Windows 10 21H2 new features are coming to some Insiders

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Published onAugust 19, 2021

published onAugust 19, 2021

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While all the major hype is about Windows 11 at this time, Microsoft is also working on a handful of new features for Windows 10 this fall too.

And starting today, Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel can check out those new features for the first time.

New features for Windows 10 version 21H2

The Redmond company spoke about this new endeavour ina blog post, which got a bit confusing for some people.

Today we are releasing 21H2 Build 19044.1200 (KB5005101) to the Release Preview Channel,This update will be offered automatically for Windows Insiders already on Windows 10 version 21H2 in the Release Preview Channel. For Insiders not yet on Windows 10 version 21H2[,] this update is offered via our ‘seeker’ experience in Windows Update and ONLY to Insiders who were moved from the Beta Channel to the Release Preview Channel because their PC did not meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11.

To put all this in other words, only a limited subset of Insiders can even test this, and they will need to manually check for updates in Windows Update to get it.

If you remember, Microsoft announced Windows 10 version 21H2 in July and it revealed then that this release would include a handful of small new features.

Among the new additions were WPA3 H2E support for enhanced Wi-Fi security, simplified password deployments with Windows Hello for Business, and GPU compute for machine learning and other compute-intensive workflows in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

All of those features are ready for testing in the Insider Program. Assuming you meet the weird requirements in the quote above, that is.

Fixes and improvements for 21H1

Of course, the release notes for this new update also contain a hefty list of fixes, changes, and other improvements that were brought, as follows:

It also includes the following improvements:

If you were also thinking about some of the known issues that will come with this update, rest assured that this list is not even close to the fixes one.

There is only one issue that Microsoft is aware of, and it involves the Windows Update settings page, which may hang after you download an optional update.

Close and reopen the Windows Update settings page if you encounter this.

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Windows 10 21H2 new features are coming to some Insiders

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Fixes and improvements for 21H1