Microsoft has added two incremental Windows 11 preview releases to the beta channel. 22621.1616 and 22624.1616 are the most recent incremental builds. A flurry of fixes and changes are being seeded within the most recent gradual updates. Continue reading to learn more information about the latest release.
Microsoft releases two beta builds, one of which has new features while the other does not, similar to the beta upgrades that were previously made available. With the KB5025308 version number, Microsoft is distributing the new build to eligible PCs. If you are an Insider tester, you can quickly update your PC to the most recent beta builds.
Speaking of modifications, the incremental 22624.1616 build adds more language support for Korean, Portuguese, Danish, English (Ireland), and Danish (Portugal).
The incremental update includes a number of accessibility adjustments in addition to fixing issues with touch keyboard recognition, live captions crashing, and explorer.exe crashing that were reported in a prior build.
The entire list of fixes is provided here.
Fixes in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22624.1616
- General
- Turning on the new toggle under Settings > Windows Update for “getting the latest updates as soon as they are available” introduced in the previous build should now offer a “Windows configuration update” offered via Windows Update for Insiders on Build 22624. This update is designed to help us make sure this new toggle is connected to our backend services correctly. A Update Stack Package update (version 413.2122.0) is required.
- Fixed an underlying issue which was causing a noticeable increase in explorer.exe crashes in the last flight for some Insiders.
- Input
- Fixed an issue where the touch keyboard didn’t correctly recognize a hardware keyboard was available in some cases.
- Updated the TextInput/EnableTouchKeyboardAutoInvokeInDesktopMode MDM policy to allow “2” as a valid value to enforce showing the touch keyboard on tapping an edit control even when the hardware keyboard is attached.
- Live Captions
- Fixed an issue that was causing live captions to crash on first launch due to an issue impacting registry data retrieval.
- Fixed an issue causing live captions’ Add a language menu icon and label to overlap.
- Features have been added to the enhanced speech recognition language files to improve performance and provide out-of-language filtering meant to limit the incorrect captions for speech not in the caption language.
- Accessibility
- Fixed an issue that was leaving voice access’s window empty after opening.
- Fixed an issue where voice access was crashing when using the command to go to the start of a document.
- Fixed an issue where if you turn off the profanity filter in voice access, it wouldn’t work.
- Fixed an issue where Narrator’s Ctrl + Home and Ctrl + End commands to move to the top and bottom of the web page weren’t working correctly in Edge.
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