14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 preview build earlier today, and in addition to acrylic effect on the sign-in screen, the company has also bundled another surprise.
All files in this build were encrypted, and the Windows development team says this was unintentional. As a result, Microsoft has re-issued the build unencrypted to all devices in the Skip Ahead ring.
“When we released 19H1 build 18237 earlier today, we unintentionally released it as encrypted. This wasn’t supposed to go out with an external flight. We have begun re-publishing build 18237 as encrypted. We are continuing to investigate reports of high memory usage and will monitor to see if the re-published build resolves these issues,” the Windows Insider team announced a few minutes ago.
By the looks of things, the new build indeed resolves all problems, and insiders are recommended to update as soon as possible to the correct release.
Only Skip Ahead ring users impacted
Windows 10 build 18237 was only released to insiders in the Skip Ahead ring, and given that this is a limited seat ring, only a small number of devices were likely impacted.
At the same time, it’s important to remember that this is the Windows Insider program where builds are typically buggy and not recommended to be installed on production machines. In other words, bugs like this are likely, but the good part is that they are being resolved quite quickly.
Windows 10 Redstone 6, which Microsoft refers to as 19H1, is still in its early days and development advances at a rather slow pace, as the company’s priority right now is finalizing the October 2018 Update due next month.
Once this update ships, Microsoft will begin rolling out preview builds of the 19H1 update to everyone, technically merging the Skip Ahead and Fast rings once again, with improvements to be released at a much faster pace than these days.