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- The OpenNTPD Portable project copies portions of the OpenBSD tree, along
- with relevant portions of the C library, to a Git repository. This makes it
- easier to follow all of the relevant changes to the upstream project in a
- single place:
-
- https://github.com/openntpd-portable/openntpd-openbsd
-
- The portable bits of the project are largely maintained out-of-tree, and their
- history is also available from Git.
-
- https://github.com/openntpd-portable/openntpd-portable
-
- OpenNTPD Portable Release Notes:
-
- 6.7p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 6.7
-
- * ntpd now does constraint validation against 9.9.9.9 and 2620:fe::fe by default.
-
- * The ntpd daemon now gets and sets the clock in a secure way when booting
- even when a battery-backed clock is absent.
-
- * Improvements in DNS resolving and constraints checking, especially during
- startup. Unreliable NTP peers are removed from the pool and DNS resolving
- is repeated to add replacements.
-
- * Improved reliability and security of TLS constraint checking.
-
- * Improved logging of failure cases.
-
- * Prevent the case of multiple ntpds running at once by checking presence
- of the local control socket.
-
- * TLS certificates are now searched in TLS_CA_CERT_FILE.
-
- The libtls library, as shipped with LibreSSL 3.1.0 or later, is
- required to use the HTTPS constraint feature, though it is not
- required to use OpenNTPD.
-
- 6.2p3 - Bug fixes
-
- * Fixed build on OS X
-
- 6.2p2 - Bug fixes
-
- * Fixed support for 'query from' and clarified usage.
-
- 6.2p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 6.2
-
- * Added option "query from <ip>" to ntpd.conf, to specify a local IP
- address for outgoing NTP queries.
-
- 6.1p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 6.1
-
- * Quieted warnings about constraint connection retries.
-
- * Implemented fork+exec for ntpd child processes.
-
- * Added imsg inter-process reliability fixes.
-
- * Fixed memory leaks and reduced heap memory usage.
-
- * Numerous logging improvements and additions.
-
- * Added macOS 10.12 getentropy support.
-
- * Fixed arc4random blacklist use native implementations where
- possible.
-
- 6.0p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 6.0
-
- * Fixed a link failure on older Linux distributions and a build
- failure on FreeBSD.
-
- * Set MOD_MAXERROR to avoid unsynced time status when using
- ntp_adjtime.
-
- * Fixed HTTP Timestamp header parsing to use strptime in a more
- portable fashion.
-
- * Hardened TLS for ntpd constraints, enabling server name
- verification. Thanks to Luis M. Merino.
-
- 5.9p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 5.9
-
- * When a single "constraint" is specified, try all returned addresses
- until one succeeds, rather than the first returned address.
-
- * Relaxed the constraint error margin to be proportional to the number
- of NTP peers, avoid constant reconnections when there is a bad NTP
- peer.
-
- * Removed disabled hotplug sensor support.
-
- * Added support for detecting crashes in constraint subprocesses.
-
- * Moved the execution of constraints from the ntp process to the
- parent process, allowing for better privilege separation since the
- ntp process can be further restricted.
-
- * Added pledge(2) support.
-
- * Updated to require LibreSSL 2.3.2 or greater.
-
- * Fixed high CPU usage when the network is down.
-
- * Fixed various memory leaks.
-
- * Switched to RMS for jitter calculations.
-
- * Unified logging functions with other OpenBSD base programs.
-
- OpenNTPD portable-specific changes:
-
- * Added support for syncing time with the Realtime Clock (RTC) on OSes
- that require it.
-
- * CFLAGS is no longer overridden by the build system.
-
- * FreeBSD RTABLE support is disabled
-
- * FreeBSD is no longer linked with -lmd to avoid hash function
- collisions, causing failures in constraint certificate loading.
-
- * Fixed crashes due to __progname being used before initialized.
-
- * Added Solaris 10 compatibility.
-
- * Added --disable-https-constraint build option for explicitly
- disabling constraint support.
-
- * Synced build system files with LibreSSL
-
- The libtls library, as shipped with LibreSSL 2.3.2 or later, is
- required to use the HTTPS constraint feature, though it is not
- required to use OpenNTPD.
-
- 5.7p4 - Bug fixes, HTTPS constraint support with LibreSSL
-
- * Added support for HTTPS constraints to validate NTP responses.
- See the man page and example config file for how to configure it.
- The initial announcement:
- http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142356166731390&w=2 is an
- explanation of the rationale and how the feature works.
-
- * Workaround an apparent bug in Solaris adjtime that cause the clock
- to report sync/unsync continuously.
-
- * Workaround an issue on systems with 32-bit time_t that causes an
- overflow if the system time is later than early 2036.
-
- The libtls library, as shipped with LibreSSL 2.1.4 or later, is
- required to use the HTTPS constraint feature, though it is not
- required to use OpenNTPD.
-
- 5.7p3 - Bug fixes
-
- * Fixed issue resolving hostnames when the network is initially
- unavailable.
-
- * Fixed process name logging on Linux and OS X.
-
- * Fixed adjfreq failures on Solaris due to uninitialized struct timex.
-
- * Support building on Linux musl libc.
-
- * Default privilege separation directory changed from /var/empty/ntp
- to /var/empty. Please ensure that if you are using the default from
- previous releases that the privsep directory is empty, owned by
- root, and has no write privileges for other users.
-
- 5.7p2 - Bug fixes, and new OS support
-
- * Switched the drift file from an unscaled frequency offset to ppm.
- The latter format is compatible with that of ntp.org. This allows
- easy switching between ntpd daemons
-
- * Fixed a memory leak in DNS lookups.
-
- * Added support for setting the process title on Linux and OS X.
- The different processes are now possible to tell apart by role in
- the process list.
-
- * Import NetBSD support.
-
- * Various bugfixes and refinements from the community.
-
- 5.7p1 - New release based on OpenBSD 5.7
-
- * Support for a new build infrastructure based on the LibreSSL
- framework. Source code is integrated directly from the OpenBSD tree
- with few manual changes, easing maintenance.
-
- * Removed support for several OSes pending test reports and updated
- portability code.
-
- * Supports the Simple Network Time Protocol version 4 as described in
- RFC 5905
-
- * Added route virtualization (rdomain) support.
-
- * Added ntpctl(8), which allows for querying ntpd(8) at runtime.
-
- * Finer-grained clock adjustment via adjfreq / ntp_adjtime where
- available.
-
- * Improved latency on heavily-loaded machines.
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