Whats up Home windows Insiders, at the moment we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25136 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- Now we have begun rolling out File Explorer tabs and navigation updates to Home windows Insiders. Particulars beneath. Now we have additionally begun rolling out an replace for Widgets that may present dynamic content material on the taskbar.
- As all the time, this construct features a good set of fixes that enhance the general expertise for Home windows Insiders on the newest preview builds.
- We added one new recognized problem and nonetheless have a set of others – make sure to learn the recognized points beneath.
- Now we have Notepad and Media Participant updates rolling out to Home windows Insiders – see this weblog put up for particulars.
What’s new in Construct 25136
File Explorer Tabs & Navigation Updates
That will help you work throughout a number of areas on the similar time, the title bar of File Explorer now has tabs. We’d love your suggestions on which tabs options you’d wish to see subsequent.
File Explorer can be introducing a refreshed structure of the left navigation pane which makes it simple so that you can navigate to folders that matter to you. The up to date group supplies easy accessibility to your pinned and regularly used folders (Fast entry) and your OneDrive cloud profiles added to Home windows. OneDrive cloud profiles replicate the consumer’s identify related to the account. Identified Home windows folders which can be found by default within the navigation pane are not displayed beneath This PC to maintain that view centered on your PC’s drives. If you navigate to folders syncing to OneDrive resembling Paperwork, Photos, and so forth., the deal with bar shows the right path to assist convey readability when your folders are on the cloud vs when they’re native to you.
[We are beginning to roll this feature out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders in the Dev 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) beneath Recordsdata, Folders, and On-line Storage > File Explorer.
Dynamic Widgets content material on the taskbar
We’re making an attempt out some adjustments to convey extra dynamic Widgets content material to your taskbar. Along with seeing dwell content material from the climate widget, you’ll additionally begin to see dwell 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 necessary occurs associated to those widgets and preserve 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 case you click on on it. Nevertheless, in case you don’t work together with the content material replace the taskbar will return to exhibiting you the climate.
[We are beginning to roll this feature out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders in the Dev 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) beneath Desktop Setting > Widgets.
Modifications and Enhancements
[Input]
- We’re starting to roll out the power for Insiders to report animated gifs they really feel are inappropriate from the emoji panel (WIN + .)
Fixes
[General]
- Addressed a difficulty which was resulting in some PCs being erroneously detected as tablets. When this occurred, compact mode and the choice to cover checkboxes in File Explorer wouldn’t take impact.
- Mounted a difficulty inflicting some Insiders to expertise a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION bugcheck in current Dev Channel builds.
[Taskbar]
- Mounted a difficulty that was generally inflicting taskbar apps to overflow with the system tray icons.
- If you hover on an app within the system tray, its notification will not flash.
[Start]
- Mounted a difficulty that might trigger Begin to solely present one column of really helpful gadgets.
- In the event you’re pinning numerous apps to Begin, it ought to now refresh to indicate them extra reliably.
[Settings]
- Mounted a difficulty from the earlier flight the place Disks & Volumes part of System > Storage wasn’t displaying any disks or volumes.
[Windowing]
- We made a repair to assist with a uncommon problem which was inflicting title bars to generally go clear or lacking generally in sure apps.
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- Mounted a difficulty the place Home windows Replace may unexpectedly present error 0x00000000 when there wasn’t something fallacious.
- Mounted a difficulty which was resulting in some gadgets bugchecking with HYPERVISOR_ERROR when making an attempt to improve to a brand new construct.
[Task Manager]
- Mounted a difficulty which was inflicting Activity Supervisor to crash on launch generally after switching between gentle and darkish mode or altering accent shade.
[Other]
- Mounted a difficulty which may result in elevated latency or stutter in video games when v-sync was used.
- Mounted a difficulty which may trigger some PCs to freeze after operating the wsl –shutdown command.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel might make their manner into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Identified points
[General]
- Home windows Insiders on Floor Professional X gadgets will hit a black display making an attempt to renew from hibernate on this construct. You’ll need to energy cycle (lengthy energy button shutdown) to get again into the system. It’s endorsed Insiders on these gadgets pause flighting till we launch a construct with this repair.
- [NEW] We’re investigating reviews that the Mica materials and Acrylic blur impact will not be rendering right in OS surfaces just like the Begin menu, Notification Heart and different areas.
- We’re investigating reviews that shutting down through the Begin menu isn’t working for some Insiders and is unexpectedly rebooting as a substitute.
- Some video games that use Straightforward Anti-Cheat might crash or trigger your PC to bugcheck.
[File Explorer]
- [NEW] The up arrow is misaligned in File Explorer tabs. This can be mounted in a future replace.
[Live captions]
- Sure apps in full display (e.g., video gamers) forestall dwell captions from being seen.
- Sure apps positioned close to the highest of the display and closed earlier than dwell captions is run will re-launch behind the dwell captions window positioned at high. Use the system menu (ALT + Spacebar) whereas the app has focus to maneuver the app’s window additional down.
For builders
You’ll be able to 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 combine in CI/CD pipelines.
In regards to the Dev Channel [UPDATED]
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 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 common prospects. For extra data, please learn this weblog put up 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 generally 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 won’t be able 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 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