Fixes
- Fixed an overflow bug in the clock offset calculation introduced by release v1.4.2.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug in clock offset calculation.
Updates
- Upgraded package dependencies to retrieve security fixes.
Changes
- Added a protocol
Version
field to theResponse
struct.
Changes
- Added AES-256-CMAC support for symmetric authentication.
- Symmetric auth keys may now be specified as ASCII or HEX using the "ASCII:" or "HEX:" prefixes.
- Updated dependencies to address security issues.
Fixes
- Added proper handling of the empty string when used as a server address.
Changes
- Added the
ReferenceString
function toResponse
. This generates a stratum-specific string for theReferenceID
value. - Optimized the AES CMAC calculation for 64-bit architectures.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug introduced in release v1.2.0 that was causing IPv6 addresses to be interpreted incorrectly.
Changes
- Added support for NTP extensions by exposing an extension interface. Extensions are able to (1) modify NTP messages before being sent to the server, and (2) process NTP messages after they arrive from the server. This feature has been added in preparation for NTS support.
- Added support for RFC 5905 symmetric key authentication.
- Allowed server address to be specified as a "host:port" pair.
- Brought package into further compliance with IETF draft on client data minimization.
- Declared error variables as part of the public API.
- Added a
Dialer
field toQueryOptions
. This replaces the deprecatedDial
field. - Added an
IsKissOfDeath
function to theResponse
type.
Deprecated
- Deprecated the
Port
field in QueryOptions. - Deprecated the
Dial
field in QueryOptions.
Fixes
- Fixed a missing indirect go module dependency.
Changes
- Added the
Dial
property to theQueryOptions
struct. This allows the user to override the default UDP dialer when setting up a connection to a remote NTP server.
This package has been stable for several years with no bug reports in that time. It is also pretty much feature complete. I am therefore updating the version to 1.0.0.
Because this is a major release, all previously deprecated code has been removed from the package.
Breaking changes
- Removed the
TimeV
function. UseTime
orQueryWithOptions
instead.
Changes
- Rename unit tests to enable easier test filtering.
There have been no breaking changes or further deprecations since the previous release.
Changes
- Fixed a bug in the calculation of NTP timestamps.
There are no breaking changes or further deprecations in this release.
Changes
- Added
KissCode
to theResponse
structure.
Breaking changes
- Removed the
MaxStratum
constant.
Deprecations
- Officially deprecated the
TimeV
function.
Internal changes
- Removed
minDispersion
from theRootDistance
calculation, since the value was arbitrary. - Moved some validation into main code path so that invalid
TransmitTime
andmode
responses trigger an error even whenResponse.Validate
is not called.
This is the initial release of the ntp
package. Currently it supports the
following features:
Time()
to query the current time according to a remote NTP server.Query()
to query multiple pieces of time-related information from a remote NTP server.QueryWithOptions()
, which is likeQuery()
but with the ability to override default query options.
Time-related information returned by the Query
functions includes:
Time
: the time the server transmitted its response, according to the server's clock.ClockOffset
: the estimated offset of the client's clock relative to the server's clock. You may apply this offset to any local system clock reading once the query is complete.RTT
: an estimate of the round-trip-time delay between the client and the server.Precision
: the precision of the server's clock reading.Stratum
: the "stratum" level of the server, where 1 indicates a server directly connected to a reference clock, and values greater than 1 indicating the number of hops from the reference clock.ReferenceID
: A unique identifier for the NTP server that was contacted.ReferenceTime
: The time at which the server last updated its local clock setting.RootDelay
: The server's round-trip delay to the reference clock.RootDispersion
: The server's total dispersion to the referenced clock.RootDistance
: An estimate of the root synchronization distance.Leap
: The leap second indicator.MinError
: A lower bound on the clock error between the client and the server.Poll
: the maximum polling interval between successive messages on the server.
The Response
structure returned by the Query
functions also contains a
Response.Validate()
function that returns an error if any of the fields
returned by the server are invalid.