Windows 11 build 25314.1000

Windows 11 build 25314 is the fourteenth Insider Preview and the thirteenth available client build of Zinc, the 23H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel on 8 March 2023, along with its server counterpart and build 23403.

File Explorer

 * The access key shortcuts have been added into the XAML context menu.
 * This feature is only available to a subset of users, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the  velocity ID.
 * This feature is not available for the Windows App SDK-based File Explorer.
 * The ability to show file recommendations in Home page has been added and rolled out to a subset of users on Azure Active Directory-joined devices. This feature can be toggled on manually by enabling the   and    velocity IDs and then signing in to an AAD-joined account.

Settings
A new dedicated page for viewing USB 4 domains has been added under Bluetooth & devices > USB. This feature is disabled by default, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the  velocity ID.

Miscellaneous

 * The support of Outlook has been added to Narrator. This change is only available to English (United States) only.
 * The new Local Security Authority (LSA) protection feature has been added to Windows Security.
 * Starting with this build, the Remote Mailslot Protocol (RMP) has been disabled by default.
 * Two new DISM command-line options,  and , have been implemented for adding or removing languages from a Windows image.

Boot environment
Revocation list parsing was changed.
 * Revocation list files are now per-architecture (PE Machine value in OID ).
 * It is no longer possible to load  as   or vice versa (u32 revocation list type in OID , 0 for bootmgr or 1 for winload).

General

 * The system may take longer than expected to upgrade to this build in certain cases.
 * The "Getting ready for you" screens may appear for Azure Active Directory joined users when signing into Windows after upgrading to this build.
 * The screen may appear black for several minutes when upgrading to this build.
 * Laptop users may be unable to change their display brightness.

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.
 * The following issues will only apply if the file recommendations feature is enabled:
 * Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive).
 * Clicking on the "Open File Location" command results in an error.
 * Clicking on the "Remove from list" command does nothing.

Settings

 * The Language & Region page may indicate speech recognition support for currently unsupported languages.
 * 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.

Voice access
The redesigned in-app help page in voice access may not include all commands and the supplementary information may be inaccurate.

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.