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Pengwin 1.4.6 released. See what's new and what's coming next

Pengwin 1.4.6 has been released, including pengwin-base build 429 and pengwin-setup build 1289. In this release we have many contributions made, so thank you to all.

Pengwin 1.4.6 features:

  • Fixes WSL2 support for fish. Thanks to @laventillelion

  • Correctly detects switch from WSL1 to WSL2 and WSL2 to WSL2 and IP changes to apply those changes to /etc/environment enabling some tools and scripts like CLion to see the X server environment.

  • Correctly updates /etc/environment when mesa-utils is installed to correctly enable software-based OpenGL

  • Fixed NodeJS installation via apt.

  • Added the option to autostart X410 depending on the WSL is being used. Thanks to @branchard

  • Fixed NodeJS startup environment variables.

  • Fix NVM install to correctly install the latest NodeJS version. Thanks to @haodeon

  • The pyenv was fixed for fish. Thanks to @nickolasclarke

  • Added more icon sources to the shortcut creation including KDE ones.

  • Upgraded the embedded server VCXsrv to 1.20.6.0

Existing users can update immediately by running

$ sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade -y.

An updated build for new installs has been released yesterday via the Microsoft Store.

Report bugs here.

Planned for Pengwin 1.4.7:

  • Installers for the most used GUI terminals

  • Support for ibus to improve the experience with non-latin alphabets

Huge thanks to Patrick, all contributors and issue reporters.

-Carlos