[ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.8p10 released

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Mar 23 16:39:19 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 03/23/2017 05:12 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Magnus Danielson schrieb:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> On 03/23/2017 03:25 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
>>> Hi Magnus,
>>>
>>> Magnus Danielson wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 03/22/2017 02:27 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>>>>> NTP 4.2.8p10 released
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows binaries working on Windows-XP SP3 & later - download:
>>>>> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/x86/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Source: http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8p10.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is bugs generated in distros?
>>>> Debian for instance.
>>>
>>> What do you mean? I don't understand your question.
>>
>> In particular for security updates it would be good to do coordinated
>> filing of a tracking bug for various Linux distributions, such that
>> they upgrade their packaging quickly. Exactly who does what may vary,
>> but with some form of orchestrated handling upgrading may become
>> quicker.
>
> The folks who are in the security group knew about the upcoming security
> release, but I agree an email should have been sent on the normal NTP
> announce mailing list as soon as the new version became available..

It took some time to find:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ntp.html

4.2.8p10 now in unstable. Hope it ripples out to the others soon.

My point here is that we like to make sure the progress is there and 
easy to evaluate when an update is possible.

Cheers,
Magnus


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