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  2. RHEL-112593

Rebase chrony to 4.8 [rhel-10]

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      4.8
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      Enhancements
      - Added maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources
      - Added -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges
      - Added opencommands directive to select remote monitoring commands
      - Added waitsynced and waitunsynced options to local directive
      - Added RTC refclock driver
      - PHC refclock can be specified with network interface name
      - Added detection of clock interference from other processes

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      - Hide chronyc socket to mitigate unsafe permissions change
      - Validate refclock samples for reachability updates
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      Version: 4.8 List of highlights: Enhancements - Added maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources - Added -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges - Added opencommands directive to select remote monitoring commands - Added waitsynced and waitunsynced options to local directive - Added RTC refclock driver - PHC refclock can be specified with network interface name - Added detection of clock interference from other processes Bug fixes - Hide chronyc socket to mitigate unsafe permissions change - Validate refclock samples for reachability updates
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      Consider updating chrony to the latest upstream version 4.8, which has a number of bug fixes and improvements when compared to the 4.6.1 currently in RHEL:

      https://chrony-project.org/news.html#_27_aug_2025_chrony_4_8_released

       

              rhn-support-mlichvar Miroslav Lichvar
              rhn-support-mlichvar Miroslav Lichvar
              Miroslav Lichvar Miroslav Lichvar
              Ondrej Mejzlik Ondrej Mejzlik
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