Microsoft has released the first open-source release of Windows Subsystem for Linux. Key improvements include updates to localized strings, measures to prevent the unregistration of distros with undefined BasePaths, resolutions for distribution download issues, fixes for systemd user session challenges, and solutions to potential failures in downloading distributions.
WSL Release 2.6.0
- First open source release of WSL
- Various stability improvements
- Update localized strings
- Don't throw when unregistering a distro that has a BasePath that doesn't exist (solves #13004)
- Fix distribution download failing if the URL contains parameters
- Fix various issues with systemd user sessions (solves #13053)
- Fix wslsettings crash when invoked from wslservice
- Set MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH when moving distribution VHD's (solves #13055)
- Discard BOM header when parsing the Windows 'hosts' file (solves #9642)
- Correctly report corrupted disks when mount() fails with EUCLEAN (solves #13074)
- Don't use a ? prefix when resolving the distribution location (solves #13064)
- Solve potential failure while downloading a distribution if LastError is non zero
