2025-05-20
7 分钟What up nerds, I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, May 19th, 2025.
I may sound a little different than usual because I'm in a hotel in Seattle.
And I'm shipping this out a little later than usual
because Adam and I spent the morning attending the Microsoft Build 2025 keynote where Satya Nadella and company mentioned AI agents 187 times.
Yes, I counted.
That excludes mentions of Copilot, MCP, or models,
which would have ballooned the count even more because I'm only a man, not a machine.
The good news, there was at least one cool non-agentic announcement.
Okay, let's get into the news.
Windows subsystem for Linux is open source.
The announcement that WSL is now finally open source garnered perhaps the biggest applause break of the entire Build keynote.
Turns out,
opening the source of a beloved developer tool slash platform at a developer conference is an easy win.
From the announcement post, quote, WSL could never have been what it is today without its community.
Even without access to WSL's source code,
people have been able to make major contributions that led to what WSL is now.
This is why we are incredibly excited to open source WSL today.
We've seen how much the community has contributed to WSL without access to the source code,
and we can't wait to see how WSL will evolve.
now that the community can make direct code contributions to the project.