Windows 10 redstone 4 build 17123 now available with heif support

Microsoft has released a new version for its Windows 10 Insider program. Today's Windows 10 Redstone 4 build 17123 introduces the novel HEIF image format. Along with this, Microsoft has also shared some known issues to be aware of before testing Windows Mixed Reality features.

Windows 10 Redstone 4 build 17123 adds support for HEIF images

Undoubtedly, one of the most important novelties of this version, available in the fast ring, is the inclusion of the high quality image format HEIF, which comes to replace the JPG, PNG and GIF image formats, with better quality and higher compression values ​​for the web, but this would not be its only characteristics.

HEIF is an image container that leverages modern codecs like HEVC to improve quality, compression, and capabilities compared to previous formats like JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In addition to traditional individual images, HEIF supports encoding image sequences, image collections, ancillary images such as alpha or depth maps, images and live video, audio and HDR for higher contrast. Windows 10 Redstone 4 build 17123 offers, for the first time, support for HEIF display. Although it must be said that only these images can be viewed, but they cannot be edited yet.

Windows Mixed Reality is also included in this early version of Redstone 4 but with some limitations and problems that Microsoft hopes to solve in successive versions.

The Redstone 4 update for Windows 10 called Spring Creators Update (unofficial name) is expected to arrive in April with many new features.

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