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@onexay onexay released this 24 Sep 06:26
v0.1.1
7b31483

First release. (0.1.0 was withdrawn before announcement; 0.1.1 replaces it.)

Added

  • The wsl.exe command line on macOS, with the same arguments, behaviour and messages:
    • install, import, export and unregister;
    • list, set the default, terminate and shut down;
    • --status (including the VM's effective settings), --manage, --mount/--unmount;
    • --debug-shell, --update, --uninstall, --version.
  • Runs unmodified WSL distribution images (arm64) from Microsoft's distribution list or from a .wsl file, in one lightweight Virtualization.framework VM. Each distro gets its own init and can run systemd.
  • Integration with the Mac:
    • the Mac filesystem at /mnt/mac, and the Mac's current directory carried into the distro;
    • MSLENV, mslpath;
    • localhost forwarding and DNS through macOS;
    • each distro's files at ~/MSL/<distro>, shown in Finder with the distro's logo.
  • .mslconfig (the .wslconfig equivalent), wsl.conf/msl.conf, idle timeouts, and msl's own first-run setup for Debian.
  • An interactive installer (install.sh), a .pkg, and self-update through update.json.
  • Support for PGP-signed release checksums (.sha256.asc): install.sh verifies the signature when gpg is installed and a signature is published; see SECURITY.md.
  • Releases include the full licence texts of all dependencies (share/doc/msl/licenses/), and the GPL source of BusyBox and the kernel.
  • kernel/fetch.sh works without the GitHub CLI.
  • Licensed under Apache-2.0. msl stands for Modern Subsystem for Linux.

Install: sh install.sh (or sh install.sh --version 0.1.1). Update an existing install with msl --update.
Kernel Linux 6.18.15-msl, release kernel-6.18.15-msl.1
Commit 7b31483
Requires Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later
GPL sources BusyBox: the attached Debian source package busybox_*. Kernel: attached to kernel-6.18.15-msl.1.
Signing ad-hoc (not notarised); checksum not PGP-signed

msl-0.1.1-macos-arm64.tar.gz SHA-256: c2379726dcd7d99a863a4fcc0a36abef8469f066745c55a460b089565b8bf58a

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