Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 0.64.0 released

• 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

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Release 0.64.0 · microsoft/WSL

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 ...

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