[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] More documentation polishing.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
5bba409c by Eric S. Raymond at 2017-09-21T12:14:39Z
More documentation polishing.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- NEWS
- docs/ntpsec.txt


Changes:

=====================================
NEWS
=====================================
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,19 +3,24 @@
 For historic news from NTP Classic, see devel/HISTORIC-NEWS in the
 distribution.
 
+Not all news features are described here; see docs/ntpsec.txt in the
+distribution.
+
 Much of the traditional function of a news file is now better addressed
 by browsing the comments in the revision history.  This file will focus
 on user-visible changes.
 
 == Repository Head ==
 
-The code size has been further reduced, to 56KLOC.
+The code size has been further reduced, to 55KLOC.
+
+A bug inherited from Classic that could cause bad peer's jitter to be
+incorrectly zeroed, producing erratic or slow startup, has been fixed 
 
-The depenendency local refclocks returning 4-digit years on
+The dependency of local refclocks returning 4-digit years on
 pre-synchronization to a network peer has been removed.  It is
 this possible to run in a fully-autonomous mode using multiple
-refclocks and no network peers. (Note however that this mode
-is not yet well tested and may not be stable.)
+refclocks and no network peers.
 
 ntpmon now reports units on time figures.
 


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docs/ntpsec.txt
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--- a/docs/ntpsec.txt
+++ b/docs/ntpsec.txt
@@ -162,7 +162,12 @@ codebase has been outright removed, with less than 5% new code added.
   from the system clock.  This means that (a) it is now possible for
   ntpd using a local clock source to recover from a trashed or zeroed
   system clock (e.g. at boot time on a system with missing or damaged
-  vattery back up) without requiring sync to a remote peer.
+  battery back up) without requiring sync to a remote peer.
+
+* We've fixed bug inherited from Classic that could cause the jitter
+  of a bad peer to be incorrectly zeroed, possibly causing that peer
+  to be selected.  This probably accounts for some flakiness within
+  8 polling intervals of startup on older versions.
 
 [[clients]]
 == Client Tool Improvements ==



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