14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released a new build for Fast ring insiders as it continues the work on the April 2020 feature update for Windows 10.
Build 18917 is part of the 20H1 development branch, and it includes one important improvement for Windows Update.
Discovered in earlier builds, absolute values for bandwidth settings in Windows 10 Delivery Optimization are now official, letting users specifically configure how much bandwidth Windows Update can use.
“You can set this separately for Foreground downloads (downloads that you initiate from Windows Store for example) or background downloads. This option already exists for IT Pros who use Group Policies or MDM policies to configure Delivery Optimization. In this build, we’ve made it easier to set via the settings page,” Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider program, explains.
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Additionally, this build also comes with Narrator improvements, including further tweaks for data table reading. Beginning with this update, Narrator reads the header data first, and then the cell data, the row and column position for each cell.
Windows 10 20H1 build 18917 introduces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, which is the second generation of the feature that allows users to run Linux on top of Windows 10. WSL 2 was originally announced at the Build developer conference in May.
Windows Ink Workspace is also getting some refinements.
“Windows Ink Workspace now takes up less screen real estate, and we’re converging our whiteboarding experiences with a new direct link to our Microsoft Whiteboard app,” Dona Sarkar adds.
When it comes to known issues, and you can check them out in full in the box below, it’s worth knowing that the update could fail the first time you download it with error code 0xc0000409. This is an acknowledged problem, and users should try to download the build a second time to successfully update.