[ANNOUNCE] WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released

Hi folks, Earlier this evening, Linus released [1] Linux 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-uSpX0UWQzam6OP9Jzz6Xu1CkYu1cicpD5OA@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux-compat/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200319003047.113501-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/ [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