From: Harlan Stenn Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:40:12 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ntp-4.2.6p4 X-Git-Tag: NTP_4_2_6P4~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=721fb4309a735ad3d82cf11c0387868d3c219bf7;p=thirdparty%2Fntp.git ntp-4.2.6p4 bk: 4e7bf18ch16VBH4vhAv-R8YMXiuuUg --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 24e2d55c8..4c781b1e0 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ --- +(4.2.6p4) 2011/09/22 Released by Harlan Stenn * [Bug 1984] ntp/libisc fails to compile on OS X 10.7 (Lion). * [Bug 1985] "logconfig =allall" rejected. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4235499d8..d66f33b5e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,40 +1,65 @@ -NTP 4.2.6p4-RC1 (Harlan Stenn , 2011/07/10) - -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 affect AIX and Linux. - -New features / changes in this release: - -Build system -* Update config.guess and config.sub (AIX) -* autogen/libopts upgrade. - -ntpd -* ntpd fails binding to tentative IPv6 addresses under Linux. -* WWVB/Spectracom driver timestamps LFs, not CRs. -* peer may stay selected as system peer after becoming unreachable. -* LOCAL, ACTS drivers with "prefer" excluded from initial candidate list. -* orphan parent favored over LOCAL, ACTS drivers. -* Billboard tally codes sometimes do not match operation, variables. -* Backport utility routines from ntp-dev: mprintf(), emalloc_zero(). -* Enable tickadj-like taming of wildly off-spec Windows clock using - NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM env. var. specifying baseline slew. - -ntpdate -* ntpdate takes longer than necessary. -* ntpdate doesn't allow timeout > 2s. - -Documentation -* html2man needs an update. Fix some tags in the .html files. +--- +NTP 4.2.6p4 (Harlan Stenn , 2011/09/22) + +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 affect AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS X and 64-bit time_t. + +New features / changes in this release: + +Build system + +* Fix checking for struct rtattr +* 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 + +* Fix timerstats reporting + +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 +* Distribute ntp-wait.html --- NTP 4.2.6p3 (Harlan Stenn , 2011/01/03) diff --git a/packageinfo.sh b/packageinfo.sh index f9ff7e32d..3ea7d02ac 100644 --- a/packageinfo.sh +++ b/packageinfo.sh @@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ betapoint=2 # - - prerelease is emptied # else (not in RC) # - rcpoint is empty and unused (for now). -rcpoint=2 +rcpoint=GO