New build shipped to the Fast ring exclusively

Feb 24, 2018 06:05 GMT  ·  By

Windows 10 Redstone 4 doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s certainly approaching the final development stage, and today Microsoft shipped another preview build for users enrolled in the Fast ring of the Windows Insider program.

Since we’re getting closer to the moment when Microsoft signs off Windows 10 Redstone 4, build 17107 doesn’t bring with too many breaking changes, though it includes Windows Update improvements and other general optimizations and fixes.

The most important refinement concerns Windows Update, which Microsoft says has been tweaked to no longer allow the PC to go to sleep when you’re not using it, thus making sure that the updating task completes successfully.

“In RS4, now when Windows Update scans, downloads, and installs on a PC with AC power – it will prevent the PC from going to sleep when it is not in active use, for up to 2 hours when receiving an update in order to give Windows Update more opportunity to succeed. If you are not seeing this new behavior, let us know by sending in feedback via Feedback Hub,” Microsoft says.

No Skip Ahead build this week

There are also several other changes, but also known issues, and you can check them in full in the box at the end of the article.

What’s important to know is that users who are enrolled in the Skip Ahead ring won’t get any new build this week – Skip Ahead has already been promoted to branch rs_prerelease and is being updated with Windows 10 Redstone 5 builds. Once Microsoft finalizes Redstone 4 and ships it to the production ring, Skip Ahead and Fast should be brought back in sync to get the same build every time.

Windows 10 Redstone 4 should be ready as soon as next month, with insiders to be the first to get the RTM build. The global rollout to production machines will begin in April as version 1803.

Windows 10 Build 17107