Fedora 20 Update: ntp-4.2.6p5-18.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23048
2013-12-09 20:08:10
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 4.2.6p5
Release     : 18.fc20
URL         : http://www.ntp.org
Summary     : The NTP daemon and utilities
Description :
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with another reference time source. This package includes ntpd
(a daemon which continuously adjusts system time) and utilities used
to query and configure the ntpd daemon.

Perl scripts ntp-wait and ntptrace are in the ntp-perl package,
ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package.
The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.

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Update Information:

This update fixes refreshing of peer addresses on routing updates and a bug in calculation of the system root dispersion.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec  9 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-18
- fix calculation of root dispersion (#1037981)
- refresh peers on routing updates (#1028176)
- drop patch allowing -p and -u options to be used twice (#639101)
- remove unnecessary IPv6 restrict line from default ntp.conf
- replace hardening build flags with _hardened_build
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1037981 - Fix root distance and root dispersion calculations.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037981
  [ 2 ] Bug #1028176 - ntpd does not update dstadr when the routing table changes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028176
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ntp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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