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@@ -0,0 +1,836 @@ +New in version 3.4 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add filter option to server/pool/peer directive +* Add minsamples and maxsamples options to hwtimestamp directive +* Add support for faster frequency adjustments in Linux 4.19 +* Change default pidfile to /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid to allow + chronyd without root privileges to remove it on exit +* Disable sub-second polling intervals for distant NTP sources +* Extend range of supported sub-second polling intervals +* Get/set IPv4 destination/source address of NTP packets on FreeBSD +* Make burst options and command useful with short polling intervals +* Modify auto_offline option to activate when sending request failed +* Respond from interface that received NTP request if possible +* Add onoffline command to switch between online and offline state + according to current system network configuration +* Improve example NetworkManager dispatcher script + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Avoid waiting in Linux getrandom system call +* Fix PPS support on FreeBSD and NetBSD + +New in version 3.3 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add burst option to server/pool directive +* Add stratum and tai options to refclock directive +* Add support for Nettle crypto library +* Add workaround for missing kernel receive timestamps on Linux +* Wait for late hardware transmit timestamps +* Improve source selection with unreachable sources +* Improve protection against replay attacks on symmetric mode +* Allow PHC refclock to use socket in /var/run/chrony +* Add shutdown command to stop chronyd +* Simplify format of response to manual list command +* Improve handling of unknown responses in chronyc + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Respond to NTPv1 client requests with zero mode +* Fix -x option to not require CAP_SYS_TIME under non-root user +* Fix acquisitionport directive to work with privilege separation +* Fix handling of socket errors on Linux to avoid high CPU usage +* Fix chronyc to not get stuck in infinite loop after clock step + +New in version 3.2 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Improve stability with NTP sources and reference clocks +* Improve stability with hardware timestamping +* Improve support for NTP interleaved modes +* Control frequency of system clock on macOS 10.13 and later +* Set TAI-UTC offset of system clock with leapsectz directive +* Minimise data in client requests to improve privacy +* Allow transmit-only hardware timestamping +* Add support for new timestamping options introduced in Linux 4.13 +* Add root delay, root dispersion and maximum error to tracking log +* Add mindelay and asymmetry options to server/peer/pool directive +* Add extpps option to PHC refclock to timestamp external PPS signal +* Add pps option to refclock directive to treat any refclock as PPS +* Add width option to refclock directive to filter wrong pulse edges +* Add rxfilter option to hwtimestamp directive +* Add -x option to disable control of system clock +* Add -l option to log to specified file instead of syslog +* Allow multiple command-line options to be specified together +* Allow starting without root privileges with -Q option +* Update seccomp filter for new glibc versions +* Dump history on exit by default with dumpdir directive +* Use hardening compiler options by default + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Don't drop PHC samples with low-resolution system clock +* Ignore outliers in PHC tracking, RTC tracking, manual input +* Increase polling interval when peer is not responding +* Exit with error message when include directive fails +* Don't allow slash after hostname in allow/deny directive/command +* Try to connect to all addresses in chronyc before giving up + +New in version 3.1 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add support for precise cross timestamping of PHC on Linux +* Add minpoll, precision, nocrossts options to hwtimestamp directive +* Add rawmeasurements option to log directive and modify measurements + option to log only valid measurements from synchronised sources +* Allow sub-second polling interval with NTP sources + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix time smoothing in interleaved mode + +New in version 3.0 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add support for software and hardware timestamping on Linux +* Add support for client/server and symmetric interleaved modes +* Add support for MS-SNTP authentication in Samba +* Add support for truncated MACs in NTPv4 packets +* Estimate and correct for asymmetric network jitter +* Increase default minsamples and polltarget to improve stability + with very low jitter +* Add maxjitter directive to limit source selection by jitter +* Add offset option to server/pool/peer directive +* Add maxlockage option to refclock directive +* Add -t option to chronyd to exit after specified time +* Add partial protection against replay attacks on symmetric mode +* Don't reset polling interval when switching sources to online state +* Allow rate limiting with very short intervals +* Improve maximum server throughput on Linux and NetBSD +* Remove dump files after start +* Add tab-completion to chronyc with libedit/readline +* Add ntpdata command to print details about NTP measurements +* Allow all source options to be set in add server/peer command +* Indicate truncated addresses/hostnames in chronyc output +* Print reference IDs as hexadecimal numbers to avoid confusion with + IPv4 addresses + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix crash with disabled asynchronous name resolving + +New in version 2.4.1 +==================== + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix processing of kernel timestamps on non-Linux systems +* Fix crash with smoothtime directive +* Fix validation of refclock sample times +* Fix parsing of refclock directive + +New in version 2.4 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add orphan option to local directive for orphan mode compatible with ntpd +* Add distance option to local directive to set activation threshold + (1 second by default) +* Add maxdrift directive to set maximum allowed drift of system clock +* Try to replace NTP sources exceeding maximum distance +* Randomise source replacement to avoid getting stuck with bad sources +* Randomise selection of sources from pools on start +* Ignore reference timestamp as ntpd doesn't always set it correctly +* Modify tracking report to use same values as seen by NTP clients +* Add -c option to chronyc to write reports in CSV format +* Provide detailed manual pages + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix SOCK refclock to work correctly when not specified as last refclock +* Fix initstepslew and -q/-Q options to accept time from own NTP clients +* Fix authentication with keys using 512-bit hash functions +* Fix crash on exit when multiple signals are received +* Fix conversion of very small floating-point numbers in command packets + +Removed features +---------------- +* Drop documentation in Texinfo format + +New in version 2.3 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add support for NTP and command response rate limiting +* Add support for dropping root privileges on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris +* Add require and trust options for source selection +* Enable logchange by default (1 second threshold) +* Set RTC on Mac OS X with rtcsync directive +* Allow binding to NTP port after dropping root privileges on NetBSD +* Drop CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability on Linux when NTP port is disabled +* Resolve names in separate process when seccomp filter is enabled +* Replace old records in client log when memory limit is reached +* Don't reveal local time and synchronisation state in client packets +* Don't keep client sockets open for longer than necessary +* Ignore poll in KoD RATE packets as ntpd doesn't always set it correctly +* Warn when using keys shorter than 80 bits +* Add keygen command to generate random keys easily +* Add serverstats command to report NTP and command packet statistics + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix clock correction after making step on Mac OS X +* Fix building on Solaris + +New in version 2.2.1 +==================== + +Security fixes +-------------- +* Restrict authentication of NTP server/peer to specified key (CVE-2016-1567) + +New in version 2.2 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add support for configuration and monitoring over Unix domain socket + (accessible by root or chrony user when root privileges are dropped) +* Add support for system call filtering with seccomp on Linux (experimental) +* Add support for dropping root privileges on NetBSD +* Control frequency of system clock on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris +* Add system leap second handling mode on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris +* Add dynamic drift removal on Mac OS X +* Add support for setting real-time priority on Mac OS X +* Add maxdistance directive to limit source selection by root distance + (3 seconds by default) +* Add refresh command to get new addresses of NTP sources +* Allow wildcard patterns in include directive +* Restore time from driftfile with -s option if later than RTC time +* Add configure option to set default hwclockfile +* Add -d option to chronyc to enable debug messages +* Allow multiple addresses to be specified for chronyc with -h option + and reconnect when no valid reply is received +* Make check interval in waitsync command configurable + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix building on NetBSD, Solaris +* Restore time from driftfile with -s option if reading RTC failed + +Removed features +---------------- +* Drop support for authentication with command key (run-time configuration + is now allowed only for local users that can access the Unix domain socket) + +New in version 2.1.1 +==================== + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix clock stepping by integer number of seconds on Linux + +New in version 2.1 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add support for Mac OS X +* Try to replace unreachable and falseticker servers/peers specified + by name like pool sources +* Add leaponly option to smoothtime directive to allow synchronised + leap smear between multiple servers +* Use specific reference ID when smoothing served time +* Add smoothing command to report time smoothing status +* Add smoothtime command to activate or reset time smoothing + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix crash in source selection with preferred sources +* Fix resetting of time smoothing +* Include packet precision in peer dispersion +* Fix crash in chronyc on invalid command syntax + +New in version 2.0 +================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Update to NTP version 4 (RFC 5905) +* Add pool directive to specify pool of NTP servers +* Add leapsecmode directive to select how to correct clock for leap second +* Add smoothtime directive to smooth served time and enable leap smear +* Add minsources directive to set required number of selectable sources +* Add minsamples and maxsamples options for all sources +* Add tempcomp configuration with list of points +* Allow unlimited number of NTP sources, refclocks and keys +* Allow unreachable sources to remain selected +* Improve source selection +* Handle offline sources as unreachable +* Open NTP server port only when necessary (client access is allowed by + allow directive/command or peer/broadcast is configured) +* Change default bindcmdaddress to loopback address +* Change default maxdelay to 3 seconds +* Change default stratumweight to 0.001 +* Update adjtimex synchronisation status +* Use system headers for adjtimex +* Check for memory allocation errors +* Reduce memory usage +* Add configure options to compile without NTP, cmdmon, refclock support +* Extend makestep command to set automatic clock stepping + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Add sanity checks for time and frequency offset +* Don't report synchronised status during leap second +* Don't combine reference clocks with close NTP sources +* Fix accepting requests from configured sources +* Fix initial fallback drift setting + +New in version 1.31.1 +===================== + +Security fixes +-------------- +* Protect authenticated symmetric NTP associations against DoS attacks + (CVE-2015-1853) +* Fix access configuration with subnet size indivisible by 4 (CVE-2015-1821) +* Fix initialization of reply slots for authenticated commands (CVE-2015-1822) + +New in version 1.31 +=================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Support operation in other NTP eras (next era begins in 2036), + NTP time is mapped to [-50, +86] years around build date by default +* Restore time from driftfile with -s when RTC is missing/unsupported +* Close connected client sockets when not waiting for reply +* Use one client socket with random port when acquisitionport is 0 +* Use NTP packets instead of UDP echo for presend +* Don't adjust polling interval when sending fails +* Allow binding to addresses that don't exist yet +* Ignore measurements around leap second +* Improve detection of unexpected time jumps +* Include example of logrotate configuration, systemd services and + NetworkManager dispatcher script + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Reconnect client sockets for each request to follow changes + in network configuration automatically +* Restart timer when polling interval is changed on reset + +New in version 1.30 +=================== + +Enhancements +------------ +* Add asynchronous name resolving with POSIX threads +* Add PTP hardware clock (PHC) refclock driver +* Add new generic clock driver to slew by adjusting frequency only + (without kernel PLL or adjtime) and use it on Linux +* Add rtcautotrim directive to trim RTC automatically +* Add hwclockfile directive to share RTC LOCAL/UTC setting with hwclock +* Add maxslewrate directive to set maximum allowed slew rate +* Add maxdispersion option for refclocks +* Add -q/-Q options to set clock/print offset once and exit +* Allow directives to be specified on chronyd command line +* Replace frequency scaling in Linux driver with retaining of tick +* Try to detect unexpected forward time jumps and reset state +* Exit with non-zero code when maxchange limit is reached +* Improve makestep to not start and stop slew unnecessarily +* Change default corrtimeratio to 3.0 to improve frequency accuracy +* Announce leap second only on last day of June and December +* Use separate connected client sockets for each NTP server +* Remove separate NTP implementation used for initstepslew +* Limit maximum minpoll set by KoD RATE to default maxpoll +* Don't send NTP requests with unknown key +* Print warning when source is added with unknown key +* Take leap second in PPS refclock from locked source +* Make reading of RTC for initial trim more reliable +* Don't create cmdmon sockets when cmdport is 0 +* Add configure option to set default user to drop root privileges +* Add configure option to compile with debug messages +* Print debug messages when -d is used more than once +* Change format of messages written to terminal with -d +* Write fatal messages also to stderr with -n +* Use IP_RECVERR socket option in chronyc to not wait unnecessarily +* Shorten default chronyc timeout for localhost +* Change default hostname in chronyc from localhost to 127.0.0.1 +* Print error message on invalid syntax with all chronyc commands +* Include simulation test suite using clknetsim + +Bug fixes +--------- +* Fix crash when selecting with multiple preferred sources +* Fix frequency calculation with large frequency offsets +* Fix code writing drift and RTC files to compile correctly +* Fix -4/-6 options in chronyc to not reset hostname set by -h +* Fix refclock sample validation with sub-second polling interval +* Set stratum correctly with non-PPS SOCK refclock and local stratum +* Modify dispersion accounting in refclocks to prevent PPS getting + stuck with large dispersion and not accepting new samples + +New in version 1.29.1 +===================== + +Security fixes +-------------- +* Modify chronyc protocol to prevent amplification attacks (CVE-2014-0021) + (incompatible with previous protocol version, chronyc supports both) + +New in version 1.29 +=================== + +Security fixes +-------------- +* Fix crash when processing crafted commands (CVE-2012-4502) + (possible with IP addresses allowed by cmdallow and localhost) +* Don't send uninitialized data in SUBNETS_ACCESSED and CLIENT_ACCESSES + replies (CVE-2012-4503) (not used by chronyc) + +Other changes +------------- +* Drop support for SUBNETS_ACCESSED and CLIENT_ACCESSES commands + +New in version 1.28 +=================== + +* Combine sources to improve accuracy +* Make config and command parser strict +* Add -a option to chronyc to authenticate automatically +* Add -R option to ignore initstepslew and makestep directives +* Add generatecommandkey, minsamples, maxsamples and user directives +* Improve compatibility with NTPv1 and NTPv2 clients +* Create sockets only in selected family with -4/-6 option +* Treat address bind errors as non-fatal +* Extend tracking log +* Accept float values as initstepslew threshold +* Allow hostnames in offline, online and burst commands +* Fix and improve peer polling +* Fix crash in config parsing with too many servers +* Fix crash with duplicated initstepslew address +* Fix delta calculation with extreme frequency offsets +* Set local stratum correctly +* Remove unnecessary adjtimex calls +* Set paths in documentation by configure +* Update chrony.spec + +New in version 1.27 +=================== + +* Support for stronger keys via NSS or libtomcrypt library +* Support reading leap second data from tz database +* Support for precise clock stepping on Linux +* Support for nanoseconds in SHM refclock +* Make offset corrections smoother on Linux +* Make transmit timestamps random below clock precision +* Add corrtimeratio and maxchange directives +* Extend tracking, sources and activity reports +* Wait in foreground process until daemon is fully initialized +* Fix crash with slow name resolving +* Fix iburst with jittery sources +* Fix offset stored in rtc data right after trimrtc +* Fix crash and hang with RTC or manual samples +* Don't use readonly adjtime on Linux kernels before 2.6.28 +* Changed chronyc protocol, incompatible with older versions + +New in version 1.26 +=================== + +* Add compatibility with Linux 3.0 and later +* Use proper source address in NTP replies on multihomed IPv6 hosts +* Accept NTP packets with versions 4, 3 and 2 +* Cope with unexpected backward time jumps +* Don't reset kernel frequency on start without drift file +* Retry on permanent DNS error by default +* Add waitsync command + +New in version 1.25 +=================== + +* Improve accuracy with NTP sources +* Improve accuracy with reference clocks +* Improve polling interval adjustment +* Improve stability with temporary asymmetric delays +* Improve source selection +* Improve initial synchronisation +* Add delayed server name resolving +* Add temperature compensation +* Add nanosecond slewing to Linux driver +* Add fallback drifts +* Add iburst, minstratum, maxdelaydevratio, polltarget, + prefer, noselect options +* Add rtcsync directive to enable Linux 11-minute mode +* Add reselectdist, stratumweight, logbanner, maxclockerror, + include directives +* Add -n option to not detach daemon from terminal +* Fix pidfile directive +* Fix name resolving with disabled IPv6 support +* Fix reloading sample histories with reference clocks +* Fix crash with auto_offline option +* Fix online command on auto_offline sources +* Fix file descriptor leaks +* Increase burst polling interval and stop on KoD RATE +* Set maxupdateskew to 1000 ppm by default +* Require password for clients command +* Update drift file at most once per hour +* Use system headers for Linux RTC support +* Reduce default chronyc timeout and make it configurable +* Avoid large values in chronyc sources and sourcestats output +* Add reselect command to force reselecting best source +* Add -m option to allow multiple commands on command line + +New in version 1.24 +=================== + +Security fixes +-------------- +* Don't reply to invalid cmdmon packets (CVE-2010-0292) +* Limit client log memory size (CVE-2010-0293) +* Limit rate of syslog messages (CVE-2010-0294) + +Bug fixes/Enhancements +---------------------- +* Support for reference clocks (SHM, SOCK, PPS drivers) +* IPv6 support +* Linux capabilities support (to drop root privileges) +* Memory locking support on Linux +* Real-time scheduler support on Linux +* Leap second support on Linux +* Support for editline library +* Support for new Linux readonly adjtime +* NTP client support for KoD RATE +* Read kernel timestamps for received NTP packets +* Reply to NTP requests with correct address on multihomed hosts +* Retry name resolving after temporary failure +* Fix makestep command, make it available on all systems +* Add makestep directive for automatic clock stepping +* Don't require _bigadj kernel symbol on NetBSD +* Avoid blocking read in Linux RTC driver +* Support for Linux on S/390 and PowerPC +* Fix various bugs on 64-bit systems +* Fix valgrind errors and compiler warnings +* Improve configure to support common options and variables +* Improve status checking and printing in chronyc +* Return non-zero exit code on errors in chronyc +* Reduce request timeout in chronyc +* Print estimated offset in sourcestats +* Changed chronyc protocol, incompatible with older versions + +New in version 1.23 +=================== + +* Support for MIPS, x86_64, sparc, alpha, arm, FreeBSD +* Fix serious sign-extension error in handling IP addresses +* RTC support can be excluded at compile time +* Make sources gcc-4 compatible +* Fix various compiler warnings +* Handle fluctuations in peer distance better. +* Fixed handling of stratum zero. +* Fix various problems for 64-bit systems +* Flush chronyc output streams after each command, to allow it to be driven + through pipes +* Manpage improvements + +Version 1.22 +============ + +This release number was claimed by a release that Mandriva made to patch +important bugs in 1.21. The official numbering has jumped to 1.23 as a +consequence. + +New in version 1.21 +=================== + +* Don't include Linux kernel header files any longer : allows chrony to compile + on recent distros. +* Stop trying to use RTC if continuous streams of error messages would occur + (Linux with HPET). + +New in version 1.20 +=================== + +* Many small tidy-ups and security improvements +* Improve documentation (RTC support in post 2.0 kernels) +* Remove trailing \n from syslog messages +* Syslog messages now include IP and port number when packet cannot be sent. +* Added the "acquisitionport" directive. (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo) +* Use uname(2) instead of /proc/version to get kernel version. +* Merge support for Linux on Alpha +* Merge support for 64bit architectures +* Don't link -lm if it's not needed +* Fix Solaris build (broken by 64bit change) +* Add detection of Linux 2.5 +* Allow arbitrary value of HZ in Linux kernel +* Fix for chrony.spec on SuSE (Paul Elliot) +* Fix handling of initstepslew if no servers are listed (John Hasler) +* Fix install rule in Makefile if chronyd is in use (Juliusz Chroboczek) +* Replace sprintf by snprintf to remove risk of buffer overrun (John Hasler) +* Add --help to configure script + +New in version 1.19 +=================== + +* Auto-detect kernel's timer interrupt rate (so-called 'HZ') when chronyd + starts instead of relying on compiled-in value. +* Fix 2 bugs in function that creates the directory for the log and dump files. +* Amended webpage URL and contact details. +* Generate more informative syslog messages before exiting on failed + assertions. +* Fix bugs in clamping code for the tick value used when slewing a large + offset. +* Don't chown files to root during install (should be pointless, and makes RPM + building awkward as ordinary user.) +* Include chrony.spec file for building RPMs + +New in version 1.18 +=================== +* Amend homepage and mailing list information to chrony.sunsite.dk +* Delete pidfile on exit from chronyd. +* Improvements to readline interface to chronyc +* Only generate syslog message when synchronisation is initially lost (instead + of on every failed synchronisation attempt) +* Use double fork approach when initialising daemon. +* More things in contrib directory. +* New options to help package builders: --infodir/--mandir for configure, and + DESTDIR=xxx for make. (See section 2.2 of chrony.txt for details). +* Changed the wording of the messages generated by mailonchange and logchange + directives. + +New in version 1.17 +=================== +* Port to NetBSD +* Configuration supports Linux on PPC +* Fix compilation warnings +* Several documentation improvements +* Bundled manpages (taken from the 'missing manpages project') +* Cope with lack of bzero function for Solaris 2.3 systems +* Store chronyd's pid in a file (default /var/run/chronyd.pid) and check if + chronyd may already be running when starting up. New pidfile directive in + configuration file. +* Any size subnet is now allowed in allow and deny commands. (Example: + 6.7.8/20 or 6.7.8.x/20 (any x) mean a 20 bit subnet). +* The environment variables CC and CFLAGS passed to configure can now be used + to select the compiler and optimisation/debug options to use +* Write syslog messages when chronyd loses synchronisation. +* Print GPL text when chronyc is run. +* Add NTP broadcast server capability (new broadcast directive). +* Add 'auto_offline' option to server/peer (conf file) or add server/peer (via + chronyc). +* Add 'activity' command to chronyc, to report how many servers/peers are + currently online/offline. +* Fix long-standing bug with how the system time quantum was calculated. +* Include support for systems with HZ!=100 (HZ is the timer interrupt + frequency). +* Include example chrony.conf and chrony.keys files (examples subdirectory). +* Include support for readline in chronyc. + +New in version 1.16.1 +===================== +* Fix compilation problem on Linux 2.4.13 (spinlock.h / spinlock_t) + +New in version 1.16 +=================== +* More informative captions for 'sources' and 'sourcestats' commands in chronyc + (use 'sources -v' and 'sourcestats -v' to get them). +* Correct behaviour for Solaris versions>=2.6 (dosynctodr not required on these + versions.) +* Remove some compiler warnings (Solaris) +* If last line of keys file doesn't have end-of-line, don't truncate final + character of that key. +* Change timestamp format used in logfiles to make it fully numeric (to aid + importing data into spreadsheets etc) +* Minor documentation updates and improvements. + +New in version 1.15 +=================== +* Add contributed change to 'configure' to support Solaris 2.8 on x86 +* Workaround for assertion failure that arises if two received packets occur + close together. (Still need to find out why this happens at all.) +* Hopefully fix problem where fast slewing was incompatible with machines + that have a large background drift rate (=> tick value went out of range + for adjtimex() on Linux.) +* Fix rtc_linux.c compile problems with 2.4.x kernel include files. +* Include support for RTC device not being at /dev/rtc (new rtcdevice directive + in configuration file). +* Include support for restricting network interfaces for commands (new + bindcmdaddress directive in configuration file) +* Fix potential linking fault in pktlength.c (use of CROAK macro replaced by + normal assert). +* Add some material on bug reporting + contributing to the chrony.texi file +* Made the chrony.texi file "Vim6-friendly" (removed xrefs on @node lines, + added folding markers to chapters + sections.) +* Switched over to GPL for the licence + +New in version 1.14 +=================== +* Fix compilation for certain other Linux distributions (including Mandrake + 7.1) + +New in version 1.13 +=================== +* Fixed compilation problems on Redhat/SuSE installations with recent 2.2.x + kernels. +* Minor tidy-ups and documentation enhancements. +* Add support for Linux 2.4 kernels + +New in version 1.12 +=================== + +* Trial fix for long-standing bug in Linux RTC estimator when system time is + slewed. +* Fix bug in chronyc if -h is specified without a hostname +* Fixes to logging various error conditions when operating in daemon mode. +* More stuff under contrib/ +* Changes to README file (e.g. about the new chrony-users mailing list) + +New in version 1.11a +==================== + +* Minor changes to contact details +* Minor changes to installation details (chrony subdirectory under doc/) + +New in version 1.11 +=================== + +* Improve robustness of installation procedure +* Tidy up documenation and contact details +* Distribute manual as .txt rather than as .ps +* Add -n option to chronyc to work with numeric IP addresses rather than + names. +* Add material in contrib subdirectory +* Improve robustness of handling drift file and RTC coefficients file +* Improve robustness of regression algorithm + +New in version 1.1 +================== + +Bug fixes +--------- + +* Made linear regression more resistant to rounding errors (old one + occasionally generated negative variances which made everything go + haywire). Trap infinite or 'not-a-number' values being used to + alter system clock to increase robustness further. + +Other changes/Enhancements +-------------------------- + +* Support for Linux 2.1 and 2.2 kernels + +* New command 'makestep' in chronyc to immediately jump the system + time to match the NTP estimated time (Linux only) - a response to + systems booting an hour wrong after summertime/wintertime changes, + due to RTCs running on local time. Needs extending to Sun driver + files too. + +* New directives 'logchange' and 'mailonchange' to log to syslog or + email to a specific address respectively if chronyd detects a clock + offset exceeding a defined threshold. + +* Added capability to log all client/peer NTP accesses and command + accesses (can be turned off with conf file directive 'noclientlog'). + Added 'clients' command to chronyc to display this data. + +* Improved manual mode to use robust regression rather than 2 point + fit. + +* Added 'manual list' and 'manual delete' commands to chronyc to + allow display of entered timestamps and discretionary deletion of + outliers. + +* If host goes unsynchronised the dummy IP address 0.0.0.0 is detected + to avoid attempting a reverse name lookup (to stop dial on demand IP + links from being started) + +* Changed chronyc/chronyd protocol so messages are now all variable + length. Saves on network bandwidth particularly for large replies + from chronyd to chronyc (to support the clients command). + +* Added bindaddress directive to configuration file, to give + additional control over limiting which hosts can access the local + server. + +* Groundwork done for a port to Windows NT to compile with Cygwin + toolkit. chronyc works (to monitor another host). sys_winnt.c + needs finishing to use NT clock control API. Program structure + needs adapting to use Windows NT service functions, so it can be + started at boot time. Hopefully a Windows NT / Cygwin guru with + some spare time can take this port over :-) + +New in version 1.02 +=================== + +Bug fixes +--------- + +* Fix error messages in chronyc if daemon is not reachable. + +* Fix config file problem for 'allow all' and 'deny all' without a + trailing machine address. + +* Remove fatal failed assertion if command socket cannot be read from + in daemon. + +* Rewrote timezone handling for Linux real time clock, following + various reported problems related to daylight saving. + +Other changes/Enhancements +-------------------------- + +* Configure script recognizes BSD/386 and uses SunOS 4.1 driver for + it. + +* Log files now print date as day-month-year rather than as a day + number. Milliseconds removed from timestamps of logged data. + Banners included in file to give meanings of columns. + +* Only do 1 initial step (followed by a trimming slew) when + initialising from RTC on Linux (previously did 2 steps). + +New in version 1.01 +=================== + +Bug fixes +--------- + +* Handle timezone of RTC correctly with respect to daylight saving + time + +* Syntax check the chronyc 'local' command properly + +* Fixed assertion failed fault in median finder (used by RTC + regression fitting) + +Other changes/Enhancements +-------------------------- + +* Log selection of new NTP reference source to syslog. + +* Don't zero-pad IP address fields + +* Add new command to chronyc to allow logfiles to be cycled. + +* Extend allow/deny directive syntax in configuration file to so + directive can apply to all hosts on the Internet. + +* Tidy up printout of timestamps to make it clear they are in UTC + +* Make 'configure' check the processor type as well as the operating + system. |