Release Notifications and Information

Notifications
Links and Information

Notifications

Notifications about new versions of NTP are available in the following ways:

Service	Stable	Development	Download	Changes
E-mail
Finger
IM
IRC
RSS
SMS
Twitter
Usenet

E-mail

Announcements are made through the following mailing-lists:

Development Releases
- hackers@lists.ntp.org
Stable Releases
- announce@lists.ntp.org
- questions@lists.ntp.org

Finger

Current version, release date and size are available from the archive.ntp.org finger daemon

finger ntp@archive.ntp.org for the current Stable Release
finger ntp-rc@archive.ntp.org for the current Stable Release Candidate
finger ntp-dev@archive.ntp.org for the current Development Release

IRC

Abbreviated release announcements are made on the NTP Reference Implementation support channel, #ntp, on irc.freenode.net

RSS

The current releases of NTP are listed on the Current Versions of NTP RSS feed. You will need an RSS Reader to view this feed; some contemporary web-browsers include an RSS Reader. Please visit the DMOZ Feed Readers directory for a list of RSS Readers.

Add our releases feed to your web-site using the following JavaScript from www.feedbucket.com:

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Twitter, IM and SMS

Abbreviated announcements are posted on the NTP TWitter page. Twitter users who add NTP as a friend will see these announcements on their Twitter page.

TWitter users may choose to receive these abbreviated release announcements through the Twitter IM gateway. Please check the TWitter web-site for the currently supported IM services.

Twitter users may choose to receive these abbreviated announcements on their mobile phones through the Twitter SMS gateway. Your mobile phone provider may charge for this service.