4.2.6p4 Release Announcement
Last update: June 28, 2022 21:06 UTC (1f97faf40)
The NTP Public Services Project is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p4, a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the
NTP Project, is now available.
Changes
- Distribute ntp-wait.html
- Update
config.guess and config.sub for AIX
- Upgrade required version of
autogen and libopts for building from our source code repository
ntpd
- Backported several fixes for Coverity warnings from ntp-dev
- Fix a rare boundry 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
- Backport 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
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
- Fix checking for
struct rtattr