Hey Home windows Insiders, right now we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25211 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- We’ve some modifications and enhancements based mostly off Insider suggestions on this construct – see beneath!
- We’re starting to roll out a brand new settings expertise for Widgets.
- Home windows Insiders who’re additionally Workplace Insiders can now attempt the brand new Outlook for Home windows! We’ve received the small print beneath on how you can get began.
- We’re starting to roll out an replace for Snipping Instrument which now consists of the power to mechanically save your screenshots.
- As normal, this construct additionally features a set of fixes to enhance the general expertise for Home windows Insiders.
What’s new
Widgets settings
On this replace, we’ve separated the widget picker and Widgets settings to make it simpler so that you can discover and work together with every view. Now, the widget picker is opened by the “+” button and Widgets settings is opened by the “Me” button. We re-used the area the picker used to soak up Widget settings to cowl the extremely requested taskbar settings based mostly on Insider suggestions to present you management over how the Widgets entry works in your taskbar.
If you open Widgets settings by clicking on the “Me” button proven above, you will note three taskbar behaviors that you would be able to toggle on or off.
Please observe the wording for the toggles in Widget settings is barely completely different on this construct over what’s proven within the above screenshot. In a future replace, the textual content for the toggles in Widget settings shall be up to date to mirror what’s within the (above) screenshot.
With the toggles in Widget settings, you may:
- Management whether or not the Widgets board opens if you hover over the taskbar icon.
- Management whether or not Widgets will present notification badging on the taskbar.
- Management whether or not reside Widget content material on the taskbar reveals greater than climate.
[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) underneath Desktop Atmosphere > Widgets.
Modifications and Enhancements
[Taskbar]
- Primarily based in your suggestions, we’ve added Activity Supervisor to the context menu when right-clicking on the taskbar. Tell us what you suppose!
[System Tray]
- This construct consists of preliminary help to rearrange System Tray icons for Insiders who’ve the System Tray updates that started rolling out with Construct 25197. Additional enhancements for this expertise are coming quickly. As a reminder, these System Tray updates are nonetheless rolling out and should not obtainable to all Insiders simply but. In case your PC doesn’t have these modifications, your System Tray expertise will stay the identical as earlier than.
[File Explorer]
- Fastened a difficulty the place the highest a part of File Explorer (with the search and deal with field) couldn’t be interacted with when File Explorer was in full display screen mode (F11).
[Settings]
- In the intervening time, you’ll now not have the ability to uninstall apps with interdependencies (e.g., Steam and gaming apps working on Steam) or restore Win32 apps underneath Settings > Apps > Put in apps. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to modify and uninstall Win32 apps with out interdependencies.
Fixes
[General]
- We’re starting to roll out a server-side repair for the difficulty inflicting a “date, time and time zone settings are incorrect” message to be improperly displayed, which was additionally stopping the set up of the most recent Insider Preview builds from continuing.
[File Explorer]
- Fastened the difficulty the place the command bar gadgets like copy, paste, and empty Recycle Bin had been unexpectedly not be enabled typically after they have been.
- Fastened a difficulty which was inflicting surprising black bars on the edges of horizontal scroll bars when utilizing darkish mode.
[Start]
- When you’ve got Begin set to point out extra pinned gadgets, the animation for opening folders decrease on the web page will now seem from the best place.
[Taskbar]
- Fastened a excessive hitting Shell Expertise Host crash in current Dev Channel builds, impacting Fast Settings launch reliability.
[Input]
- The gripper for transferring the emoji panel and contact keyboard ought to now replace colour appropriately if you change between darkish and lightweight mode.
- Fastened a reminiscence leak when repeatedly invoking the enter switcher.
[Settings]
- Fastened a Settings crash which might occur when altering your cell hotspot title.
- Up to date the examples used within the Brief time choice underneath Time & Language > Language & Area > Regional Format, to make the 12 hour choices (vs 24 hour) a bit of extra apparent by exhibiting morning and afternoon occasions.
[Task Manager]
- Tweaked the graphs within the Efficiency web page to make use of a bit extra transparency so it’s simpler to see the grid traces beneath.
- Made one other repair to enhance Activity Supervisor reliability.
- Fastened a black flash whereas is perhaps seen when launching Activity Supervisor in mild mode.
- Fastened just a few points the place the font colour of sure components wasn’t right / readable when utilizing a distinction theme.
[Other]
- Fastened a difficulty the place Narrator would learn out the small print of the calendar that opens from choosing the date and time from the taskbar when it was collapsed.
- Fastened a difficulty the place explorer.exe was crashing repeatedly in Home windows Sandbox for Insiders with the pill optimized taskbar and up to date system tray.
- Fastened a difficulty which might result in hangs in sure apps when opening the Open File Dialog.
- Fastened a difficulty which was making the display screen go black for some Insiders when enabling HDR just lately.
- Fastened a difficulty the place after utilizing the Open With dialog, the method may keep working even when it wasn’t in use anymore.
- Fastened a difficulty which was resulting in elevated CPU utilization for WSL2 customers on ARM64 PCs even when WSL was idle.
- Fastened a difficulty the place closing the print dialog might result in an app crash within the final couple flights.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel could make their manner into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Identified points
[General]
- We’re trying into experiences that audio stopped working for some Insiders after upgrading to the most recent flights.
- We’re investigating experiences of some completely different apps having began crashing in current builds.
- [NEW] We’re investigating experiences that numerous UI components in apps seem like disappearing and reappearing typically in current builds.
[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 Heart (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 an alternative of dismissing to collapsed state.
- When there aren’t any working home windows on the desktop, the taskbar can typically collapse, when it needs to be expanded.
[Widgets]
- 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 most recent Home windows Insider SDK at aka.ms/windowsinsidersdk.
SDK NuGet packages at the moment are additionally flighting at NuGet Gallery | WindowsSDK which embrace:
These NuGet packages present extra granular entry to the SDK and higher integration in CI/CD pipelines.
Strive the brand new Outlook for Home windows
Home windows Insiders who’re additionally Workplace Insiders can check out the brand new Outlook for Home windows. Workplace Insiders working Beta Channel or Present Channel (Preview) will see a “Strive the New Outlook” toggle situated within the upper-right nook of your basic Outlook for Home windows. Simply toggle this on and observe the onscreen directions. Within the coming weeks, this expertise will even be made obtainable for Home windows Insiders in the same toggle throughout the Home windows Mail app.
ALT-TEXT: Activate this toggle to attempt the brand new Outlook for Home windows.
Since kicking off the early preview again in Might, the Outlook workforce has been exhausting at work deal with suggestions. The brand new Outlook for Home windows consists of numerous new updates to attempt – together with help for Microsoft accounts.
Learn this weblog submit from Margie Clinton, Group Product Supervisor on the Outlook workforce, for all the small print on getting began with the brand new Outlook for Home windows and the most recent modifications with the app!
Snipping Instrument mechanically saves your screenshots
We’re rolling out an replace for Snipping Instrument (model 11.2209.2.0) to Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel. With this replace, Snipping Instrument helps mechanically saving your screenshots so you may recall them later. Search for your screenshot historical past within the Screenshots folder inside Photos. This characteristic is on by default, however you may also change this habits in app settings.
Concerning the Dev Channel
The Dev Channel receives builds that characterize lengthy lead work from our engineers with options and experiences that will by no means get launched as we check out completely different ideas and get suggestions. It is very important keep in mind 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 basic prospects. For extra info, please learn this weblog submit about how we plan to make use of the Dev Channel to incubate new concepts, work on lengthy lead gadgets, and management the states of particular person options.
These aren’t all the time secure builds, and typically you will note points that block key actions or require workarounds. It is very important be sure you learn the recognized points listed in our weblog posts as we doc many of those points with every flight.
Construct numbers are larger within the Dev Channel than the Home windows 11 preview builds within the Beta and Launch Preview Channels. You will be unable to change 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 the moment.
ALSO: As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels characterize parallel improvement 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
