Redesigned attention indicator of app's background activity on the taskbar.Added quick access to Focus assist settings in the Notification Center.Improvements to hidden icons flyout, touch keyboard icon, and calendar flyout on the taskbar.Integration of Chat from Microsoft Teams.New SplitButton control for making new folders and files in the File Explorer's command bar.Redesigned context menus with Acrylic material.New Entertainment widget in Widgets panel.Redesigned jumplists and full-screen notifications.Preview builds of Windows 11, version 21H2 The first public preview build was made available to Windows Insiders who opted in to the Dev Channel on June 28, 2021. The original version of Windows 11 (also known as version 21H2 and codenamed 'Sun Valley') was released in October 2021.

^ Windows 11 builds that have this color are the latest (by SKU) public version of Windows 11.Īs with Windows 10 (since version 20H2), mainstream builds of Windows 11 are labeled 'YYHX', with YY representing the two-digit year and X representing the half-year of planned release (for example, version 21H2 refers to builds which initially released in the second half of 2021).

^ Windows 11 builds that have this color are no longer the latest version of Windows 11, but are still supported by Microsoft.

^ Windows 11 builds that have this color have reached their expiration dates and are no longer supported by Microsoft.

^ Two updates were released: 'Moment 1' on Octowith build 22621.675 and 'Moment 2' on Februwith build 22621.1344.

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