According to the Microsoft Windows Blog, Microsoft today released the latest Windows 10 Release Preview version 19044.1679 (KB5011831), which contains a large number of changes. The new version adds improvements related to Secure Boot, fixes operating system startup delay issues, and more.
Here’s what’s new:
- Added improvements to the Secure Boot component for Service Windows.
- Change the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) registration timeout from 60 minutes to 90 minutes for hybrid Azure AD-joined Autopilot scenarios. This also resolves a race condition that causes an exception when timeouts occur.
- fixed an issue that caused the remote desktop session to close or reconnect to stop responding while waiting for the accessibility shortcut handler (sethc.exe).
- fixed an issue that delayed operating system startup by approximately 40 minutes.
- fixed an issue where execution policy settings were incorrectly returned from the registry.
- Fixes an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working when copying and pasting text using an Input Method Editor (IME).
- fixed an issue where a black screen was displayed when some users signed in or logged out.
- Fixed an issue that caused Kerberos authentication to fail with the error “0xc0030009 (RPC_NT_NULL_REF_POINTER)”. This occurs when a client computer tries to connect to another computer by using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when Remote Credential Protection is enabled.
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from changing expired passwords when logging on to Windows devices.
- Fixes an issue that could cause Windows to stop working when the Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policy is applied without restarting.
- fixes an issue where the security portion of group policy might not be copied to the computer.
- FIXED AN ISSUE THAT CAUSED THE KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER (KDC) CODE TO INCORRECTLY RETURN THE ERROR MESSAGE “KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED” DURING A DOMAIN CONTROLLER SHUTDOWN.
- FIXED AN ISSUE THAT MIGHT PREVENT GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) LOAD BALANCING ON REMOTE DESKTOPS FROM WORKING AS EXPECTED.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Microsoft RDP client controls (version 11 and later) from being instantiated in the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) dialog box.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a loss of focus after renaming a Microsoft OneDrive file and pressing Enter.
- fixed an issue that caused the news & interests panel to appear when not clicked, taped, or hovered over.
- Fixed an issue where Shift KeyUp events could not be passed to applications when using Korean IMEs.
- Fixed an issue that might occur when using the Netdom.exe or Active Directory Domain and Trust snap-ins to list or modify name suffix routes. These processes may fail. The error message is “Insufficient system resources to complete the requested service”. This issue occurs after you install the January 2022 security update on the primary domain controller emulator (PDCe).
- FIXED AN ISSUE WHERE THE WRONG IME MODE INDICATOR WAS DISPLAYED WHEN THE FONT MITIGATION POLICY WAS ENABLED.
- FIX AN ISSUE THAT CAUSES THE PRIMARY DOMAIN CONTROLLER (PDC) OF THE ROOT DOMAIN TO GENERATE WARNING AND ERROR EVENTS IN THE SYSTEM LOG. THIS ISSUE OCCURS WHEN THE PDC INCORRECTLY TRIES TO SCAN FOR OUTGOING TRUST ONLY.
- FIXED AN ISSUE THAT AFFECTED SERVER MESSAGE BLOCK (SMB) MULTICHANNEL CONNECTIONS AND COULD GENERATE 13A OR C2 ERRORS.
- Fixed an issue that occurred when mapping a network drive to a Server Message Block version 1 (SMBv1) share. After restarting the operating system, the user will not be able to access the network drive.
- FIXED AN ISSUE THAT CAUSED VIRTUAL MACHINE OBJECT (VCO) PASSWORD SETTINGS ON DISTRIBUTED NETWORK NAME RESOURCES TO FAIL.
- FIXED AN ISSUE THAT CORRUPTED POOLS WHEN THE CLIENT-SIDE CACHE (CSC) CLEANUP METHOD COULD NOT DELETE RESOURCES THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN CREATED.
- fixed an issue that could cause server lockouts because the nonpaged pool grew and ran out of all memory. after restarting, the same problem recurs when trying to repair the damage.
- REDUCES THE OVERHEAD OF RESOURCE CONTENTION IN HIGH INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS PER SECOND (IOPS) SCENARIOS WHERE MANY THREADS COMPETE ON A SINGLE FILE.