[ntp:hackers] NTP Release Candidate 4.2.8p3-RC2 Released

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jun 24 16:58:59 UTC 2015


NTP Release Candidate 4.2.8p3-RC2 is now available for download.

Bug Fixes:

* [Bug 2836] DFC77 patches from Frank Kardel to make decoding more
  robust, and require 2 consecutive timestamps to be consistent.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2836
* [Bug 2837] add test for DSCP to ntpd/complete.conf.in
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2837
* [Bug 2805] ntpd fails to join multicast group.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2805
* [Bug 2852] 'make check' can't find unity.h.  Hal Murray.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2852
* [Bug 2854] Missing brace in libntp/strdup.c.  Masanari Iida.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2854
* [Bug 2855] leap smear cleanup.  Harlan Stenn.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2855
* [Bug 2778] Implement "apeers"  ntpq command to include associd.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2778
* [Bug 2824] Convert update-leap to perl. (also see 2769)
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2824
* [Bug 2842] Bug in mdoc2man.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2842
* [Bug 2843] make check fails on 4.3.36
   Fixed compiler warnings about numeric range overflow
   (The original topic was fixed in a byplay to bug#2830)
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2843
* [Bug 2845] Harden memory allocation in ntpd.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2845
* [Bug 2830] ntpd doesn't always transfer the correct TAI offset via autokey
   NTPD transfers the current TAI (instead of an announcement) now.
   This might still needed improvement.
   Update autokey data ASAP when 'sys_tai' changes.
   Fix unit test that was broken by changes for autokey update.
   Avoid potential signature length issue and use DPRINTF where possible
     in ntp_crypto.c.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2830
* [Bug 2832] refclock_jjy.c supports the TDC-300.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2832
* [Bug 2834] Correct a broken html tag in html/refclock.html
   http://bugs.ntp.org/2834

Other Changes:

* Fixes to sntp/tests/fileHandlingTest.h.in.  Harlan Stenn.
* Report select() debug messages at debug level 3 now.
* sntp/scripts/genLocInfo: treat raspbian as debian.
* Unity test framework fixes.
  ** Requires ruby for changes to tests.
* Initial support for PACKAGE_VERSION tests.
* sntp/libpkgver belongs in EXTRA_DIST, not DIST_SUBDIRS.
* tests/bug-2803/Makefile.am must distribute bug-2803.h.
* automake-1.15 cleanup for sntp/tests/fileHandlingTest.h.in .  Harlan 
Stenn.
* Initial support for experimental leap smear code.  Harlan Stenn.

Tarball:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8p3-RC2.tar.gz
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.. and Windows binaries for XP SP3 and later are available here:

  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/x86/index.html

Cheers,
David
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