Windows 11 beta build 22624.1610 (KB5025299) fixes registry compatibility issue, and more

Today, Microsoft released 22624.1610 and 22621.1610 (KB5025299) to the beta channel for Windows 11 Insiders. The company writes in its blog post:

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1610 and Build 22624.1610 (KB5025299) to the beta channel.

• Build 22624.1610 = New features rolling out.
• Build 22621.1610 = New features off by default.

The new release includes a few minor improvements and bug fixes along with a list of existing known issues. You can check out the full changelog below:

Changes and improvements in build 22624.1610

[Settings]

• We’re introducing new presence sensor privacy settings and APIs. If you have a device with compatible presence sensors, you can now manage your privacy and block certain apps from accessing those sensors. No image or metadata is collected by Microsoft and all processing is done locally on the device hardware to maximize privacy. You will find these settings under Settings > Privacy & Security > Presence Sensing Here if your device supports it.. App developers with devices with compatible presence sensors can target apps to request and read user presence information after requesting human presence capability. Learn more about the API. Here.

Changes and improvements in both build 22621.1610 and build 22624.1610

[Settings]

• Windows Insiders can help us review a new experience we’re working on. Insiders will start seeing a new toggle under Settings > Windows Update to “get the latest updates as they become available.” This new toggle is intended to be used in the beta channel to make internals more seamless Qualification package. Beta channel insiders who are on build 22621 and toggle it will be updated to build 22624 via the Embalment package. Those within the Beta channel who are already on Build 22624 and toggle it will see a “Windows Configuration Update” offered by Windows Update designed to help us ensure That this new toggle is properly connected to our backend services. This configuration update does not introduce anything new for internals.

Fixes in build 22624.1610

[General]

• Fixed an underlying issue that was causing a significant increase in explorer.exe crashes on final flight for some internals.

Fixes for both build 22621.1610 and build 22624.1610

• This update fixes a compatibility issue. This issue is caused by unsupported registry usage.

Known issues

[Search on the Taskbar]

• If you have the Bing button in the search box on the taskbar and you restart your computer, you may see the daily rotating search light for a while before you get the Bing button back.

[File Explorer]

Insiders who have keys in File Explorer:

• Shift + Right clicking on a file or folder does not open “Show more options”.

[Live captions]

• On ARM64 devices, Live Captions will need to be restarted for improved speech recognition support installed through the Language and Region Settings page if you change languages ​​in the Live Captions Caption Language menu.
• [NEW] Live Captions will crash on first launch due to an issue affecting registry data retrieval. A new update is expected very soon.
• Some languages ​​displayed on the Language and Region Settings page will indicate speech recognition support (eg, Korean) but live captions are not yet supported.
• When adding a language through the Language and Region Settings page, the installation progress of the language feature may be hidden, and you may see the completion of the installation of “Enhanced Speech Recognition” (required for live captions). don’t come (You can use the language’s “Language Options” to monitor progress.) If this happens, the Live Caption Setup experience will detect it and allow you to continue. Unforeseen delays may occur.
• Captioning performance in non-English languages ​​may be poor and outlier filtering may be missing in non-English (US) languages ​​which means incorrect captions will be displayed for speech that is not in the caption language.