Windows 10 Build 19013 - More Kaomoji, WSL 2 Improvements, PowerToys v0.12 & More!

Say hello to some new kaomoji, along with a ton of fixes and improvements! Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 19013 to the Fast ring today, and as usual, it's pretty light on new features. It's the latest build from the 20H1 development branch, and if recent rumors are to be believed, 20H1 could RTM as soon as December. That means that you shouldn't expect any more major new features.

One of the new features in today's build is more kaomoji. You might recall that kaomoji was added to the emoji picker with Windows 10 version 1903, so now there are more than them. The other new feature is that the Windows Subsystem for Linux will release memory back to your system when you're not using it. Previously, your WSL VM could grow when you needed it to, but it couldn't shrink.

WHAT'S NEW?
MORE KAOMOJI!
● As some of you may know, with Windows 10 version 1903, we updated our WIN+(Period) / WIN+(Semicolon) keyboard shortcut to not only include emoji but to also now contain kaomoji and special characters. What are kaomoji? Basically, they’re faces with expressions you can make by combining various characters–for example, you might be familiar with the shruggie:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In any case, based on your feedback, in this build, we’re updating our kaomoji list with a few more favorites, including:
○ ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
○ ლ(╹◡╹ლ)
○ (⊙_◎)
○ ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
○ ಠ_ರೃ
○ (∩^o^)⊃━☆
○ /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\

And more! Enjoy (❁´◡`❁)

WINDOWS SUBSYSTEM FOR LINUX (WSL) 2 WILL NOW RELEASE UNUSED LINUX MEMORY BACK TO YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE
● Previously, your WSL 2 Virtual Machine’s (VM) memory would grow to meet the needs of your workflow, but would not shrink back down when the memory was no longer needed. With this change, as memory is no longer in use in the Linux VM, it will be freed back to Windows, which will shrink in memory size accordingly.

OTHER UPDATES FOR INSIDERS
POWERTOYS V.0.12 NOW AVAILABLE!
● We’ve just released our 0.12 release of PowerToys on GitHub. We’ve gotten tons of great feedback and suggestions from the community and want to directly say thank you to everyone.

New features include a great new utility called PowerRename, which makes it easy to batch rename a bunch of files, improvements to FancyZones, and support for Dark Mode.

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PREVIEW NEW DIRECTX 12 FEATURES
● In the latest 20H1 builds, you can preview new DirectX 12 features, including DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1, Mesh Shader, and Sampler Feedback. In this blog post, the DirectX Team explains what each of these features are and how they will improve the gaming experience in Windows 10!

AND EVEN MORE!

If you're enrolled in the Fast ring, you can download build 19013 now via Windows Update. For more on this release, check out Microsoft's full release notes, which cover general changes, improvements, and bug fixes, as well as known issues, at the Windows Blog.

While we're seemingly prepping for the 20H1 RTM, it's worth noting that Windows 10 19H2, or the November 2019 Update, still hasn't been released. That should be available in the coming weeks.

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