NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

ntp-4.2.8p15 was released on 23 June 2020. It addresses 1 medium-severity security issue in ntpd, and provides 13 non-security bugfixes over 4.2.8p13.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

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Are you using Autokey in production? If so, please contact Harlan - he's got some questions for you.

Help Wanted

We want to release NTP version 4.2.8 soon. The following areas could use some help:

Documentation

Review the documentation in the html/ folder and let us know about anything that needs to be corrected

Blocking Bugs

Check out the "blocking 4.2.8" bug list at ReleaseSchedule

The blocking bugs mostly fall into two categories, documentation and network issues.

Protocol Responses

We could also use more eyes and feedback on the issues raised at NtpProtocolResponseMatrix