Windows 11 build 23526

10.0.23526.1000.ni_prerelease.230811-1344

Build of Nickel
OS family	Windows 11 (NT 10.0)
Version number	10.0
Build number	23526
Build revision	1000
Architecture	AMD64, ARM64
Build lab	ni_prerelease
Compiled on	2023-08-11
Expiration date
Timebomb	2024-09-15 (+401 days)
SKUs
Home (N, Single Language, China) SE (N) Pro (N, Single Language, China) Pro Education (N) Pro for Workstations (N) Education (N) Enterprise (Evaluation, G, GN, N, N Evaluation) IoT Enterprise
About dialog

Windows 11 build 23526 is an Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. The installation media for this build was unintentionally made published for a short time at Windows Insider Download Center a day before its release, and was later released to Insiders enrolled into the Dev Channel on 18 August 2023.

New features and changes

Shell

• The link for troubleshooting device discovery and other casting issues has been added to the Cast flyout in Quick Settings.
• When no secondary monitors are connected, the setting for uncombining taskbar buttons on other screens will be disabled by default.
• The error messages when Dev Drives fail to format has been improved.

Settings

The icon of the "Development" toggle switch under Personalization > Device usage has been updated.

Narrator

• The default verbosity level has been changed from 2 to 3 which will now announce "Immediate Context Name and Type".
• The support of typing Traditional Chinese characters in Windows by addition of Traditional Chinese dictionary for detailed reading has been implemented.
• Narrator will announce the & of the attachment on braille display when navigating to any attachment in Outlook with scan mode.
• Navigating to different headings in scan mode using ↓ or Spacebar+4 in Braille device will be reflected by Narrator on braille display.
• When navigating a list with items, whenever Narrator announces index with the menu item name, Braille display will reflects the same index values as "1 of 4".

Miscellaneous

The timebomb has been extended from 15 September 2023 to 15 September 2024.

Bugfixes

General

• Fixed an issue where removing a monitor while connected to a Cloud PC could result in a black screen with only a mouse visible.
• Made some fixes to improve how the Share dialog worked with screen readers, as well as addressing some other accessibility issues.

Start menu

• Fixed an issue that was making the System label in Start's all apps list the wrong color in high contrast themes.
• Fixed an issue when attempting to uninstall certain apps, the system will just open the main System page in the Settings app and not navigate to the Installed Apps page.

File Explorer

• Fixed a high hitting explorer.exe crashes when launching or interacting with File Explorer.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when using the Reset Folders button in Folder Options.
• Fixed an issue where the chevrons in the File Explorer address bar were pointing in the wrong direction on right-to-left locales.
• Fixed an issue where saving files to OneDrive locations in File Explorer could take a very long time.
• Fixed an issue where the context menu and dropdown menus in File Explorer weren't working with touch.
• Made another fix for the issue that was causing the context menu and dropdown menu backgrounds to be transparent.
• Fixed an issue where the menu shown when doing a right-click drag on one of the newly supported archive formats didn't have an extract option like it does for ZIP files.

Shell

• Fixed an issue where the taskbar wasn't loading when logging in after upgrading to build 23521.
• Fixed an issue where if the taskbar was set to uncombined it would still show animations even if they'd been turned off.
• Fixed an issue where app icons on the taskbar would become empty with no icon after switching between desktops.
• Fixed an issue where the hidden icons flyout might close unexpectedly when using keyboard navigation to move focus between icons.
• Fixed an issue where using drag to rearrange icons in the overflow area wasn't working well when the taskbar was set to uncombined.
• Fixed an issue where the new bell icon might be very difficult to see in some cases because it was using a dark outline when the taskbar was dark.
• Fixed an issue where when enabling the End Task option on the taskbar, the setting wouldn't persist across upgrades.
• Fixed an issue where after upgrading the Bluetooth icon in the system tray might not display in the system tray after upgrade even though the device supported Bluetooth and the Bluetooth options were shown in the Settings app.
• Fixed the issue that was causing the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray on the taskbar to sometimes disappear.
• Fixed an issue that was causing sporadic explorer.exe crashes when using an HDR wallpaper.

Dev Drive

• Fixed an issue where Dev Drives might not auto-mount after upgrading to a new build, causing apps that tried to access them to not work.
• Fixed an issue related to the use of Dev Drives that was causing the INVALID_DATA_ACCESS_TRAP bugcheck with an on upgrade.

Narrator

• Fixed an issue where Narrator was not reading various list items in a combo box on various web pages when navigating with up and down arrow.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was incorrectly announcing combo boxes as read-only even when users could actually select different values from the combo box list items.
• Addressed the issue where Narrator was not announcing the checked and unchecked status of radio buttons but was announcing selected for every item.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was announcing older information while navigating in date/time picker using arrow keys.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was incorrectly reading contents of previous cell and the current cell when navigating in a table using ← and → keys.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator is incorrectly reading older Window title even after navigating to inner control.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator is reading entire paragraph when ↑ is invoked in online word document.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was incorrectly reading out last word of previous paragraph when a new paragraph started with a punctuation mark.
• Fixed a bug where Narrator was not announcing the character being deleted when using Backspace key in some text fields on the web.
• Fixed an issue in narrator where while entering any number in CVV edit field, Narrator should only announce as "hidden", instead of "CVV edit, hidden new line selected".
• Fixed an issue where Narrator is not able to detect different headings on some web pages in scan mode while using H key to navigate.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator scan mode arrow navigation skipped first item in container.
• Fixed an issue, where Narrator is skipping the first item after navigating via landmark using D key in scan mode.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator focus did not move past the first check box if there was a list of check boxes when using ↑ and ↓ keys in scan mode.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was not activating combo box when navigating using ↑ and ↓ keys and using ↵ Enter and Spacebar to activate it in scan mode.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator would collapse the combo boxes in scan mode when navigating with ↑ and ↓ key.
• Fixed an issue where navigation commands are not executed as expected in a dialog box when entering the dialog the second time.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator find was not working consistently on web pages when using Narrator key+Ctrl+F key combination.

Input

• Fixed an issue where typing with the Japanese and Chinese IMEs may not have performed as expected in certain apps when users had selected the option to use the previous version of the IME.
• Fixed an issue where when inking into a text field when writing in Chinese, certain characters were being perceived as taps and not working.
• Fixed an issue where inking into a text field while magnifier was running was not working well as the ink was offset.

Safe Mode

Fixed the issue that was causing the Unknown Hard Error error along with the crash loop when logging in to Safe mode, due to the 0xc0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) exception with faulting module HolographicExtensions.dll.

Bugs and quirks

Shell

Some non-system apps under Start menu's All Apps section, such as PWA apps installed via Microsoft Edge, may be labeled as system apps incorrectly.

Windows Copilot

• When pressing Alt+Tab ↹ to switch out of Windows Copilot, users may not switch back into it.
• When first launching or after refreshing Windows Copilot while using Voice access, users may need to use "Show grid" commands to click in the "Ask me anything" box for the first time.

Safe mode

• Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the Capability Access Manager Service service not running.
• Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer 0xc0000409.

Gallery

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  Boot screen

External links

• Official announcement