Hiya Home windows Insiders, immediately we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25201 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- We’re releasing ISOs for this construct – they are often downloaded right here.
- We’re starting to rollout expanded view for Widgets. We’re starting the roll out to a small set of Insiders within the Dev Channel first so not everybody will see it immediately.
- We’re additionally starting to roll out an replace to the Recreation Cross widget that helps signing in along with your Xbox profile and exhibits your just lately performed video games from the Recreation Cross library.
What’s new
Expanded View in Widgets
Want more room in your widgets board? Can’t fairly see all the pieces at a look? We’re making an attempt out some modifications that can help you develop the scale of your widgets board.
Use the develop and collapse button within the prime proper nook of the board, subsequent to the add widgets button, to develop or collapse the scale of your widgets board.
The dimensions of your board is remembered, so in case you choose your widgets board to all the time present you extra content material and go away it expanded then that’s how it is going to be the following time you open it.
[We are beginning to roll this out, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders 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) beneath Desktop Atmosphere > Widgets.
Recreation Cross Widget Enhancements
Final month we launched the preview of the Recreation Cross widget with no sign-in expertise to your Xbox profile. Right now, we’re starting to roll out and replace for the Recreation Cross widget that introduces the power to sign-in along with your Xbox profile. When you have already signed into your Xbox app on PC, the Recreation Cross widget can be signed-in along with your Xbox account. As soon as signed-in, the widget will present the complete vary of Recreation Cross video games out there to you.
Moreover, the widget can even present the latest set of PC Recreation Cross titles you may have performed. It provides avid gamers a fast technique to get proper again into the motion.
As all the time, we might love to listen to your ideas on how the workforce could make Recreation Cross widget higher and extra personalised for you. Please share your suggestions!
[We are beginning to roll this out, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders 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) beneath Desktop Atmosphere > Widgets.
Adjustments and Enhancements
[General]
- Thanks to all of the Insiders who gave us suggestions on the completely different visible remedies for search on the taskbar! Beginning with this week’s flight, we’re concluding the exploration of those remedies, so in case you acquired this expertise, it is going to be eliminated in your subsequent reboot.
[File Explorer]
- File Explorer search will now present outcomes as you kind. The total search outcomes web page will replace dwell while not having to press enter. We’re starting to roll this out, so the expertise isn’t out there to all Insiders simply but.
- We’re experimenting with including extra cloud information to go looking outcomes from House.
Fixes
[General]
- Fastened the difficulty in the previous few flights inflicting a bugcheck when shifting your mouse in sure video games.
[File Explorer]
- As a one-time change to assist individuals discover their folders with the navigation pane updates, if the default folders pinned to File Explorer’s navigation pane had been unpinned, they are going to be re-pinned after upgrading.
- Fastened a reminiscence leak which was taking place when closing File Explorer home windows.
[Taskbar]
- The apps within the taskbar overflow flyout ought to now be within the right order when utilizing an Arabic or Hebrew show language.
[Input]
- Fastened a problem the place in case you hadn’t already opened OneNote as soon as, utilizing the pen click on to invoke OneNote wouldn’t work.
- Made a change to assist tackle a problem the place it wasn’t doable to make use of the Pinyin IME to kind within the chat field of sure video games.
[Settings]
- Fastened a problem which was inflicting sporadic Settings app crashes.
- Eliminated an inaccurate white pixel within the icon animation when clicking the Apps class in Settings.
[Widgets]
- We now have fastened the difficulty the place in some instances, the notification banner for some badging wouldn’t seem within the widgets board.
[Windowing]
- Fastened a problem the place explorer.exe was crashing in case you dragged a snap group in Activity View and dropped it into one other Desktop.
- Fastened a problem associated to interacting with the Desktops flyout within the taskbar which was inflicting periodic explorer.exe crashes.
- Fastened a DWM crash in the previous few flights which might result in a short black display when rotating a pill.
- Fastened a uncommon situation which might trigger a DWM crash when watching movies in sure UWP apps in latest builds.
[Task Manager]
- Fastened a problem impacting Activity Supervisor reliability.
[Other]
- Fastened a problem inflicting some Insiders to unexpectedly get the message “it’s not doable to hook up with this community” when connecting to sure Wi-Fi networks just lately, though the community was working with different units.
- Fastened a problem which might result in Home windows Sandbox opening to only a black window on sure PCs.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel could make their approach into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Identified points
[General]
- We’re wanting into experiences that audio stopped working for some Insiders after upgrading to the newest flights.
- We’re investigating experiences of some completely different apps having began crashing in latest builds.
- We’re investigating experiences that some Insiders are seeing OneDrive setup asking for permission to arrange each time their PC reboots.
[File Explorer]
- We’re engaged on the repair for a problem the place command bar objects like copy, paste, and empty recycle bin could unexpectedly not be enabled when they need to be.
[Settings]
- We’re investigating some points the place uninstalling sure apps utilizing Settings > Apps > Put in apps isn’t working appropriately.
[Tablet-optimized taskbar]
- The taskbar typically flashes when transitioning between desktop posture and pill posture.
- The taskbar takes longer than anticipated to transition to the touch-optimized model when switching between desktop posture and pill posture.
- Utilizing the left or proper edge gestures may end up in the Widgets or Notification Middle (respectively) to overlap with or look truncated by the taskbar.
- When utilizing the underside proper edge gesture to see Fast Settings, the taskbar typically stays caught within the expanded state, as a substitute of dismissing to collapsed state.
- When there aren’t any operating home windows on the desktop, the taskbar can typically collapse, when it ought to be expanded.
[Widgets]
- [NEW] In right-to-left show languages like Arabic, content material animates out of view earlier than the widgets board resizes when clicking to expanded view of the widgets board.
- Notification badge quantity could seem misaligned on the taskbar.
For builders
You may obtain the newest Home windows Insider SDK at aka.ms/windowsinsidersdk.
SDK NuGet packages are actually additionally flighting at NuGet Gallery | WindowsSDK which embody:
These NuGet packages present extra granular entry to the SDK and higher integration in CI/CD pipelines.
Concerning the Dev Channel
The Dev Channel receives builds that signify lengthy lead work from our engineers with options and experiences which will by no means get launched as we check out completely different ideas and get suggestions. It is very important do not forget that the builds we launch to the Dev Channel shouldn’t be seen as matched to any particular launch of Home windows and the options included could change over time, be eliminated, or changed in Insider builds or could by no means be launched past Home windows Insiders to common prospects. For extra info, please learn this weblog publish about how we plan to make use of the Dev Channel to incubate new concepts, work on lengthy lead objects, and management the states of particular person options.
These aren’t all the time steady builds, and typically you will notice points that block key actions or require workarounds. It is very important ensure you learn the recognized points listed in our weblog posts as we doc many of those points with every flight.
Construct numbers are increased within the Dev Channel than the Home windows 11 preview builds within the Beta and Launch Preview Channels. You will be unable to modify from the Dev Channel to the Beta or Launch Preview Channels with out doing a clear set up again to the launched model of Home windows 11 at present.
ALSO: As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels signify parallel growth paths from our engineers, there could also be instances the place options and experiences present up within the Beta Channel first.
The desktop watermark you see on the decrease proper nook of your desktop is regular for these pre-release builds.
Necessary Insider Hyperlinks
Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon
