upgrade support to wsl distros

[felipefigueiredo1]

i want upgrade my ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, but after some searchs it's look like impossible. I know i can reinstall everything, but i dont wanna lost my files.

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[felipefigueiredo1]

/question

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Diagnostic information

Found '/question', adding tag 'question'

[tinlittle]

Distro upgrade is controlled by the vendor, and in your case by Ubuntu. MSFT will never meddle with the upgrade process of 3rd party distro vendors.

@felipefigueiredo1 looks like you have the "Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS" app installed. Ubuntu LTS versions are blocked by Ubuntu from release upgrade to the next LTS. It looks like you are indeed stuck and need to resort to file backup/restore.

The "Ubuntu" app gives you the latest LTS release (24.04) and allows upgrade to future LTS versions like 26.04, 28.04 and beyond.

The "Ubuntu (Preview)" app gives you the latest release (also 24.04) and allows upgrade to all future versions like 24.10, 25.04 and beyond.

[craigloewen-msft]

Echoing what @tinlittle said, this is controlled in your actual Linux environment, and you solve this the same way you would on Linux proper. For Ubuntu you can run sudo do-release-upgrade -d to perform an upgrade.

[felipefigueiredo1]

Thanks.