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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

Update to WSL Kernel 6.6.87.2 (solves #12987, #12983, #13031)
Merged PR 13054145: Make the post import distribution checks less strict (Solves #13036)

Reduce file descriptor soft limit to 10240 (solves #12985)
Add a systemd override binfmt-support.service to protect wsl's interop entry (solves #13000)

Update Linux kernel to 6.6.87.1-1
Update WindowsAppSDK to version 1.7.250401001
Increase the soft file descriptor limit to 1024 * 1024 (solves #12837)
Add logic to detect when an imported distribution is invalid
Move Linux side warnings to new warning infrastructure
Fix potential deadlock when converting a distribution to WSL1 or WSL2
Fix download logic to download to a file instead of in memory (solves #12805)
Use a systemd-generator to create the wslg and binfmt units

Fix docker by adding back modules loaded at boot (solves #12748)
Fix command line parsing preventing importing or exporting from stdout / stdin
Bring back bridged networking mode
Update to 6.6.84.1 WSL Kernel
wslinfo: print newline after usage
Add initgroups helper to work around musl limitation (solves #12755)
Remove invalid kmesg error when gui apps are disabled
Fallback to GrantVmAccess when attaching a VHD fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
Update UtilConnectToInteropServer to respect g_InitPid and minor wslinfo updates (solves #12714)
Put sparse vhd support behind an --allow-unsafe flag.
wslsettings: fix networking mode selection logic (solves #12745)

Fix the wsl --update --pre-release logic to correctly handle backports and always pick the actual latest
Set LX_WSL2_INSTALL_PATH even when gui apps are disabled
Introduce general.instanceIdleTimeout to control distribution termination timeouts (solves #10138, #9401)
Modify config file parsing to allow empty strings
Update Microsoft.RemoteDesktop.Client.MSRDC.SessionHost to version 1.2.6074
Change behavior of a custom kernel with no modules to not log a warning.
Implement --vhd-size and --fixed-vhd arguments to wsl.exe --install
Detect when the VM crashes, and capture dmesg
Resolve kernel warning about ip_local_port_range having start / end with same parity
Update WSLENV logic to allow passing /l and /p together to translate paths and path lists
Don't throw when processing an empty argument (solves #12649)
Disable DNS tunneling if global secure access client is present
Remove support bridged networking
Fix wsl.exe --install --enable-wsl1 to work when run as non-elevated
Fix partial read causing failure to import WSL1 distribution
wslsettings: Launch MSI version of wsl.exe instead of the one in system32

Update Microsoft.Identity.MSAL.WSL.Proxy to version 0.1.1

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

Gracefully handle situations where the user's defaultDistribution registry value is missing (solves #12595)

Handle failure to launch if c:\windows\system32\lxss\lib is not present

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