[ntp:announce] NTP 4.2.6p3 Released
NTP Public Services Project
webmaster at ntp.org
Tue Jan 4 03:44:42 UTC 2011
Redwood City, CA - 2011/01/03 - The NTP Public Services Project
(http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p3,
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: 4270377 bytes
MD5 sum: 59876a9009b098ff59767ee45a88ebd2
Focus: Bug fixes and portability improvements
Severity: Medium
This is a recommended upgrade.
This release includes build infrastructure updates, code clean-ups,
minor bug fixes, fixes for a number of minor ref-clock issues, and
documentation revisions.
Portability improvements in this release affect AIX, Atari FreeMiNT,
FreeBSD4, Linux and Microsoft Windows.
New features / changes in this release:
Build system
* Use lsb_release to get information about Linux distributions.
* 'test' is in /usr/bin (instead of /bin) on some systems.
* Basic sanity checks for the ChangeLog file.
* Source certain build files with ./filename for systems without . in PATH.
* IRIX portability fix.
* Use a single copy of the "libopts" code.
* autogen/libopts upgrade.
* configure.ac m4 quoting cleanup.
ntpd
* Do not bind to IN6_IFF_ANYCAST addresses.
* Log the reason for exiting under Windows.
* Multicast fixes for Windows.
* Interpolation fixes for Windows.
* IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast fixes.
* Manycast solicitation fixes and general repairs.
* JJY refclock cleanup.
* NMEA refclock improvements.
* Oncore debug message cleanup.
* Palisade refclock now builds under Linux.
* Give RAWDCF more baudrates.
* Support Truetime Satellite clocks under Windows.
* Support Arbiter 1093C Satellite clocks under Windows.
* Make sure that the "filegen" configuration command defaults to "enable".
* Range-check the status codes (plus other cleanup) in the RIPE-NCC driver.
* Prohibit 'includefile' directive in remote configuration command.
* Fix 'nic' interface bindings.
* Fix the way we link with openssl if openssl is installed in the base
system.
ntp-keygen
* Fix -V coredump.
* OpenSSL version display cleanup.
ntpdc
* Many counters should be treated as unsigned.
ntpdate
* Do not ignore replies with equal receive and transmit timestamps.
ntpq
* libntpq warning cleanup.
ntpsnmpd
* Correct SNMP type for "precision" and "resolution".
* Update the MIB from the draft version to RFC-5907.
sntp
* Display timezone offset when showing time for sntp in the local
timezone.
* Pay proper attention to RATE KoD packets.
* Fix a miscalculation of the offset.
* Properly parse empty lines in the key file.
* Logging cleanup.
* Use tv_usec correctly in set_time().
* Documentation cleanup.
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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