Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 to the Canary Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here.
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nice update for canary today. tl;dr:
the branch has switched back from zn_release to rs_prerelease & the dev semester is now gallium
all new features from moment 3/4 & dev have been foward-ported & re-enabled including:
dev drive
the new windows app sdk file explorer UI
windows backup
rgb lighting settings
passkey support
action center improvements (seconds on clock, new vpn experience)
emoji 15 support
rust code is actually (unlike the false alarm before) in the windows nt kernel now (gdi region, win32kbase_rs.sys)
Rust in the Windows kernel, eh? I suppose it really shouldn't be that surprising at this point with Linux making the move first, but still. I guess I'm a little surprised.
yeah the new blood in the internal microsoft teams love rust now, some of the windows team guys have been consistently talking about an internal shift towards rust on twitter since last year. the rust win32k drivers & userspace libraries actually dropped in rs_prerelease back in may, but for whatever reason the kernel wouldn't actually use the new rust codepaths even if you loaded & enabled them