Oh, Jason, that is outstanding news! Congratulations to you and the whole team of people who have contributed - be it developing, blog posts, or financially.
Well done, you lot! E -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, at 15:16, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > Earlier this evening, Linus released [1] Linus 5.6, which contains our > first release of WireGuard. This is quite exciting. It means that > kernels from here on out will have WireGuard built-in by default. And > for those of you who were scared away prior by the "dOnT uSe tHiS > k0de!!1!" warnings everywhere, you now have something more stable to > work with. > > The last several weeks of 5.6 development and stabilization have been > exciting, with our codebase undergoing a quick security audit [3], and > some real headway in terms of getting into distributions. > > We'll also continue to maintain our wireguard-linux-compat [2] > backports repo for older kernels. On the backports front, WireGuard > was backported to Ubuntu 20.04 (via wireguard-linux-compat) [4] and > Debian Buster (via a real backport to 5.5.y) [5]. I'm also maintaining > real backports, not via the compat layer, to 5.4.y [6] and 5.5.y [7], > and we'll see where those wind up; 5.4.y is an LTS release. > > Meanwhile, the usual up-to-date distributions like Arch, Gentoo, and > Fedora 32 will be getting WireGuard automatically by virtue of having > 5.6, and I expect these to increase in number over time. > > Enjoy! > Jason > > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi9zt7stg-uspx0uwqzam6op9jzz6xu1ckyu1cicpd...@mail.gmail.com/ > [2] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux-compat/ > [3] > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/ > [4] > https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/tree/debian/dkms-versions?h=master-next > [5] > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/tree/master/debian%2Fpatches%2Ffeatures%2Fall%2Fwireguard > [6] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux/log/?h=backport-5.4.y > [7] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux/log/?h=backport-5.5.y >
