The reset command drops all measurements and switches the reference to
the unsynchronised state. This command can help chronyd with recovery
when the measurements are known to be no longer valid or accurate, e.g.
due to moving the computer to a different network, or resuming the
computer from a low-power state (which resets the system clock).
Allow the nts and ntsport options to be specified for sources added from
chronyc. This is an incompatible change in the request, but there was no
release using the new REQ_ADD_SOURCE command yet.
Specify a new request to get the name of the NTP source corresponding to
an address, which was originally specified in the configuration file or
chronyc add command.
Modify the request for adding a source to provide the name of the source
instead of its address (resolved in chronyc) in order to enable chronyd
to replace the source, support an "add pool" command, and enable an NTS
client to verify the server's certificate.
The name resolving does not block the response. Success is indicated
even if the name cannot be resolved, or a source with the same address
is already present.
To prevent unresolvable names from getting to chronyd, chronyc does not
send the request if it could not resolve the name itself (assuming they
are both running on the same host using the same resolver).
The onoffline command tells chronyd to switch all sources to the online
or offline status according to the current network configuration. A
source is considered online if it is possible to send requests to it,
i.e. a route to the network is present.
Make the length of responses containing manual samples constant to
simplify the protocol. It was the only type of response that had a
variable length.
This reverts commit 2343e7a89c.
When the burst option is specified in the server/pool directive and the
current poll is longer than the minimum poll, initiate on each poll a
burst with 1 good sample and 2 or 4 total samples according to the
difference between the current and minimum poll.
Add xleave option to the peer directive to enable an interleaved mode
compatible with ntpd. This allows peers to exchange transmit timestamps
captured after the actual transmission and significantly improve
the accuracy of the measurements.
Replace struct timeval with struct timespec as the main data type for
timestamps. This will allow the NTP code to work with timestamps in
nanosecond resolution.
There was an incompatible change in the client access report. To avoid
bumping the protocol version drop support for the original request/reply
types and define new CLIENT_ACCESSES_BY_INDEX2 types as a newer version
of the command.
The clientlog record still uses 16-bit integers to count dropped
packets, but this will avoid an incompatible change in the command
reply if there will be a need to count more than 2^16 drops.
Require that at least one of the sources specified with this option is
selectable (i.e. recently reachable and not a falseticker) before
updating the clock. Together with the trust option this may be useful to
allow a trusted, but not very precise, reference clock or a trusted
authenticated NTP source to be safely combined with unauthenticated NTP
sources in order to improve the accuracy of the clock. They can be
selected and used for synchronization only if they agree with the
trusted and required source.
Assume time from a source that is specified with the trust option is
always true. It can't be rejected as falseticker in the source
selection if sources that are specified without this option don't agree
with it.
Add new fields from clientlog to the report and print them in chronyc.
Rework the code to skip empty records in the hash table. The reply no
longer has variable length, all client fields are filled even if some
are empty. Reply with RPY_NULL when the facility is disabled.
The second form configures the automatic stepping, similarly to the
makestep directive. It has two parameters, stepping threshold (in
seconds) and number of future clock updates for which will be the
threshold active. This can be used with the burst command to quickly
make a new measurement and correct the clock by stepping if needed,
without waiting for chronyd to complete the measurement and update the
clock.
The status codes STT_BADPKTVERSION, STT_BADPKTLENGTH, STT_NOHOSTACCESS
were sent even to hosts that were not allowed by cmdallow. Deprecate
STT_NOHOSTACCESS and ignore packets from hosts not allowed by cmdallow
completely.
To prevent an attacker using chronyd in an amplification attack, change
the protocol to include padding in request packets so that the largest
possible reply is not larger than the request. Request packets that
don't include this padding are ignored as invalid.
This is an incompatible change in the protocol. Clients from chrony
1.27, 1.28 and 1.29 will receive NULL reply with STT_BADPKTVERSION and
print "Protocol version mismatch". Clients from 1.26 and older will not
receive a reply as it would be larger than the request if it was padded
to be compatible with their protocol.
In chronyd the maximum number of manual samples is 16, so there is no
need to keep room for 32 samples in the command reply. This limits the
maximum assumed size of the reply packet.
Support for the SUBNETS_ACCESSED and CLIENT_ACCESSES commands was
enabled in chronyd, but in chronyc it was always disabled and the
CLIENT_ACCESSES_BY_INDEX command was used instead. As there is no plan
to enable it in the future, remove the support completely.
Allow different hash functions to be used in the NTP and cmdmon
protocols. This breaks the cmdmon protocol compatibility. Extended key
file format is used to specify the hash functions for chronyd and new
authhash command is added to chronyc. MD5 is the default and the only
function included in the chrony source code, other functions will be
available from libraries.
