NEWS for release

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Sep 5 00:50:09 UTC 2020


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> > Looking at the changelog, the only one that jumps out at me is James's new UI
> > options for ntpq. 
> 
> Should we have a policy of mentioning all UI changes?

I think so.  I've been trying to do that whenever I write NEWS entries.

> How about config file changes?

Well, sure. Not that I'm expecting any in the foreseeable future

> > After we ship I''ll get off my butt about the recvbuff cleanup.
> 
> What do you have in mind?
> 
> I think I have fixed all the get/free stupidities that used to be in the main 
> line server code so it isn't wasting CPU cycles.  There is still a free list.  
> I forget how it is used.  I think some/most refclocks use it, maybe only the 
> ones that read serial data.  It would be good to totally nuke the free list.

Totally nuking the free list was what I haf in mind.
 
> We should make a pass through devel/TODO.adoc and devel/TODO-NTS

Agreed,
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