Hiya Home windows Insiders, right now we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25163 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- We now have just a few new options together with a brand new taskbar overflow expertise and a few enhancements for sharing information.
- As at all times, this construct features a good set of fixes too.
- We’re rolling out a brand new Microsoft Retailer replace with some enhancements – particulars beneath.
What’s new
Taskbar Overflow
We’re reintroducing taskbar overflow, with a newly designed expertise for Home windows 11. This taskbar expertise has been thoughtfully crafted to give you a extra productive switching and launching expertise when house is constrained. Your taskbar will routinely transition into this new overflow state when it has hit its most capability. On this state, taskbar will supply an entry level to an overflow menu that permits you to view all of your overflowed apps in a single house.
The overflow menu will include most of the present taskbar behaviors customers are conversant in, akin to supporting pinned apps, bounce listing, and prolonged UI. After invoking overflow, the menu will quietly dismiss when you click on exterior of it or navigate to an software.
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Desktop Setting > Taskbar.
Improved close by sharing
The invention of units below close by share when sharing a neighborhood file from the desktop, File Explorer, Images, Snipping Software, Xbox, and different apps that use the built-in Home windows share window has been enhanced through the use of UDP (Community must be set to non-public) together with Bluetooth to find close by units. You’ll now have the ability to uncover and share to extra units together with desktop PCs.
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Information, Folders, and On-line Storage > File sharing.
Share native information to OneDrive
When sharing a neighborhood file from the desktop, File Explorer, Images, Snipping Software, Xbox, and different apps that use the built-in Home windows share window, you may select OneDrive as a goal to straight add the file to OneDrive and share it additional together with entry management choices. All this may be completed proper from sharing native information in File Explorer with none context switches or opening the OneDrive app.
(Please notice this characteristic is presently solely accessible for Microsoft accounts. A consumer might want to swap to their Microsoft account through the highest proper profile icon within the share window if logged in through AAD. AAD assist will likely be added in a future replace.)
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Information, Folders, and On-line Storage > File sharing.
Fixes
[File Explorer]
- Mounted an explorer.exe crash when dragging tabs round.
- Did some work to repair a reminiscence leak when utilizing tabs with File Explorer.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the preview thumbnail for File Explorer within the taskbar, ALT + Tab, and Process View would possibly present the title of an adjoining tab and never the presently chosen one.
- If “Present all folders” is enabled, the dividers in File Explorer’s navigation pane ought to not present. With this variation, it must also handle the problems the place dividers had been unexpectedly displaying in another folder pickers.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Narrator wasn’t studying out the titles of tabs as focus moved by them.
- Mounted a difficulty the place a closed tab would possibly seem once more in File Explorer after you dragged File Explorer throughout your displays.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the tab row would possibly unexpectedly increase vertically, protecting the command bar contents.
- Detachable drives ought to not unexpectedly be displayed in a bit by themselves within the navigation pane, which was breaking apart the part with This PC and Community.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the add new tab button wasn’t clearly seen when utilizing Aquatic or Desert distinction themes.
- The add new tab button shouldn’t overlap with the decrease button within the title bar when utilizing textual content scaling with numerous tabs open anymore.
[Taskbar]
- Mounted a uncommon explorer.exe crash that might occur whereas on a Microsoft Groups name, associated to sharing home windows from the taskbar.
[Settings]
- Made a change to assist repair a difficulty the place utilizing Home windows Highlight on the desktop would possibly revert to a strong shade background.
- Improved the padding across the uninstall button when utilizing Apps > Put in Apps in grid view.
- Mounted a pair points that might result in Fast Settings crashing on launch.
[Input]
- Mounted a difficulty which was resulting in sure apps freezing after a replica motion if Advised Actions was enabled.
[Other]
- Mounted a excessive hitting crash impacting steered actions reliability.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel might make their means into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Identified points
[General]
- We’re investigating reviews that SQL Server Administration Studio is failing to launch for some Insiders.
- Some video games that use Simple Anti-Cheat might crash or trigger your PC to bugcheck.
[File Explorer]
- The up arrow is misaligned in File Explorer tabs. This will likely be fastened in a future replace.
- We’re engaged on a repair to handle reviews that launching File Explorer in sure methods when utilizing darkish mode (for instance, from the command line) is displaying the physique of File Explorer unexpectedly in gentle mode.
[Widgets]
- Notification badge quantity might seem misaligned on the taskbar.
- In some circumstances, the notification banner for some badging won’t seem within the widgets board.
- We’re engaged on the repair for a difficulty inflicting Widgets preferences (temperature items and pinned widgets) to unexpectedly get reset to default.
[Live captions]
- Sure apps in full display screen (e.g., video gamers) stop stay captions from being seen.
- Sure apps positioned close to the highest of the display screen and closed earlier than stay captions is run will re-launch behind the stay 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 most recent 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.
Microsoft Retailer Replace
We’re starting to roll out a Microsoft Retailer replace (model 22206.1401.2.0) with the next enhancements:
Browse and search with up to date worth designs: We made it simpler to know the costs, so you could have all the data you want when trying to find a brand new app, sport, or film.
New methods to seek out sport editions: We made it simpler to seek out completely different editions of a sport. View normal and deluxe editions so you may select the sport you need to play.
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Microsoft Retailer.
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 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 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 data, please learn this weblog submit 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 secure builds, and generally you will notice points that block key actions or require workarounds. It is very important ensure you learn the identified 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 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.
Vital Insider Hyperlinks
Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon
