Dave Hart wrote: > On Dec 15, 10:25 UTC, Martin Burnicki wrote: >> 4.2.6 contains a real bunch of changes against 4.2.4p8 which have not >> been mentioned here, but significantly change the way ntpd works, so >> users should carefully check if they want to upgrade to 4.2.6 right now. > > http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/commitlogs/2009-December/002274.html > > That sizable message spells out the three years of -dev changes > between 4.2.4 and 4.2.6 in terms of file and changeset comments. > There was no corresponding bk-ntp-stable-s...@lists.ntp.org message, > which would have been truly gargantuan as it would have included all > the diffs. Harlan experienced a bk hiccup during the process that I > suspect was the failure of the attempted generation of that monster- > diff message. > > A more succinct copy of the most of same information can be seen in > the ChangeLog file in the distribution, though it's maintained by hand > and incomplete by comparison. Since this is a unified file for both - > dev and -stable branches, new entries appear in two places, at the top > for -dev and somewhere in the middle (ahead of the most recent prior - > stable entries).
What I've disliked is that the announcement of 4.2.6 emphasizes the latest security fix only, which is also in 4.2.4p8. There should be a simple summary of basic changes in 4.2.6 compared to 4.2.4, which are important for the default user, e.g. (from memory): - the default logging mode does not include messages when the system time has been stepped, or which source is selected as sys peer - even if logging is explicitely configured to include this information, the resulting messages are not really human-readable - leap second handling has been changed such that a leap second announcement is valid is accepted only if a majority of the upstream sources provide the announcement - evaluation of a leap second file does not depend anymore on having autokey enabled, and IIRC the default location of the file has changed - IIRC there have been changes to autokey which may prevent autokey interactions of 4.2.6 nodes with 4.2.4 nodes Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
