What's Changed

• Remove unused LXSS_DISTRO_FLAGS_WSLCORE_MODE by @OneBlue in #13603
• Add logic to handle partial hvsocket writes and additional logging by @OneBlue in #13602
• Update Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime packages version with fix for CVE-2025-55248 by @benhillis in #13607
• Update Microsoft.WSL.DeviceHost package to version 1.0.0-20251015.1 by @benhillis in #13606
• Fix edge cases around .vhd support by @benhillis in #13061
• Fix WslDistributionConfig to not default-initialize optional fields by @benhillis in #13629
• Make the sample WSL_POST_BUILD_COMMAND more resilient by @OneBlue in #13652
• wslsettings: allow OOBE window to close with escape key by @benhillis in #13686
• wslsettings: fix OOBE text truncation at 200% text scaling by @benhillis in #13693
• wslsettings: add underlines to links in about page by @benhillis in #13703
• .clang-format: add InsertBraces: true and minor fix to FormatSource.ps1 by @benhillis in #13712
• wslsettings: ensure selected setting is auto-expanded and selected by @benhillis in #13689
• build: fix minor compiler errors when building with VS2026 by @benhillis in #13744
• Mask systemd-networkd-wait-online.service during boot by @OneBlue in #13611
• deps: update a number of NuGet packages to the latest available versions by @benhillis in #13728
• Add *.slnx to .gitignore by @OneBlue in #13754
• Fix service crash when collecting a linux crash dump when maxCrashDumpCount is set to 0 by @OneBlue in #13755
• cleanup: VirtioNetworking refactoring by @benhillis in #13760
• cleanup: switch from Microsoft::WRL::ComPtr to wil::com_ptr by @benhillis in #13767
• cleanup: VirtioNetworking refactoring to be more portable by @benhillis in #13783
• cleanup: remove invalid m_deviceHostSupport checks by @benhillis in #13787
• cleanup: move common functionality out of service exe by @benhillis in #13788
• test: improve test logging infra by @benhillis in #13811
• virtio networking: fix two minor issues by @benhillis in #13810
• Update Microsoft.WSL.Kernel to 6.6.114.1 by @chessturo in #13812
• test: minor updates to improve virtiofs pass rate by @benhillis in #13815
• Update Microsoft.WSL.DeviceHost to remove lxutil.dll dependency by @benhillis in #13633
• cleanup: add handling for product-specific virtio networking class IDs. by @benhillis in #13822
• wslsettings: ensure text in the oobe window properly wraps by @benhillis in #13823
• Add back WSL2_VM_ID environment variable to the system distro. by @benhillis in #13835
• CI: Switch away from -dev versions of MS-RDX-MRO.windows-store-publish tasks by @benhillis in #13841
• Fix typo in Dutch translations by @frosit in #13853
• test: add simple virtio proxy networking tests and move mirrored tests to their own class by @benhillis in #13838
• CI: update issue for wslsettings being rebuilt and signature being overwritten by @benhillis in #13855

New Contributors

• @almalinuxautobot made their first contribution in #13653
• @frosit made their first contribution in #13853