[ntp:announce] NTP 4.2.4p7-RC6 Released

NTP Public Services Project webmaster at ntp.org
Fri May 8 20:43:00 UTC 2009


Redwood City, CA - 2009/05/08 - The NTP Public Services Project
(http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.4p7-RC6,
a Release Candidate 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.

Bug Fixes:

* [Bug 1179] error messages for -u/--user and -i lacking droproot
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1179
* [Bug 1071] Log a message and exit before trying to use FD_SET with a
  descriptor larger than FD_SETSIZE, which will corrupt memory
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1071
* [Bug 784] Make --enable-linuxcaps the default when available
   http://bugs.ntp.org/784

Other Changes:

* On corruption of the iface list head in add_interface, log and exit
* Updated JJY reference clock driver from Takao Abe

The file-size of this Release Candidate is 3380234 bytes. An MD5 sum
of this release is available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and
http://support.ntp.org/download.

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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