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
Freshmeat
Identi.ca
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 rc@archive.ntp.org for the current Stable Release Candidate
finger dev@archive.ntp.org for the current Development Release

Freshmeat

Freshmeat members may subscribe to the NTP Project on Freshmeat and receive e-mail release notifications through that site.

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, Identi.ca, IM and SMS

Abbreviated announcements are posted on the NTP TWitter page and NTP Identi.ca page. Users of these micro-blogging services who add NTP as a friend will see these announcements on their own pages.

TWitter and Identi.ca users may choose to receive these abbreviated release announcements through their micro-blogging service's IM gateway. Please check your micro-blogging service iprovider's web-site for the currently supported IM services and gateway status.

Twitter and Identi.ca 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.