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Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 20H2, its next Windows 10 feature update, to testers in the version preview ring today, September 18. Officials said they “believe” that trial version 19042.508 (KB4571756) is the final version and have dubbed it “October 2020 Update”.
Microsoft is making today’s trial version available to Insiders on the Release Preview Channel if they manually search for it and use Windows Update. To do this, Insiders must go to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Update and then choose to download and install 20H2. Once they do this they will get new updates for this build through Windows Update. Microsoft made Windows 10 20H2 available to commercial customers who wanted to perform pre-launch validation starting in late August.
Officials have not yet said when Microsoft will make Windows 10 20 H2 available to core users who are not on the Insider program, either by searching for the feature update or via Windows Update.
Microsoft is also starting to roll out Windows 10 20H2 automatically for Insider testers in Beta Chanel. Starting today, Beta channel members who have not yet installed the 20H2 update will be offered automatically through Windows Update.
As Microsoft announced earlier this year, Windows 10 20H2 will look and feel like a smaller cumulative update for those already running the Windows 10 2004 / May 2020 update. (Microsoft describes this as delivery via a ” enablement package “, which is the same way the company upgraded users in Windows 10 1903 to 1909). For those who are not on the 2004 update yet, the Windows 10 20H2 update will look and act like a regular Windows 10 feature update when installed.
Officials said today that there is a known issue in today’s test build: Those in the Beta and Release Preview rings running 19042.508 will be hit by “Item Not Found” when they try to start Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft officials said they have a fix that should be in the next 20H2 service release.
Microsoft officials have not said anything publicly about what happens after Windows 10 20H2, but based on the last I heard, Microsoft may be moving to a new schedule, through which the team only delivers a feature update. of Windows 10 per year (in the second half of the calendar year) and one feature release of Windows 10X per year.
