0.50.2

0.50.2.0

• Added new logo for Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Enable hardware performance counters if the hardware supports them [GH 4678]
  A USERPROFILE%\.wslconfig option has been added to opt-out:

  [wsl2]
  hardwarePerformanceCounters=false
  

• Fix issue when printing system error messages that contain inserts.
• Update the user tile to launch in the user's home directory instead of C:\WINDOWS\System32
• Restore default signal dispositions for /etc/wsl.conf boot.command process to prevent zombie processes [GH 7575]
• Switch to using a static CRT for Windows binaries
• Use store API to download distributions via wsl.exe --install
• Add --no-launch option to wsl.exe --install
• Many updates to localized strings.
• Update to the official 22000 sdk
• Strip Linux symbols for release builds
• Update Linux kernel to 5.10.74.3
  • Update to upstream stable kernel release 5.10.74
  • Enable BPF Type Format (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF) for use by eBPF tools [GH 7437]
  • Changed Dxgkrnl version to 2110
    • Implemented D3DKMTShareObjectWithHost
    • Fixed QueryStatistics VM bus alignment issue for the result
    • Implemented D3DKMTCreateSyncFile
    • Address upstream submission feedback
    • Moved d3dkmthk to include/uapi/misc
    • Replaces u32 by __u32 and u64 by __u64
    • Added "_" in front of the enumerator values to support including both WDK and Linux headers
    • Removed holes in the user mode visible structures to be compatible with 32 bit apps
    • Replaces pointer in the user mode visible structures with a define to be u64 for user mode apps
    • Fix build failure with GCC versions older than 8.1 [GH 7558]
  • Enable the Buffer Sharing and Sync File Frameworks (CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER, CONFIG_SYNC_FILE) for Dxgkrnl usage

0.48.2

0.48.2.0

• Fix issue preventing Windows binaries from launching from inside the Linux filesystem [GH 7521].
• Fix error handling condition for wsl --mount --bare.
• Add localized strings for the following locales: cs-CZ;da-DK;de-DE;en-GB;en-US;es-ES;fi-FI;fr-FR;hu-HU;it-IT;ja-JP;ko-KR;nb-NO;nl-NL;pl-PL;pt-BR;pt-PT;ru-RU;sv-SE;tr-TR;zh-CN;zh-TW. We are investigating an issue where some strings are not being properly localized.
• Fix for /etc/fstab mounts so they are present in both elevated and non-elevated mount namespaces.
• Added a 5 second retry timeout to wsl.exe --mount operations.
• Simplify vm idle termination logic
• Update wsl.exe --mount to support passing options before the disk name for example: wsl.exe --mount --vhd foo.vhdx
• Allow individual distros to opt-out of GUI applications via a new /etc/wsl.conf setting:

[general]
guiApplications=false

• Ensure requested amount of swap size is available to Linux (previously was a page smaller than requested due to mkswap overhead).

0.47.1

0.47.1.0

• WSLg is now bundled as part of the WSL app!
  • Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.29
  • Switch to msrdc.exe for WSLg
  • Enable virtio for ARM64 to enable WSLg shared memory.
  • Allow environment variables used by WSLG to be overridden by WSLENV
• New wsl.exe –mount features!
  • Add mount --vhd to make mounting VHD files easier.
  • Implement filesystem detection for wsl.exe --mount. This change implements filesystem type detection if no --type is specified when using wsl.exe --mount.
  • Add --name feature to wsl.exe --mount. This change adds support for optionally naming a mountpoint when mounting a disk through WSL.
• Update Linux kernel to 5.10.60.1
  • Enable additional USB kernel configuration options for interacting with an Arduino over USB
  • Update to upstream stable kernel release 5.10.60
  • Enable virtio-pmem with support for PCI BAR-relative addresses
  • Enable vPCI support under Hyper-V for ARM64
  • Enable io_uring support
  • Enable USB over IP support
  • Enable paravirtualized spinlock support for x86_64
  • Refresh dxgkrnl driver to pick up bug fixes and code cleanups
  • Enable NFS client support for NFSv4.1* Improve the error message when 9p or fstab mounts fail
• Fix \\wsl$\ and \\wsl.localhost\ issues on ARM64.
• Switch to mkfs.ext4 instead of pre-formatted ext4 VHD.
• Switch to using mkswap and swapon instead of custom swap file logic. [GH 5476]
• Add logic to dynamically update the MTU of the NAT network
• Fix for /etc/wsl.conf generateResolvConf not working as expected [GH 6977]
• Added progress indicator helper function used to show a Please Wait message with animated dots on the conversion process to show users that WSL is still running.
• Switch wslhost.exe to a win32 app.
• Switch wsl.exe --install to not require the --distribution argument. This change switches wsl.exe --install to not require the --distribution argument but maintains support to avoid breaking existing scripts.
• Add wsl.exe --version command
• Add Windows version to wsl.exe --status and wsl.exe --version
• Cleanup wsl.exe invalid argument handling to make syntax errors easier to self-diagnose.
• If the app is launched via the tile, prompt the user for input before closing the console window.
• Add error message dialog for wslg.exe
• Simplify print for unsupported command line arguments.
• Print a better error message if the user runs wsl.exe --install when WSL is already installed
• Add special error codes for custom kernel not present, and custom kernel not supported (ARM64)
• Update wsl.exe --update to launch the store page.
• Improved stability and performance of localhost relay.
• Additional performance and stability improvements.