Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:39:35 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT) Message-ID: <op.xllzz91ukndu52@82-171-231-144.ip.telfort.nl> In-Reply-To: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:10:24 +0200, John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote: > All of the following FreeBSD releases included stale NTP software at the > time of their release. > > 8.3-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p5) > 8.4-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p5) > 9.0-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.1-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.2-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 9.3-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > 10.0-RELEASE (ntp 4.2.4p8) > > ntp 4.2.4 is the version that shipped in all of the above releases and > is also included in 10-STABLE and 11-CURRENT at present. ntp 4.2.4 was > superseded by the ntp 4.2.6 release on 12-Dec-2009. Is there any > interest in getting a supported version of the ntp software into the > upcoming 10.1 release? I would have thought that the latest patch > release of the stable ntp version (4.2.6p5 24-DEC-2011) would be > appropriate? I know that the ntp folks are working on releasing 4.2.8 > but it isn't quite there yet. > > I understand that this is a volunteer project and that volunteers don't > have time to do everything. I'm just waving the flag in case this is > something that may have been overlooked. > > Thank you to all those committers who look after vendor imports for all > of the contributed software that helps make up the FreeBSD releases. > I think that before discussing 10.1 it is nice to create patches for 11-CURRENT and try to update it there. Ronald.
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