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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