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shield Recommended update for chrony
SUSE-SLES-16.0-503

This update for chrony fixes the following issues: - Add maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources - Add -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges (default chronyc user is set by configure script) - Fix refclock extpps option to work on Linux greater than or equal to 6.15 - Validate refclock samples for reachability updates - Fix racy socket creation (bsc#1246544) - Add opencommands directive to select remote monitoring commands - Add interval option to driftfile directive - Add waitsynced and waitunsynced options to local directive - Add sanity checks for integer values in configuration - Add support for systemd Type=notify service - Add RTC refclock driver - Allow PHC refclock to be specified with network interface name - Do not require multiple refclock samples per poll to simplify filter configuration - Keep refclock reachable when dropping samples with large delay - Improve quantile-based filtering to adapt faster to larger delay - Improve logging of selection failures - Detect clock interference from other processes - Try to reopen message log (-l option) on cyclelogs command - Fix sourcedir reloading to not multiply sources - Fix tracking offset after failed clock step - Drop support for NTS with Nettle less than 3.6 and GnuTLS less than 3.6.14 - Drop support for building without POSIX threads

  • Release Date
    Apr 9 2026
  • References
    Bugzilla: 1246544
  • Type
    recommended
  • Severity
    moderate

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 aarch64
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 ppc64le
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 s390x
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 x86_64
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 ppc64le
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 x86_64
  • Packages
    chrony
    System Clock Synchronization Client and Server
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-empty
    Empty pool preconfiguration for chrony
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    chrony-pool-suse
    Chrony preconfiguration for SUSE
    4.8-160000.1.1 lock rpm