Microsoft vient de déployer une nouvelle construction de Windows 10, la build 14385. Son arrivée étonne car il n’est pas dans la tradition de la firme de lancer une nouvelle version le Week-End. Que se passe-t-il ?
La démarche de Microsoft s’explique assez facilement. Le lancement de Windows 10 Anniversary Update est prévu le 2 aout prochain. La date approche à grands pas ce qui oblige le géant à s’assurer que tout sera opérationnel le jour J. Depuis quelques semaines une importante chasse aux bugs a été lancée. C’est une priorité.
Windows 10 build 14385, bugs et performance
Windows 10 build 14385 se concentre sur corrections de bug et les améliorations de performance. Il n’y a pas grand-chose du coté nouveauté. L’essentiel vise la stabilité avec une longue liste de corrections. Il ne s’agit pas encore d’une version pouvant prétendre au titre de “RC”. Pourquoi ? Elle s’accompagne de problèmes connus sans solution pour le moment.
A l’occasion de ce lancement, la big boss du programme Insider, Dona Sarkar a souligné
« Surprise! Aujourd’hui, nous publions la build 14385 de Windows 10. Elle s’adresse aux PC et Mobile pour les utilisateurs du programme Insiders inscrits à l’anneau rapide. […] Nous travaillons comme des fous et cette version propose des centaines de corrections de bugs. Nous souhaitons les proposer le plus rapidement afin de valider des scénarios. Nous voulons nous assurer que nous sommes développons le meilleur produit possible »
Il y a plusieurs corrections importantes. Certaines s’attaquent à la notification indiquant une date d’expiration erronée et d’autres à augmenter l’autonomie sur les appareilles mobiles (Surface) ou à améliorer les performances de certains applications comme les navigateurs Google Chrome et Microsoft Edge .
Tout n’est pas encore parfait. Microsoft annonce en même temps des problèmes connus. Ils seront fixés avant la sortie de la version finale de la mise à jour anniversaire des un an de Windows 10.
Voici la note de version de cette build 14385 de Windows 10 Anniversary Update alias Windows 10 Redstone.
Windows 10 Build 14385 - Changelog
Improvements and fixes for PC
- You should no longer see a notification pop-up once a day saying that your Windows evaluation copy expires on 7/15/2016. I know this has caused a lot of you some angst so thank you for being patient.
- We have improved battery life for Surface devices.
- We fixed an issue resulting in Spotify sometimes crashing while playing music.
- We fixed an issue resulting in the Google Chrome window being clipped on the top when maximized.
- We fixed an issue with Mobile Hotspot that could result the host device bug-checking (bluescreen) and rebooting if it was sharing on a 5GHz band and the connected device browsed to certain websites.
- We fixed an issue where the pin prompt shown when connecting to certain VPNs would display behind the other open windows.
- We fixed an issue resulting in LastPass and AdBlock extensions for Microsoft Edge not showing the expected context menu items or status information in subsequently opened Edge windows. We also fixed an issue where the current tab in Edge might hang after exiting Web Notes.
- Projecting to a PC auto-discoverability is off by default. To have your PC beacon so it can be discovered and you can project to it through the Connect quick action from a Continuum enabled phone or another PC, go to Settings > System > Projecting to this PC and set “Windows PCs and phones can project to this PC when you say it’s OK” to “Available everywhere” or “Available everywhere on secure networks”. You can also set other settings on this page to your preference.
Improvements and fixes for Mobile
- You can open PDFs in Microsoft Edge and use touch to interact with the PDF (such as scrolling, pan or zoom) again without it constantly reloading the PDF.
- We have improved battery life for older devices, such as the Lumia 830, 930, and 1520.
- We fixed an issue where setting the SIM name on a dual SIM phone would sometimes fail.
Known issues for PC
- A recent fix went into place for the Hyper-V firmware that will that affect the ability to boot Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 5 VMs with Secure Boot enabled. A fix for TP5 builds has been developed however, due to release schedules, the Insider Preview build changes will be released before the TP5 fix is released. During that time, if you try to boot a new TP5 VM with Secure Boot enabled, it will fail. The workaround is to disable Secure Boot during this period.
- After you install this build on a PC using a non-EN-US language, you may get error code 0x80004005 when enabling Developer Mode on the “For Developers” Settings Page. Even after seeing this error message, your machine is in developer mode and you should still be able to use Visual Studio to develop Universal Windows Applications. In most cases, this error indicates that extra components required by the operating system to enable additional debugging features in Visual Studio or the Windows Device Portal could not be installed automatically. To fix this:
#1. Go to Settings > System.
#2. Click on “Apps & features”
#3. Choose “Manage Optional features”
#4. Press the button “Add a feature”
#5. Select the package for Windows Developer Mode
#6. Click “Install”
#7. Reboot your PC
#8. Launch Command Prompt as Administrator
#9. Run: sc config debugregsvc start=auto
Finally, return to the “For Developers” Settings page. You will still see the error code, 0x80004005 but you should now be able to enable Windows Device Portal and the Device Discovery features.
Known issues for Mobile
- Voice Recorder does not show up consistently as an option for Call Recording. We heard your feedback and are working actively on this.
- The keyboard doesn’t show up consistently for InPrivate mode on Microsoft Edge. We’re working on this. A workaround is to click on the Microsoft privacy statement hyperlink on that page and then the keyboard works in the search/address bar. We’re working on fixing this.
- REMINDER: We have changed the backup format for Windows 10 Mobile devices to reduce the size of the backup stored in OneDrive. As a result, if you do a backup on a device running the latest Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview builds and move back to the released version of Windows 10 Mobile (Build 10586) and restore from your backup – your Start screen layout won’t restore and remain the default Start layout. Your previous backup also gets overwritten. If you need to go back to Build 10586 temporarily, once you are on Build 10586 you should disable backup so it doesn’t overwrite the good backup from Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview builds.
