4.2.6p2 Release Announcement

Last update: June 28, 2022 21:06 UTC (1f97faf40)

The NTP Public Services Project is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p2, a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the NTP Project, is now available.

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 include:

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ntpd

• Range syntax for the trustedkey configuration directive
• Unified IPv4 and IPv6 restrict lists

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ntpdate

• Rate limiting and KOD handling

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ntpsnmpd

• default connection to net-snmpd via a unix-domain socket
• command-line socket name option

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ntpq / ntpdc

• support for the passwd ... syntax
• key-type specific password prompts

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sntp

• MD5 authentication of an ntpd
• Broadcast and crypto
• OpenSSL support