github WSL:
- 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
Source:
Release 2.5.1 · microsoft/WSL
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'...
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