Windows 10 20H1 build 18860 rolls out to Skip Ahead Insiders

Windows Insiders on the Skip Alee ring are being treated to a new preview release today with build 18860. The major new add-on in this release is that Microsoft is bringing SwiftKey's typing intelligence feature to 39 new languages. Otherwise, today'due south build is chock full of more than fixes and improvements, every bit well equally some known issues to watch out for.

What's new

Bringing SwiftKey's Typing Intelligence to Even More Languages

Every bit many of you lot know, we've been working on bringing SwiftKey's typing intelligence to Windows. We're excited to announce that we're expanding support to these 39 languages:

Afrikaans (South Africa), Albanian (Albania), Standard arabic (Saudi Arabia), Armenian (Armenia), Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan), Basque (Spain), Bulgarian (Republic of bulgaria), Catalan (Spain), Croatian (Republic of croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Estonian (Estonia), Finnish (Finland), Galician (Spain), Georgian (Georgia), Greek (Greece), Hausa (Nigeria), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Hungarian (Hungary), Indonesian (Indonesia), Kazakh (Republic of kazakhstan), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Macedonian (Macedonia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian (Bokmal, Norway), Persian (Iran), Smooth (Poland), Romanian (Romania), Serbian (Serbia), Serbian (Serbia), Slovak (Slovakia), Slovenian (Slovenia), Swedish (Sweden), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Uzbek (Uzbek)

What does this mean for you? Basically, nosotros're updating the underlying linguistic communication model when typing in each of these languages, to better the accuracy of the autocorrections, shapewriting, and predictions.

Full general changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

We fixed a Microsoft Border crash encountered when interacting with combo boxes in PDF forms.

Nosotros fixed an result that could upshot in night light being on subsequently an upgrade, even though all the settings showed that night calorie-free should be off.

We stock-still an issue where using the slider to accommodate the nighttime light strength could outcome in night light getting stuck on.

Nosotros fixed an issue where night light was skipping the fade transition when it was turned off (manually or scheduled).

We fixed an result resulting in increased battery drain while the screen was on in recent builds.

We fixed an issue resulting in the "…" menu contents beingness clipped for sure apps similar Voice Recorder and Alarms and Clock when the app was total screen.

We fixed an upshot resulting in some Insiders experiencing bugcheck green screens citing a KERNEL_SECURITY_VIOLATION fault.

We fixed an upshot preventing certain VMs from being able to install or update Windows Insider Preview builds – the VM would hang on the blackness screen with the Windows logo.

Known problems

Launching games that use anti-cheat software may trigger a bugcheck (GSOD).

When performing Reset this PC and selecting Keep my files on a device that has Reserved Storage enabled, the user will need to initiate an extra reboot to ensure Reserved Storage is working again properly.

Some Realtek SD card readers are non functioning properly. We are investigating the result.

Creative X-Fi sound cards are not functioning properly. We are partnering with Creative to resolve this issue.

If you install any of the recent builds from the Skip Ahead and switch to either the Fast ring or the Wearisome band, optional content such every bit enabling developer mode will fail. Yous volition have to remain in the Fast ring to add/install/enable optional content. This is considering optional content will only install on builds approved for specific rings.

As always, you tin can check out the full release notes at the Windows Blog. Otherwise, hit up Windows Update at present to grab the latest Skip Ahead release on your PC.

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