Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.51 Released to Insiders on the Dev Channel:  Announcing the first Insider Preview for Windows 11 | Windows Insider Blog

See the blog post for writeup and images of Windows 11.  Also see Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements | Windows Insider Blog.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65

See the blog post for the long lists of changes, improvements, and fixes in DEV Build 22000.65.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71

The Build includes a new entertainment widget, new context menus and more along with a very long list of fixes.for the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets, and more.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.100

See the blog post for the changes and improvements as well as a long list of fixes to the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets and more.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.120

Build is for both and Dev and Beta Channels.  See the blog post for the long list of fixes.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132

Again, the Build is for everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels and the blog post includes a long list of Known issues.

Fixes

• Search:
  • Did some work to address a scenario where the recent searches list displayed when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar was unexpectedly blank.
• Widgets:
  • We fixed the issue where launching links from the widgets board wasn't always invoking apps to the foreground.
  • Clicking the widgets icon in the Taskbar should open it on the correct monitor now.
• Windows Sandbox:
  • The Taskbar (Explorer.exe) should no longer repeatedly crash inside of Windows Sandbox.
• Other:
  • Addressed an issue leading to some Insiders experiencing a bug check when attempting to roll back in the previous flight.
  • Mitigated an issue that was making certain games go unresponsive after pressing the Enter key.
  • Fixed an issue where the "location in use" indicator icon wasn't showing up in the Taskbar when it should have been.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.160

Build is released to everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels.  In addition, the ISOs for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 have been released to the Windows Insider Preview Downloads page. The ISOs can be used to do a clean installation or in-place upgrade.

Fixes

• Taskbar:
  • We fixed an issue where the "location in use" icon was showing in the Taskbar sometimes even though the usage was blocked by your preferences.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.168

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IMPORTANT REMINDER: If you are in the Dev Channel, now would be the right time to consider switching to the Beta Channel if you want to stay on more stabilized builds of Windows 11. For those of you who are new to the Windows Insider Program and flighting of OS updates – check out this article for how flighting works. (We use the term "flighting" for the activity of releasing new OS updates to Insiders.)

Fixes

• Search:
  • We've addressed an underlying issue in the last couple flights for pen enabled devices that was resulting in Search getting into a state where it wasn't possible to launch apps from the results.
• Settings:
  • We fixed an issue where typing certain phrases into the search box in Settings were crashing Settings sometimes.
• Widgets:
  • When using the Family widget, you should no longer unexpectedly see a message saying 'connect a device to see screen time activity' despite there being available activity to display.
• Chat from Microsoft Teams:
  • We fixed the issue where sometimes videos would freeze or display a black image during video calls.
  • We also fixed the issue where if you switched between calls, the previous call is not automatically put on hold, so audio and video streams continue with both calls.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22449

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You may notice that this build number is higher than the Windows 11 preview builds you've been receiving. That's because we're moving the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th.

See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22454

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REMINDER: Build numbers are higher in the Dev Channel than the Windows 11 preview builds in the Beta Channel because we've moved the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th. The desktop watermark you see at the lower right corner of your desktop is normal for these pre-release builds.

See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22458

Fixes

[Start]

• Fixed an underlying issue that was impacting Start reliability.

[Search]

• Folders with # in folder name can now be added to indexing.

[Settings]

• Addressed an issue that was causing Settings to crash sometimes when trying to open the Display page.
• Clicking "More about refresh rate" in Advanced Display Settings now opens the support page it's supposed to.
• Fixed an issue where the Location page in Settings wasn't showing warning text explaining why the location services setting was greyed out if it was greyed out.
• Changes made to preferences under Manage App Execution Alias in Settings should now be preserved.
• Fixed a couple typos in the output of dll (Issue #206).

[Windowing]

• Mitigated an issue that could make certain games unexpectedly crash when using ALT + Enter (i.e., switch between full screen and windowed) during with Auto HDR enabled.

[Other]

• Addressed an issue that was causing text truncation in the Encrypting File System window in certain cases.
• Fixed a rare scenario that could result in an uninstalled in-box app unexpectedly reappearing after reboot.
• Appx commandlets should now work with PowerShell 7.0+ printui.dll (Issue #13138).

NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 after general availability on October 5th.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22463

Fixes

[Start]

• System now shows up again as an option when right-clicking on the Start button (WIN + X).
• Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to not be able to focus on the headers in Start sometimes with touch.
• Mitigated an issue where when a large number of apps were installed, the Start menu might get stuck with no app icons showing (only app name) after a DPI change. This change is also believed to help improve Start launch reliability on secondary monitors in mixed DPI scenarios.
• If the accessibility option "Always show scrollbars" is enabled, switching to the All apps list will no longer cause the scrollbar to escape the window boundaries during the transition animation.
• Pressing the down arrow after opening Start will now navigate into the pinned apps section instead of jumping to your username.

[Taskbar]

• Icons on the Taskbar are properly aligned and centered again apps should no longer get cut off by the "show hidden icons" button when too many apps are open.
• The Taskbar previews text will now follow the Accessibility setting to increase text size.
• Adjusted the notification count badge for notification center to fix an issue where some of the numbers weren't centered in the circle.
• Fixed an issue where the Chat flyout wouldn't light dismiss the first time it was opened.
• Improved explorer.exe reliability when the Taskbar spanned multiple monitors.

[Search]

• Opening Search on secondary monitors works now.

[File Explorer]

• Mitigated an issue that could cause File Explorer to hang when doing a search.
• Pressing F1 in File Explorer will now open a search for Windows 11 help and not Windows 10.
• Made a change to address an issue where items under View, Sort by, and Group by submenus in the context menu weren't displaying a mark to show they were selected.

[Input]

• Fixed an issue resulting in the mouse pointer position in WDAG being incorrect when the monitor was in portrait mode.
• Text predictions (both for the touch keyboard, and hardware keyboard) should be working again now in this flight for English and certain other languages where it was broken.
• Addressed an issue when using the previous version of the Korean IME where when typing quickly in certain apps the Shift Key Up event wouldn't be received by the app.
• Fixed an issue that was making the touch keyboard key borders look blurry in certain cases.
• Mitigated an issue where the touch keyboard would crash in certain cases when switching dock mode while the voice typing UI was visible.

[Settings]

• Removed duplicate Nearby Sharing entry in Focus Assist priority list.
• Fixed an issue that was causing a repeated prompt to reset to default settings when "Automatically optimize new drives" was unselected in Optimize Drives.
• If you press WIN + P the current projection mode will now have initial keyboard focus instead of always the first in the list.

[Windowing]

• Trying to switch Desktops (for example, using the keyboard shortcuts) when there is only one should no longer steal foreground focus.
• Addressed an issue where the snap layouts flyout would start flashing when invoked in certain places on the screen.
• Move To option when right clicking a window thumbnail in Task View is now aligned with the other context menu entries.

[Windows Sandbox]

• Windows Sandbox should now launch in this build. In previous Dev Channel builds, Windows Sandbox would not launch in some circumstances.

[Windows Subsystem for Linx (WSL) & Hyper-V]

• We have fixed the issue causing both WSL2 and Hyper-V to not work on ARM64 PCs such as the Surface Pro X in previous Dev Channel builds.

[Other]

• Fixed an issue that caused some PCs to bug check with DRIVER_PNP_WATCHDOG error when attempting to update to a recent build.
• Fixed an issue that caused some Surface Pro X's to bug check with a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR.
• Fixed an issue where the Autorun registry entry for Command Prompt would not work if /k was used.
• Did some work to address an issue where not being able to parse a certain firewall rule would result in all rules following that one not being migrated on upgrade.
• Addressed an issue where the Quick Assist window could be small and not possible to resize.
• Fixed an issue for some users where if the sign in button in Quick Assist was clicked, it would open a blank browser window and they wouldn't be able to proceed to sign in.
• Mitigated an issue with certain menus / context menus that was causing a visual glitch with the shadow on first launch.
• Mitigated a race condition that was causing certain PCs to sometimes bugcheck with INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR when resuming from hibernation.
• Fixed an issue that was making some PCs unable to progress past the boot screen when upgrading to 224xx builds with certain SSDs attached.

NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 after general availability on October 5th.

Redesigned Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders | Windows Insider Blog

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Here's another @Windows 11 first look. This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. Can't wait to see your creations! #Windows11 #WindowsInsiders pic.twitter.com/jiKyfqQFUV

— Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22468

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Build Expiration Reminder: We have updated the build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. To avoid hitting this expiration, please update to Build 22468 today.

Fixes

[Taskbar]

• Mitigated a rare explorer.exe initialization hang related to loading the network icon.
  

[Search]

• Improved reliability of showing the flyout when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar.
  
• If you navigate to the Search icon in the Taskbar using the keyboard, navigating away will now dismiss the recent searches flyout.
  
• The options when right clicking recent files displayed when searching for certain apps like Word should work now when you select them.
  

[File Explorer]

• If you right click files in OneDrive locations in File Explorer, the context menu will no longer unexpectedly dismiss when you hover over entries that open sub-menus, like "Open with."
  
• Double clicking a network folder to open it will no longer unexpectedly try to pin it to Quick Access instead of opening it.
  

[Input]

• Addressed an underlying font issue that was making the right hand of the shruggie kaomoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not display in the correct position, as well as apostrophes in certain cases.
  

[Settings]

• Your preferred microphone input format setting (as configured in Sound Settings) should persist upgrade now.
  
• Addressed an issue where certain drives were unexpectedly not displaying in Defragment and Optimize Drives.
  

[Other]

• We've resolved the issue preventing MDM enrolled PCs from successfully updating to the previous build. These devices are now unblocked from updating to the latest build.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected flickering in certain apps such as Microsoft Edge when using multiple monitors with different refresh rates.
  
• Mitigated a display related issue that was causing some Insiders to experience an increase in bug checks in recent flights.
  
• Did some work to address an issue where the Windows Update icon in the Taskbar might display but suddenly disappear when you hovered over it.
  
• Addressed a rare issue with certain devices after sleep where Wi-Fi would get stuck in an off state and trying to toggle it back on wouldn't work.
  
• Mitigated an issue for certain devices that could cause the system to freeze in some scenarios.
  

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22471

Note  The build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022 continues. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021.

Fixes

[Taskbar]

• We fixed an underlying issue that was causing the Taskbar's hidden icons flyout to have sharp corners instead of rounded corners sometimes.
  
• Using the down arrow when interacting with the Desktops flyout's context menu should now move focus down the menu instead of dismissing it.
  

[File Explorer]

• Fixed an issue that was making explorer.exe crash sometimes when closing File Explorer windows.
  

[Input]

• Addressed an issue where voice typing might fail with an error message citing a network connection issue when that was not actually the cause of the failure.
  
• If you're using the touch keyboard in "Kana" key mode for the Japanese IME, the key labels will now correctly show the character that will be input when you're holding Shift.
  
• Mitigated a race condition that was causing textinputhost.exe to crash on launch sometimes.
  

[Windowing]

• Typing wt from the Run dialog will now open Windows Terminal in the foreground instead of the background.
  
• Addressed an issue that could lead to apps getting stuck in a minimized state after disconnecting an external monitor and resuming the system from sleep.
  

[Other]

• Addressed a network issue for Insiders running certain traffic optimization software. This should lead to improved performance on websites utilizing HTTP/3.
  
• Fixed and issue where some devices were failing to update to a newer build with error code 0xc1900101. If you are still experiencing this error code, please file a new piece of feedback in Feedback Hub.
  
• Updated the "reboot needed" dialog for Windows Update to now say Windows 11. Please note that you will only see the results of this change when prompted to reboot for the next flight, as you need to be on a build with the change.
  
• Fixed a DWM crash that could happen when enabling a contrast theme.
  
• Corrected an issue for ARM64 PCs that could result in certain apps not responding to display language changes if they were installed prior to upgrading to Windows 11.
  
• Addressed an issue where when explorer.exe is launched from an elevated process was using a lower memory priority, impacting the performance of all processes launched after it (Issue #55).