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

2.3.26

• Update kernel to 5.15.167.4
  • Update to upstream stable kernel version v5.15.167
  • Include an out-of-tree patch fixing a bug in the XSAVES subsystem.

2.3.25

• Automatically fall back to virtioProxy networking mode if NAT networking mode fails.

2.3.24

• WSL: Change VM creation to fall back to no networking instead of failing
• Manually call IPlan9FileSystem::Teardown() to work around destructor hang in ni_release
• Update Windows App SDK to 1.6

2.3.22

• Remove experimental useWindowsDnsCache config