Good day Home windows Insiders, right now we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25252 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- We’re again from the U.S. Thanksgiving vacation break with a brand new construct with a handful of enhancements and fixes.
- We added a couple of new recognized points for some bugs that would influence Insiders – see under.
- We shall be releasing the matching SDK for this construct later this week.
Adjustments and Enhancements
[Taskbar & System Tray]
- We’ve added a glanceable VPN standing into the system tray when related to a acknowledged VPN profile. The VPN icon, a small protect, shall be overlayed in your system accent coloration over the energetic community connection.
[Search on the Taskbar]
- On this construct, we’re persevering with to check out totally different therapies for a way search seems to be on the taskbar. We’re excited to be taught out of your suggestions on this, so please tell us what you assume by way of Suggestions Hub if you happen to see the totally different therapies in your PC. Insiders who get this expertise may have the flexibility to alter the therapy of search on taskbar in settings beneath Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar Objects.
Fixes
[Taskbar & System Tray]
- Mounted an explorer.exe crash when utilizing Alt+F4 with the present hidden icons flyout within the system tray open.
- Mounted a number of explorer.exe crashes impacting system tray efficiency.
- Up to date the battery icon’s tooltip to let you realize in case your machine is charging slowly.
- Made a small refinement for tablet-optimized taskbar customers to make it a bit simpler to broaden the taskbar with out invoking the Begin menu.
- Mounted a problem which may result in the taskbar leap lists and preview thumbnails not showing within the right place for Insiders with 2 in 1 PCs.
[Start menu]
- We fastened a problem inflicting folders in Begin menu to not open on the primary attempt.
[Other]
- Mounted a problem inflicting some Insiders to see a bugcheck with the error SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION after upgrading to the earlier flight.
- Mounted a problem which was inflicting sure apps (together with Media Participant) to crash when enjoying media within the background in current flights.
- Mounted a problem which may result in your PC going to sleep though it was configured to stay awake.
- Mounted a problem the place network-to-local copying (for instance, when copying a file from a community share) was slower than anticipated from some customers.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel could make their means into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Identified points
[General]
- [NEW] Underneath sure circumstances, Widgets could seem lacking for a small subset of Home windows Insiders inflicting explorer.exe to crash in a loop after upgrading to this construct. Whether it is lacking, you’ll be able to set up it right here. We advocate doing this earlier than you improve. When you improve and are impacted, please comply with these steps for rolling again the construct.
- [NEW] There is a matter in Construct 25247+ inflicting some Insiders to not in a position to view sure secondary drives – this may occasionally additionally have an effect on different PCI gadgets. The machine exhibits as having an error in System Supervisor. We’re engaged on a repair, when you improve to a construct with the repair it must be purposeful once more.
- We’re wanting into reviews that audio stopped working for some Insiders after upgrading to the most recent flights.
- We’re investigating reviews of crashes with a couple of totally different apps and video games in current builds.
- We’re engaged on the repair for a problem inflicting numerous UI parts in apps seem to vanish and reappear typically in current builds.
[Taskbar & System Tray]
- The taskbar is typically cropped in half when utilizing the tablet-optimized taskbar.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on the repair for a problem inflicting the Bluetooth part of Fast Settings to crash beginning with the earlier flight. If you’re impacted, please use the Settings > Bluetooth & Gadgets in the intervening time as a substitute.
[Search on the Taskbar]
- For sure information ending with .cmd, .exe or .bat you will have to press backspace after typing earlier than you will note outcomes.
The next recognized points solely apply for Home windows Insiders who obtained one of many totally different therapies for a way search seems to be on the taskbar as talked about above on this weblog publish:
- [NEW] Once you change your main monitor, for instance by plugging an exterior show in, you will note a search field that seems to be floating on the desktop. You may repair this problem by going into Personalization > Taskbar > Search and toggling the setting.
- [NEW] When utilizing a number of displays, the search field is just not seen on the non-active monitor when the search flyout is open. That is solely current when “Present my taskbar on all shows” is enabled.
- [NEW] Once you click on on the search field on taskbar, the search field will momentarily flash earlier than the Search flyout exhibits up
- [NEW] In right-to-left show languages like Arabic, there are format points with the textual content within the search field on taskbar.
- [NEW] Some Japanese IME candidate objects are clipped contained in the search field on taskbar.
[Task Manager]
- Filtering by writer identify doesn’t match appropriately on the Processes web page.
- Some providers could not present within the Providers web page after filtering is utilized.
- If a brand new course of is beginning whereas a filter is ready, then that course of could seem for a break up second within the filtered record.
- Some dialogs could not render within the right theme when utilized from Activity Supervisor Settings web page.
- The info content material space of the Processes web page could flash as soon as when theme modifications are utilized within the Activity Supervisor Settings web page.
- There’s a problem we’re investigating the place Activity Supervisor isn’t displaying mild and darkish content material appropriately, resulting in unreadable textual content. This occurs when you could have your mode in Settings > Personalization > Colours set to Customized – as a workaround in the intervening time, please swap it to Gentle or Darkish.
- The Startup apps web page in Activity supervisor doesn’t record any apps for some Insiders. If you’re impacted, please use Settings > Apps > Startup in the intervening time.
[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.
Concerning the Dev Channel
The Dev Channel receives builds that symbolize lengthy lead work from our engineers with options and experiences that will by no means get launched as we check out totally 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 could change over time, be eliminated, or changed in Insider builds or could by no means be launched past Home windows Insiders to common clients. For extra data, 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 at all times steady builds, and typically you will note 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 presently.
ALSO: As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels symbolize parallel growth paths from our engineers, there could also be circumstances 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
