After the AMD and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs were added last week, there is a new update in the Dev channel today. Microsoft released KB 5048761 today. This increases the version number to Windows 11 24H2 26120.2702.
Since the optional updates are canceled this month due to the holidays, this is likely to be the last update this year. Then things will continue as usual in January 2025. Back to today's update. Switch As always, there is a difference between “on” and “off”.
We're starting to roll out a new Advanced Camera Options page. Simply navigate to a camera in Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Cameras and click the Edit button for advanced camera options. Two options are then offered here: camera for multiple applications and standard camera. A third option will follow later, which will provide different media types such as resolution and frame rate.
There is also news for the developers for the “passwordless future”. “We are releasing updates to the WebAuthn APIs to support a plug-in authentication model for passkeys.” Over the next few months, Windows customers will be able to choose a third-party provider as an additional choice alongside the native Windows key provider while the Windows Hello user experience is preserved.” You can read everything about it in the release notes
Known issues due to KB5048761
- [NEU] After performing a PC reset in Settings > System > Recovery, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This does not affect the future of future Dev Channel updates that will address this issue.
- Retrieve The following known issues will be addressed in future updates for Windows Insiders:
- The recall can be activated or deactivated via “Turn Windows functions on or off”. We cache the recall binaries on disk while we test add/remove. In a future update we will remove the binaries completely.
- Some users are seeing the message “Make sure Recall saves snapshots” while the Recall settings page has snapshot saving enabled. Restart your device to fix this problem.
- Make sure you update Microsoft 365 apps to the latest version so you can get back into certain documents.
- Click to run The following known issues will be addressed in future updates for Windows Insiders:
- Additional context is sometimes displayed when using smart text actions supported by Phi Silica.
- Smart Text Actions harness the power of Microsoft's secure cloud to improve your text results by ensuring prompts and responses are safe and appropriate. This data is automatically deleted. Local moderation to ensure the security of requests and responses will be added in the future and will replace this cloud endpoint.
- Sometimes Click to Do does not highlight information on the screen when no content is displayed on a connected external monitor in enhanced mode.
Changes and corrections by the
- Start menu We're improving filtering for recommended websites in the Start menu based on feedback from Windows Insiders so we show the cheapest websites based on your own browsing history.
- Settings The ability to change time zones is available under Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time for standard users (non-administrators). available again.
- input
- Fixed an issue where the mouse pointer could become invisible when pointer trails were enabled, with a black box behind it.
- Fixed an issue where the ALT or Shift key on the keyboard could hang after the Windows Hello prompt appeared for some Insiders in the latest builds.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the mouse cursor to stutter unexpectedly when moving it sometimes.
- graphic Fixed an issue that could cause some games to appear oversaturated when using Auto HDR.
- Rollback We fixed an issue that caused a “Your organization used App Control for Business to block this app” dialog to appear when rolling back from build 26120.2510 to a previous build when you tried to use certain third-party apps on your PC or to install because an incorrect policy was enforced.
- blogs.windows
