[chrony-users] chrony-3.4-pre1 released

[Miroslav Lichvar]

The first prerelease for chrony-3.4 is now available.

The source code can be downloaded here:
https://download.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony-3.4-pre1.tar.gz

MD5 and SHA1 sums:
a1282082911e36c9db1ee442a23f88e3 chrony-3.4-pre1.tar.gz
adce8a72cff69549499fcb5f97d6ffcd1e4bd5dc chrony-3.4-pre1.tar.gz

Changes since version 3.3:

Enhancements
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* Add filter option to server/pool/peer directive
* Add minsamples and maxsamples options to hwtimestamp directive
* Add support for faster frequency adjustments in Linux 4.19
* Change default pidfile to /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid to allow
chronyd without root privileges to remove it on exit
* Disable sub-second polling intervals for distant NTP sources
* Extend range of supported sub-second polling intervals
* Get/set IPv4 destination/source address of NTP packets on FreeBSD
* Make burst options and command useful with short polling intervals
* Modify auto_offline option to activate when sending request failed
* Respond from interface that received NTP request if possible
* Add onoffline command to switch between online and offline state
according to current system network configuration
* Improve example NetworkManager dispatcher script

Bug fixes
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* Avoid waiting in Linux getrandom system call
* Fix PPS support on FreeBSD and NetBSD

[Miroslav Lichvar]

Post by Miroslav Lichvar
* Change default pidfile to /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid to allow
chronyd without root privileges to remove it on exit

Please note that if you are using systemd, you will need to change the
PIDFile in the unit file in order to avoid systemd killing the daemon
when it doesn't find the PID in the expected location.

systemd needs to be told by "systemctl daemon-reload" that the unit
file has changed before restarting the service.

Downstream packagers, please consider fixing PIDFile in custom unit
files (in /etc/systemd/system) in upgrade scripts using a sed command
to minimize the breakage.

I'm sorry for the trouble this change will cause. It had to be done to
fix chronyd -q (aka ntpdate mode) to not break chronyd running as a
service.