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Seems to be WSL 2 v2.0 if I'm understanding correctly. I agree that it's very badly named.

Taking inspiration from USB

Microsoft being bad with naming/versioning things? Wow.

Totally made up conversations about choosing Entity Framework version numbers: https://blog.oneunicorn.com/2020/03/26/numbersarehard/

Its both, WSL1 and 2 are both part of WSL.

Think of this as, kinda, the userland tools for WSL.

WSL2 supplanted WSL. It's a different (but similar) technology with the same (albeit, confusing) name, not a version bump.

This release refers to WSL2 version 2.0.

Does MS have an internal memo or something that directs teams to make versions/names not go up linearly?

E.g. .net framework/core, xbox, windows and now WSL