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1ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.4p5 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2008/08/17)
2ea906c41SOllivier Robert
3ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: Minor Bugfixes
4ea906c41SOllivier Robert
5ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis release fixes a number of Windows-specific ntpd bugs and
6ea906c41SOllivier Robertplatform-independent ntpdate bugs. A logging bugfix has been applied
7ea906c41SOllivier Robertto the ONCORE driver.
8ea906c41SOllivier Robert
9ea906c41SOllivier RobertThe "dynamic" keyword and is now obsolete and deferred binding to local
10ea906c41SOllivier Robertinterfaces is the new default. The minimum time restriction for the
11ea906c41SOllivier Robertinterface update interval has been dropped.
12ea906c41SOllivier Robert
13ea906c41SOllivier RobertA number of minor build system and documentation fixes are included.
14ea906c41SOllivier Robert
15ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis is a recommended upgrade for Windows.
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18ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.4p4 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/09/10)
19ea906c41SOllivier Robert
20ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: Minor Bugfixes
21ea906c41SOllivier Robert
22ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis release updates certain copyright information, fixes several display
23ea906c41SOllivier Robertbugs in ntpdc, avoids SIGIO interrupting malloc(), cleans up file descriptor
24ea906c41SOllivier Robertshutdown in the parse refclock driver, removes some lint from the code,
25ea906c41SOllivier Robertstops accessing certain buffers immediately after they were freed, fixes
26ea906c41SOllivier Roberta problem with non-command-line specification of -6, and allows the loopback
27ea906c41SOllivier Robertinterface to share addresses with other interfaces.
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30ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.4p3 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/06/29)
31ea906c41SOllivier Robert
32ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: Minor Bugfixes
33ea906c41SOllivier Robert
34ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis release fixes a bug in Windows that made it difficult to
35ea906c41SOllivier Robertterminate ntpd under windows.
36ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis is a recommended upgrade for Windows.
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39ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.4p2 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2007/06/19)
40ea906c41SOllivier Robert
41ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: Minor Bugfixes
42ea906c41SOllivier Robert
43ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis release fixes a multicast mode authentication problem,
44ea906c41SOllivier Robertan error in NTP packet handling on Windows that could lead to
45ea906c41SOllivier Robertntpd crashing, and several other minor bugs. Handling of
46ea906c41SOllivier Robertmulticast interfaces and logging configuration were improved.
47ea906c41SOllivier RobertThe required versions of autogen and libopts were incremented.
48ea906c41SOllivier RobertThis is a recommended upgrade for Windows and multicast users.
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51ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.4 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2006/12/31)
52ea906c41SOllivier Robert
53ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: enhancements and bug fixes.
54ea906c41SOllivier Robert
55ea906c41SOllivier RobertDynamic interface rescanning was added to simplify the use of ntpd in
56ea906c41SOllivier Robertconjunction with DHCP. GNU AutoGen is used for its command-line options
57ea906c41SOllivier Robertprocessing. Separate PPS devices are supported for PARSE refclocks, MD5
58ea906c41SOllivier Robertsignatures are now provided for the release files. Drivers have been
59ea906c41SOllivier Robertadded for some new ref-clocks and have been removed for some older
60ea906c41SOllivier Robertref-clocks. This release also includes other improvements, documentation
61ea906c41SOllivier Robertand bug fixes.
62ea906c41SOllivier Robert
63ea906c41SOllivier RobertK&R C is no longer supported as of NTP-4.2.4. We are now aiming for ANSI
64ea906c41SOllivier RobertC support.
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67ea906c41SOllivier RobertNTP 4.2.0 (Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, 2003/10/15)
68ea906c41SOllivier Robert
69ea906c41SOllivier RobertFocus: enhancements and bug fixes.
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