Windows 11 2022 Update

Windows 11, version 22H2 (codenamed Sun Valley 2) is an upcoming feature update for Windows 11, which is rumored to succeed its original release on 20 September 2022. The new version will include minor improvements to the core experience, such as support for third-party Widgets, tabs in the File Explorer, a redesigned Task Manager, as well as certain functionality omitted from the original release of Windows 11, such as drag-and-drop support for the taskbar.

Dev builds of the update also introduced several features originally teased in the June 2021 event, including the redesigned versions of Notepad, Paint and Media Player, and the Windows Subsystem for Android, although most of these have since then been backported to the original release in the form of cumulative updates.

History
References to a future 22H2 update based on the Copper codebase were first unintentionally added to telemetry documentation in April 2021 alongside similar references to the initial Windows 11 release, as well as the Windows 10 November 2021 Update. The target later shifted to Nickel, with build 22567 being the first Insider Preview build to include version 22H2 branding.