The NTPsec Project is pleased to announce the tagging of version 0.9.6.

ntpkeygen has been moved from C to Python. This is not a functional change, just another move to improve maintainability and reduce attack surface by decreasing line count.

ntpdig has also been moved from C to Python. Though this is also mostly a move to reduce line count, the new version does have some functional changes. Obsolete options have been dropped, logging is done a bit differently, and the synchronization-distance computation has been brought up to date with ntpd’s. Also, this version can be told to collect multiple samples and use whichever has the lowest combination of stratum and synch distance.

A new tool for time-service operators, ntpmon, supports real-time monitoring of your NTP installation’s status.

As always, you can download the release tarballs with sums and signatures from ftp://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/ and can clone the git repo from https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec.git

The GPG signatures for the tarball, sum file, and signed git tag can be checked with GPG key 0x05D9B371477C7528