August 8, 2019 10:03 am



By Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc

Hello Windows Insiders!

Today we are releasing 19H2 Build 18362.10012 and Build 18362.10013 to Windows Insiders in the Slow ring. As a reminder, we are testing the ability to ship these updates with features turned off by default so that we can then turn them on via controlled feature rollouts. This helps us gain better feedback on overall build quality. A subset of Insiders in the Slow ring will have features turned off by default, and another subset will have them turned on by default. This means not everyone in the Slow ring will see new features right away:

• IF you are on 19H2 Build 18362.10005 – you will receive Build 18362.10012 today with features turned OFF by default. This includes the below mentioned features as well as the features from the previous release.
  
• IF you are on 19H2 Build 18362.10006 – you will receive Build 18362.10013 with features turned ON by default.
  

If you’re on the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and just joining your PC into the Slow ring to take 19H2 updates, it’ll be a virtual “coin toss” as to whether your PC gets features turned on or turned off.

Other than one update has features turned off, and the other has features turned on – the two updates released today and highlighted above are identical and contain the following features in addition to the improvements from KB4505903 and the previous 19H2 update:

• You can now quickly create an event straight from the Calendar flyout on the Taskbar. Just click on the date and time at the lower right corner of the Taskbar to open the Calendar flyout and pick your desired date and start typing in the text box – you’ll now see inline options to set a time and location.
  

• The navigation pane on the Start menu now expands when you hover over it with your mouse to better inform where clicking goes.
  
• We have added friendly images to show what is meant by “banner” and “Action Center” when adjusting the notifications on apps in order to make these settings more approachable and understandable.
  

• Notifications settings under Settings > System > Notifications will now default to sorting notification senders by most recently shown notification, rather than sender name. This makes it easier to find and configure frequent and recent senders. We have also added a setting to turn off playing sound when notifications appear.
  
• We now show the options to configure and turn off notifications from an app/website right on the notification, both as a banner and in Action Center.
  
• We have added a “Manage notifications” button to the top of Action Center that launches the main “Notifications & actions” Settings page.
  
• We have added additional debugging capabilities for newer Intel processors. This is only relevant for hardware manufacturers.
  
• We have made general battery life and power efficiency improvements for PCs with certain processors.
  
• A CPU may have multiple “favored” cores (logical processors of the highest available scheduling class). To provide better performance and reliability, we have implemented a rotation policy that distributes work more fairly among these favored cores.
  

As always, Insiders are encouraged to report any issues they experience with these updates through Feedback Hub.

Thanks,

Dona and Brandon



https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/08/08/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18362-10012-18362-10013-19h2/#uWwT87iWBK1cq03Y.97