On January 14 we informed you about the arrival of patch KB5008353 (22000.469) to Windows Insiders. This update is now available in the stable version of Windows 11 as an optional update. We have a large number of improvements and bug fixes!
Highlights of the KB5008353 update
- Updates an issue that causes the audio service to stop responding on some devices that support hardware Bluetooth audio.
- Updates an issue affecting app icons when apps are not running. On the taskbar, these icons can be displayed as active as if the applications are running.
- Add a new Your Microsoft account page to the Accounts category in Windows Settings for Home and Professional editions.
- Updates an issue that incorrectly displays the volume icon on the taskbar as muted.
- Updates an issue that causes a device to stop working when connected to multiple displays.
- Fixes an issue affecting the auto-hide feature of the taskbar. The taskbar may not appear reliably when hovering over the primary or secondary display.
- Updates an issue that may prevent icons from appearing on the taskbar of a secondary display.
- Enhances auto brightness to provide better response in low light conditions on all supported systems.
- Updates daylight saving time to start in February 2022 instead of March 2022 in Jordan.
- Adds the HelpWith feature, which uses Bing Microsoft technologies to suggest help topics that are relevant to each Settings page.
- Updates an issue that shows outdated battery percentages for connected Bluetooth devices on the Bluetooth and other devices page in Settings.
Updates a known issue that could prevent some image-editing programs from rendering colors correctly on certain high dynamic range (HDR) displays. This frequently affects white colors which can show up as bright yellow or other colors.
Improvements and fixes
This non-security update includes quality improvements. Among the main changes are the following:
- Improves the reliability of app installations on ARM64 devices.
- Updates daylight saving time to start in February 2022 instead of March 2022 in Jordan.
- Addresses an issue that causes ARM64 devices to stop responding when they hibernate or resume from hibernation.
- Fixes an issue that affects predictive pre-rendering in Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode.
- Fixes an issue that sometime prevents you from typing strings in the Input Method Editor (IME).
- Fixes an issue that causes the audio service to stop responding on some devices that support hardware Bluetooth audio.
- Fixes an issue where the text that informs a client about the upgrade Windows is incorrect for Japanese.
- Fixes an issue affecting app icons when apps are not running. On the taskbar, these icons can be displayed as active as if the applications are running.
- Fixed an issue that could cause VPN profiles to disappear. This issue occurs when you use Microsoft Intune or a third-party mobile device management (MDM) tool to deploy VPN profiles on Windows 11 (original version).
- Addresses an issue that affects apps that are written to only integrate with Azure Active Directory (AAD). These applications will not work on computers that join Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
- Fixes an issue that may cause the command Get-TPM PowerShell fails when it tries to report Trusted Platform Module (TPM) information. The command fails with error “0x80090011 Microsoft.Tpm.Commands.TpmWmiException,Microsoft.Tpm.Commands.GetTpmCommand”.
- Addresses an issue that causes a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) session to be disconnected or the screen to be blank for Server Core. This issue occurs when you install the AppCompat feature.
- Fixes an issue affecting windows.system.profile.retailinfo.dll.
- Fixes some issues that affect File Explorer performance when searching for files and selecting files.
- Add a new Your Microsoft account page to the Accounts category in Windows Settings for Home and Professional editions.
- Fixes an issue that incorrectly displays the volume icon on the taskbar as muted.
- Addresses a reliability issue that causes File Explorer and desktop context menus to stop working.
- Fixed an issue that you can’t pass the Shift KeyUp event to an app when using the Korean IME.
- Adds the HelpWith feature, which uses Bing Microsoft technologies to suggest help topics that are relevant to each Settings page.
- Addresses an issue that prevents the touch keyboard from appearing on the lock screen when a device has a Microsoft account (MSA).
- Fixed an issue affecting poor quality information loading in the taskbar, which sometimes causes a device to stop working.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some options from appearing in the Win+X menu.
- Fixes an issue that causes a device to stop working when connected to multiple displays.
- Fixes an issue affecting the auto-hide feature of the taskbar. The taskbar may not appear reliably when hovering over the primary or secondary display.
- Fixes an issue that sometimes prevents you from using the Simplified Chinese IME.
- Fixes an issue that could prevent icons from appearing on a secondary display’s taskbar.
- Fixes an issue that certain printer plug-in applications cannot be installed when the printer device driver is installed.
- Fixes an issue that displays outdated battery percentages for connected Bluetooth devices on the Bluetooth and other devices page in Settings.
- Fixes an issue that prevents IP cameras from connecting and streaming to certain DirectShow (DShow).
- Improves the auto-brightness algorithm to provide better response in low-light conditions on all supported systems.
- Fixes an issue that causes quelsass.exe stop working and the device restarts. This problem occurs when Windows queries for NT Directory Services (NTDS) after the NTDS service has stopped.
- Fixes an issue that causes the webDav redirector to crash. This issue occurs when trying to read a file from the local TfsStore, which causes the system to stop responding.
- Addresses a performance regression issue that occurs when you enable update sequence number (USN) journaling.
- Addresses an issue that the “Disallow compression on the entire NTFS volume” Group Policy Object (GPO) cannot be applied in some cases.
- Fixes an issue that prevents Robocopy from retrying the file copy process.
- Addresses a known issue that could prevent some image-editing programs from rendering colors correctly on certain high dynamic range (HDR) displays. This frequently affects white colors which can show up as bright yellow or other colors.
- Fixes an issue that causes Windows to stop working with the error “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL”.
- Fixes a memory leak that occurs when calling to WinVerifyTrust(). This issue occurs if verification of the first signature of a file that has multiple signatures fails.
Adds an audit event to Active Directory domain controllers that identifies clients that do not comply with RFC 4456. For more information, see KB5005408: Smart card authentication can cause print and scan errors.
Windows 11 servicing stack update: KB5008353
This update makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates. Among the main changes stands out:
Known bugs
TroubleNote: Recent emails may not appear in search results in the Microsoft Outlook desktop app. This issue is related to emails that have been stored locally in PST or OST files. It can affect POP and IMAP accounts, as well as accounts hosted on Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365. If the default search in the Microsoft Outlook app is set to server search, the issue will only affect advanced search.
SolutionNote: To mitigate the issue, you can disable Windows Desktop Search, which will cause Microsoft Outlook to use its built-in search. For instructions, see Outlook search does not show recent emails after Windows update kb5008212.
A fix is in the works and will arrive in an update.