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@@ -1,3 +1,236 @@ +--- +NTP 4.2.6p5 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2011/12/24) + +Focus: Bug fixes + +Severity: Medium + +This is a recommended upgrade. + +This release updates sys_rootdisp and sys_jitter calculations to match the +RFC specification, fixes a potential IPv6 address matching error for the +"nic" and "interface" configuration directives, suppresses the creation of +extraneous ephemeral associations for certain broadcastclient and +multicastclient configurations, cleans up some ntpq display issues, and +includes improvements to orphan mode, minor bugs fixes and code clean-ups. + +New features / changes in this release: + +ntpd + + * Updated "nic" and "interface" IPv6 address handling to prevent + mismatches with localhost [::1] and wildcard [::] which resulted from + using the address/prefix format (e.g. fe80::/64) + * Fix orphan mode stratum incorrectly counting to infinity + * Orphan parent selection metric updated to includes missing ntohl() + * Non-printable stratum 16 refid no longer sent to ntp + * Duplicate ephemeral associations suppressed for broadcastclient and + multicastclient without broadcastdelay + * Exclude undetermined sys_refid from use in loopback TEST12 + * Exclude MODE_SERVER responses from KoD rate limiting + * Include root delay in clock_update() sys_rootdisp calculations + * get_systime() updated to exclude sys_residual offset (which only + affected bits "below" sys_tick, the precision threshold) + * sys.peer jitter weighting corrected in sys_jitter calculation + +ntpq + + * -n option extended to include the billboard "server" column + * IPv6 addresses in the local column truncated to prevent overruns + +--- +NTP 4.2.6p4 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2011/09/22) + +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 affect AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS X and 64-bit time_t. + +New features / changes in this release: + +Build system + +* Fix checking for struct rtattr +* Update config.guess and config.sub for AIX +* Upgrade required version of autogen and libopts for building + from our source code repository + +ntpd + +* Back-ported several fixes for Coverity warnings from ntp-dev +* Fix a rare boundary 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 +* Back-port 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 +* Distribute ntp-wait.html + +--- +NTP 4.2.6p3 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2011/01/03) + +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 baud rates. +* 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. + +--- +NTP 4.2.6p2 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2010/07/08) + +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, improved KOD handling, OpenSSL related +updates and documentation revisions. + +Portability improvements in this release affect Irix, Linux, +Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, OpenBSD and QNX6 + +New features / changes in this release: + +ntpd +* Range syntax for the trustedkey configuration directive +* Unified IPv4 and IPv6 restrict lists + +ntpdate +* Rate limiting and KOD handling + +ntpsnmpd +* default connection to net-snmpd via a unix-domain socket +* command-line 'socket name' option + +ntpq / ntpdc +* support for the "passwd ..." syntax +* key-type specific password prompts + +sntp +* MD5 authentication of an ntpd +* Broadcast and crypto +* OpenSSL support + +--- +NTP 4.2.6p1 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2010/04/09) + +Focus: Bug fixes, portability fixes, and documentation improvements + +Severity: Medium + +This is a recommended upgrade. + +--- +NTP 4.2.6 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2009/12/08) + +Focus: enhancements and bug fixes. + +--- NTP 4.2.4p8 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2009/12/08) Focus: Security Fixes @@ -32,6 +265,14 @@ This release fixes the following high-severity vulnerability: THIS IS A STRONGLY RECOMMENDED UPGRADE. --- +ntpd now syncs to refclocks right away. + +Backward-Incompatible changes: + +ntpd no longer accepts '-v name' or '-V name' to define internal variables. +Use '--var name' or '--dvar name' instead. (Bug 817) + +--- NTP 4.2.4p7 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2009/05/04) Focus: Security and Bug Fixes |