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2.5.7

24 Apr 21:15
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2.5.7 Pre-release
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  • Update Linux kernel to 6.6.87.1-1
  • Update WindowsAppSDK to version 1.7.250401001
  • Increase the soft file descriptor limit to 1024 * 1024 (solves #12837)
  • Add logic to detect when an imported distribution is invalid
  • Move Linux side warnings to new warning infrastructure
  • Fix potential deadlock when converting a distribution to WSL1 or WSL2
  • Fix download logic to download to a file instead of in memory (solves #12805)
  • Use a systemd-generator to create the wslg and binfmt units

2.5.6

08 Apr 19:07
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2.5.6 Pre-release
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  • Fix docker by adding back modules loaded at boot (solves #12748)
  • Fix command line parsing preventing importing or exporting from stdout / stdin
  • Bring back bridged networking mode
  • Update to 6.6.84.1 WSL Kernel
  • wslinfo: print newline after usage
  • Add initgroups helper to work around musl limitation (solves #12755)
  • Remove invalid kmesg error when gui apps are disabled
  • Fallback to GrantVmAccess when attaching a VHD fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
  • Update UtilConnectToInteropServer to respect g_InitPid and minor wslinfo updates (solves #12714)
  • Put sparse vhd support behind an --allow-unsafe flag.
  • wslsettings: fix networking mode selection logic (solves #12745)

2.5.4

26 Mar 00:27
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2.5.4 Pre-release
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  • Fix the wsl --update --pre-release logic to correctly handle backports and always pick the actual latest
  • Set LX_WSL2_INSTALL_PATH even when gui apps are disabled
  • Introduce general.instanceIdleTimeout to control distribution termination timeouts (solves #10138, #9401)
  • Modify config file parsing to allow empty strings
  • Update Microsoft.RemoteDesktop.Client.MSRDC.SessionHost to version 1.2.6074
  • Change behavior of a custom kernel with no modules to not log a warning.
  • Implement --vhd-size and --fixed-vhd arguments to wsl.exe --install
  • Detect when the VM crashes, and capture dmesg
  • Resolve kernel warning about ip_local_port_range having start / end with same parity
  • Update WSLENV logic to allow passing /l and /p together to translate paths and path lists
  • Don't throw when processing an empty argument (solves #12649)
  • Disable DNS tunneling if global secure access client is present
  • Remove support bridged networking
  • Fix wsl.exe --install --enable-wsl1 to work when run as non-elevated
  • Fix partial read causing failure to import WSL1 distribution
  • wslsettings: Launch MSI version of wsl.exe instead of the one in system32

2.4.13

20 Mar 19:48
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  • Update Microsoft.Identity.MSAL.WSL.Proxy to version 0.1.1

2.5.1

12 Mar 23:09
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2.5.1 Pre-release
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  • Fix broken /etc/hosts generation and correctly handle empty domain names (solves #12275)
  • Improve hardenning of the WSL binfmt interpreter (solves #8843)
  • Gracefully handle situations where the user's defaultDistribution registry value points to a missing registration (solves #12595)
  • Update WSLg to 1.0.66
  • Add support for exporting distributions via wsl --export as .tar.xz
  • Change wslpluginapi.h Windows.h header include to lowercase (solves #12580)
  • Move the user token duplication logic to LxssUserSession so valid user tokens are passed to plugins (solves #12554)
  • Update Kernel to 6.6.75 and switch modules to a vhd
  • Remove cgroupv1 support
  • Automatically start the distribution when a .wsl file is double clicked.
  • Fix potential deadlock in the IO relay when stdin is a pipe (solves #12523)
  • Introduce DefaultNetworkingMode WSL policy value
  • Add support for CRLF in /etc/wsl.conf (solves #12502)
  • Check automount setting before mounting admin drives (solves #12443)
  • Remove TrustedInstaller registry protections before writing the registry during installation (solves #11376)
  • WSLg: Create /run/user/ as a tmpfs mount that systemd expects (solves #11261)
  • Add support for distro compressed with xz, or bzip for WSL1
  • Implement OOBE for WSL1 distros. (solves #12398)
  • Update Microsoft.Identity.MSAL.WSL.Proxy to version 0.1.1
  • Implement config file warnings on Linux
  • Implement localization on Linux
  • Update 'wsl.exe --import-in-place` to call plugin API and do modern distro operations (solves #12370)
  • Add support for resizing a distribution via wsl --manage --resize

2.4.12

06 Mar 18:43
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  • Gracefully handle situations where the user's defaultDistribution registry value is missing (solves #12595)

2.4.11

12 Feb 03:55
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  • Handle failure to launch if c:\windows\system32\lxss\lib is not present

2.4.10

01 Feb 23:10
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  • Backport WSL1 OOBE support for modern distros (solves #12398)

2.4.9

30 Jan 05:28
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2.4.9 Pre-release
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  • Update modern distro shortcut and terminal profiles to start in user's home directory

2.4.8

16 Dec 21:24
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2.4.8 Pre-release
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  • Don't delete terminal profile & start menu shortcut when a distribution is converted
  • Plumb stderr handle through to WSL1 processes for import / export / setversion
  • Update modern distros to support WSL1 (solves #12298)
  • Make wsl --install case insensitive with modern distros
  • Fix logic error causing wsl2.processors to always be defaulted to the maximum... (solves #12346)
  • Update Microsoft.RemoteDesktop.Client.MSRDC.SessionHost to version 1.2.5716