github microsoft/WSL 2.5.1

pre-releaseone day ago
  • 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

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