[ANNOUNCE] WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

[Hendrik Friedel]

Hello Jason,

thanks for your work on Wireguard.
I have just updated and activated the experimental driver. The fact that 
I do not need to activate it in the registry was decisive for me ;-)

I cannot report any issue so far.

Best regards,
Hendrik

------ Originalnachricht ------
Von: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com>
An: "WireGuard mailing list" <wireguard at lists.zx2c4.com>
Gesendet: 13.08.2021 13:52:39
Betreff: Re: [ANNOUNCE] WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard 
implementation for the Windows kernel

>Hi everyone,
>
>On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:28 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
>>  Nonetheless, experimental or not, we still need people to test this and help
>>  shake out issues. To that end, WireGuardNT is now available in the ordinary
>>  WireGuard for Windows client -- https://www.wireguard.com/install/ -- with the
>>  0.4.z series, in addition to having full support of the venerable wg(8)
>>  utility, but currently (August 2021; if you're reading this in the future this
>>  might not apply) it is behind a manually set registry knob. There will be
>>  three phases of the 0.4.z series:
>>
>>    Phase 1) WireGuardNT is hidden behind the "ExperimentalKernelDriver"
>>             registry knob. If you don't manually tinker around to enable it,
>>             the client will continue to use wireguard-go/Wintun like before.
>
>After the first few days, bug reports for WireGuardNT have died down
>considerably. It's hard to tell whether that's a sign that the
>software is stable or that nobody is using it. So, we're still in
>phase 1. However, with version 0.4.5 of the client, I've added a
>checkbox below the "activate" button in order to make the experimental
>testing more discoverable. I dislike such knobs, but I'd rather have
>more testing than less, before turning it on by default. Hopefully
>this will make it easier for alpha testers to give it a spin and
>report findings. If you have been testing the driver, and it's been
>working well for you, please write in to say so, simply as a signal
>that it is being tested. If things stay as quiet as they are now on
>the bug reporting front, we'll likely move into phase 2 -- enabling
>WireGuardNT by default, with a registry key to revert to the legacy
>implementation -- in 2 to 3 weeks.
>
>Jason