Windows Defender gets two significant improvements
Windows 10 build 17650 brings two important improvements for Windows Defender, one of which is a touch of Fluent Design, the new design language that’s now being expanded across Windows 10.
Windows Defender Security Center in Windows 10 Redstone 5 now supports the accent color that you picked in Windows 10, and it shows it in the title bar when Sets in enabled. Furthermore, spacing and padding have been adjusted, and all categories are now rendered properly.
Microsoft has also updated the Windows Defender firewall to support the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which means rules can now be configured for WSL processes just like those natively running on Windows 10.
“You can add specific rules for a WSL process in Windows Defender Firewall, just as you would for any Windows process. Also, Windows Defender Firewall now supports notifications for WSL processes. For example, when a Linux tool wants to allow access to a port from the outside (like SSH or a web server like nginx), the Windows Defender Firewall will prompt to allow access just like it would for a Windows process when the port starts accepting connections,” Microsoft explains.
There are several many other changes, as well as a long list of known issues, and you can check them out in the box after the jump.
Redstone 5 builds are currently exclusive to the Skip Ahead ring but will be shipped to insiders in the Fast channel once Microsoft releases the Redstone 4 update this month. Redstone 5 is projected to be finalized in September before being published to the first waves of devices in October.
