WireGuard VPN Tunnel Software Publishes New Snapshot But It Won't Be In Linux 5.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WireGuard VPN Tunnel Software Publishes New Snapshot But It Won't Be In Linux 5.1

Jason Donenfeld, the lead developer of WireGuard, has released a new snapshot version of this secure VPN tunnel cross-platform software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...d-0.0.20190227

[macemoneta]

We've been using Wireguard with all our mobile devices (smartphones, Chromebooks) for a few months now. It's on 24/7, even when we're home. It works great. Does anyone have any insight into why it hasn't made it upstream yet?

[zamadatix]

There is also optimizations to help WirGuard

     

[Space Heater]

Does anyone have any insight into why it hasn't made it upstream yet?

The last time Jason Donenfeld, the creator of Wireguard, posted a patch set was in October of 2018. There's no hope of it going upstream until a revised patch set is posted, and I'm not really sure why it has taken him more than 4 months to do it.

[macemoneta]

The last time Jason Donenfeld, the creator of Wireguard, posted a patch set was in October of 2018. There's no hope of it going upstream until a revised patch set is posted, and I'm not really sure why it has taken him more than 4 months to do it.

There have been multiple patch sets posted. The last was just yesterday, reported here.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...d-0.0.20190227

[boxie]

We've been using Wireguard with all our mobile devices (smartphones, Chromebooks) for a few months now. It's on 24/7, even when we're home. It works great. Does anyone have any insight into why it hasn't made it upstream yet?

It is honestly not surprising to see it taking a while. Going by this article they seem to be not caring too much about how the code is written, but how it is integrating. As it is also a lot of interest around this feature they probably want to make sure they get it right first time around.

[Space Heater]

There have been multiple patch sets posted. The last was just yesterday, reported here.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...d-0.0.20190227

No I'm talking about on the linux kernel development mailing list. What you linked is not that.

[windyzukerman]

Would really not recommend wireguard as I have used it with Ubuntu and CentOS. Rater prefer Ivacy for Linux.