Asserting Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25217

Good day Home windows Insiders, at present we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25217 to the Dev Channel.

TL;DR

• Builders can begin constructing and testing 3^rd celebration widgets on the newest Insider Preview builds within the Dev Channel and the WinAppSDK 1.2 preview 2 launch. Particulars and hyperlinks under.
• This construct features a few input-related modifications and fixes.
• Some Insiders are seeing a sneak peek of a brand new video calling expertise for Chat on Home windows 11. Particulars under.
• We’re starting to roll out a Microsoft Retailer replace that features a few enhancements together with spotlight video games included with Recreation Go.

What’s new

Builders can begin constructing third celebration widgets

We’re excited to announce assist for third celebration widgets as a part of the WinAppSDK 1.2 preview 2 launch. Our group has been working laborious to broaden the Widgets board that was first launched in Home windows 11 to extra builders. The third celebration widgets platform included on this launch will permit builders to create widgets for his or her packaged Win32 apps and check them regionally on the Home windows 11 Widgets board.

New options:

• Builders with packaged Win32 apps will have the ability to create and check third celebration widgets regionally if their machine is working in Developer Mode beneath Settings > Privateness & safety > For builders. Builders can even have to be on the newest Insider Preview construct from the Dev Channel to get the mandatory replace for the Widgets Board (model 521.20060.1205.0 or increased). For extra info on widgets together with pre-requisites please see Widget Design Docs and Widget Dev Docs.

Identified limitations:

• third celebration widgets can solely be examined regionally on the newest Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel for this preview launch. As soon as WinAppSDK 1.2 GA is out, customers on launched variations of Home windows 11 can start buying third celebration widgets through the Microsoft Retailer for shipped variations of their app.
• Help for third celebration PWA widgets can even be coming as a part of a future Microsoft Edge launch.

Cloud Suggestion in Simplified Chinese language IME

We are attempting out some modifications that can assist you to simply kind recent, scorching, and standard phrases in Simplified Chinese language. The modifications embody an improved cloud suggestion and built-in search suggestion. The cloud suggestion provides probably the most related phrase from Bing to the IME candidate window. We’ve up to date the back-end logic in order that we are able to present higher, recent ideas.

The built-in search suggestion offers you further ideas which might be just like what you see in Bing search web page. You’ll be able to both insert a suggestion as textual content or search it instantly in Bing.

To activate these options, choose a chevron button on the proper finish of the IME candidate window. You’ll discover Activate button.

[We are beginning to roll this feature out, so it 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 Enter and Language > Textual content Enter.

Modifications and Enhancements

[Input]

• We started rolling out the brand new Tamil Anjal keyboard for the Tamil language with Construct 25179 and beginning at present, it’s now accessible to all Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel. So as to add it, make sure that Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Sri Lanka), or Tamil (India) is listed beneath Settings > Time & Language > Language & Area, after which click on the “…” subsequent to the language, choose Language Choices, and add Tamil Anjal (QWERTY) to the checklist of keyboards.
• We’ve disabled the brand new contact keyboard setting that first started rolling out to Home windows Insiders in Construct 25188 for now. We hope to carry this function again sooner or later after additional refinement of the design. As we’ve talked about beforehand, options we check out within the Dev or Beta Channels might not all the time ship.

Fixes

[Tablet-optimized taskbar]

NOTE: These fixes will solely present if tablet-optimized taskbar (documented right here) is enabled in your gadget. Pill-optimized taskbar remains to be rolling out to Home windows Insiders and never but accessible for everybody.

• We mounted the difficulty inflicting the taskbar to generally collapse when it ought to be expanded if there aren’t any working home windows on the desktop.
• We mounted a difficulty that will happen when utilizing the left or proper edge gestures ensuing within the Widgets or Notification Heart (respectively) to overlap with or look truncated by the taskbar.
• Mounted a difficulty that was inflicting the tablet-optimized taskbar to crash explorer.exe whereas switching apps.
• Mounted a difficulty that was inflicting the tablet-optimized taskbar to crash explorer.exe for those who entered the overflow flyout.

[Windowing]

• Mounted a difficulty the place the shut button for window preview thumbnails in Process View was drawing barely outdoors the bounds of the thumbnail.
• Mounted a difficulty the place when switching between home windows in current builds you would possibly see the complete window flash black for a body whereas rendering.
• Mounted a difficulty inflicting Miracast video high quality to be very sluggish and stuttering in current flights regardless of having a stable web connection.

[System Tray Updates]

NOTE: These fixes will solely present if System Tray Updates (documented right here) is enabled in your gadget. Pill-optimized taskbar remains to be rolling out to Home windows Insiders and never but accessible for everybody.

• Mounted a difficulty in order that Fast Settings objects can now be rearranged with contact once more.

[Settings]

• Mounted a difficulty beneath Community and Web > Superior Community Settings, the place sure networks had been displaying the mistaken hyperlink velocity.

[Other]

• Mounted a difficulty the place distant desktop on ARM64 PCs was unexpectedly not utilizing UDP and solely TCP.

NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel might make their method into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.

Identified points

[General]

• We’re wanting into studies that audio stopped working for some Insiders after upgrading to the newest flights.
• We’re investigating studies of some completely different apps having began crashing in current builds.
• We’re investigating studies that numerous UI parts in apps look like disappearing and reappearing generally in current builds.

[Tablet-optimized taskbar]

• The taskbar generally 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.
• When utilizing the underside proper edge gesture to see Fast Settings, the taskbar generally stays caught within the expanded state, as an alternative of dismissing to collapsed state.

[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 might seem misaligned on the taskbar.

For builders

You’ll be able to obtain the newest Home windows Insider SDK at aka.ms/windowsinsidersdk.

SDK NuGet packages at the moment are 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.

Sneak Peek: A brand new video calling expertise for Chat from Microsoft Groups in Home windows 11

Chat from Microsoft Groups in Home windows 11 will likely be coming with a extra intuitive and streamlined option to video name anybody on the planet.

Once you open Chat from the taskbar, the main focus will likely be on you with a preview of your personal video, and the varied methods you may join along with your folks. It’s now simpler than ever to right away begin a video name with those that are utilizing Microsoft Groups for private use. For many who usually are not on Groups, not a problem- you may simply share a name hyperlink with anybody through SMS or electronic mail and get the dialog going instantly inside Chat.

This expertise will develop into extra broadly accessible within the coming months, however a small subset of customers could have began seeing the expertise as a part of a sneak preview launch. See for those who fall into this class by launching Chat from the taskbar. If you happen to do, we’d love to listen to your suggestions, which is obtainable instantly from inside the product.

FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) beneath Desktop Surroundings > Chat.

Microsoft Retailer Replace

We’re starting to roll out a Microsoft Retailer replace (model 22209) with the next enhancements:

• Whereas discovering video games within the Retailer, we now clearly present when they’re “accessible with Recreation Go” in addition to the present accessible worth. On the element web page of such a recreation, we up to date the button design and added a brand new part to let you recognize what’s included within the subscription.

• We’ve enhanced the library expertise with simplified choices and improved efficiency.

FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) beneath Microsoft Retailer.

Concerning the Dev Channel

The Dev Channel receives builds that signify 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. You will need to 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 might change over time, be eliminated, or changed in Insider builds or might by no means be launched past Home windows Insiders to basic clients. 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 generally you will notice points that block key actions or require workarounds. You will need to 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 increased 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 signify 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.

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Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon