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Richard Devine

Microsoft has already rolled back the kernel in WSL2 while issues are debugged

Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora running on WSL on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop.

What you need to know

  • Recently, Microsoft announced that the kernel in WSL2 would finally be bumped to a more modern version, and was pushed to a pre-release version. 
  • The new kernel, 6.6.36.3 has now been rolled back to the much older 5.15.153.1-2 while issues are debugged. 
  • The issues could relate to iptables, which are required for popular tool, Docker. 
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