• C-Kermit 11 released

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Tue Aug 4 06:40:09 2026
    For those of us with a long memory: John Goerzen has announced
    the release of C-Kermit 11, the first release of this file-transfer
    utility in 15 years.

    As Debian maintainer of Kermit, I noticed some areas where it
    wasn't matching modern expectations. One area was, not surprising
    for a project of its age, security. Another area was that its
    character set or line-ending conversions are usually not desired
    now; we are used to byte-identical binary transfers, and the
    defaults caused confusion and even some rare instances of data
    corruption. So I started making a few patches last year.

    See the
    changelog for details on the work that has been done.

    Most of us probably haven't thought about C-Kermit in years (if ever), but there was a time when it was an essential tool for moving files between machines.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1086953/
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