You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
On Linux and macOS, the daemon start path now checks first for a user-namespace setup where every user collapses to the same id, and refuses to start with cause uid_collapse plus guidance to start with a uid map or pass a socket path explicitly. Windows skips the check entirely.
Details
Returns a failure result and records a telemetry event rather than launching and failing later.
Evidence
daemon_ensure_running
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
