wslu

• fix: [#305] fix problematic name
• fix(header): [#307] rewrite bash checking method and reduce required bash version

• feat: [#293] allow set path with param -e to set BROWSER variable
• fix: [#264] make DESTDIR properly configured in header
• fix: [#268] allow skipping validation (with #301 by @JaZo)
• fix: [#290] use proper folder for the states
• fix: [#291] allow disable reading from registry
• fix: [#294] add bash version requirement.
• fix: [#295] decode file protocol url properly
• fix: sysdrive_prefix returning wrong label when Windows installed at label other than C: (@epiciskandar)
• fix: replace sed with simple basename (@epiciskandar)
• chore: Add support for Rocky to installer (@cjonesy)
• fix(wslact): fix memory-reclaim incoherence (@kbpk)
• fix(wslact): increase memory reclamation amount (@kbpk)
• fix(wslview): fix opening links with brackets (@miduddin)
• docs: fixed typos (@Smoothieewastaken)
• ci: Deploy to Pengwin debian bookworm as well (@crramirez)
• ci: upgrade CI pengwin deployment ruby version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• small package installation issue fix (#258)

✨ Improvements

• wslu: additional allowed configuration file in /etc/wslu/
• wslsys: add systemd status check
• wslfetch: add systemd status check
• wslusc: add ffmpeg engine (#239)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslview: fixes potential of not opening the links/files (#256 and #243)
• wslu: allow handling quoted configurations in wsl.conf (#247)
• wslu: Correctly show the wslu version (#245)
• wslview: fixes -E not working (#250)

📝 Documentation

• Allow automatic manpage update
• Improve the contribution document

✨ Improvements

• wslu: --debug now usable; could work with --verbose properly now
• wslu: add Gentoo Linux, AlmaLinux, CBL Mariner, and Clear Linux support
• wslact: include new tool "memory reclaim"
• wslclip: brand new CLI (closes #221)
• wslfetch: add -g, --generic: this force the cli to use the generic WSL theme
• wslfetch: add -t, --theme: you can now provide your logo and color palette to use. also available as conf WSLFETCH_THEME_PATH
• wslfetch: add -o, --options: you can now customize what information to list out. also available as conf WSLFETCH_INFO_SECTION
• wslfetch: add conf WSLFETCH_COLORBAR: allows you to control color bar without passing param
• wslgsu: brand new CLI
• wslsys: add -i, --ip: get current WSL's IPv4 address. (closes #139 by #156 )
• wslsys: add -T, --win-system-type: get whether the WSL is running on Desktop or Server
• wslsys: add -n, --name: allow using the name to get the corresponding items
• wslsys: improvement on the speed to start up with a complete rewrite.
• wslusc: add -s, --smart-icon: add smart icon detection. Requires wslpy. can be set with conf WSLUSC_SMART_ICON_DETECTION (closes #176)
• wslusc: add -d, --shortcut-debug: allows you to view content of the generated shortcuts or any shortcuts
• wslusc: add -N, --native: allows you to generate shortcut using the native Wayland support. can be set with conf WSLUSC_GUITYPE
• wslvar: add configuration WSLVAR_DEFAULT_VARTYPE: this allows you to set default type of variable to get when not specifying option.
• wslview: add -E, --engine: you can now set the default method to start websites/folders/files. can be set with conf WSLVIEW_DEFAULT_ENGINE (closes #167, #197)

💥 Breaking Changes

• wslu: brand new configurations; default configuration located in /usr/share/wslu/conf
• wslu: individual version components are removed; they are hard to track
• wslu: ImageMagick is now a recommended dependency (closes #236 )
• wslact: time-sync is now time-react
• wslfetch: -l, --line and -s, --splash are removed with low usage

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslu: overall improvements on the code style to prevent problematic inputs
• wslview: redesigning the system to improve the detection (closes #181)

📝 Documentation

• Update Information for multiple Linux distributions (PR #203 by @crramirez )
• moving documentation to the official documentation site
• Improvement on manpage deployment

✨ Improvements

• wslu: provides a more detailed WSL Interoperability Check (Details)
• wslu: improve parsing /etc/wsl.conf (fixes #200)
• wslvar: Allow variable names with parentheses (PR #212 by @diddledani )
• wslview: simplification of codes (closes #216)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslu: ensuring baseexec works (PR #222 by @crramirez )
• wslu: disable chcp workaround for higher versions of Windows (fixes #199)
• wslu: fix an issue in WSL_INTEROP not properly set in WSL2 (fixes #215)
• wslview: fix an issue in not properly opening the file (fixes #198 , PR #201 by @IssacOscar )
• wslusc: fix a deprecated which command issue (fixes #205 , PR #203 by @crramirez )

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslsys: fix an issue in call_windows_uptime (fixed by #182, manually merged)
• header: fix a distro detection issue in Ubuntu Impish (21.10)

✨ Improvements

• docs: include available commands in manpage (closes #169)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• project: fix a problem that Powershell outputs non-unicode character (fixes #162)
• wslview: fix an issue that caused the relative Linux path unable to be opened (fixes #165)
• wslusc: fix an issue that some people unable to open their GUI application (fixes #174)

This contains critical fixes and improvements for the LTS version of wslu.

📝 Documentation

• Include Ubuntu PPA installation method

✨ Improvements

• Includes a wslview.desktop (PR #143 and #146)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Update the script to fix badly generated shortcut issue (fixes #141)
• Fix a DPI script related space issue (fixes #144)

This is the first LTS release provided for Ubuntu, Kali Linux, and Pengwin Enterprise, and the first 3.x version provided for Ubuntu.

✨ Improvements

• header: improvements on the system drive detection. (closes #133)
• tests: update the test system and tests. (closes #125)
• wslact: add back-compatibility for the auto-mounting feature.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslview: fix an issue when handling http/https
• wslview: fix a bug that it won't open file:///mnt/c/... or /mnt/c/...
• wslusc: fix an issue that wsl.exe execute with wrongly passed param (close #138)
• wslusc: fix the problem that the previous version that GUI shortcut generated won't work.
• wslsys: fix an issue that the WSL Version shown is wrong.

This is a beta release.
This is the first LTS release provided for Ubuntu, Kali Linux, and Pengwin Enterprise, and the first 3.x version provided for Ubuntu.

📝 Documentation

N/A

✨ Improvements

N/A

💥 Breaking Changes

N/A

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslview: fix an issue when handling http/https

This is a beta release.
This is the first LTS release provided for Ubuntu, Kali Linux, and Pengwin Enterprise, and the first 3.x version provided for Ubuntu.

📝 Documentation

N/A

✨ Improvements

• header: improvements on the system drive detection. (closes #133)
• tests: update the test system and tests. (closes #125)
• wslact: add back-compatibility for the auto-mounting feature.

💥 Breaking Changes

N/A

🐛 Bug Fixes

• wslview: fix a bug that it won't open file:///mnt/c/... or /mnt/c/...
• wslusc: fix the problem that the previous version that GUI shortcut generated won't work.
• wslsys: fix an issue that the WSL Version shown is wrong.

✨ New Features

• project: add separate Fedora Remix support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• header: fix ubuntu.exe detection issue
• wslview: mistake in calling a variable (fixes #118 again)
• wslusc: always use the absolute path (fixes #129)
• wslusc: fixes a possible white space path issue
• wslusc: When TMP is empty, try TEMP

❌ Known Issues

• GUI application generation is not properly working in this version. This will be fixed in 3.2, which is the next release.

✨ New Features

• wslview: properly detect all different protocols and path styles (fixes #118)
• wslsys: add WSL version option
• wslfetch: new display for WSL with WSL version displayed
• wslact: adding --mount-options for auto-mounting feature

💥 Breaking Changes

This is a very rare case for a minor version update to have breaking changes, but I have to do this, really sorry for that

• wslgsu: removed temporarily

🐛 Bug Fixes

• header: use the proper color definition
• wslact: fix an i18n related issue in time-sync feature (fixes #113 by @ricardosantos9521)
• wslfetch: use the proper logo for Ubuntu (Reported by @flexiondotorg)
• wslsys: fix an issue in DPI scaling getting wrong value due to the API change in Latest fast ring insider build (Reported by @crramirez)
• wslgsu: limit the Windows version it can use
• package: fix alpine dependency issue (fixes #117)

The "I should not drink before release night" release

🐛 Bug Fixes

• packages: missing call to configure.sh
• header: handling empty ~/.config/wslu/baseexec
• wslview: fix a mistake in converted_file_path

📝 Documentation

• add section 7 manpage: wslu
• updated manpage system
• New README language: Esperanto

✨ New Features

• Project: updated build system
• header: add --verbose
• wslact: brand new CLI
• wslgsu: brand new CLI (issue https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/issues/94)
• wslusc: brand new helper script (issue https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/issues/93)
• wslusc: brand new shortcut icon
• wslfetch: colorbar expanded
• wslview: alias of wslstart, wstart, wview (issue #64)
• wslsys: Display Scaling Factor (help with https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin/issues/559#issuecomment-571845180)
• wslsys: Windows Locale
• wslsys: Windows Theme

💥 Breaking Changes

• Project: versioning system update, which requires configure.sh and VERSION
• wslfetch: --no-colorbar become --colorbar
• wslview: browser registration parameter change

🐛 Bug Fixes

• header: refactor the header in order to speed up
• wslsys: speed up execution time
• wslview: handling file:/// protocol (issue https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/issues/66)
• wslfetch: speed up execution time (pull request https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/pull/100)

📝 Documentation

manpage: wslupath update ( fixes #108 )

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Project: fixes that imported distro cannot be properly handled by baseexec_gen ( fixes #104 )

📝 Documentation

• small documentation update

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Project: fix an issue in handling dirty output in regenerate baseexec (fixes https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL/issues/64 and https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/commit/8d396c88381b5d4499e6ed5ea87394a7c6c191cf#r36694705)

✨ New Features

• Project: Add support for Fedora 31

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Project: fix an issue in generating ~/.config/baseexec
• wslusc: fix an issue that will cause generated shortcut cannot be opened for some users

I will no longer provide packge since this build. For Kali Linux, I am still building the server so stay tuned