4.2.8p18 Release Announcement

Last update: May 25, 2024 14:31 UTC (1e3842a7b)

The NTP Project, part of Network Time Foundation (NTF), is pleased to announce the release of NTP 4.2.8p18, a Point Release of the Reference Implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) software. It is available at https://downloads.nwtime.org/ntp/ or by pointing your ftp client to anonymous@ftp.nwtime.org.

• File-size: 7210799 bytes
• MD5 (ntp-4.2.8p18.tar.gz) = 516bdabd94ab7c824e9771390761a46c
• SHA256 (ntp-4.2.8p18.tar.gz) = cf84c5f3fb1a295284942624d823fffa634144e096cfc4f9969ac98ef5f468e5

ntp-4.2.8p18 is a RECOMMENDED upgrade for all users. It fixes 40 bugs and provides 40 other improvements:

• Bug 3918 Tweak openssl header/library handling. stenn@
• Bug 3914 Spurious “Unexpected origin timestamp” logged after time stepped. hart@
• Bug 3913 Avoid duplicate IPv6 link-local manycast associations. hart@
• Bug 3912 Avoid rare math errors in ntptrace. Brian Utterback
• Bug 3910 Memory leak using openssl-3. hart@
• Bug 3909 Do not select multicast local address for unicast peer. hart@
• Bug 3903 lib/isc/win32/strerror.c NTstrerror() is not thread-safe. hart@
• Bug 3901 LIB_GETBUF isn’t thread-safe. hart@
• Bug 3900 fast_xmit() selects wrong local addr responding to mcast on Windows. hart@
• Bug 3888 ntpd with multiple same-subnet IPs using manycastclient creates duplicate associations. hart@
• Bug 3872 Ignore restrict mask for hostname. hart@
• Bug 3871 4.2.8p17 build without hopf6021 refclock enabled fails.
  • Reported by Hans Mayer.
  • Moved NONEMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT declaration from ntp_types.h to config.h. hart@
• Bug 3870 Server drops client packets with ppoll < 4. stenn@
• Bug 3869 Remove long-gone calldelay & crypto sign from docs.
  • Reported by PoolMUC. hart@
• Bug 3868 Cannot restrict a pool peer. hart@
  • Thanks to Edward McGuire for tracking down the deficiency.
• Bug 3864 ntpd IPv6 refid different for big-endian and little-endian. hart@
• Bug 3859 Use NotifyIpInterfaceChange on Windows ntpd. hart@
• Bug 3856 Enable Edit & Continue debugging with Visual Studio. hart@
• Bug 3855 ntpq lacks an equivalent to ntpdc’s delrestrict. hart@
• Bug 3854 ntpd 4.2.8p17 corrupts rawstats file with space in refid. hart@
• Bug 3853 Clean up warnings with modern compilers. hart@
• Bug 3852 check-libntp.mf and friends are not triggering rebuilds as intended. hart@
• Bug 3851 Drop pool server when no local address can reach it. hart@
• Bug 3850 ntpq -c apeers breaks column formatting s2 w/refclock refid. hart@
• Bug 3849 ntpd --wait-sync times out. hart@
• Bug 3847 SSL detection in configure should run-test if runpath is needed. hart@
• Bug 3846 Use -Wno-format-truncation by default. hart@
• Bug 3845 accelerate pool clock_sync when IPv6 has only link-local access. hart@
• Bug 3842 Windows ntpd PPSAPI DLL load failure crashes. hart@
• Bug 3841 4.2.8p17 build break w/ gcc 12 -Wformat-security without -Wformat. Need to remove --Wformat-security when removing -Wformat to silence numerous libopts warnings. hart@
• Bug 3837 NULL pointer deref crash when ntpd deletes last interface.
  • Reported by renmingshuai.
  • Correct UNLINK_EXPR_SLIST() when the list is empty. hart@
• Bug 3835 NTP_HARD_*FLAGS not used by libevent tearoff. hart@
• Bug 3831 pollskewlist zeroed on runtime configuration. hart@
• Bug 3830 configure libevent check intersperses output with answer. stenn@
• Bug 3828 BK should ignore a git repo in the same directory. burnicki@
• Bug 3827 Fix build in case CLOCK_HOPF6021 or CLOCK_WHARTON_400A is disabled. burnicki@
• Bug 3825 Don’t touch HTML files unless building inside a BK repo. Fix the script checkHtmlFileDates. burnicki@
• Bug 3756 Improve OpenSSL library/header detection.
• Bug 3753 ntpd fails to start with FIPS-enabled OpenSSL 3. hart@
• Bug 2734 TEST3 prevents initial interleave sync.
  • Fix from PoolMUC
• Remove extraneous */ from libparse/ieee754io.c.
• Fix .datecheck target line in Makefile.am. stenn@
• Log failures to allocate receive buffers. hart@
• Update the copyright year. stenn@
• Update ntp.conf documentation to add delrestrict and correct information about KoD rate limiting. hart@
• html/clockopt.html cleanup. stenn@
• util/lsf-times - added. stenn@
• Add DSA, DSA-SHA, and SHA to tests/libntp/digests.c. hart@
• Provide ntpd thread names to debugger on Windows. hart@
• Remove dead code libntp/numtohost.c and its unit tests. hart@
• Remove class A, B, C IPv4 distinctions in netof(). hart@
• Use @configure_input@ in various *.in files to include a comment that the file is generated from another pointing to the *.in. hart@
• Correct underquoting, indents in ntp_facilitynames.m4. hart@
• Clean up a few warnings seen building with older gcc. hart@
• Fix build on older FreeBSD lacking sys/procctl.h. hart@
• Disable Bug 3627 workaround on newer FreeBSD which has the kernel fix that makes it unnecessary, re-enabling ASLR stack gap. hart@
• Use NONEMPTY_COMPILATION_UNIT in more conditionally-compiled files.
• Remove useless pointer to Windows Help from system error messages.
• Avoid newlines within Windows error messages. hart@
• Ensure unique association IDs if wrapped. hart@
• Simplify calc_addr_distance(). hart@
• Clamp min/maxpoll in edge cases in newpeer(). hart@
• Quiet local addr change logging when unpeering. hart@
• Correct missing arg for %s printf specifier in send_blocking_resp_internal(). hart@
• Suppress OpenSSL 3 deprecation warning clutter. hart@
• Correct OpenSSL usage in Autokey code to avoid warnings about discarding const qualifiers with OpenSSL 3. hart@
• Display KoD refid as text in recently added message. hart@
• Avoid running checkHtmlFileDates script repeatedly when no html/*.html files have changed. hart@
• Abort configure if --enable-crypto-rand given & unavailable. hart@
• Add configure --enable-verbose-ssl to trace SSL detection. hart@
• Add build test coverage for --disable-saveconfig to flock-build script. hart@
• Remove deprecated configure --with-arlib option. hart@
• Remove configure support for ISC UNIX ca. 1998. hart@
• Move NTP_OPENSSL and NTP_CRYPTO_RAND invocations from configure.ac files to NTP_LIBNTP. hart@
• Move ENABLE_CMAC to ntp_openssl.m4, enabling sntp/tests CMAC unit tests. hart@
• Remove dead code: HAVE_U_INT32_ONLY_WITH_DNS. hart@
• Eliminate [v]snprintf redefinition warnings on macOS. hart@
• Fix clang 14 cast increases alignment warning on Linux. hart@
• Use NTP_HARD_CPPFLAGS in libopts tearoff. hart@
• Wire in --enable-build-framework-help.

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