Microsoft is updating the Windows Subsystem for Linux app

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Microsoft released a new trailer for its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) service.
This will allow users to tally Linux distros natively connected Windows 10 and Windows 11.
In any case all the software enhancements, WSL volition also be acquiring a brand new logo.
The tech giant is allowing ironware operation counters when device-supported.

Redmond-settled technical school company Microsoft is sending stunned a parvenu preview for its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) service that allows users to run Linux distros natively on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

And, with the discharge of WSL, Preview version 0.50.2, Microsoft is making just about impalpable but silent world-shaking changes.

WSL also gets a brand new logo

The archetypal notable deepen is a newborn logo for Windows Subsystem for Linux, featuring the cookie-cutter democratic Linux Penguin symbolisation.

What is more, the tech big is allowing computer hardware execution counters when supported past the device. Needless to say, this release also bumps the Linux kernel, moving it to edition 5.10.74.3.

According to the GitHub page, other changes coming to this software include:

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 prefer-out:

[wsl2]

hardwarePerformanceCounters=false

Determine issue when printing system wrongdoing messages that contain inserts.
Update the user roofing tile to launch in the drug user's place directory or else of C:\Windows\System32
Restore default impressive dispositions for /etc/wsl.conf boot.command process to forestall zombi processes [GH 7575]
Switch to using a static CRT for Windows binaries
Use salt away API to download distributions via wsl.exe –establis
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder –atomic number 102-plunge option to wsl.exe –install
Some updates to localized strings.
Change to an updated tar for importation / exportation WSL2 distributions.
Update to the official 22000 sdk
Strip Linux symbols for release builds
Update Linux kernel to 5.10.74.3
- Update to upstream stabile kernel release 5.10.74
- Enable BPF Type Format (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF) for employment aside eBPF tools [GH 7437]
- Changed Dxgkrnl version to 2110
  - Enforced D3DKMTShareObjectWithHost
  - Nonmoving QueryStatistics VM bus alliance issue for the result
  - Enforced D3DKMTCreateSyncFile
  - Address upstream submission feedback
  - Moved d3dkmthk to include/uapi/misc
  - Replaces u32 by __u32 and u64 by __u64
  - Added _ ahead of the enumerator values to support including both WDK and Linux headers
  - Remote holes in the user mode visible structures to be miscible with 32 bit apps
  - Replaces pointer in the user mode visible structures with a specify to embody u64 for user mode apps
  - Reparation physique failure with GCC versions older than 8.1 [GH 7558]
Enable the Buffer Sharing and Sync Lodge Frameworks (CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER, CONFIG_SYNC_FILE) for Dxgkrnl usage

If we remember correctly, final stage month, Microsoft revealed information technology will update WSL separately from the wider Windows platform.

What this actually means is that the subsystem is now available as a standalone application along the Microsoft Fund.

The Redmond company says the WSL Windows 11 app will be serviced through the Store if you were wondering about this.

Users will get updates separately from Windows. This au fond substance that updates will semen in betwixt major Windows feature upgrades.

Users can capture the latest WSL updates and features quicker, and without needing to modify your Windows version.

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