From 033d9aceb2ccfe6329468a1bb52334f9bdc9f23b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Wolff Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update home page section on Requirements --- README.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 85aab5f..6172b24 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ WSLtty components ### Requirements ### -Wsltty does not seem to work with WSL V2 mode since release 2.0.0 (#343). -As a workaround until a solution in the wslbridge gateway, it is suggested -to install [release 1.3.17](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.3.17); -maybe uninstall WSL first, see [issue 343 comment](https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/343#issuecomment-1818367512). -Another remedy could be to configure your WSL distributions to run in WSL V1 mode, for example: -`wsl --set-version Ubuntu 1`. +To connect to WSL, wsltty uses wslbridge2, which uses undocumented +Windows APIs that have been changed various times, so wslbridge2 needed +to catch up with incompatible changes, particularly to support WSL V2. +(See e.g. issue #343; to work with WSL V2, wsltty 2.0.0 needed a WSL update +to [release 1.3.17](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.3.17).) Since release 3.0.5, WSLtty requires Windows version 1809 (the November 2018 release). +By end of 2024, wsltty works again with recent updates of the WSL subsystem. + --- ### Installation from this repository ###