December 10, 2004

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenNTPD 3.6.1.
This is our second formal release, which includes improvents and 
enhancements done after the OpenNTPD 3.6 release.

OpenNTPD is a time syncronization application, allowing network-based
time syncronization, either to a number of time servers or to a single
"master" time server. OpenNTPD keeps a machine's local clock in sync
with a number of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers, and can
redistribute the local clock, being an NTP server itself.

The default configuration file will sync the computer's time
to pool.ntp.org, a large group of NTP servers from around
the world, which is a good timekeeping solution for many OpenNTPD users.
This means that for many people, using OpenNTPD consists of just running
the installed program -- the default configuation is useful and "safe".

Highlights include:
-Support for the Network Time Protocol, per RFC 1305 and 2030
-low memory footprint
-easy, straightforward configuration file and command line options
-complete and accurate manpages
-Written using secure and reliable programming techniques, including 
 privilege separation and exclusive use of bounded buffer operations
-OpenNTPD can now account for large clock offsets at startup by
 setting the time hard instead of stepping, making the use of
 rdate or ntpdate prior to startup superfluous.

OpenNTPD is in use in many production environments.

OpenNTPD comes with OpenBSD 3.6, or can be downloaded seperately 
from one of the mirrors listed at http://www.openntpd.org/.

OpenNTPD is developed as part of the OpenBSD project, which offers CDs, 
T-Shirts and Posters. Sales of these items help funding OpenNTPD
development. Orders can be placed via 
  http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

OpenNTPD is primarily written by Henning Brauer. Many thanks to the
whole OpenBSD developer base and especially Theo de Raadt for their
continued help and support.