Microsoft releases Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17692 for Windows Insiders

Microsoft release build 17692 of Windows 10 Redstone 5 for Windows Insiders on the fast ring. With this build there is Swiftkey integration, Windows Mixed Reality improvements and Microsoft Edge improvements.

This build includes the integration of Swiftkey technology to the on screen for more accurate predictions of text:

SwiftKey gives you more accurate autocorrections and predictions by learning your writing style – including the words, phrases and emoji that matter to you. It’s available for Android and iOS, and starting with today’s build SwiftKey will now power the typing experience on Windows when using the touch keyboard to write in English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), or Russian.

In Microsoft Edge you now have control over autoplaying media:

Control whether media can play automatically: One common piece of Insider feedback for Microsoft Edge is that you want more control over autoplay videos. In this build, we’ve added a new setting in Microsoft Edge to allow you to control whether sites can autoplay media.

You can find an early preview of this setting under “Advanced Settings,” “Allow sites to automatically play media.”

For Windows Mixed Reality users there is now the option to have the audio from the headset mirror to the main speakers:

Starting with this build you can stream audio to both the headset and the PC speakers simultaneously. To try it out make sure that you can hear sound from your normal PC speakers when not running the Mixed Reality Portal (MRP) and from the headset’s audio jack or built-in headphones when mixed reality is running. Then close all apps, including MRP, and go to Settings > Mixed reality > Audio and speech to turn on “When Mixed Reality Portal is running, mirror headset audio to desktop.” You should now hear audio from both the headset and PC speakers when running mixed reality.

Another change for Windows Mixed Reality is that Microsoft are going to push updates to the experience (with the Mixed Reality Portal) via the Microsoft Store which should mean we don’t have to wait for major Windows updates for improvements to the platform.

Search has been improved:

Find software downloads faster in Search!  Continuing our theme of improving the search preview experience, we’re rolling out an update to make it easier to find official download pages for Windows software you want to install. The team is continuing to develop this experience and more is coming. Check out the example below, and let us know what you think!

Gamebar has been enhanced:

• Audio controls. Change your default audio output device and mute or adjust the volume of games and apps running.
• Performance visualizations. See your game’s framerate (FPS), CPU usage, GPU VRAM usage, and system RAM usage.

Here are the other fixes and the known issues. Lookout for my hands on video soon.

General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

We fixed an issue resulting in audio glitching on systems with lots of firewall rules.

We fixed an issue from the last few flights where Eye Control would fail fast and not start.

We fixed an issue resulting in certain games, such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, to crash on launch in the last two builds.

We fixed an issue resulting in Settings crashing when attempting to open Data Usage Settings in the last few flights.

We fixed an issue resulting in an unexpected “codecpacks.vp9” entry in the Start menu.

We fixed a recent issue for some Insiders resulting in an explorer.exe crash with AppXDeploymentClient.dll.

We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders recently experiencing a bug check (green screen) with the error SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in afd.sys.

With Build 17672 we made a fix for an explorer.exe crash in structuredquery.dll – that fix stopped anyone new from encountering the crash, however we heard your reports that anyone already impacted was still impacted. Today’s build has a fix for this issue that should resolve it for anyone who was already impacted.

To improve discoverability, we’ve moved Delivery Optimization Settings to now be directly listed as a category under Settings > Update & Security.

We fixed an issue in Microsoft Edge impacting websites like Facebook.com, where when starting a message only the first contact name entered was automatically resolved while typing.

We fixed an issue in Microsoft Edge where if both images and text were selected, right-clicking on the image and selecting copy wouldn’t work.

We fixed an issue resulting in the Windows Security app crashing recently when adding a process to the exclusion list.

Known issues

The login screen will crash in a loop when the active sign-in method is set to Picture Password. We recommend removing your Picture Password before upgrading to this build.

This build will only be offered to Insiders running Builds 17655 and higher. You will not be able to update from RS4 to this build without first taking Build 17686 first.

We’re working on adding dark theme in File Explorer and the Common File Dialog, but we still have some things to do. You may see some unexpectedly light colors in these surfaces when in dark mode.

DRM video playback in Microsoft Edge from websites such as Netflix is broke on this build. But you should be able to use the Netflix app to play videos.

Some Insiders may find increased reliability and performance issues when launching Start on this build. We’re investigating.

When you upgrade to this build you’ll find that the taskbar flyouts (network, volume, etc) no longer have an acrylic background.

There is a bug in these builds that will impact driver testing scenarios. When executing HLK Component/Device driver tests, you may experience a bug check that blocks test execution. We are aware of the issue and actively working on a fix.

Due to a merge conflict some settings in Settings may be unexpectedly missing and / or missing their labels.

When Narrator starts you will be presented with a dialog that informs the user of the change to Narrator’s keyboard layout. This dialog may not take focus or speak after Narrator has started. We recommend that you Alt + Tab to this dialog, which should cause it to read.

The Settings for Keyboard Settings found in the Ease of Access center are missing text as well as visible values in the two combo boxes. Narrator users can interact with these controls and get some information pertaining to the settings that are available to them.

When using scan mode you may experience multiple stops for a single control. An example of this is if you have an image that is also a link. This is something we are actively working on.

If you change Narrator’s default Narrator key to just caps lock the Insert key will continue to function until the caps lock key is used as the Narrator key or if the user restarts Narrator.

If the Narrator key is set to just Insert and you attempt to send a Narrator command from a braille display then these commands will not function. As long as the Caps Lock key is a part of the Narrator key mapping then braille functionality will work as designed.

There is a known issue in automatic dialog reading where the title of the dialog is being spoken more than once.

The state of a Narrator command such as toggling Scan Mode on and off, volume up and down, voice speed, changing verbosity and context verbosity commands may not be announced when executed.

If you have previously performed a Find using Narrator’s Find feature and you bring up the dialog the text will not be cleared from the field.

Please refer to the Narrator Keyboard Layout documentation for other issues found in this release that pertain to Narrator. (Intro to New Narrator Keyboard Layout doc).

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