[ntp:questions] [ntp:announce] NTP 4.2.6p4 Released

NTP Public Services Project webmaster at ntp.org
Tue Sep 27 15:13:10 UTC 2011


Redwood City, CA - 2011/09/23 - The NTP Public Services Project
(http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p4,
a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the
NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and
http://support.ntp.org/download.

File-size: 4194210 bytes

MD5 sum: 1447121a07b49361677ffda4f6e29527  ntp-4.2.6p4.tar.gz

Changes:

* Distribute ntp-wait.html 
* Update config.guess and config.sub for AIX 
* Upgrade required version of autogen and libopts for building 
  from our source code repository 
 
ntpd 
 
* Backported several fixes for Coverity warnings from ntp-dev 
* Fix a rare boundry condition in UNLINK_EXPR_SLIST() 
* Allow "logconfig =allall" configuration directive 
* Bind tentative IPv6 addresses on Linux 
* Correct WWVB/Spectracom driver to timestamp CR instead of LF 
* Improved tally bit handling to prevent incorrect ntpq peer status reports 
* Exclude the Undisciplined Local Clock and ACTS drivers from the initial 
  candidate list unless they are designated a "prefer peer" 
* Prevent the consideration of Undisciplined Local Clock or ACTS drivers for 
  selection during the 'tos orphanwait' period 
* Prefer an Orphan Mode Parent over the Undisciplined Local Clock or ACTS 
  drivers 
* Improved support of the Parse Refclock trusttime flag in Meinberg mode 
* Backport utility routines from ntp-dev: mprintf(), emalloc_zero() 
* Added the NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM environment variable for specifying baseline 
  clock slew on Microsoft Windows 
* Code cleanup in libntpq 
 
ntpdc 
 
* Fix timerstats reporting 
 
ntpdate 
 
* Reduce time required to set clock 
* Allow a timeout greater than 2 seconds 
 
sntp 
 
* Backward incompatible command-line option change: 
  -l/--filelog changed -l/--logfile (to be consistent with ntpd) 
 
Documentation 
 
* Update html2man. Fix some tags in the .html files 
* Fix checking for struct rtattr 

Please report any bugs, issues, or desired enhancements at
http://bugs.ntp.org/.

The NTP (Network Time Protocol) Public Services Project, which is
hosted by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (http://www.isc.org/),
provides support and additional development resources for the
Reference Implementation of NTP produced by the NTP Project
(http://www.ntp.org/).  
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