Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905
blogs.windows.com
nice update for canary today. tl;dr:
- the branch has switched back from
zn_releasetors_prerelease& the dev semester is now gallium - all new features from moment 3/4 & dev have been foward-ported & re-enabled including:
- dev drive
- the new windows app sdk file explorer UI
- windows backup
- rgb lighting settings
- passkey support
- action center improvements (seconds on clock, new vpn experience)
- emoji 15 support
- rust code is actually (unlike the false alarm before) in the windows nt kernel now (gdi region,
win32kbase_rs.sys) - 3d/gradient emojis are finally here (with a new emoji font format)
- windows arm32 support is dead
Rust in the Windows kernel, eh? I suppose it really shouldn't be that surprising at this point with Linux making the move first, but still. I guess I'm a little surprised.
yeah the new blood in the internal microsoft teams love rust now, some of the windows team guys have been consistently talking about an internal shift towards rust on twitter since last year. the rust win32k drivers & userspace libraries actually dropped in
rs_prereleaseback in may, but for whatever reason the kernel wouldn't actually use the new rust codepaths even if you loaded & enabled themThey still showing ads in the start menu like win11 or whatever the fuck