Windows 11 build 23430

Windows 11 build 23430 is an Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 7 April 2023, along with Server build 25335 and build 25336.

Settings

 * A new option has been added under System > Multitasking to show 20 most recent tabs from apps when snapping or pressing Alt.
 * A new, non-functional option has been added under Settings > Privacy & security > For developers to enable end task when right-clicking an app on the taskbar.

Shell
Urgent or important notifications will show a "View notification" button to view the content of the notification when using an app in full screen.

Bugfixes

 * Fixed an underlying issue that was causing an increase in  crashes.
 * Fixed an issue where text input features like touch keyboard, voice typing, and emoji panel might not launch.
 * Fixed an issue where the buttons in the Microsoft Pinyin IME's settings flyout were hard to see when they had focus if a contrast theme was enabled.
 * Fixed an issue that was impacting Task Manager reliability.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing the search box in Task Manager to be cropped at the top when the window is maximized.
 * Fixed an issue where in Quick Settings, Narrator was reading out the previous page's title instead of the active page's.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing the Get started window to not open incorrectly after downloading voice access.
 * Fixed an issue where popups for voice access weren't translated correctly.

File Explorer

 * The access keys in the XAML context menu may appear inconsistently if no button is pressed. Pressing a button will cause them to reappear.
 * Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive) when the file recommendations feature is enabled.

Shell

 * Right-clicking a file or folder while pressing ⇧ Shift may not open the legacy context menu in certain cases.
 * The search box on the taskbar may be disabled in certain cases.
 * Users may see the daily rotating search highlight for some time before getting the new Bing button back to the search box on the taskbar.

Settings

 * When adding a language via the Language & Region page, the installation progress may become hidden, and users may not see install completion for enhanced speech recognition.
 * The Language & Region page may not offer the necessary speech recognition language support for live captions for up to an hour after first login.

Live captions

 * The enhanced speech recognition support may not be installed correctly through the Language & Region page in the Settings app on ARM64 devices.
 * Captioning performance may be degraded in non-English languages and missing out-of-language filtering in non-English (United States) languages.

Safe mode

 * Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the  service not running.
 * Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer.