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

0.61.8

• Fix potential wslservice.exe crash when tearing down VM state.

0.61.4

• Add support for Explorer quick access icons without the WSL optional component installed.
• Add support for shift + right click Open Linux shell here option without the WSL optional component installed.
• Remove WSLg icons when a distro is uninstalled.
• Add WSLg environment variables to init and all children
• Fix memory corruption in $WSLENV parsing
• Update compiler toolchain to LLVM 14 and musl v1.2.3
• Add support for .xz compressed tar files for wsl.exe --import operations (WSL2 only).
• Adds the --shell-type command to the wsl.exe and wslg.exe help text.
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.39
  • Update system distro’s CBL-Mariner to 2.0.
  • Build DirectX-headers from specific version source
  • Optimize remove/add event source when transferring clipboard data.
  • Clean up 'todo' coordinate conversion to client space for local window move
  • Check height instead of checking width a second time
  • weston_desktop_surface_set_size expects window geometry coordinates
  • Add API to remove program menu to RDP client plugin.
  • Add e2fsprogs to system distro for runtime dependencies.
  • Send window zorder list to RDP client before sending window update.
• Update MSRDC to version 1.2.3213
  • Fix for [MSRDC] TS_PROP_IS_OOB_CLIENT is set incorrectly

0.60.0

• Allow daemonized processes to continue running [GH 8161].
• Re-enable packaged GPU libs by default and update DXCore library with bugfixes.
• Use a bind mount for /etc/.X11-unix instead of a symlink so it can be mapped into containers [GH 8411].
• Fix crash when wsl.exe --import is provided invalid arguments.
• Ensure correct print order when running wsl.exe --update
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.34
  • Fix memory use after free in OpenSSL code path (only with TCP/IP RDP connection).
  • Change RDP backend configuration and its name in wslgconfig.
  • Revert enabling pango fallback attribute explicitly as it should be enabled by default.
  • Hardening multi-threading task dispatch from FreeRDP virtual channel thread to wayland display thread.
  • Fix memory leak at rdprail-shell destruction.
  • Report correct marker window zorder to RDP client.
  • Add option to disable remoting window shadow area to RDP client.
  • Refactor rdprail-shell configuration and change its name in .wslgconfig.
  • Set default keyboard model to pc105 (follow changes in upstream).
  • Use glib’s key file API to parse .desktop file.

0.58.3

• Fix an incorrect mount retry condition that could cause issues launching distros or running wsl.exe --mount
• Update wsl.exe --update to not print ^C when app is being updated.

0.58.1

• Fix for invalid JSON document error on old Windows Insider builds [GH 8272]
• Fix "The syntax of the command is incorrect." when launching cmd.exe by full path [GH 8259]
• Update Microsoft.WSLg to version 1.0.33
  • Fix cursor image being sent to client with no change.
  • Fix weston crash by clipboard operation.
• Remove double %% in some localized strings
• Add --cd argument to wslg.exe