Network Time Foundation Releases ntp-4.2.8-p8 Security Release NTF announced the release of ntp-4.2.8p8 on 2 June 2016. This release contains fixes for one high and four low severity security-related issues, a four bug fixes and contains other improvements since ntp-4.2.8p7, which was released on 26 April 2016. See the 2 June 2016 Security Announcement for… Read More
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EVENT: NTF to present at The Science of Time Symposium
Harlan Stenn of Network Time Foundation is presenting a talk entitled “When?” It’s a Basic Question That We Ask All the… Time at The Science of Time Symposium in Cambridge, MA, June 5-9. We hope you can join Harlan, Danny and Sue at this first annual Science of Time Symposium. The following is from the… Read More
NTF’s NTP Project and Linux Foundation/CII Update
Network Time Foundation wishes to thank the Linux Foundation’s Core Internet Initiative project for renewing its direct contracts with Harlan Stenn and Poul-Henning Kamp. These contracts cover approximately 35 hours a month of Harlan’s valuable NTP development work and almost a full day every week for Poul-Henning’s beneficial work on Ntimed. The rest of the… Read More
NTF releases ntp-4.2.8p7 security patch
Network Time Foundation Releases ntp-4.2.8-p7 Security Release NTF announced the release of ntp-4.2.8p7 on 26 April 2016. This release contains fixes for nine low and medium severity security-related issues, two security issue mitigations, 16 bug fixes, and code improvements since ntp-4.2.8p6, which was released on 19 January 2016. See the 26 April 2016 Security Announcement… Read More
NTF Interviewed on Open Source
NTF President Harlan Stenn and Director of Client Services Sue Graves were interviewed by Information Weeks Charles Babcock recently. During the interview, the subject of funding open source protocols like NTP came up. The Network Time Foundation saw a big jump in funding in 2015. While it’s a step in the right direction, there’s still… Read More
NTF 2015 Accomplishments
NTF 2015 Accomplishments – a Report to the Community At Network Time Foundation, we are very passionate about time. In 2015, we accomplished a lot, though, like most open source projects (also see), our budget was quite constrained, so financial support and/or volunteering was, and still is, welcomed. Significant progress was made on PTPd, Ntimed,… Read More
NTF releases ntp-4.2.8p6 security patch
January 2016 NTP 4.2.8p6 Security Vulnerability Announcement NTF announced the release of ntp-4.2.8p6 on 19 January 2016. This release contains nine security-related fixes, two security issue mitigations, and some minor bug fixes and code improvements since NTP 4.2.8p5, which was released on 7 January 2016. Bug 2948 / CVE-2015-8158: Potential Infinite Loop in ntpq CVSS2:… Read More
Taking stock of time
“You may delay, but time will not.”- Benjamin Franklin We offer our sincere thanks to all of the organizations and people who contributed and supported Network Time Foundation’s efforts to implement, develop and advance the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP) Standards and projects over this past year. Your help has been… Read More
NTF releases NTP Security patches in ntp-4.2.8p4
Network Time Foundation (NTF) releases ntp-4.2.8p4 containing several security patches. NTF’s NTP Project has released ntp-4.2.8p4, which fixes thirteen (13) low- and medium-severity security bugs and also includes about 100 bug fixes and code improvements since 4.2.8p3, which was released on the 29th of June, 2015. Here is a summary, and see NTF’s NTP Project’s… Read More
EVENT: NTF to attend ISPCS Symposium in Beijing
Richard Garling and Wojciech Owczarek will be attending the 2015 ISPCS – International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication. Come talk with us about Network Time Protocol, PTP, General Timestamp and other time projects at the Plugfest or technical conference starting October 11th – October 16th. We hope to see… Read More
