Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

C-Kermit 11 has been released — the first new release in 15 years — marking 45 years of the Kermit file transfer protocol. John Goerzen, Debian maintainer, dove into the decades-old C codebase and found it surprisingly enjoyable to work with. Key improvements include security fixes (memory safety, protection against malicious remotes), IPv6 support, binary transfer defaults, a new 'show interfaces' command, and nearly 2000 unit and end-to-end tests. The project has moved to a new Open Kermit organization with modern CI running on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. The release is dedicated to Frank da Cruz, who was involved with Kermit for 44 years from its 1981 inception through 2025.

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