup tables and defined values.
• Assume that you add some users to a project and the project is published. After the user synchronization process is complete, not all the users are added to the project’s SharePoint site in the given SharePoint security group as expected.
• When you group assignments in usage views in Project 2013, grouping row labels do not always appear and assignments may appear in an incorrect grouping.
• When you link tasks between projects and use a combination of auto-scheduled tasks and manually scheduled tasks, the start date of the auto-scheduled tasks can be calculated incorrectly.

February 2014 - Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

No cumulative Update in February as the Service Pack was released.  The Server service pack was re-released in April, this did not affect the client SP1.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817433

15.0.4569.1000

32 bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42013

64 bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42020

List of SP1 fixes - http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/8/0A870358-D451-488E-BF54-9616292E19EC/Microsoft%20Office%20and%20SharePoint%202013%20Service%20Pack%201%20Changes.xlsx

December 2013

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2837665

15.0.4551.1507 (KB references 15.0.4551.1508)

• After you configure the Fit to: option on the Page tab in the Page Setup dialog box in Project 2013, bars and text may be clipped vertically.

October 2013

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2825651

15.0.4551.1001

• Assume that a project contains a local resource whose name is the same as an enterprise resource. Additionally, the local resource is assigned to a task that is incomplete and a task this is 100 percent complete. When you save the project on a server, the local resource is assigned to the completed task, and the enterprise resource is assigned to the incomplete task.
• Consider the following scenario:
  • You connect to a Project 2013 server in Project 2013.
  • You checkout the enterprise global template.
  • You open theVisual Basic Editor, and then you make some changes to some visual basic code that is stored in the global template. 
  • You save the project, and then you restart Project 2013.
  In this scenario, the changes to the visual basic code are not saved. 
• Consider the following scenario:Assume that you open a project that contains an interim baseline plan in Project 2013. When you insert interim baseline fields, such as Start1 and Finish1, the properties of the fields are empty. 
  • The system locale is set to a setting other than English (United States) on a computer.
  • A Microsoft Excel workbook on the computer contains columns whose names are Outline Level and Start Date. 
  • You try to import the workbook into Project 2013. 
  In this scenario, Project 2013 freezes. This issue may also occur when you open sub projects in a master project. 

August 2013

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817502

15.0.4535.1000

• Assume that you use the Gantt Chart view to view a specific number of pages in Project 2013. When you print the pages, the "Fit to" settings in the Page Setup dialog box are not applied correctly. For example, Gantt bars and text may not be printed.
• When you change the font for the "All assignments row" in the Bar Styles dialog box in Task or Resource Usage view in Project 2013, the changes are not applied correctly. 
• When you clear the "Show bar splits" check box in the Layout dialog box on the FORMATtab in Project 2013, you receive the following error message:
  An unexpected error occurred.

RTM - Version at initial release - 15.0.4420.1017