[Request]: wsl-ui

[octasoft-ltd]

Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 100 stars and/or 50 forks)
• English interface (or at least English documentation)
• Latest stable version
• Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

wsl-ui

Description

WSL2 Manager desktop application built with Tauri, Vite, React, and TypeScript. Provides a graphical interface for managing WSL2 distros, settings, networking, and services on Windows. Licensed under GPL-3.0.

Homepage

https://github.com/octasoft-ltd/wsl-ui

Download Link(s)

Portable archives from the GitHub releases page (x64 and arm64) are used for the manifest:

• x64: https://github.com/octasoft-ltd/wsl-ui/releases/download/v0.19.0/WSL.UI_0.19.0_x64_portable.exe
• arm64: https://github.com/octasoft-ltd/wsl-ui/releases/download/v0.19.0/WSL.UI_0.19.0_arm64_portable.exe

All assets follow a stable, version-specific URL pattern under releases/download/v<version>/, so checkver/autoupdate against the GitHub releases endpoint is straightforward.

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

• GitHub stars: 212
• GitHub forks: 18
• License: GPL-3.0
• Active release cadence: v0.19.0 published 2026-04-08 (latest at time of filing), via release-please automation. Releases are signed and include both x64 and arm64 builds.
• Cross-package-manager presence: already published on Chocolatey (wsl-ui) and the project ships MSIX, MSI, NSIS installer, and portable executables for each release.
• Homepage: https://wsl-ui.octasoft.co.uk
• Source: https://github.com/octasoft-ltd/wsl-ui

Notes for maintainers

This is a follow-up to PR #17231 (closed) where the package request was not filed first. Filing this issue now per the standard package-request workflow; if the criteria look acceptable, we'll open a fresh PR from a new branch against v0.19.0 with Closes #N linking this issue. The earlier PR's manifest passed lint/description/license/hashes/checkver/autoupdate after a /verify run, so the manifest itself is in good shape — we just need the package-request sign-off before resubmitting.

[moaedy]

Opened #17808.