0.70.5

• Fix race condition in the plan9 server causing ECONNREFUSED
• Addresses an issue where DNS requests to resolve names from a WSL2 container would fail when using the default configured NAT DNS Server

0.70.4

• Work around deadlock in WSL init daemon due to bug in musl libc [GH 8824]
• Fix regression where /etc/wsl.conf interop.enabled setting was not respected [GH 8932]

0.70.0

• Ensure that stdout / stderr relays are created for wslg.exe
• Update Windows SDK to 22621 (Windows 11 22H2)
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.45
  • WSLGd: allow alternate rdp file via .wslgconfig
  • Weston: rdp shell: fix window placement issues
  • Weston: rdp shell: register snap applications on start menu
  • Weston: rdp shell: use predefined constant for g_key_file api
  • Weston: rdp shell: add icon file search retry
  • Weston: xwm: Check size hints in weston_wm_window_is_positioned()
• Update MSRDC to version 1.2.3575

0.68.4

• Defer admin / non-admin mount namespace creation until systemd has started.
  • Before this change if you launched your distro as Administrator, then ran wslg as non-admin, snap packages such as Spotify would not work.
• Remove unneeded kernel command line parameters for systemd
• Update Kernel to version 5.15.68.1

0.68.2

• Fix a handful of issues around the new systemd implementation:
  • Adjust location check for systemd [GH 8852]
  • Fix an issue where WSLg would not work for some distributions
  • Allow launching Windows executables from processes launched via /etc/wsl.conf boot.systemd or boot.command
  • Disable systemd support if /sbin/init cannot be executed
• Implement logic to notify the user when a WSL package update is available

0.67.6

• Add official support for systemd! For more information, see our blog post here: https://aka.ms/wslsystemd
• Fix issue where X11 display might be running on the wrong channel
• Add retry around network endpoint creation to avoid temporary issues.
• Fix potential ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND errors when creating directories.
• Add a specialized error message if the distro VHDX can't be mounted
• Implement wsl.exe --update --web-download to allow updates directly from GitHub
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.44
  • WSLg: Update WSLDVCPlugin to create shortcuts to packaged wslg.exe
  • WSLg: Update WSLGd to use the msrdc execution alias
  • WSLg: enable x server fonts installed at user distro
  • Weston: rdp backend: fix applist is not working regression
  • Weston: rdp shell: applist: verify file and directory explicitly
  • Weston: rdp shell: locate icon for taskbar using window class name
  • Weston: rdp shell: fix missing free
  • Weston: rdp shell: preblend default icon image with default overlay image
  • rdp shell: default window pos must be adjusted by window geometry
  • xwayland: fix window maximizing
  • xwayland: fix maximized window decoration
• Update Microsoft.WSL.Kernel to version 5.15.62.1
  • Update to stable kernel version v5.15.62
  • Re-enable the CONFIG_CEPH* flags
  • Enable EROFS configs
  • configs/wsl topic branch picked up (not currently in use)
  • dxgkrnl driver branch refreshed with many fixes and upstream feedback revisions
  • Hyper-V vPCI merge conflicts fixed for newer stable kernel releases
  • Out-of-tree Hyper-V vPCI regression fix merged while waiting for upstream inclusion

0.66.2

• Add wsl2.safeMode option to %userprofile%\.wslconfig
  This change introduces the concept of "Safe Mode" to WSL which disables many features and is intended to be used to recover distributions that are in bad states.

    [wsl2]
    safeMode=true

• Update wsl.exe to not create stdin / stdout / stderr relay threads if the std handle is not present
• Do not set window title in wsl.exe [GH 8701]
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.42
  • WSLg: archive wslg-notify debuginfo
  • rdp: upstream coding style changes
  • rdp: Multihead refactor
  • xwayland: Fix some xwayland focus bugs
  • xwayland: fix default override window position back to (0,0).
  • xwm: Don't send synthetic ConfigureNotify to windows that were mapped O-R
• Update MSRDC to version 1.2.3401
• Update Microsoft.Direct3D.Linux to 1.606.4

0.65.3

• Temporarily revert localhost enhancements while investigating a regression [GH 8679]
• Add more error messages to improved error model

0.65.1

• Improvements to localhost relay to have better performance and accurately report bind failures.
• Use /dev/ptp0 to keep guest chock in sync with the host
• Improve the error message if the distro list can't be fetched and wire it to wsl.exe --list --online
• Update Linux kernel to 5.15.57.1
  • Fix 9p filesystem regressions since the last v5.10 WSL2 kernel
  • Enable support for the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clock device
  • Enable Retbleed mitigations in x86_64 builds
  • Enable nftables and traffic control
  • Enable VGEM driver
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.41
  • WSLg: add default x11 bell sound
  • WSLg: Update /etc/wsl.conf to set the default user to wslg
  • WSLGd: add option to start weston under gdbserver
  • WSLGd: simplify weston command line construction
  • compositor: add wslgd-notify
  • compositor: Stop trapping SIGINT
  • compositor: load xwayland module last
  • rdp: resize margin adjustment for MoveWindow/SnapArrange PDU
  • rdpaudio: use pthread_cancel instead of pthread_kill
  • xwayland: give Xwayland its own session
  • xwayland: Don't track focus for override redirect windows

0.64.0

• Implement new error model

  • Localized error messages with inserts
  • Contextualized error messages
  • String readable HRESULTs

  Sample error:

  C:\Users\Test>wsl --mount A
  Administrator access is needed to mount a disk.
  Error code: Wsl/Service/AttachDisk/LXSS_E_ELEVATION_NEEDED_TO_MOUNT_DISK
  

• Manually reset the interop server when the relay exits [GH 7506]

• Ensure WSLg logs will be present in /mnt/wslg/stderr.log

• WSL1 errors will now be printed to /dev/kmsg

• Add opt-in environment variable to use UTF8 encoding

  • Adds the opt-in WSL_UTF8=1 environment variable to force UTF8 encoding on stdout & stderr through the CRT
  • Get rid of the double \r in our error messages

• Update WSLg to version 1.0.40

  • libweston-desktop/xwayland: Use correct geometry
  • xwm: Generate more synthetic ConfigureNotify events
  • xwayland: Support _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS
  • rdp: fix window doesn't redraw properly moving across different DPI monitors
  • rdp: Move audio processing to front-end
  • rdp: Clipboard changes (sync with upstream)
  • WSLGd: don't override certain env if already set
  • Build: fix cut&paste mistake for DirectX-headers git version
  • rdp-plugin: various bug fixes in WSLDVCPlugin DLL