[ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.8p10 released

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at burnicki.net
Thu Mar 23 21:53:36 UTC 2017


Dan Geist wrote:
> I don't disagree, but along with membership in the consortium comes
> additional benefits like that.
> 
> I'm guessing Suse, FreeBSD, and Debian were all had the opportunity
> to be working on patched versions a couple weeks ago when the NTF
> folks sent out the original messaging: 
> http://nwtime.org/current-members-donors/
> 
> I believe even individual members would have gotten access to the
> code pre public-release. NTF isn't "for profit" but it needs to keep
> the lights on somehow...

True.

However, I'm not sure if every NTF member gets early notification about
security issues that need to be fixed. I also think this does not
necessarily be the case.

Martin



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