today's weight of ISO

[covo]

today's weight of wsusoffline-wxp-plk.ISO --> 1.46 GB (1,574,576,128)
but 11.04.2014's weight ----> 1.48 GB (1,593,886,720)

1.
Is it possible that today's ISO is lighter? Is any known trend...?

2.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150248/microsoft-backs-down-will-fix-internet-explorer-vulnerability-even-on-windows-xp.html#tk.nl_today
- does today's iso include it?

[boco]

1. If superseded updates were bigger than the new ones are, or if more updates have been removed than added, it's entirely possible.
Further possible reasons:
-support for german patches removed through the batch file, actual removal at next download run
-download of Defender signatures failed and thus missing on ISO (happens frequently for me)

Consult the download log for enlightenment.

2. If you do a new download run now, the new MS catalog will be downloaded and used. The latest updates are in there. For some reason IE6 patches aren't included, according to another post.