Microsoft releases Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0.0 with fixes and experimental new features

Microsoft's love for Linux shows no signs of waning, with the company releasing an update-packed pre-release build of WSL 2.0.0. There are many changes in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0.0, and as this is a pre-release version is its perhaps to be expected that many of the new additions are described as "experimental". Oneo f the biggest new features is experimental.autoMemoryReclaim which shrink the WSL VM in memory by reclaiming cached memory. See also: There are new networking features to experiment with, including a changes to DNS tunnelling and  more. All of the binaries included in WSL 2.0.0 are properly… [Continue Reading]