I've been testing the experimental driver since the first announcement but no issues to date.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 13:57, Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:28 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> 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 -- Phillip McMahon https://flowcrypt.com/me/phillipmcmahon OpenPGP: EA04 83D4 C864 AA7C 1099 4BE6 A11E 70AD FDA6 0CF9
