Cobalt

Cobalt
Version of Microsoft Windows
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OS familyWindows 10 (NT 10.0)
SemesterCobalt
Architecturex86,[a] x64, ARM64
Replaces
Iron
Replaced by
Nickel

Cobalt is the 21H2 development semester of Windows as a service, the commercial release of which is the original release of Windows 11. Work on Cobalt began in October 2020, although it did not replace Iron in the Dev Channel until December. It was later followed by Nickel in the second half of 2021.

List of known builds[edit | edit source]

Wave 1 (Windows 10)[edit | edit source]

Pre-Dev Channel[edit | edit source]

Dev Channel (rs_prerelease branch)[edit | edit source]

Dev Channel (co_release branch)[edit | edit source]

Wave 2 (Windows 11)[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Up to build 21390.2025.