Someday after releasing the newest non-security updates for Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 22H2/23H2, Microsoft is dropping an enormous replace for these on Home windows 11 24H2. Immediately’s launch, KB5053656 (construct quantity 26100.3624), is right here with numerous new options, just like the AI-powered Home windows Search, gamepad keyboard, stay captions for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs, and extra.

Here’s what is rolling out progressively (it’ll take some time for these modifications to propagate to all customers):

• [Improved Windows Search]
  • New! Discovering your paperwork, pictures, and settings throughout Home windows 11 is simpler on Copilot+ PCs with improved Home windows Search, powered by semantic indexing fashions together with conventional lexical indexing. Whether or not it’s looking out in File Explorer, within the Home windows Search in your taskbar, or in Settings – simply kind what’s in your thoughts to seek out it in your Copilot+ PC. You not want to recollect file names, precise phrases in file content material, or settings names. Trying to find settings like “change my theme” will work inside the Settings app for now. Due to the facility of the 40+ TOPS NPU onboard Copilot+ PCs, these search enhancements work even once you’re not linked to the web. For more information, see semantic search on Copilot+ PCs. Obtainable on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with assist for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs coming quickly.
  • New! Finding your pictures saved and saved within the cloud is getting less complicated on Copilot+ PCs You need to use your personal phrases within the search field on the upper-right nook of File Explorer like “summer season picnics”. Along with pictures saved regionally in your Copilot+ PC, pictures from the cloud will now present up within the search outcomes collectively. Actual matches on your key phrases inside the textual content of your cloud information will even present within the search outcomes. You’ll be able to do this expertise out at the moment along with your private OneDrive when signed in along with your Microsoft account and linked to the web. To study extra, see semantic search on Copilot+ PCs. Obtainable on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with assist for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs coming quickly.
• [Input]
  • New! The Gamepad keyboard structure is now obtainable for the contact keyboard in Home windows 11. This consists of button accelerators (e.g., X button for backspace, Y button for spacebar). Moreover, the keyboard keys have been vertically aligned to enhance controller navigation patterns.
  • New! A brand new expertise to enhance the discoverability of the emoji and extra panels in Home windows 11 with the introduction of a brand new system tray icon on the taskbar. This transformation will initially be obtainable to a small group of gadgets.
  • Mounted: Improved ctfmon.exe reliability, by addressing a system restart which may influence typing.
  • Mounted: ctfmon.exe may restart when copying information from sure apps.
• [Live captions]
  • New! This replace enhances communication on AMD and Intel®-powered Copilot+ PCs with stay captions and real-time translation. Stay captions assist translating greater than 44 languages into English, together with audio system in real-time video calls, recordings, and streamed content material.
  • New! On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, we’re bringing the power to do real-time translation to Chinese language (Simplified). Supported languages embrace Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish.
• [Voice access]
  • New! Pure language commanding in voice entry offers customers with the pliability to talk instructions naturally, utilizing filler phrases and synonyms, fairly than inflexible, predefined instructions. Obtainable initially on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs.
  • New! Introducing Chinese language assist for voice entry. Now you can use Voice entry to navigate, dictate, and work together with Home windows utilizing voice instructions in Simplified Chinese language and Conventional Chinese language.
• [Widgets] New! Assist for lock display screen widgets (beforehand known as “Climate and extra”) arrives on gadgets within the European Financial Space (EEA). You’ll be able to add, take away, and rearrange lock display screen widgets reminiscent of Climate, Watchlist, Sports activities, Site visitors, and extra. Any widget that helps the small sizing possibility will be added. To customise your lock display screen widgets, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Lock display screen.
• [Windows Studio Effects] New! An icon will seem within the system tray once you use an app that helps Home windows Studio Results. This solely happens on a tool that has a neural processing unit (NPU). Choose the icon to open the Studio Results web page in Fast Settings. To view the app that’s utilizing the digital camera, hover over the icon for a tooltip.
• [Application installation] Mounted: The MsiCloseHandle API experiences extended execution time when dealing with MSI information containing a lot of information.
• [Authentication]
  • ​​​​​​​Mounted: Kerberos authentication stops responding in sure situations when RC4 is used for encryption.
  • Mounted: FIDO Cached Credential Logon may cease responding in sure circumstances when a tool is Hybrid Area Joined.
  • Mounted: Opening sure apps after a password change may end in an surprising lockout if the account lockout coverage is enabled.
• [Boot menu] Mounted: If an replace stops responding and rolls again, it’d end in an pointless and non-functional boot menu entry. This repair stops gadgets from encountering this problem sooner or later. You probably have already encountered this problem, you may handle additional boot entries within the Boot part of System Configuration (msconfig).
• [Color profile]
  • Mounted: Beneath Settings > System > Show > Coloration profile, go to Coloration administration, it may not show the anticipated coloration profile record for the chosen monitor.
  • Mounted: The colour profile settings may not be utilized after resuming from sleep.
• [File Explorer] Mounted: In some circumstances, the See extra​​​​​​​ menu within the File Explorer command bar opens within the incorrect path.
• [General reliability] Mounted: An underlying problem may result in your PC experiencing a bugcheck (blue display screen) with PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT when resuming from sleep.
• [Network] Mounted: The outline of the digital NIC does not show appropriately in Community Connections (ncpa.cpl), exhibiting invalid characters
• [Screen orientation] Mounted: Display screen may unexpectedly change orientation popping out of sleep on 2-in-1 gadgets.
• [Search on Taskbar]
  • ​​​​​​​Within the European Financial Space (EEA), Home windows Search has been up to date with improved assist for net search suppliers together with elevated discoverability and merged leads to the All scope.
  • Within the EEA, the Microsoft Bing app’s net search supplier in Home windows Search now opens search outcomes with the default browser.
• [Settings]​​​​​​​ Mounted: For Japanese customers, the title displaying on the high of Settings > Accounts reveals First Identify Final Identify as an alternative of Final Identify First Identify.​​​​​​​
• [Deprecation]
  • Steered actions, which seem after you copy a cellphone quantity or future date in Home windows 11, at the moment are deprecated and being eliminated.
  • The Location Historical past function, an API that Cortana used to entry 24 hours of machine historical past when location was enabled, is being eliminated. With the elimination of the Location Historical past function, location information will not be saved regionally. The corresponding settings are additionally being faraway from the Settings > Privateness & safety > Location web page. ​​​​​​​

• [Task manager] Process Supervisor will now calculate CPU utilization in a different way for Processes, Efficiency, and Customers pages. It should use commonplace metrics to show CPU workload constantly throughout all pages and align with business requirements and third-party instruments. To make sure backward compatibility, an non-compulsory column named CPU Utility is obtainable (hidden by default) on the Particulars tab, exhibiting the earlier CPU worth from the Processes web page.

These modifications can be found to all, proper right here and proper now:

• [Direct 3D Ecosystem] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem the place sure third-party apps may cease responding on the graphics settings web page.
• [Display kernel] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem affecting Excessive Dynamic Vary (HDR) content material playback on Dolby Imaginative and prescient succesful shows, the place customers may see common HDR as an alternative of Dolby Imaginative and prescient, lacking particular content material indicators.
• [Cryptography] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem that was impacting Credential Roaming, stopping certificates and keys from being roamed into Lively Listing and made obtainable on customers’ machines.
• [File system (filters) Fixed: This update resolves an issue for users with profiles redirected to a network Virtual Hard Disk (VHD or VHDX), where a specific failure could cause the system to become unresponsive.
• [Graphics] Mounted: There is a matter the place sure third-party apps may render the graphics settings web page unresponsive.
• [Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)] This replace addresses a problem with Home windows LAPS. LAPS settings wouldn’t be preserved after an in-place improve.
• [OOBE] Mounted: Addresses a problem that forestalls the ESP from working each time a brand new person logs onto the machine even when configured by coverage
• [PowerShell] Mounted: This replace resolves a problem the place vital PowerShell modules required for machine configuration weren’t run beneath Home windows Defender Utility Management (WDAC) insurance policies.
• [Remote desktop] Mounted: Distant Desktop will not use UDP, solely TCP.

You’ll be able to obtain KB5053656 in Settings > Home windows Replace or from the Microsoft Replace catalog utilizing this hyperlink. As typical, non-security updates are non-compulsory, so be happy to skip them if you don’t want or need something from their changelogs. In spite of everything, it’s a preview replace of what is going to quickly arrive as a compulsory replace, so some tough surfaces may nonetheless be there.