If your students have already started/finished 1a, it's not necessary to redistribute these to them. These are minor tweaks to precisely match Salesforce's latest release (Spring 24).
But if your students haven't started the labs yet, please do download these now so they will get them. Besides the release tweaks, the new 1a include some edits to help students avoid the issue we reported earlier when they click Submit multiple times and get multiple accounts with the same username.