Issues

• Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ERROR_TIMEOUT

  needs-author-feedbackwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42239 · Filter by author googlyb opened on Nov 11, 2026
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• WSL2 / dxgkrnl: GPU virtual address & memory drift under ephemeral CUDA process churn (Blackwell ARM64)

  GPUwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42238 · Filter by author waynegault opened on Nov 11, 2026
  3

• Automatic Windows Update to 3.0.5.0 forcibly shuts down active distributions without user consent, causing data loss

  buginstallwsl2wslc
  microsoft/WSL#42237 · Filter by author 4-FLOSS-Free-Libre-Open-Source-Software opened on Nov 11, 2026
  2

  

• WSL2 swap.vhdx files accumulate in %TEMP%\<GUID> folders with no visibility or safe cleanup path

  needs-author-feedbackwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42236 · Filter by author ThePlenkov opened on Nov 11, 2026
  3

• Mirrored networking: a Windows interface metric change deletes and re-adds every address and route on the mirrored interface

  networkwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42232 · Filter by author MaxFabian25 opened on Nov 11, 2026
  2

• BSOD 0xD1 in vfpext.sys (SxFindContextByName) on resume from S3 with networkingMode=mirrored

  needs-author-feedbackwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42225 · Filter by author AltayTengri opened on Nov 10, 2026
  3

• WSL2: every process launch fails with Wsl/Service/RPC_S_SYSTEM_HANDLE_TYPE_MISMATCH (0x8007072c) on 26300.9711/.9818, AMD; WSL1 works

  emailed-logswsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42224 · Filter by author Lance-He opened on Nov 10, 2026
  3

• 3.0.5 consomme: bind() to explicit port on docker0/bridge address returns EINVAL (regression from 3.0.3)

  needs-author-feedbackwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42223 · Filter by author ting-yan opened on Nov 10, 2026
  1

  

• DrvFs: Directory listing on mapped Windows network drives fails with EINVAL while direct file access works

  wsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42221 · Filter by author 4-FLOSS-Free-Libre-Open-Source-Software opened on Nov 10, 2026
  2

• Please backport the 9p kvmalloc fix (order:4 alloc failures on /mnt/c readdir)

  featurewsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42220 · Filter by author dream2333 opened on Nov 10, 2026
  4

  

• wsl --update --pre-release fails with Wsl/UpdatePackage/ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (3.0.3.0 -> 3.0.5); manual MSI install works

  installneeds-author-feedbackwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42209 · Filter by author GenAICloudDevOps opened on Nov 9, 2026
  2

• wslc: allow choosing the CLI output language independently of the Windows locale

  featurewslc
  microsoft/WSL#42207 · Filter by author dmuecey opened on Nov 9, 2026
  4

  

• WSLC - DNS resolution not working properly (was also reported as #41773)

  bugnetworkwslc
  microsoft/WSL#42204 · Filter by author maba001 opened on Nov 7, 2026
  9

  

• arm64 WSL2: whole VM stalls for minutes when many threads page-fault a cold mmap'd file

  wsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42200 · Filter by author tuananhlfc opened on Nov 6, 2026
  4

  

• [Consomme] bind(127.0.0.1:P) fails for ~60 s after a short-lived listener on 0.0.0.0:P is closed

  featurenetworkwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42199 · Filter by author XDflight opened on Nov 6, 2026
  2

• WSL2 GPU-PV: D3D12 device is removed after allocating about 8 GiB of CPU-visible heaps

  GPUwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42185 · Filter by author hamb3r opened on Nov 5, 2026
  3

• Enabling ObCaseInsensitive leads to Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ConfigureGpu/HCS/ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND

  hypervisor-platformwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42184 · Filter by author Com3t opened on Nov 5, 2026
  10

• Sparse VHDX leaks host space: vhdmp drops file-level TRIM when a request crosses an unmapped block

  file systemhypervisor-platformwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42179 · Filter by author linzj opened on Nov 5, 2026
  3

• ARM64: threads stuck forever on a store instruction with hv_balloon free page reporting (rewriting the same byte via /proc/PID/mem unsticks them)

  emailed-logshypervisor-platformwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42174 · Filter by author maiconmva opened on Nov 4, 2026
  9

• Random ephemeral bind fails ~1/16384 with STATUS_TOO_MANY_ADDRESSES (Tcpip 4231/4266) when port 65535 is picked: fse port tracker gets port 0

  networkwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42170 · Filter by author spottenn opened on Nov 4, 2026
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• [Bug/Feature Request] IPv6 UDP (QUIC) routing failure and deadlocks on multi-homed environments when Hyper-V/Virtual Switches coexist with physical WLAN (RFC 6724 / WFP issue)

  featurewsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42169 · Filter by author ljc2221788-commits opened on Nov 4, 2026
  4

• WSL2 restart waits 60 seconds while WSLg Xwayland is blocked in dxgkrnl

  emailed-logsGPUwsl2wslg
  microsoft/WSL#42168 · Filter by author z-xhh opened on Nov 4, 2026
  3

• Enable additional zram backends in config-wsl

  featurekconfigkernel
  microsoft/WSL#42147 · Filter by author johnboyerkarbonhq opened on Nov 3, 2026
  3

  

• WSL2 fails to create virtual machine – ERROR_TIMEOUT (0x800705b4) on Windows 11

  hypervisor-platformwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42130 · Filter by author EnekoErrazquin opened on Nov 2, 2026
  9

• [WSL2] Ineffective POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED causes persistent page-cache growth and Windows host memory depletion despite autoMemoryReclaim=dropCache

  bydesignwsl2
  microsoft/WSL#42123 · Filter by author Br3ach opened on Oct 31, 2026
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