Microsoft announced Friday that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will become generally available with the release of Windows 10 version 2004 in the near future, and that it's changed how the Linux kernel built into Windows 10 is updated, too.
WSL debuted alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016. Microsoft explained in its documentation that WSL lets "developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools
