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The NTP Project, part of Network Time Foundation (NTF), is pleased to
announce the release of NTP 4.2.8p18, a Point Release of the Reference Implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) software. It is
available at https://downloads.nwtime.org/ntp/ or by pointing your ftp
client to anonymous@ftp.nwtime.org.

File-size: 7210799 bytes
MD5 (ntp-4.2.8p18.tar.gz) = 516bdabd94ab7c824e9771390761a46c
SHA256 (ntp-4.2.8p18.tar.gz) = cf84c5f3fb1a295284942624d823fffa634144e096cfc4f9969ac98ef5f468e5

ntp-4.2.8p18 is a RECOMMENDED upgrade for all users. It fixes 40 bugs
and provides 40 other improvements:

* [Bug 3918] Tweak openssl header/library handling. <stenn@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3914] Spurious "Unexpected origin timestamp" logged after time
stepped. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3913] Avoid duplicate IPv6 link-local manycast associations. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3912] Avoid rare math errors in ntptrace.
<brian.utterback@oracle.com>
* [Bug 3910] Memory leak using openssl-3 <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3909] Do not select multicast local address for unicast peer. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3903] lib/isc/win32/strerror.c NTstrerror() is not thread-safe. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3901] LIB_GETBUF isn't thread-safe. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3900] fast_xmit() selects wrong local addr responding to mcast on Windows. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3888] ntpd with multiple same-subnet IPs using manycastclient
creates duplicate associations. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3872] Ignore restrict mask for hostname. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3871] 4.2.8p17 build without hopf6021 refclock enabled fails.
Reported by Hans Mayer. Moved NONEMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT
declaration from ntp_types.h to config.h. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3870] Server drops client packets with ppoll < 4. <stenn@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3869] Remove long-gone "calldelay" & "crypto sign" from docs.
Reported by PoolMUC@web.de. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3868] Cannot restrict a pool peer. <hart@ntp.org> Thanks to
Edward McGuire for tracking down the deficiency.
* [Bug 3864] ntpd IPv6 refid different for big-endian and little-endian. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3859] Use NotifyIpInterfaceChange on Windows ntpd. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3856] Enable Edit & Continue debugging with Visual Studio. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3855] ntpq lacks an equivalent to ntpdc's delrestrict.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3854] ntpd 4.2.8p17 corrupts rawstats file with space in refid. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3853] Clean up warnings with modern compilers. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3852] check-libntp.mf and friends are not triggering rebuilds as intended. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3851] Drop pool server when no local address can reach it. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3850] ntpq -c apeers breaks column formatting s2 w/refclock
refid. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3849] ntpd --wait-sync times out. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3847] SSL detection in configure should run-test if runpath is
needed. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3846] Use -Wno-format-truncation by default. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3845] accelerate pool clock_sync when IPv6 has only link-local
access. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3842] Windows ntpd PPSAPI DLL load failure crashes.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3841] 4.2.8p17 build break w/ gcc 12 -Wformat-security without
-Wformat. Need to remove --Wformat-security when removing
-Wformat to silence numerous libopts warnings.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3837] NULL pointer deref crash when ntpd deletes last interface. Reported by renmingshuai. Correct UNLINK_EXPR_SLIST() when
the list is empty. <hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3835] NTP_HARD_*FLAGS not used by libevent tearoff.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3831] pollskewlist zeroed on runtime configuration.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3830] configure libevent check intersperses output with answer. <stenn@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3828] BK should ignore a git repo in the same directory. <burnicki@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3827] Fix build in case CLOCK_HOPF6021 or CLOCK_WHARTON_400A
is disabled. <burnicki@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3825] Don't touch HTML files unless building inside a BK repo.
Fix the script checkHtmlFileDates. <burnicki@ntp.org>
* [Bug 3756] Improve OpenSSL library/header detection.
* [Bug 3753] ntpd fails to start with FIPS-enabled OpenSSL 3.
<hart@ntp.org>
* [Bug 2734] TEST3 prevents initial interleave sync.
Fix from <PoolMUC@web.de>
* Remove extraneous */ from libparse/ieee754io.c
* Fix .datecheck target line in Makefile.am. <stenn@ntp.org>
* Log failures to allocate receive buffers. <hart@ntp.org>
* Update the copyright year. <stenn@ntp.org>
* Update ntp.conf documentation to add "delrestrict" and correct
information about KoD rate limiting. <hart@ntp.org>
* html/clockopt.html cleanup. <stenn@ntp.org>
* util/lsf-times - added. <stenn@ntp.org>
* Add DSA, DSA-SHA, and SHA to tests/libntp/digests.c. <hart@ntp.org>
* Provide ntpd thread names to debugger on Windows. <hart@ntp.org>
* Remove dead code libntp/numtohost.c and its unit tests. <hart@ntp.org>
* Remove class A, B, C IPv4 distinctions in netof(). <hart@ntp.org>
* Use @configure_input@ in various *.in files to include a comment that
the file is generated from another pointing to the *.in.
<hart@ntp.org>
* Correct underquoting, indents in ntp_facilitynames.m4. <hart@ntp.org>
* Clean up a few warnings seen building with older gcc. <hart@ntp.org>
* Fix build on older FreeBSD lacking sys/procctl.h. <hart@ntp.org>
* Disable [Bug 3627] workaround on newer FreeBSD which has the kernel
fix that makes it unnecessary, re-enabling ASLR stack gap.
<hart@ntp.org>
* Use NONEMPTY_COMPILATION_UNIT in more conditionally-compiled files.
* Remove useless pointer to Windows Help from system error messages.
* Avoid newlines within Windows error messages. <hart@ntp.org>
* Ensure unique association IDs if wrapped. <hart@ntp.org>
* Simplify calc_addr_distance(). <hart@ntp.org>
* Clamp min/maxpoll in edge cases in newpeer(). <hart@ntp.org>
* Quiet local addr change logging when unpeering. <hart@ntp.org>
* Correct missing arg for %s printf specifier in
send_blocking_resp_internal(). <hart@ntp.org>
* Suppress OpenSSL 3 deprecation warning clutter. <hart@ntp.org>
* Correct OpenSSL usage in Autokey code to avoid warnings about
discarding const qualifiers with OpenSSL 3. <hart@ntp.org>
* Display KoD refid as text in recently added message. <hart@ntp.org>
* Avoid running checkHtmlFileDates script repeatedly when no html/*.html
files have changed. <hart@ntp.org>
* Abort configure if --enable-crypto-rand given & unavailable.
<hart@ntp.org>
* Add configure --enable-verbose-ssl to trace SSL detection.
<hart@ntp.org>
* Add build test coverage for --disable-saveconfig to flock-build
script. <hart@ntp.org>
* Remove deprecated configure --with-arlib option. <hart@ntp.org>
* Remove configure support for ISC UNIX ca. 1998. <hart@ntp.org>
* Move NTP_OPENSSL and NTP_CRYPTO_RAND invocations from configure.ac
files to NTP_LIBNTP. <hart@ntp.org>
* Move ENABLE_CMAC to ntp_openssl.m4, enabling sntp/tests CMAC unit
tests. <hart@ntp.org>
* Remove dead code: HAVE_U_INT32_ONLY_WITH_DNS. <hart@ntp.org>
* Eliminate [v]snprintf redefinition warnings on macOS. <hart@ntp.org>
* Fix clang 14 cast increases alignment warning on Linux. <hart@ntp.org>
* Use NTP_HARD_CPPFLAGS in libopts tearoff. <hart@ntp.org>
* Wire in --enable-build-framework-help
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