Howdy Home windows Insiders, at this time we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 22621.440 and Construct 22622.440 (KB5015890) to the Beta Channel.
- Construct 22622.440 = New options rolling out.
- Construct 22621.440 = New options off by default.
As a reminder, Insiders who landed within the group with new options turned off by default (Construct 22621.xxxx) can verify for updates and select to put in the replace that can have options rolling out (Construct 22622.xxx).
What’s new in Construct 22622.440
Taskbar Overflow
We’re reintroducing taskbar overflow, with a newly designed expertise for Home windows 11. This taskbar expertise has been thoughtfully crafted to give you a extra productive switching and launching expertise when house is constrained. Your taskbar will mechanically transition into this new overflow state when it has hit its most capability. On this state, taskbar will provide an entry level to an overflow menu that means that you can view all of your overflowed apps in a single house.
The overflow menu will comprise most of the present taskbar behaviors customers are acquainted with, comparable to supporting pinned apps, soar record, and prolonged UI. After invoking overflow, the menu will quietly dismiss when you click on outdoors of it or navigate to an utility.
[We are beginning to roll this feature out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders in the Beta Channel just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) underneath Desktop Surroundings > Taskbar.
What’s new in BOTH Construct 22621.440 & Construct 22622.440
Dynamic Widgets content material on the taskbar
We’re making an attempt out some adjustments to carry extra dynamic Widgets content material to your taskbar. Along with seeing stay content material from the climate widget, you’ll additionally begin to see stay updates from the sports activities and finance widgets, together with breaking information alerts.
This could make it simpler so that you can know when one thing essential occurs associated to those widgets and maintain you knowledgeable of breaking information.
The content material is supposed to be fast and glanceable with the power to see extra contained in the widgets board in the event you click on on it. Nevertheless, in the event you don’t work together with the content material replace the taskbar will return to displaying you the climate.
[We are beginning to roll this feature out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders in the Beta Channel just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) underneath Desktop Surroundings > Widgets.
Adjustments and Enhancements in Construct 22622.440
[General]
- We’re starting to roll out the up to date “Open with” dialog field once more to align with Home windows 11 design rules. The up to date dialog field honors mild and darkish theme. Now we have additionally simplified the expertise by making it attainable to replace your default app with only one click on. Since reverting this alteration again in March, we’ve made efficiency enhancements based mostly on Insider suggestions.
[Input]
- Now we have up to date the U.S. English (EN-US) handwriting mannequin to be sooner and extra correct. Use the up to date Handwriting Panel for ink-to-text and tell us what you suppose.
[Settings]
- Settings now helps managing apps which have been earlier solely supported from Management Panel. This consists of uninstallation of apps which have inter-dependencies (e.g., Steam and gaming apps operating on Steam), restore and modifying of Win32 apps.
Fixes in Construct 22622.440
[General]
- Fastened a problem resulting in some Insiders experiencing explorer.exe crashes when docking and undocking displays in Construct 22622.436.
[File Explorer]
- Did some work to repair a reminiscence leak when utilizing tabs with File Explorer.
- Fastened a problem the place Narrator wasn’t studying out the titles of tabs as focus moved via them.
- Fastened a problem the place the preview thumbnail for File Explorer within the taskbar, ALT + Tab, and Process View may present the title of an adjoining tab and never the at the moment chosen one.
- The add new tab button shouldn’t overlap with the reduce button within the title bar when utilizing textual content scaling with quite a lot of tabs open anymore.
[Suggested Actions]
- Fastened a problem which was resulting in sure apps freezing after a duplicate motion if Urged Actions was enabled.
- Fastened a excessive hitting crash impacting Urged Actions reliability.
Identified points
[General]
- [NEW] There is a matter within the latest Beta Channel updates that’s inflicting the Images app to crash, and a repair will probably be rolling out quickly through a Images app replace through the Retailer.
- [NEW] We’re investigating experiences that SQL Server Administration Studio is failing to launch for some Insiders.
[File Explorer]
- [NEW] The left-half of the File Explorer title bar will not be draggable through mouse or contact.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair to deal with experiences that launching File Explorer in sure methods when utilizing darkish mode (for instance, from the command line) is displaying the physique of File Explorer unexpectedly in mild mode.
- The up arrow is misaligned in File Explorer tabs. This will probably be fastened in a future replace.
In regards to the Beta Channel
The Beta Channel would be the place we preview experiences which can be nearer to what we’ll ship to our normal clients. As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels characterize parallel growth paths from our engineers, there could also be circumstances the place options and experiences present up within the Beta Channel first. Nevertheless, this doesn’t imply each characteristic we check out within the Beta Channel will ship. We encourage Insiders to learn this weblog submit that outlines the methods we’ll strive issues out with Insiders in each the Dev and Beta Channels.
Essential Insider Hyperlinks
Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon
