Aside from “Wireguard Server on macOS”…

Change Log

July 16th, 2023

Updated the guide to start the Wirguard daemon on system boot instead of user login, as suggested by @[email protected].

June 19th, 2023

Added warning that starting with macOS Ventura the DNS directive prevents the VPN from functioning when set in the server’s config and should be disabled for users running this version or newer until fixed, as reported by Glenn F. Schreiber (a.k.a “theweatherguy”).

January 17th, 2023

Added caveat that the AllowedIPs value may require adjustment to not interfere with HomeKit video feeds, along with a suggested replacement should that occur, as noticed & suggested by Donavon Buchanan.

January 16th, 2023

Moved the “Update” admonition to the very top of the article (now even about the eye-catch banner image).

January 15th, 2023

Re-added PostDown script accidentally deleted from previous change.

January 14th, 2023

Updated the guide to support IPv6 connections, thanks entirely to a thorough email and sensible reference repo shared by Donavon Buchanan.

May 28th, 2022

Updated the PostDown script to now properly remove the pfSense rule set in the PostUp script instead of just removing the enable reference. This issue was detected thanks to a report by Alessio Nossa, which remains publicly available on GitHub

May 1st, 2022

Confirmed support on macOS Monterey

June 6th, 2021

Converted all remaining ASCII single and double quotes to proper, “curly” equivalents.

May 3rd, 2021

January 14st, 2021

December 31st, 2020

Confirmed support for macOS Big Sur.

November 29th, 2020

Fixed misspelled daemon plist label (I had incorrectly typed org.wireguard.server instead of com.wireguard.server).

May 12th, 2020

Added notice that guide (at the time) only supported IPv4 connections.

May 11th, 2020

Clarified that the command to generate the private/public key pairs will dump them into the current working directory, as suggested by @charlie_thebird.

March 15th, 2020

A complete rewrite of the guide to address countless bugs and bad practices (too many to individually list here). Informed entirely by lifepillar’s brilliant and constructive feedback (his entire writeup remains publicly available on GitHub).

The guide changed so much that I preserved the original (bad) guide in a separate page to remain an historical example of what not to do.

November 16th, 2019


For an even more granular change log, click here to browse the file’s history on GitHub.