[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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