Windows 10 - 1909 whats new

Windows 10 - Version 1909 (aka 19H2)

Build 10.0.18363.476

Windows 19H2 is considered to be more a quality update than a major feature upgrade. But this is part of Microsofts product politics right now. So each H1 version will come now with new features for home and business users. The support is currently limited to 18 months for this versions. 

The H2 releases where 1909 is the one we are talking about is supported for 30 months so far. This is the one where businesses looking for to have the upgrades out in the field as long as possible.

The following new features are being introduced as part of this update.

• This update will be published to WSUS so that customers can deploy and manage Insider Preview builds alongside their standard ConfigMan/WSUS approach. See this blog post for details.
• We are offering pre-release support for 19H2 offered to Windows Insider Program for Business (WIP4Biz) customers who face blocking issues that prevent them from feature evaluation or device use. See this article for details.
• Windows containers require matched host and container version. This restricts customers and limits Windows containers from supporting mixed-version container pod scenarios This update includes 5 fixes to address this and allow the host to run down-level containers on up-level for process (Argon) isolation.
• A fix to allow OEMs to reduce the inking latency based on the hardware capabilities of their devices rather than being stuck with latency selected on typical hardware configuration by the OS.
• Key-rolling or Key-rotation feature enables secure rolling of Recovery passwords on MDM managed AAD devices upon on demand request from Microsoft Intune/MDM tools or upon every time recovery password is used to unlock the BitLocker protected drive. This feature will help prevent accidental recovery password disclosure as part of manual BitLocker drive unlock by users.
• A change to enable third-party digital assistants to voice activate above the Lock screen.
• You can now quickly create an event straight from the Calendar flyout on the Taskbar. Just select the date and time at the lower right corner of the Taskbar to open the Calendar flyout and pick your desired date and start typing in the text box–you’ll now see inline options to set a time and location.

• The navigation pane on the Start menu now expands when you hover over it with your mouse to better inform where clicking goes.
• We have added friendly images to show what is meant by “banner” and “Action Center” when adjusting the notifications on apps in order to make these settings more approachable and understandable.

• Notifications settings under Settings > System > Notifications will now default to sorting notification senders by most recently shown notification, rather than sender name. This makes it easier to find and configure frequent and recent senders. We have also added a setting to turn off playing sound when notifications appear.
• We now show the options to configure and turn off notifications from an app/website right on the notification, both as a banner and in Action Center.
• We have added a “Manage notifications” button to the top of Action Center that launches the main “Notifications & actions” Settings page.
• We have added additional debugging capabilities for newer Intel processors. This is only relevant for hardware manufacturers.
• We have made general battery life and power efficiency improvements for PCs with certain processors.
• A CPU may have multiple “favored” cores (logical processors of the highest available scheduling class). To provide better performance and reliability, we have implemented a rotation policy that distributes work more fairly among these favored cores.
• We have enabled Windows Defender Credential Guard for ARM64 devices for additional protection against credential theft for enterprises deploying ARM64 devices in their organizations.
• We have enabled the ability for enterprises to supplement the Windows 10 in S Mode policy to allow traditional Win32 (desktop) apps from Microsoft Intune.
• We’re updating the search box in File Explorer to now be powered by Windows Search. This change will help integrate your OneDrive content online with the traditional indexed results. More details here.
• We have added the ability for Narrator and other assistive technologies to read and learn where the FN key is located on keyboards and what state it is in (locked versus unlocked).

Refer also to:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/at-home/whats-new-wip-at-home-1909

And here you will find the bugfixing and stabilization done sofar for this release:

• Some older devices may experience loss of Wi-Fi connectivity due to an outdated Qualcomm driver. An updated Wi-Fi driver should be available from your device manufacturer (OEM).
  To safeguard your upgrade experience, we have applied a hold on devices with affected Qualcomm driver from being offered Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows 10, version 1909, until the updated driver is installed.

• Microsoft has identified compatibility issues with some driver versions for Bluetooth radios made by Realtek. To safeguard your update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices with affected driver versions for Realtek Bluetooth radios from being offered Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows Server, version 1903 until the driver has been updated.Resolution: This issue was resolved with an updated driver for the affected Realtek Bluetooth radio and the safeguard hold has been removed. Please note, it can take up to 48 hours before you can update to offered Windows 10, version 1909 or Windows 10, version 1903.

And here are some known issues:

• Issues with some older versions of Avast and AVG anti-virus products:
  Microsoft and Avast has identified compatibility issues with some older versions of Avast Antivirus and AVG Antivirus that might still be installed by a small number of users. Any application from Avast or AVG that contains Antivirus version 19.5.4444.567 or earlier is affected.
  
  To safeguard your upgrade experience, we have applied a hold on devices with affected Avast and AVG Antivirus from being offered or installing Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows 10, version 1909, until the application is updated.
  Workaround: Before updating to Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows 10, version 1909, you will need to download and install an updated version of your Avast or AVG application.

• Unable to create local users in Chinese, Japanese and Korean during device setup
  When setting up a new Windows device using the Out of Box Experience (OOBE), you might be unable to create a local user when using Input Method Editor (IME). This issue might affect you if you are using the IME for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean languages.
  
  Note This issue does not affect using a Microsoft Account during OOBE.
  
  Workaround: To mitigate this issue, set the keyboard language to English during user creation or use a Microsoft Account to complete OOBE. You can set the keyboard language back to your preferred language after user creation. Once the OOBE is done and you are at the desktop, you can rename the current user using these instructions. If you prefer to create a new local user, see KB4026923.

Refer also to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-1909

Windows 10 - 1903 whats new

Windows 10 - Version 1903

Build 10.0.18362.2018

Edge NOT YET with Chromium onboard!

In this release the new chromium based Edge browser is NOT YET onboard by default. You need to download him separately as he is still under development. But you can install and use him side by side with built-in Edge.

Checkout here: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/

Start

• The rail will now expand when hovering over it for a longer period of time
• When transparency is disabled, Start will continue to show the wallpaper rather than a solid color as background
• The power and user menu now use icons to indicate the options, as well as an acrylic background
• The power button will now show an orange dot when an update is ready to be installed
• The default start layout has been updated with fewer tiles
• Start now has its own process called StartMenuExperienceHost

Cortana + search

• Updated UI with recent activities, updated filters and more Fluent Design elements

Taskbar + Action center

• When disconnected from the internet, Windows will now show a globe-icon
• When your microphone is in use, it will show an icon in the system tray
• The brightness quick action has been replaced with a slider
• You can now re-arrange quick actions in the Action center itself, or add new quick actions
• The Windows Update icon will now show an orange dot if an update is ready to reboot the device
• The microphone icon will now show which app is using the microphone
• Icons will have to redraw less often, like when the recycle bin is being interacted with
• Cortana and search have been split up in their own buttons

User Interface

• The Windows sign-in screen now uses acrylic when the lock screen is dismissed
• The default wallpaper has been changed
• The Windows UI now supports a light theme
• The printing dialog will now follow your color theme
• The printing dialog now makes more use of icons to make options more clear
• Long names in the print dialog will now wrap rather than being cut off
• Action Center now has a shadow like other flyouts
• Disabling transparency will now also disable it on the logon screen
• Apps that use native dropdowns will now show shadows below them
• Light icons in the white theme are now better visible
• Jumplists will now follow your accent color when your accent color is being applied to the taskbar
• When focus is set to the search bar, it will now have a colored border following your accent

File Explorer

• The File Explorer icon has been updated for better contrast with the white taskbar
• The Downloads-folder will now sort by date by default
• Friendly dates can now be turned off from the column titles
• File Explorer now allows you to create files of which the name starts with a dot like ".gitignore"

Settings

System

• "When I'm using an app in full screen mode" has been added as a new rule to focus assist
• "Fix scaling for apps" is now enabled by default
• Quick action settings have been removed and are replaced with the Action center editor
• "Storage" has been redesigned to merge the detailed view with the main view
• Unplugging or plugging in a device will no longer make the screen brightness flip between 2 states
• Nearby Sharing has been added as a default exception to Focus Assist

Devices

• A link to the troubleshooter has been added to "Printers & Scanners"

Network & Internet

• You can now set advanced Ethernet settings
• The corresponding Ethernet adapter name will now be shown in the sidebar

Personalization

• "Choose your color" has been added to override both "Choose your default Windows mode" and "Choose your default app mode" settings
• An option has been added to change the Windows mode from dark to light under "Color"
• Fonts now shows a field where font files can be dragged to to install them on the device

Accounts

• You can now create a security key from Sign-in options
• You can now set Windows up to sign in through an SMS code instead of a password
• Automatic sign-in is now enabled on Cloud Domain Joined devices
• Accounts can now be set up to sign in with SMS in all editions

Time & language

• While installing a new language there will now be an option to set it as the display language
• Speech recognition and Text-to-Speech are now separate installable pieces of language packs
• The Region icon has been updated
• You can now manually sync your clock with the server under "Date & Time"

Ease of Access

• "Hear advanced information about controls when navigating" has been added as a new setting for Narrator
• Settings have been added to minimize Narrator Home to the system tray and to remove it from the Alt + Tab list
• 5 new verbosity levels have been added to Narrator
• Cursor size now is a slider with support for a larger maximum size and more steps in between
• The cursor can now be set to a custom color
• Additionally Narrator voices can now be downloaded without downloading full language packs
• 11 new pointer sizes have been added

Cortana & Search

• The page "Searching Windows" has been added and provides options to expand Windows' indexing range

Privacy

• The microphone and camera privacy pages now show which apps are using them and when any app last did
• The "Recommended troubleshooting" setting is now fully functional

Update & Security

• A setting has been added under "Troubleshoot" that lets Windows automatically troubleshoot issues
• "Change active hours", "View update history" and "Advanced options" now have icons under Windows Update
• A link to "Pause updates for 7 days" has been added to the main Windows Update UI
• Active Hours can now be managed by Windows itself based on your activity
• The reset UI has been updated to require less clicks and provide a more consistent experience
• Windows Insider settings have been revamped with a simplified UI

General

• Settings will now show your account details at the top of the home page
• The Search category will now be shown before Update & Security
• The text on numerous pages has been updated
• The Settings icon is now grey when the light theme is active rather than black

Accessibility

• Narrator can now read next, current and previous sentences
• Narrator has been improved to work better with Chrome
• USB support for Inceptor and Orbit 20 displays has been added with BRLTTY 5.6
• Support for the UI Automation framework IAccessible2 has been added
• Narrator text reading commands can now be used to scan a full window
• The "Not on explorable text"-error has been removed
• You can now allow Narrator to read by Sentence in Braille support
• Narrator will now give phonetic readings when using Narrator key + Comma twice
• Centered mouse mode in Magnifier should be more performant
• Narrator Home has been added with an overview for everything you need for Narrator
• You can now cycle through 5 additional verbosity levels with Narrator + V
• Narrator + 0 will now allow you to read out an URL completely
• Narrator will no longer announce "non-selected" in tables with cells where aria-selected isn't set or when you enter or exit a table
• Capitalization reading is now available for all reading modes
• Reading and navigation commands now stay within the web page content area when you're using web browsers and other apps
• Narrator can now follow its reading position with the cursor
• Narrator text-reading commands are now supported for reading a full window
• You can now tell Narrator to read any of the following goroups of keyboard keys: Hear letters, numbers, and punctuation as you type, Hear function keys as you type, Hear arrow, Tab, and other navigation keys as you type, Hear when toggle keys like Caps lock and Num lock are turned on or off, and Hear Shift, Alt, and other modifier keys as you type
• Narrator now supports combo edit controls and will announce them as such
• Narrator will now tag along with your PIN or password reset
• Narrator Home's actions have been changed to buttons instead of a listview
• You can now render the current character's phonetics with Narrator + 5 twice
• Narrator now better handles reading controls while navigating and editing
• Narrator is now better in reading tables in PowerPoint
• When Narrator is on a slider, the left and right arrows will now decrease and increase the slider
• Narrator now announces the state of hardware buttons
• Improved support for Narrator in Microsoft Teams
• In Scan Mode, Narrator will now see the left and right arrows as decrease and increase when on a slider
• The "not selected" phrase has been removed from speaking in Narrator
• Narrator now announced headings at any level
• Narrator can now better handle pull-down menus in Skype desktop
• Improved pitch change detection
• Improvements while using Narrator's text movement commands when reading
• Magnifier with larger pointers will now pan smoothly when as the pointer changes shape
• "Change how capitalized text is read" has been removed from Narrator

Language and input

• The emoji panel will now show pages with character-emojis
• Support for Vietnamese Telex and Number-key based keyboards
• A large set of symbols have been added to the touch keyboard
• Support for Emoji 12 beta has been added
• The on-screen keyboard has been updated to dynamically change the hit target for all keys to predict where someone might tap
• Improvements to the on-screen keyboard to keep it from expanding over the current text field
• The timeout period when dictating has been changed from 5 seconds to 10
• Special symbols and kaomoji have been added to the emoji picker
• Pressing Win + H to dictate in an unsupported language will now trigger a notification telling you dictation is not available
• Left Alt + Shift will now trigger a notification telling you about the hotkey and includes a link to Settings to disable it
• Support for ADLaM and Osage has been added to the keyboard

Input Method Editor

• Text predictions in the Japanese IME now have an index for quick selection

Apps

• 3D Viewer, Calculator, Calendar, Groove Music, Mail, Movies & TV, Paint 3D, Snip & Sketch, Sticky Notes and Voice Recorder can now be uninstalled

Console

• A set of new settings have been added under the "Terminal" tab in Console Settings
• Scroll Forward can now be set to scroll below the most recent row of text after clearing
• The cursor shape can now be changed to 5 different options (legacy, underscore, vertical bar, empty box and solid box)
• The cursor color can now be set independently instead of being the negative color of the current background
• The titlebar will now follow the Windows system theme

Notepad

• Support for UTF-8 without Byte Order Mark has been added and is now the default
• The encoding format of a document is now shown in the statusbar
• When a file is not saved, an asterisk will be shown at the start of the title in the titlebar
• Send Feedback has been added under Help
• Ctrl + Shift + S, Ctrl + Shift + N and Ctrl + W have been added to open Save as..., open a new Notepad window and to close the current Notepad window respectively
• Support for opening and saving files with a path longer than 260 characters

Registry Editor

• Pressing F4 will now move the caret to the end of the address bar and open the autocomplete dropdown

Snip & Sketch

• Window snipping has been added as a new tool

Task Manager

• Details will now show if an app is DPI aware
• A default tab can now be set under Options

Windows Mixed Reality

• Support for Win32 apps has been added

Windows Security

• A setting has been added to allow you to manage access to the camera and microphone when using Application Guard for Microsoft Edge
• Controlled folder access blocks have been added to Protection history
• Protection history now shows you actions to take for certain items
• Detections made by Windows Defender Offline will now be shown in Protection history
• Pending recommendations are now shown in the Protection history
• Tamper Protection has been added as a new option under "Virus & Threat Protection Settings"

Windows Subsystem for Linux

• You can now manage your WSL distros that are included in the wslconfig command line tool
• You can now import a distro to non-system drives
• You can now export WSL distributions
• The file system of a Linux distro can now be accessed from File Explorer
• You can now import and export distros from the WSL command line

Other features

• Antivirus apps must run as a protected process for Windows Defender Antivirus to disable and to show up in Windows Security
• LEDBAT support has been added to Delivery Optimization
• The Windows 10 ISO Setup has been reworked with a white design
• Windows Sandbox has been added as an isolated desktop environment to try apps
• The Clipboard UI has been updated to be more optimized for text
• Resetting your PIN now uses the same look and feel as signing in on the web
• The PIN reset UI is now available for all editions instead of only Home
• The "Show clear logon background" group policy has been added

And further

• The Ebrima font has been added to support ADLaM
• Clean installs of none-Home versions of Windows will no longer use Cortana's voice-over by default during installation
• Windows will now reserve 7GB space for updates, apps, temporary files and system caches
• The per-process Fiber Local Storage slot allocation limit has been raised
• Windows now supports the RAW image format
• Unknown improvements to gaming

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Fixed issues

• We fixed an issue resulting in the Connect app crashing on launch for some Insiders.

Known issues

• Launching games that use anti-cheat software may trigger a bugcheck (GSOD).
• Creative X-Fi sound cards are not functioning properly. We are partnering with Creative to resolve this issue.
• Some Realtek SD card readers are not functioning properly. We are investigating the issue.

Kudos to ChangeWindows Team!

Windows 10 - 1809 whats new

Windows 10 - Version 1809

Build 10.0.17763.1

Start

• Start now supports the always visible scrollbar setting
• Folders can now be named

Cortana + search

• Search now supports previews from apps, documents and other media
• Search will now show a wider UI by default
• Search will now show your recent activities
• File location, last modified and author metadata is now shown in search results
• When searching for downloads of Windows software, start can now directly link the download button
• Design improvements to the home screen when Cortana isn't enabled or supported

Taskbar + Action center

• Notifications in the Action center will now fade in when opening the Action center
• The blurry app-toasts will now be dismissed to the Action center instead of disappearing completely
• The brightness Quick Action has been removed from the battery fly-out
• Timeline will now blur the background with acrylic
• Screen snip has been added as a new quick action
• The "Start" tooltip has been added when hovering over the start button
• Edge tabs will now be shown as individual windows in Task View

User Interface

• Any type of activity can now be restored instead of only documents
• Inbox text controls now use the CommandBarFlyout control allowing you to cut, copy and paste with touch, and to bolden, italicize, etc. fonts in rich text surfaces with new animations and more Fluent Design
• The Ease of Access flyout on the login screen has been updated to show Narrator with an on/off-toggle
• Dropdowns will now have a drop shadow
• Task View no longer has an acrylic background
• The embedded handwriting panel is now enabled by default

File Explorer

• HEIF files can now be rotated in File Explorer
• Metadata for HEIF files can now be edited
• The File-button will now follow your accent color
• File Explorer now supports the dark theme
• "Open Linux Shell here" has been added to the context menu in explorer
• The dark theme for File Explorer has been updated to use a lighter grey for the content area and the Ribbon's tab bar
• The "Sorting by file size" size requirements have been updated: Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge and Gigantic are now defined as 0 – 16KB, 16KB – 1MB, 1 MB to 128 MB, 128 MB – 1 GB, 1 GB – 4 GB, and > 4 GB
• Updated "Remove access" and "Advanced security" icon

Microsoft Edge 18

Edge

• The Books-section in the Hub now supports pull-to-refresh
• Books pinned to the Start screen will now show a live tile that cycles through the cover and your progress
• Support for same-site cookies has been added
• The ellipses menu will now show icons for every item
• New tab, Reading list, Books, History and Downloads have been added to the ellipses menu
• The jumplist for Edge will now show your top sites
• Right-clicking on a folder now allows you to "Show in folder" and "Copy link"
• Hovering over the sound-icon in a tab playing sound will now result in the icon lighting up
• Pressing F1 will now bring you to Microsoft Edge support instead of Microsoft Edge tips
• Edge now has a beta-icon in Insider Previews
• Shadows have been added to the address bar and tabs
• The ellipses menu has been reordered with icons for its options
• You can now hide Hub, Notes and Share icons in the Edge address bar
• You can now show the Reading list, Books, History and Downloads icons in the Edge address bar
• Edge settings have been reorganized into 4 categories, with a design similar to the Hub
• Under ... > Settings > Advanced, you can now control how media should start playing
• PDF-files now have an icon with a red ribbon and no Edge logo
• You can now mute a tab even if it isn't playing audio yet
• Book data can no longer be exported
• The permission dialogs have been updated with a new design and strings
• The Hub now has a smaller design matching the look of the new Settings panel
• The highlighted reading list item has now its design from pre-1803 again
• AutoPlay permissions can now be controlled for each site individually
• Keyboard shortcuts have been added to the ellipses menu
• You can now select and copy certificate details
• A set of new Group Policies and MDM settings for IT administrators has been added
• XSS Filter has been removed
• Support for assigned access (kiosk mode) has been added
• Books can now be shared from their context menu in the Hub
• Improvements related to HTTP/2 and CUBIC support

PDF + EPUB

• Printing PDFs now allows you to choose the scale of the print
• Local files like PDFs will now appear in your browser history
• Reading tools now has an extended set of themes
• Highlighting now supports one, three or five lines
• The PDF toolbar will now appear when your cursor comes near the top of the window
• Some of the buttons in the PDF toolbar now have text
• You can now look up definitions for words
• The PDF toolbar can now be pinned to remain visible
• Improved rendering performance for PDFs
• Opening PDFs in Edge is now also remembered as an activity in Timeline

EdgeHTML

• Support for .setDragItem has been added
• relList is now supported on anchor elements
• CSS3 Overflow wrap now works with overflow-wrap
• CSS overscroll-behavior is now supported
• Support for CSS Masks has been implemented partially
• The srcdoc attribute is now supported for iframes
• The Web Authentication API is now supported
• The WebDriver implementation has been updated to match the Recommendation specification

about:flags

• "Enable CSS Masking" is now enabled by default
• "Enable CSS background-blend-mode property" has been added as a flag

Settings

System

• Screen snip has been added as a new option to enable a quick action in Action center
• Focus Assist will now disable all notifications when any game is playing full screen by default with "When I'm playing a game" added as a new option
• "Free up space now" will no longer allow you to remove the previous Windows version
• The previous Windows version can now be removed from "Change how we free up space automatically" by enabling "Delete previous versions of Windows" and clicking "Clean now"
• You can now disable Edge tabs showing as individual tabs in Alt + Tab
• Clipboard has been added as a new page and allows you to enable saving multiple items on the clipboard instead of just 1 and to sync the clipboard across devices
• Under "Change how we free up space automatically" a new setting has been added to make files in Files On-Demand online-only after not using them for a while
• You can now set clipboard to sync everything automatically or require you to choose what to sync
• Windows HD Color has been added as a subpage under Display if you have an HDR-enabled display

Devices

• Bluetoothdevices will now show their battery level
• Clicking once on the pen tail button can now be set to make a screen snippet
• You can now set the Print Screen button to make a screen snippet instead of a print screen
• You can now name your audio device and set the preferred spatial audio format
• You can now set your pen to behave like a mouse instead of scrolling and panning
• When a Bluetooth device is low on battery power, you will get a notification
• Typing insights has been added under "Typing" showing you statistics about how often Windows autocorrected spelling mistakes, predictions of the next word, word suggestions and the number of words typed by using gestures

Network & Internet

• "Data usage" now shows how much data you've used while roaming

Apps

• WebDriver has been added as a Feature on Demand
• "Adjust video based on lighting" has been improved for devices with a light censor

Accounts

• Setting up a new kiosk has been improved
• Kiosk accounts can now sign in when a device starts

Time & language

• The Language & Region page has been split into a Language and Region page
• Region now allows you to overwrite the regional format settings that comes with the region set by the user
• The calendar localization, first day of the week, short date and long date notation, short time and long time notation and currency can now be changed from Region
• A link to the Microsoft Store has been added to Language to allow you to download Local Experience Packs
• Improved performance when loading the Language settings page

Gaming

• The Game DVR page has been renamed to Captures

Ease of Access

• You can now keep the mouse centered on the screen in full-screen mode in Magnifier
• 5% and 10% are added as new zoom increments
• You can now make text bigger under "Display" with the "Make everything bigger" setting
• Narrator's default keyboard layout has been updated
• Dialog boxes are now automatically dictated by Narrator
• Narrator can now search for text with Find
• Narrator can now list links, headings and landmarks in applications or content
• Results for landmarks can now be narrowed by typing in the list or the text field of the window
• Pressing down in Scan Mode will now stop when the item is an interactive element
• Starting Narrator will now trigger a Narrator Quickstart dialog
• The Narrator Standard Keyboard now have the scan mode secondary action command and Spell current selection command

Cortana & Search

• "Cortana" has been renamed "Cortana & Search"

Privacy

• The "Speech, Inking & typing" page has been split into "Speech" and "Inking & typing"

Update & Security

• Delivery Optimization Settings have been moved to be its own page in Update & Security
• Windows is now better at predicting if you have left your PC for a long time before a restart is triggered to update
• When an update is ready to install, Insiders will now see similar prompts like retail

Mixed Reality

• Under "Audio", a setting has been added to mirror headset audio to desktop

General

• Settings will now show FAQ's in the sidebar for English markets
• Settings will now show tips on its home screen
• New keywords have been added to better find settings

Ink Workspace

• Screen Sketch has been split off to be a standalone app (similar to Stickies)

Gaming

• When recording a game clip, the audio should now be of a higher quality

System

• The networking stack has been revamped with the Net Adapter Framework
• A clean install will now show an option to enable activity history sync
• The Windows Security Center service now requires antivirus products to use a protected process to register
• Support for IPv6 has been added to KDNET
• The MBB USB NetDriver is now the default driver
• Fonts can now be installed for the current user without admin permissions
• The post-update experience may now show a screen asking you to configure new settings that might have been added since you device was set up
• DTS:X has been added to the list of spatial audio technologies that can be used
• Windows Hello is now supported for remote sessions with Azure Active Directory and Active Directory
• Support for Web Sign-in has been added to Windows for ADFS and other profiders that support the WS-Fed protocol
• Shared Windows PCs now support "Fast Sign-in"
• Support for Unicode 11, including 157 new emoji, has been added as wel as updates to older emoji
• Support for leap seconds has been added
• Support for the Precision Time Protocol has been added
• Software Timestamping has been added to eliminate the software delay caused by the Windows networking stack

Accessibility

• Scan mode in Narrator now supports selecting content on most text surfaces
• Narrator has a number of reliability improvements
• Scan Mode has been improved with better reading and navigation
• Feedback can now be send with the Narrator + Alt + F keystroke
• The view type mode will now be called out reliably
• Move to beginning of text now works with Narrator + B, Move to end of text now is Narrator + E

Language and input

• When people emojis are in view, the skin colors will now be shown in a row instead of as a button
• The handwriting panel now show the delete button in the top level menu, switching languages can now be done from the ellipses menu
• Languages will now show which language is used as the default app language
• SwiftKey is now used for English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), or Russian
• The clipboard button is now always visible in the on-screen keyboard's candidate pane
• English (Australia) now upports shape writing
• The emoji panel search function has been updated to support the Emoji 11.0 set

Input Method Editor

• The IME toolbar has been redesigned to support the dark theme and more
• The IMEs taskbar icon now has an extended context menu
• The emoji panel now also works within the IME

Apps

Control Panel

• Settings to manipulate the screen brightness have been removed

Diagnostic Data Viewer

• Problem Reports has been added to the Data Viewer
• The UI of the Diagnostic Data Viewer has been improved with a better search bar

Game bar

• Game bar has now been added to the start menu
• Game bar has been updated with audio controls to change the output device, mute the volume or adjust the volume for running apps and games
• Game bar now shows framerates, CPU usage, GPU VRAM usage and system RAM usage
• "Dedicate resources" has been added as a new option to Game bar

Internet Explorer 11

• Support for same-site cookies has been added

Mixed Reality Portal

• Sound can now be streamed to both the headset and PC
• Some errors have been made clearer

Notepad

• Notepad now supports UNIX line endings and Macintosh line endings
• You can now search your selecting with Bing by pressing Ctrl + B or navigating to "Search with Bing..."
• Support for wrap-around find and replace has been added
• You can now zoom in and out
• Line and column numbers are now supported when word-wrap is enabled
• Improved performance when opening large files
• Ctrl + Backspace is now supported to delete the previous word
• Arrow keys now unselect text first and then move the cursor as you would expect
• The line an column number will no longer reset upon saving a file
• Notepad will now render lines that don't fit entirely on the screen correctly

Registry Editor

• The address bar can now suggest paths

Screen Sketch

• Screen Sketch has been added as a default app
• Rectangular snipping is now the default snipping tool instead of full screen
• Win + Shift + S will now show the snipping toolbar
• Making a screenshot with Win + Shift + S will now trigger a notification to open Screen Sketch
• The Screen Sketch toolbar will now follow the user theme

Snipping Tool

• Snipping Tool will now show a message asking you to try Screen Sketch

Task Manager

• The leaf-icon now has a tooltip
• Suspended UWP apps will no longer show memory used by the app to reflect OS behavior
• Both old and new memory columns can be enabled in details
• The "Power usage" and "Power usage trend" columns have been added to "Processes"

Windows Mixed Reality

• When using an Immersive Application you'll now have access to Quick Actions to go home, launch the capture tools, etc.
• Flashlight can now be used to open a "portal" to view the real world with the camera

Windows Security

• Windows Defender Security Center has been renamed Windows Security
• Windows Security will now show threats more clearly
• The rail now has an acrylic background
• The options on the start page now scale according to the window width, similar to Settings
• "Current threats" has been improved to show all threats that require an action
• "Virus & threat protection now shows a list of recently blocked apps
• IF the time-syncing service is disabled and the device's time is not synced with the time on Microsoft's servers, the "Device performance & health" page will show an option to turn syncing back on
• "Security providers" has been added to Settings to view all your antivirus, firewall and web protections
• Standalone users no longer need to change Registry key settings to configure Windows Defender Application Guard
• Accounts managed by enterprise policies can now see how their device is configured for Windows Defender Application Guard

Windows Subsystem for Linux

• You can now copy and paste with Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V

Windows Mail

• Links will now always open in Microsoft Edge

Other features

• Microsoft WebDriver has been added as a Feature on Demand
• Windows Defender Firewall now supports Windows Subsystem for Linux Processes
• Windows will now sync your clipboard across devices
• Win + V will now open the clipboard
• A wireless projection will now show a control banner at the top of the screen
• The Remote Server Administration Tools are now part of Feature-on-Demand
• When an app needs access to your microphone but it is not allowed so by the privacy settings, a notification will be shown
• Mixed Reality no longer requires a monitor to be connected when running
• The Camera Capture UI API is now available to apps in Mixed Reality
• Improved video capture experience in Mixed Reality
• When clipboard history is not enabled, you'll now be able to enable it from Win + V
• You can now clean your clipboard history with the "Clear all" button

And further

• After an upgrade, Windows might ask you to go over some setup settings that you may have missed due to features not being available during setup
• The People flyout has been updated to use the new Microsoft Store icon
• Improved scaling logic for apps when the screen DPI changes
• Your Phone is now pinned to your desktop
• Improves the amount of CPU cdpusersvc uses

Known issues

• Task Manager is not reporting accurate CPU usage.
• Arrows to expand “Background processes” in Task Manager are blinking constantly and weirdly.

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Windows 10 - 1803 whats new

Windows 10 - Version 1803

Build 17134.1

Comprehensive list of new features, changes and updates:

Start

• Start now uses the Fluent Design Reveal effect in the apps list, on tiles and on the rail
• Right-clicking on an UWP app will now show a quick link to Advanced Options for that app as "Settings"
• Explorer, Music, Files and Pictures are now added to the Rail by default
• The number of groups in the All apps list has been reduced by 29 and 36 for Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese respectively
• On Pro for Workstation and Enterprise, the default apps have been changed to be more productivity-focused

Cortana + search

• If Cortana recognizes a book, shopping item, restaurant, recipe movie, TV show or other things, she will now prompt you to put it in a list
• Cortana is no longer capable of providing proactive content
• Cortana can now recognize your location to show location based notifications
• Cortana will now suggest Activities to resume to
• Your profile picture and controls to lock your account, log off or switch to another user are now visible within Cortana
• The List and Collections features have been merged into the Collections app
• Cortana now supports natural language compatibility for Spotify
• Cortana Lists can no longer be accessed from the rail
• The Cortana app profile page has been revamped
• Skills in Cortana's notebook now come with tips

Taskbar + Action center

• Links like "Collapse" and "Clear all" now use your accent color in the non-colored Action center
• Swiping with 2 fingers will now dismiss all notifications
• When using a 12-hours clock, Action center will now use "AM" and "PM" instead of "a" and "p"
• Notification Toasts that do not support being dismissed into the Action center will now show an X instead of an arrow
• The language icon has been updated in the Input flyout to match the icon used on the touch keyboard
• The app view for people in MyPeople is now a list instead of a grid
• The Near Share-quick action has been added
• Action center now uses reveal
• The "Clear all" option has been renamed "Clear all notifications"
• Timeline replaces Task View in the taskbar
• Timeline has been added to show activities of apps that support it
• Currently open apps are now shown on top of your timeline
• Virtual Desktops has been relocated to the top of Timeline
• The taskbar now uses an acrylic background
• The Clock & Calendar, Volume, My People, Input and Share flyouts now use an acrylic background
• When a toast is dismissed while writing content in its interactive fields, the content will now be saved and will stay accessible in the Action center
• If a warning or alert is triggered by Windows Update, a new tray icon will appear to inform you of this
• You can now drag-and-drop people to rearrange them in My People
• People that aren't pinned to the taskbar can now also cause a pop in My People
• My People will now suggest apps to install that support My People
• The Reveal effect in the clock and Calendar flyout has been updated to make the day with focus appear lighter
• The Focus Assist Quick Action is no longer a toggle but a multi-step button
• The context menu now contains an option to remove everything from that hour or day from your Timeline
• Timeline will only show 4 days of activity by default
• Switching between the Focus Assist modus between priority online, alarms only or off can now be done again from the Action center context menu
• The People flyout now uses the accent color when "Show accent color on Start, taskbar and action center" is selected in Color Settings

User Interface

• CalendarView now uses Reveal
• The Reveal effect has been softened
• The Network flyout on the lock screen has been updated from its Windows 8.1 look to allign with the Windows 10 version
• When the touch keyboard is invoked or dismissed, it will now animate
• Reveal now fully works in the Light
• Animations for headers, pane opening and item selection has been added to NavigationViews
• Border Reveal is no longer applied in ListView and TreeView
• AppBarButtons now have a 2px margin between them

File Explorer

• The on-screen keyboard's colors have been inverted
• The cloud state of files and folder in the Navigation Pane will now be shown there

Microsoft Edge

Edge 42

• Edge will be added as a shortcut on the desktop by default
• A tab can now be muted by clicking the sound icon or from its context menu
• "Extensions" has been renamed "Add more features" and move to the top of the ellipses menu
• Address fields and other related fields can now be filled in automatically by Edge
• Settings to manage form entries have been added to Advanced Settings
• Text spacing settings have been added for Reading View
• The active tab, address bar, favorites bar and "Find on Page"-bar are no longer acrylic
• The title bar has been updated with a more transparent acrylic
• The dark theme has been reworked with a darker UI
• Buttons and lists in Edge's UI now use the reveal effect
• Icons on the address bar will appear slightly smaller
• Favorites in the favorite bar can now be set to not show their label individually
• It is no longer possible to hide labels for all favorites at once
• The favorites bar can now be hidden by right-clicking on it
• Edge now supports Activities
• Precision Touch Pads will now allow you to pinch-to-zoom or use two-finger panning to interact with websites in the same way a touchscreen would
• The Hub is now wider and the sections are now displayed on the side instead of the top with their title in a collapsible view
• Card information can now be saved and automatically filled in in the future and settings for this behavior have been added
• A "Notes"-pop-over menu has been added to navigate between notes
• Books can now show recommendations if the library is empty
• You can now filter by expired rentals in the book library
• The URL bar will now show the Books icon and title rather than the URI
• Support for Audio Narrated Books with EPUB Media Overlays has been added
• The Favorites Bar will now be enabled automatically if there is at least 1 favorite in it on Start and the New tab page independently from the "Show favorites bar" setting
• You can now set Edge to never remember passwords for a certain domain
• Auto-filling saved passwords is now supported in InPrivate mode
• Extensions now work in InPrivate mode when set to do so
• When opened with a mouse, the ellipses menu will now be smaller
• When viewing a certificate, users can now show the certificate itself in a sidebar
• In full screen-mode, the full Edge UI will now be available by moving your mouse to the top of the screen
• "Clutter-free printing" has been added as a new option to the Print dialog, allowing you to remove ads
• Dragging a website from the address bar to the Favorites bar will now show the favicon and name of the website
• The last opened Reading List item now has a new design which uses Acrylic
• Windows Defender Application Guard should now be lighter and faster
• Widnows Defender Application Guard now allows you to download files to the host

PDF + EPUB

• Free EPUB books can now be saved
• Books can now be removed, pinned or searched for in the Microsoft Store from the Book hub
• Bookmarks for EPUBs and PDFs can now be edited within the same flyout
• EPUB, PDF and Reading View has been redesigned with Fluent Design in mind
• Go-to-page in the Seek bar has been updated to support PDF Page Labels and EPUB Page List
• Reflowable EPUB books and Reading View for websites can now break the words on the page into syllables or highlight different parts of speech like nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Books, PDFs and Reading View pages now work full-screen
• Reading progress, notes, bookmarks and annotations will now roam faster to other devices
• General improvements to EPUB books and PDFs and Books when using a screen reader
• You can now export and clear your book data

F12 Tools

• The tools can now be docked vertically

EdgeHTML 17

• Support for Service Workers is now fully enabled, introducing support for offline web sites and push notifications
• CSS backdrop-filter is now available
• Subresource integrity is now available
• The ANGLE Backend is now used for WebGL
• Edge will now fire a Pointer Event with pointerType of "touch" when using Precision Touch Pad gestures
• "Enable iterative drawing algorithm" has been added as an option enabled by default
• "Enable OpenType variable fonts" is now enabled by default
• Full support for CSS extensions for OpenType Font Variations
• Support to use Notification API in extensions
• Support for elements on HTMLFieldsetElement
• Support for ping on anchor element

about:flags

• "WebGL Uses ANGLE Backend" has been added
• "Enable OpenType variable fonts" has been added

Internet Explorer

• When using the Japanese touch keyboard, address bar suggestions will now show as you type rather than waiting for the candidate string to be committed

Settings

System

• Sound has been added as a new page and allows you to change the volume, audio output device, microphone input device and test your microphone
• You can now enable "Near Share" on the Shared experiences page and set its download location
• The brightness of SDR content on an HDR display can now be adjusted under "Display"
• Detailed information about your display can now be seen in "Advanced display settings" linked on the Display page
• "Advanced display settings" shows information about your desktop resolution, active signal resolution, refresh rate, bit depth, color format and color space
• "Advanced scaling" has been added under Display and allows you to enable "Fix scaling for apps"
• When Windows detects an app that might have become blurry, a toast will be shown requesting to fix this
• A top level link to Storage Settings has been added to free up space
• "Free up space now" can now clean Windows upgrade log files, System created Windows Error Reporting Files, Windows Defender Antivirus, Thumbnails, Temporary Internet Files, Device driver packages, DirectX Shader Cache, Downloaded Program Files, Diagnostic data viewer database files and Delivery Optimization Files in addition to its previously available 4 categories
• "Show suggestions occasionally in Timeline" has been added under Multitasking
• Quiet Hours has been renamed Focus Assist
• "Focus Assist" has been added as a new page
• You can now set when Focus Assist has to turn on automatically
• Focus Assist can now be set to turn on automatically in presentations, in full screen games or when you are at home
• Apps and people that may break through Focus Assist can now be set
• A summary can now be accessed to see what you missed during Focus Assist
• Sound has been moved to the second place in the menu
• A number of links to other sound settings have been added to Sound
• "App volume and devices preferences" has been added under Sound and allows you to manage the audio input and output for each app individually
• A link to System info has been added under About
• The Multitasking icon has been updated to reflect Timeline
• "Graphics Settings" has been added under Display to allow you to choose the preferred graphics performance an app should have, with options for System default, Power saving and High performance
• Volume icons will now show as muted when the volume is muted
• Resetting the App volume and device preferences page will now also reset app specific volumes you've set back to default
• Account Protection and Device Security have been added to About

Devices

• The font and size used in the handwriting panel can now be changed between Segoe UI, Segoe Print and Segoe Script
• Options to enable multilingual text prediction has been added under "Typing"

Network & Internet

• You can now select a network for which to show the overview of used data
• A data limit can now be set under Data usage
• Background data can now be restricted in general or when roaming
• A settings has been added to tell Windows to prefer Cellular data over Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections can now be set to have background data restrictions
• Pinning the Data usage page to Start will now result in a Live Tile
• The option to create a new HomeGroup has been removed

Personalization

• The number of people you can pin can now be changed from 1 and 10 or all people in the flyout in My People
• Suggestions in the My People flyout can now be disabled
• Fonts has been added as a new page to manage Fonts
• Details about fonts have been added and you can now preview a font with your own string

Apps

• "Startup" has been added as a new page to provide settings for apps that should start at startup
• UWP apps that are set to launch at startup will now show the tasks they are specified to do by their developer
• Per-app settings now will show all permissions the app supports
• The publisher and version of the app is now shown in the app detail page
• A link to battery usage, lock screen notification settings and default apps has been added to the app settings pages
• An app can now be terminated and/or uninstalled from its detail page
• You can now manage which execution aliases you want apps to be able to use
• You can now set Windows to automatically adjust a video based on the lighting in your environment
• You can now sort your startup apps
• You can no longer set how video playback should work while on battery power
• "Stream HDR video" has been enabled for more devices
• You can now calibrate your display with built-in HDR video output with "Change calibration settings for HDR video on my built-in display"

Accounts

• When allowed, Windows will now repopulate Windows Spotlight and badges on the lock screen if the PC is at rest in on the lock screen
• "Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting my device after an update or restart" now affects startup of applications
• Security questions and answers can now be added to local accounts to help with password recovery
• On Windows 10 devices in S mode, you can now setup a PC with Windows Hello or PIN without a password
• The "Use my sign-in info..." text has been updated

Time & language

• The default keyboard can now be changed independently from the display language
• Enabling hardware keyboard suggestions can now be done from the Keyboard settings
• The "Choose a language to install" UI has been revamped into a model instead of a full page
• Each language entry now shows if it supports display, text-to-speech, speech recognition and/or handwriting
• When installing a new language, the user gets the option to add additional usecases (like text-to-speech, etc.) and to set it as the display language
• Language resources are now managed by the Microsoft Store, allowing them to be updated on a more regular basis
• You can now change the behavior of the Emoji Panel to hide after selecting one emoji

Gaming

• Game Mode settings can now be reset with the "Reset Game Mode Settings"-setting

Ease of Access

• The rail has been reorganized and now contains grouping headers
• The descriptions for some settings have been rewritten
• "Display" has been added as a new page with options to change the scaling of your primary screen, change the brightness, disable animations, disable transparency, disable the desktop background and the duration of a notification's visibility
• Keyboard shortcuts are now shown under their relevant settings instead of at the bottom of the page for "Magnifier"
• Background and window has been split up in "Change caption background" and "Dim window content" under "Closed captions"
• Narrator's keyboard shortcut can now be disabled
• Narrator can now be set to start automatically after login or before login for all users
• The voice volume for Narrator can now be changed independently
• Narrator can now let you hear voiced Narrator errors
• Narrator can now be set to play an audio cue to confirm if an action was performed
• You can now switch the Narrator cursor movement mode between Normal and Advanced
• Narrator can now be set to sync the cursor and system focus
• Narrator can now be set to read and interact with the mouse
• You can now lock the Narrator keys to make sure you don't have to press them for each command
• Under "Keyboard" it is now possible to disable the shortcut key for Sticky Keys, Toggle Keys and Filter Keys
• Options to move faster when holding Ctrl and slower when holding Shift have been removed from "Mouse"
• You can no longer set mouse keys when Num Lock is enabled under "Mouse"
• The speech output for Narrator can now be changed under "Select audio channel for Narrator speech output"
• Color options will now show a colorwheel to help you choose the right filter
• "High contrast" and "Color" have been split up in their own pages
• Color Filters now provides a description of the filter you're using
• Narrator now allows to control the verbosity of text characteristics
• Aduio has been added as a new page and allows you to change the volume, enable mono audio and show visual audio alerts
• Speech Recognition has been added as a new page and allows you to enable Windows Speech Recognition
• Eye Gaze Control has been added as a new page
• Adds "Curser, pointer, and touch feedback" and moves cursor thinness, pointer size and color and touch feedback settings to this new page
• The current Narrator settings can now be set to be used for login
• The hotkey to send feedback when Narrator is running can now be set to Caps Lock + E
• Under Audio, a new "Change other sound settings" link has been added to the classic sound settings
• "Other options" has been removed
• Under Display, it is now possible to disable automatically hiding scrollbars
• Under Color filters, it is now possible to disable the color filters hotkey
• "Cursor, pointer and touch feedback" has been renamed "Cursor & pointer size"
• "High Contrast Black" is now the default High contrast theme
• Help links have been added to Narrator to help you learn to use Narrator
• Speech now includes information and settings for dictation, Cortana and Windows Speech Recognition
• A number of "Related settings"-links have been added to Ease of Access

Cortana/Search

• Under "Notifications" a setting has been added to disable collection suggestions

Privacy

• "Activity history" has been added and contains all data Cortana uses for "Pick up where you left off"
• "Documents", "Pictures" and "Videos" have been added as new pages under Privacy, allowing you to disable access to these 3 areas of your device on a per-app basis
• Activity history can now be filter by accounts
• Access to Account info, Contacts, Callendar, Call history, Email, Tasks, Messaging, Documents, Pictures and Videos can now be disabled on a system level, stopping anything from requesting these permissions
• Win32 apps installed from outside the Microsoft Store are now also affected by the "Let apps use my camera hardware" setting
• Windows Camera is no longer hidden from the list of apps that can use your camera
• You can now choose if Windows should sync your activities with the cloud, this enables a 30 day history in Timeline
• Under "Diagnostics & feedback" you can now find a setting to enable data viewing
• A button has been added to downoad and open Diagnostic Data Viewer
  • You can now view your diagnostics data by event
  • Diagnostic events can now be searched through
  • You can now filter on category
• Privacy has been split in "Windows permissions" and "App permissions" subsections
• "File system" has been added as a new page to allow apps access to your file system
• You can now delete all Diagnostic data from "Diagnostics & feedback"
• The user dictionary can now be viewed under "Speech, Inking & Typing"

Update & Security

• The bandwidth used by foreground downloads can now be limited for Windows Update and Microsoft Store updates
• "View installed update history" has been moved to the bottom of the Windows Update page
• The description explaining how Windows Update works has been removed
• "Options for restarts" has been removed from Windows Update
• Windows Update now shows an additional button with more restart options when an update is waiting for a reboot to install
• Windows Update will now show a longer message when your device is up-to-date as well as a link to see what's new
• "Windows Defender" has been renamed "Windows Security"
• Windows Security now lists protection areas and direct links to their pages in the Windows Defender Security Center including Virus & threat protection, Account protection, Firewall & network protection, App & browser control, Device security, Device performance & health and Family options
• On a PC with AC power, Windows Update will keep an inactive PC from going to sleep for 2 hours when installing an update

General

• The Settings home page has been rearranged into a horizontal grid
• The rail now uses an acrylic background
• Improved search strings to find more relevant results
• General improvements to settings to help Narrator navigate between search, the navigation list and the main landmarks, headers will no longer be seen as at the bottom

Gaming

• Game Bar has been redesigned with support for the dark and light theme
• Game Bar now gives quick access to your captures, toggle your microphone and camera and edit the title of your Mixer stream
• A clock has been added to the Game Bar
• Game Bar settings has been made easier to use

System

• An extended user-mode API for third-party virtualization stacks and applications to create and manage partitions at the hypervisor level, configure memory mappings for the partition and create and control execution of virtual processors has been added
• When a Bluetooth device is ready to pair and is detected in range, Windows will show a notification to connect to it
• Ultimate Performance has been added as a new power scheme for Pro for Workstation and Enterprise devices
• When forcing a shutdown by holding the power button, Windows will show a message and collect data before shutting down
• It is now possible for enterprises to run custom actions during feature updates
• It is now possible for enterprises to run post rollback scripts
• The OOBE privacy settings have been revamped with every setting now having its own page
• Support for the High Efficiency Image File Format has been added

Accessibility

• It is now easier to scroll with Eye Control
• Direct right and left click has been added to the Eye Control launchpad
• Start, Timeline, Settings and Device calibration have been added to the Eye Control launchpad
• You can now hide the launchpad
• Narrator is now available when entering safe mode via msconfig.exe

Language and input

• The on-screen keyboard now uses an acrylic background
• The full on-screen keyboard is now available for all languages except Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
• Reorganized the handwriting panel options
• Improved re-recognition of words when writing a letter on top of another
• Words can now be split in the handwriting panel by drawing a vertical line where it needs to split and will provide space to write in between the words
• The Japanese IME can now provide text suggestions from AI chatbot Rinna
• The hardware keyboard can now also show text suggestions
• Shape-writing is now enabled on the wide keyboard
• The gesture to add a space in-between letters on the handwriting panel has been changed to a carrot
• The handwriting panel will now commit written text by drawing an angle of 90°
• Improves the button layout for Chinese Simplified Handwriting
• The on-screen keyboard's buttons now use Acrylic and are once again lighter than the background
• New and improved recognition of words to provide better emoji predictions in Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Danish (Denmark), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), English (Great Britain), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Finnish (Finland), French (France), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Italian (Italy), Dutch (Netherlands), Norwegian (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian (Russia), Swedish (Sweden), and Turkish (Turkey)
• The emoji panel will no longer close after inserting one emoji
• The Tamil keyboard has been added
• Updates the Sinhala and Myanmar keyboards for more comprehensive ways of inputting sequences
• Improved input of compositions on the Amharic keyboard
• The Amharic keyboard will now insert Amharic script directly instead of English letters with predictions
• The Emoji Panel is now supported in 190 locals, with 152 supporting tooltips
• The data behind the emoji panel has been revamped further to include more words
• Hardware keyboard suggestions now respect your theme color
• The on-screen touch keyboard now supports the split layout for all languages except Korean, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified)
• The standard touch keyboard layout is now available for Japanese, Korean, Quick and ChangJie for Traditional Chinese
• When pausing after using the split gesture in the handwriting panel, the space will now close again
• The shift key on the touch keyboard will now stay visually pressed when double tapped to indicate caps lock is engaged
• The full touch keyboard now supports keyboard shortcuts that contain 3 keys
• The dictation UI has been updated
• The Embedded Handwriting Panel is now available
• Improved handwriting recognition with Hindi support
• The on-screen keyboard will now dynamically switch between the 3 first languages set on the device
• Text Prediction has been added for Assamese, Bashkir, Belarusian, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Maori, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Sakha, Tajik, Tatar, Tswana, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba and Zulu
• Search in the emoji keyboard has been enabled for more than 150 locals
• If shapewriting is not supported, the shapewriting trail will no longer be visible

Apps

• The Web Media Extensions pack for Edge is now a default app, adding support for OGG Vorbis and Theora

Control Panel

• Options to manage HomeGroups have been removed
• "Clock, language and region" has been renamed "Clock and Region"
• Settings to change the input methodes and managing languages have been removed

Microsoft Store

• Fonts can now be downloaded from the Store

Paint

• A warning has been added to Paint to alert users that the program will be removed from Windows in favor of Paint 3D and be made available through the Store

Snipping Tool

• Snipping Tool now has an "Edit in Paint 3D" button

Task Manager

• When a process is suspended or has a suspended child process, an icon will be shown in the Status column of the Processes tab

Windows Defender Security Center

• Windows Defender Application Guard is now available on Windows 10 Pro
• The context menu in the system tray now allows you to do a quick scan, update Defender definitions, change the notifications and open Windows Defender Security Center
• Windows Defender systray icon now uses a modern context menu
• The Home heading has been updated to say "Security at a glance"
• Under "Virus & threat protection" the "Quick scan" button has been renamed "Scan now" and "Scan history" has been renamed "Threat history"
• Controller folder access settings have been moved to their own page named Ransomeware protection
• Account protection has been added with links to connect to a Microsoft Account and to setup Windows Hello and Dynamic Lock
• Device Security has been added with options to enable Memory integrity and options to manage processor security
• You can now let Windows Defender Security Center alert you when there are problems with Dynamic Lock under Settings

Windows Subsystem for Linux

• WSL can now be configured to some extend with wsl.conf
• AF_UNIX allows for socket connections between Linux processes on WSL and Windows native processes
• NTFS has a new flag to set on directories to indicate all operations in those directories should be treated as case sensitive

Other features

• Pressing Ctrl + Shift and then Ok in the Run dialog will now launch the application elevated
• The Share dialog box now contains Near Share which allows you to share files and urls over Bluetooth
• The properties-window of an executable file now allows you the change the behavior for overriding the system DPI
• WSL processes that set themselves up to run in the background will now keep running after closing the last console window
• WSL processes that require elevation and that do not require it can now run at the same time
• WSL is now supported over OpenSSH, VPN, Enter-PSSession and/or other Windows remoting tools
• Wslpath has been added as a new tool to convert Linux paths to their Windows equivalents
• Windows Command line Toolchain with bsdtar and curl are now available in Windows
• Unix style sockets (AF_UNIX) are now available on Windows
• Support for Work Folders with Files-on-Demand
• Get-DeliveryOptimizationLog has been added to the available PowerShell cmdlets to retrieve decoded logs for Delivery Optimization
• If an UWP app requires access to your pictures, videos or documents it will now have to ask for permission
• Setting up Windows Hello Face, Fingerprint or PIN unlock can now be done from the lockscreen
• "Update and shutdown" is now an option if updates are pending to install once more

And further

• Upgrades will now remember to disable hibernate and Fast Startup
• Yu Gothic Bold got improved with a consistent baseline alignment and improved clarity of various Kana characters
• Introduces a number of new policies to manage Delivery Optimization
• Hive data is now stored in the Registry process
• Localizations can now be found in the Microsoft Store
• Improved reliability for Near Share
• Full support for Adobe-style OpenType Variable Fonts
• Windows 10 S users will see their PC run in "Windows 10 Pro in S Mode"
• A number of emojis have been updated for a more consistent design
• Bluetooth mice should now perform better when the system is under load

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And further

• Unknown fixes and enhancements

Kudos to ChangeWindows Team!