Good question! I've never tried. The NT driver makes use of some of the more advanced features of the networking stack, so possibly not. But you never know. I'd love a Wg4React.
As I mentioned in the mailing list post, the Microsoft paperwork shuffling matter got dealt with rather quickly, following all the attention the HN thread from the other day got. And now we're finally out with an update!
NT programming is a lot of fun, though this release was quite challenging, because of all of the toolchain updates. On the plus side, we got to remove pre-Win10 support -- https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-March/00954... . But did you know that Microsoft removed support for compiling x86 drivers in their latest driver SDK? So that was interesting to work around. There was also a fun change to the Go runtime included in this release: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/341b5e2c0261cc059b157f1c...
All and all, a fun release, and I'm happy to have the Windows release train cooking again.
This is the same problem I'm currently facing with WireGuard. No warning at all, no notification. One day I sign in to publish an update, and yikes, account suspended. Currently undergoing some sort of 60 days appeals process, but who knows. That's kind of crazy: what if there were some critical RCE in WireGuard, being exploited in the wild, and I needed to update users immediately? (That's just hypothetical; don't freak out!) In that case, Microsoft would have my hands entirely tied.
If anybody within Microsoft is able to do something, please contact me -- jason at zx2c4 dot com.
In that first one, the double pasted AI retort in the last comment is pretty wild. In both of these, look at the actual "files changed" tab for the wtf.
We're not a company, but an open source project, but we do have a small amount of funding available for interesting subprojects and useful ways of advancing development.
In particular, at the moment we're looking for folks well-versed in various Windows things: NDIS, driver development win32 GUIs, and even Golang.
However, if you think you can bring something compelling to the table in terms of the other platforms we're working on, we might be able to arrange for that too.
Email jason at {hnhandle} dot com if you're interested.
> TBH I don't remember toughing out a full build without resorting to goma.
I have! Every time you guys bump a snapshot, my Gentoo boxes whirl away and heat my house, compiling a new version from scratch. On an octocore Skylake Xeon laptop, this takes 2 hours 48 minutes.