2.5.4

• 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

• Update Microsoft.Identity.MSAL.WSL.Proxy to version 0.1.1

2.5.1

• 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

• Gracefully handle situations where the user's defaultDistribution registry value is missing (solves #12595)

2.4.11

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

2.4.10

• Backport WSL1 OOBE support for modern distros (solves #12398)

2.4.9

• Update modern distro shortcut and terminal profiles to start in user's home directory

2.4.8

• 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

2.4.5

• Allow distributions to opt out of shortcut and terminal profile generation
• Use GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx to determine max number of processors (solves #1115)
• Add user warning letting users know bridged networking will be deprecated
• Add back Windows-specific string conversion functions (solves #12294)
• Fix regression causing default distribution to no be listed in wsl --list's o... (solves #12302)
• Update wslpath to preserve trailing slashes (solves #8827)

2.4.4

• Add logic to wait for block device to be available before calling mkfs / mkswap
• Set pathTranslationStyle to 'wsl' in generated terminal profiles
• Add support for terminal profile generation udring distribution installation
• Add explorer extension to handle .wsl files
• Add support for gzip compression when calling wsl --export
• Fix double handle close in wslhost.exe
• modern-distro: Implement install on double click
• modern-distro: Implement wsl --manage --set-default-user
• Add file size based progress to wsl --export
• Don't set the default UID if it's not in wsl-distribution.conf
• Implement wsl.exe --distribution-id
• Fall back to using virito proxy networking mode if NAT fails
• modern-distro: Implement Flavor & Version parsing
• Remove hardcoded 30 seconds timeout and respect KernelBootTimeout config setting
• Add socket receive timeouts when starting a new distro
• Add logic to offer to re-install WSL if WslInstaller fails to install the MSI
• Don't wait on termination event when HcsStartComputeSystem fails
• Configure the CRT to crash the process when abort() is called