Disconnected from WSL

Describe the Bug

My cursor randomly disconnected from WSL and now I can’t reconnect.
The bottom left corner says ‘Disconnected from WSL’ and when I click on it opens command pallete but nothing happens when I click Connect. It just comes up with a pop up that says ‘WSL not found on marketplace’

Steps to Reproduce

Yes the Disconnected from WSL notification bottom left is static

Expected Behavior

Connect to WSL

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.45.14
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 906121b8c0bdf041c14a15dac228e66ab5505260
Date: 2025-02-19T20:36:48.096Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

Hi @Brandon_Peart, could you upgrade to the latest version of Cursor? We’ve released a new WSL extension that requires a newer version of the app.

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