From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 11:55:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 448B534A for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04ABA1BFB for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XP8uX-0007Pg-7d for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:39:37 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT) References: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:39:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (FreeBSD) X-Authenticated-As-Hash: 398f5522cb258ce43cb679602f8cfe8b62a256d1 X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: -0.2 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: 5a1627636b35b65657045ef62631cd80 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:55:33 -0000 On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:10:24 +0200, John Marshall 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 superseded by the ntp 4.2.6 release on 12-Dec-2009.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.