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<h1>Recommended update for chrony</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2026:21014-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-04-09T11:57:51Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544">bsc#1246544</a>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Micro 6.2</li>
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<p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for chrony fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources</li>
<li>Add -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges (default
chronyc user is set by configure script)</li>
<li>Fix refclock extpps option to work on Linux greater than or equal to 6.15</li>
<li>Validate refclock samples for reachability updates</li>
<li>Fix racy socket creation (bsc#1246544)</li>
<li>Add opencommands directive to select remote monitoring commands</li>
<li>Add interval option to driftfile directive</li>
<li>Add waitsynced and waitunsynced options to local directive</li>
<li>Add sanity checks for integer values in configuration</li>
<li>Add support for systemd Type=notify service</li>
<li>Add RTC refclock driver</li>
<li>Allow PHC refclock to be specified with network interface name</li>
<li>Do not require multiple refclock samples per poll to simplify filter configuration</li>
<li>Keep refclock reachable when dropping samples with large delay</li>
<li>Improve quantile-based filtering to adapt faster to larger delay</li>
<li>Improve logging of selection failures</li>
<li>Detect clock interference from other processes</li>
<li>Try to reopen message log (-l option) on cyclelogs command</li>
<li>Fix sourcedir reloading to not multiply sources</li>
<li>Fix tracking offset after failed clock step</li>
<li>Drop support for NTS with Nettle less than 3.6 and GnuTLS less than 3.6.14</li>
<li>Drop support for building without POSIX threads</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.2
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-503=1</code>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>chrony-debugsource-4.8-160000.1.1</li>
<li>chrony-4.8-160000.1.1</li>
<li>chrony-debuginfo-4.8-160000.1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>chrony-pool-empty-4.8-160000.1.1</li>
<li>chrony-pool-suse-4.8-160000.1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544</a>
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