NEWS revision 182007
1NTP 4.2.4p5 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2008/08/17) 2 3Focus: Minor Bugfixes 4 5This release fixes a number of Windows-specific ntpd bugs and 6platform-independent ntpdate bugs. A logging bugfix has been applied 7to the ONCORE driver. 8 9The "dynamic" keyword and is now obsolete and deferred binding to local 10interfaces is the new default. The minimum time restriction for the 11interface update interval has been dropped. 12 13A number of minor build system and documentation fixes are included. 14 15This is a recommended upgrade for Windows. 16 17--- 18NTP 4.2.4p4 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/09/10) 19 20Focus: Minor Bugfixes 21 22This release updates certain copyright information, fixes several display 23bugs in ntpdc, avoids SIGIO interrupting malloc(), cleans up file descriptor 24shutdown in the parse refclock driver, removes some lint from the code, 25stops accessing certain buffers immediately after they were freed, fixes 26a problem with non-command-line specification of -6, and allows the loopback 27interface to share addresses with other interfaces. 28 29--- 30NTP 4.2.4p3 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/06/29) 31 32Focus: Minor Bugfixes 33 34This release fixes a bug in Windows that made it difficult to 35terminate ntpd under windows. 36This is a recommended upgrade for Windows. 37 38--- 39NTP 4.2.4p2 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/06/19) 40 41Focus: Minor Bugfixes 42 43This release fixes a multicast mode authentication problem, 44an error in NTP packet handling on Windows that could lead to 45ntpd crashing, and several other minor bugs. Handling of 46multicast interfaces and logging configuration were improved. 47The required versions of autogen and libopts were incremented. 48This is a recommended upgrade for Windows and multicast users. 49 50--- 51NTP 4.2.4 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2006/12/31) 52 53Focus: enhancements and bug fixes. 54 55Dynamic interface rescanning was added to simplify the use of ntpd in 56conjunction with DHCP. GNU AutoGen is used for its command-line options 57processing. Separate PPS devices are supported for PARSE refclocks, MD5 58signatures are now provided for the release files. Drivers have been 59added for some new ref-clocks and have been removed for some older 60ref-clocks. This release also includes other improvements, documentation 61and bug fixes. 62 63K&R C is no longer supported as of NTP-4.2.4. We are now aiming for ANSI 64C support. 65 66--- 67NTP 4.2.0 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2003/10/15) 68 69Focus: enhancements and bug fixes. 70