Microsoft has released a new Dev channel build to Insiders with changes made to the Widgets panel, Start Menu, Group Policy, and input. The Widgets flyout one has a toolbar with extra actions. The Start menu can now show notification badges to inform the user about actions he needs to take. Besides, there are a bunch of fixes in this release.
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There are also official ISO images available for Windows 11 Build 25227. You can use them to do a clean install. They can be downloaded here.
What's new in Windows 11 Build 25227
- The Start menu for some Insiders will show badging on their user profile notifying them that certain actions need to be taken.
- The Widget header can now appear on the left, and also shows additional new icons to manage Widgets with ease.
- The clipboard history (WIN + V) on password fields feature that began rolling out with Build 25206 is now available to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
- You can now contribute your voice clips to Microsoft even if on-device speech recognition is used.
- Sync settings now supports voice typing options, Automatic punctuation and Voice typing launcher. You can toggle this feature via Settings > Accounts > Windows backup > Remember my preferences > Accessibility. This currently only works with Microsoft accounts today with AAD support coming later.
- A new dialog will warn users of potential data loss if they elect to change the partition style of their storage drive under System > Storage > Disks & Volumes > Disk Properties.
- The ethernet and Wi-Fi property pages in Settings will now show gateway information in the network details summary.
- This build includes improvements for update management for IT administrators:
- The Deadline calculation for both quality and feature updates is now based off the time the client’s update scan initially discovered the update.
- The Specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts Group Policy setting was split into two separate settings:
- Specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts for quality updates
- Specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts for feature updates
- To reduce the impact of the Deadline calculation change, the defaults values for feature updates were changed to the following:
- Update/ConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdates = 2 (previously 7)
- Update/ConfigureDeadlineGracePeriodForFeatureUpdate = 7 (previously 2)
Besides, there are several fixes to various system components. You will find the full list in the official announcement here.
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