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NTP 4.2.6p2 (Harlan Stenn , 2010/07/08)

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, improved KOD handling, OpenSSL related updates and documentation revisions.

Portability improvements in this release affect Irix, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, OpenBSD and QNX6

New features / changes in this release:

ntpd

• Range syntax for the trustedkey configuration directive
• Unified IPv4 and IPv6 restrict lists

ntpdate

• Rate limiting and KOD handling

ntpsnmpd

• default connection to net-snmpd via a unix-domain socket
• command-line 'socket name' option

ntpq / ntpdc

• support for the "passwd ..." syntax
• key-type specific password prompts

sntp

• MD5 authentication of an ntpd
• Broadcast and crypto
• OpenSSL support

Complete NEWS file
Complete Change Log

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Please contact your operating system vendor for binary packages or assistance with your package-management system.

The NTP version numbering page explains the version numbering scheme.

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• NTP (R&D) Project Deprecated HTTP archive.
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