Microsoft has released a new preview of Windows 11 to Insiders in the Release Preview channel. Build 26100.3613 (KB5053656) applies to version 24H2, and comes with a number of improvements. Specially, Copilot+ devices are getting much improved Live Captions, and the Settings app is featuring hardware cards. Besides, there are a number of fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
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What's new in Windows 11 Build 26100.3613 (Release Preview)
Gradual Rollout
Live Captions
- Copilot+ PC devices with AMD and Intel processors now have the ability to translate subtitles in real time into English from over 44 languages. The feature supports speech translation in video calls, video recordings, and streaming content.
- Copilot+ PC devices with Snapdragon processors now support real-time translation of subtitles into Chinese (simplified). Supported languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.
Settings
- The new Settings app home page has begun rolling out to enterprise PCs managed by an IT administrator. The page will display some existing cards, such as Recommended settings and Bluetooth devices, as well as two new cards with device information and enterprise-specific accessibility settings.
- In the section "Settings" > "System" > "About the system" there are cards with device characteristics. With their help you can quickly find out the model of the installed processor, the amount of RAM, the graphics adapter used and information about the hard drive.
- Fixed an issue for Japanese users where the name displayed at the top of Settings > Accounts was shown in the format "First Name Last Name" instead of the expected "Last Name First Name" format.
Input
- A new virtual keyboard layout is available in Windows 11, which is designed for Xbox gamepads. The new keyboard layout offers an intuitive interface with vertically arranged buttons for easy typing. For convenience, the buttons on the gamepad are equated to certain keys. For example, X is responsible for Backspace, the menu button is Enter, and Y is the spacebar.
- An emoji icon has appeared in the system tray on the taskbar, with which you can quickly open the "Emoji Panel".
- Improved stability of ctfmon.exe by fixing an issue that caused a system reboot that could affect the ability to enter text.
- Fixed an issue where ctfmon.exe could restart when copying data from some applications.
Voice Access
- Voice Access commands can now be spoken in natural language using synonyms, rather than being tied to rigid predefined commands. This change is only available on Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon processors.
- Voice Access now supports Chinese. You can now use it to navigate, type, and interact with Windows using voice commands in Simplified Chinese (zh-cn) and Traditional Chinese (zn-tw).
Task Manager
- Changed the way Task Manager calculates CPU usage on the Processes, Performance, and Users pages. All pages will now use standard metrics to display CPU usage, which is consistent with industry standards and third-party tools. To maintain backward compatibility, a new optional CPU Usage column is available on the Details tab (hidden by default), displaying the previous CPU value used on the Processes page.
Widgets
- Web developers can now use existing web content to create dynamic and interactive widgets that can be added to the Widgets panel in Windows 11. You can read more about this in Microsoft's documentation.
- Microsoft has started rolling out widget support on the lock screen for Insiders in the European Economic Area (EEA). You can now add, remove, and rearrange widgets like Weather, Sports, Traffic, and more on the lock screen. You can also add any widget that supports the shrink feature. To customize your lock screen widgets, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen .
File Explorer
- Fixed an issue where the More Info (...) menu in the toolbar would open in the wrong direction when using screens with certain resolutions.
Remote Desktop
- Fixed an issue where Remote Desktop Connection would not use UDP. It would always use TCP.
Screen orientation
- Fixed an issue where the screen orientation might unexpectedly change when waking from sleep on 2-in-1 devices.
Installing applications
- Fixed an issue where the MsiCloseHandle API took longer than expected to execute when working with MSI files containing a large number of items.
- Fixed an issue where a failed update and subsequent rollback would leave broken entries in the boot menu. This fix prevents the issue from happening again, but does not remove any entries that have already been created. You can remove them manually by opening the System Configuration tool (
msconfig) and going to the Boot tab.
- Fixed an issue where a failed update and subsequent rollback would leave broken entries in the boot menu. This fix prevents the issue from happening again, but does not remove any entries that have already been created. You can remove them manually by opening the System Configuration tool (
Authorization
- Fixed an issue where Kerberos authentication would sometimes not work if RC4 was used as encryption.
- Fixed an issue where signing in using cached FIDO credentials might fail if the device is joined to a hybrid domain.
- Fixed an issue where opening some apps after changing your password could result in your account being locked out if the corresponding policy is enabled.
Overall stability
- Fixed an issue where you might encounter a BSOD with the error PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT when resuming from sleep mode.
Net
- Fixed an issue where the description of a virtual network adapter in Network Connections (
ncpa.cpl) displayed extra characters.
- Fixed an issue where the description of a virtual network adapter in Network Connections (
Graphics
- Fixed an issue where color profiles might not load correctly after resuming from sleep.
Other
- The "suggested actions" that appeared when copying a phone number or date with Windows 11 are no longer supported.
- The Location History feature has been removed. This was an API used by Cortana to access a device’s 24-hour location history when location tracking was enabled. Once the feature is removed, location data will no longer be stored locally on the device. The corresponding settings have also been removed from the Settings > Privacy & Security > Location page.
Available to all users
Display
- Fixed an issue affecting playback of high dynamic range (HDR) content on Dolby Vision-enabled displays where users might see regular HDR instead of Dolby Vision because certain content indicators were missing.
TULIP
- Fixed an issue where window titles could be cut off when using ANSI.
PowerShell
- Addresses an issue that prevents critical PowerShell modules required for device configuration from running under Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policies.
OOBE
- Fixed an issue where ESP would not start every time a new user logged in, even if configured by policy.
Cryptography
- Fixed an issue with Credential Roaming where certificates and keys were not roamed to Active Directory and were not available to client devices.
File systems
- Fixed an issue for users with profiles redirected to a network virtual hard disk (VHD or VHDX) where a certain failure could cause the operating system to crash.
Graphics
- Fixed an issue where some third-party apps could cause the Settings app to crash on the Graphics page.
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