4.2.6p3 Release Announcement

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

The NTP Public Services Project is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p3, a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the NTP Project, is now available.

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 baudrates.
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.