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Aug 27, 2024
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 Release

Christopher Nguyen Christopher Nguyen

Hello friends, we have a new Windows Terminal Preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 is a large release that contains new features such as Sixel image support (a LARGE community contribution!), Grapheme Cluster Support, the Snippets Pane, Quick Fixes in CMD, and a new Cooked Read popup in CMD to name a few! We are also updating Windows ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
May 30, 2024
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What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux in May 2024

Craig Loewen Craig Loewen

For this year's Microsoft BUILD conference, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to WSL. This blog post will provide an overview of these enhancements and the recent developments in WSL. Memory, storage, and networking improvements We announced several improvements back in September as experimental features and have since been ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Nov 15, 2023
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New enterprise-grade security controls for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Craig Loewen Craig Loewen

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has added new enterprise-oriented features that will help you deploy, monitor, and configure WSL safely within your organization's setting. Virtual Machine-based environments, like WSL, can be difficult to manage security for in enterprise business settings. We've listened to your feedback and have developed ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Sep 18, 2023
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Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update

Craig Loewen Craig Loewen

There is a new release for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with new features and bug fixes! Check out the summary below, and read on to learn more about new experimental features, and some significant quality improvements. Experimental features We know that WSL is used for a wide array of workflows and we want to help you get the best ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Feb 13, 2023
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D3D12 GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available!

Sil Vilerino Sil Vilerino

Introduction In DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog we wrote about DXCore & D3D12 support on WSLg and described OpenGL & OpenCL support by adding a D3D12 backend to Mesa 3D, allowing such 3D and compute workloads to be offloaded to the GPU. To extend the types of workloads that we can accelerate with the GPU in WSLg, we also ...

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Nov 22, 2022
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11

Craig Loewen Craig Loewen

Today the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store is dropping its “Preview” label and becomes generally available with our latest release! We are also making the Store version of WSL the default for new users who run and easily upgradeable by running for existing users. Using the Store version of WSL allows you to get updates...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command Line
Oct 18, 2022
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Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11

Kayla Cinnamon Kayla Cinnamon

The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! 🎉 This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled, the journey of Windows Terminal along with its fan-favorite features, as well as give a...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Sep 21, 2022
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Systemd support is now available in WSL!

Craig Loewen Craig Loewen

Systemd support is now available in WSL! The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can now run systemd inside of your WSL distros, empowering you to do more with your Linux workflows on your Windows machine. This post will cover: For a summary, check out the video below: What is systemd? What can you do with it? From systemd.io : ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Sep 13, 2022
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release

Kayla Cinnamon Kayla Cinnamon

The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by using winget. ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Jul 6, 2022
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release

Kayla Cinnamon Kayla Cinnamon

Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.14 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.15 and will include all the features detailed here. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console

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