C-KERMIT 10.0 DEVELOPMENT
For greater detail see https://www.kermitproject.org/ckupdates.html .
C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.04 03 Jun 2022
C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.03 02 Jun 2022
C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.02 17 May 2022
Corrects two fatal syntax affecting only non-ANSI-C builds.
C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.01 16 May 2022
Alpha.07 in its basic configuration (e.g. no Kerberos or SSL support) seems to have been OK on every platform tested, aside from the ever-increasing assortment of picky-compiler warnings. So after some polishing-up and a major version-number promotion, we have the first Beta test.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.07 01 Jan 2022
We have our first successful build with a REAL (not simulated) non-ANSI K&R non-optimizing C compiler (HP-UX 11.11 with Bundled compiler). Built successfuly for the first time in a decade with MIT Kerberos 5. This was on Red Had Linux 6.10. "make install" was failing because some text file were missing in tar/zip archives. Numerous picky compiler warnings silenced.
I'm not sure it makes sense to bundle a lot of long plain-text files in tar and zip archives: the edit history, installation instruction, the "beware" files, the configuration options file, the C-Kermit program logic manual, sample initialization files, etc. They are all available as web pages on the Kermit website and most of them haven't changed in a long time.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.06 15 Dec 2021
At some point since the last real release of C-Kermit (9.0.302 in 2011) some ANSI C constructions snuck into the code so pre-ANSI (e.g. K&R) C compilers could no longer build C-Kermit. This has been fixed in Alpha.06, along with numerous picky-compiler warnings. Vielen Dank to Peter Eichhorn of Assyst GmbH, Aschheim-Dornach, Germany, "Herr HP-UX C-Kermit".
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.05 14 Dec 2021
New support for 1,500,000bps serial port speed for platforms that offer it. Numerous adjustments to APIs, header files, and C compilers that changed out from under C-Kermit. A file-transfer bug fixed that resulted in the truncation of the filename when using ultra-short packets. Also a problem was fixed that occured when transferring any file that contained 0xff bytes through an external Xmodem protocol. Most notably we have successful builds on modern VMS operating system versions on various hardware platforms.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.04 14 Sep 2020
Improvements for VMS builds; most importantly the source-code Zip file was fixed to include no carriage returns; one or more previous versions contained a mix of LF and CRLF format files, which was fatal for VMS. Also included: about nine minor changes to address warnings from the VMS build. The Zip file for Alpha.04 was created by Zip 3.0 on NetBSD 9.0.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.03 (not published)
Some small changes involving errno, SSL ciphers, some declarations, etc.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 19 Sep 2020
No functional changes since last time, but about 30 compile-time warnings that were reported by gcc 9.3.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.1 are fixed. The result compiles without warnings there, and also on OpenBSD 9 and Red Hat 6.1.
C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.01 24 Jul 2020
Contains to patch to work around the disappearance of the GNU standard I/O library symbol "__FILE_defined" from glibc-based Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu. I was not ready to release a new version of C-Kermit yet, but this forces the issue.
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C-KERMIT 9.0.304 PRERELEASE TESTING
9.0.304 Dev.24 25 Apr 2020
Some improvements to date/time parsing to allow the straightforward processing of Apache web logs, and fixed big in which the CHANGE command could cause a segmentation fault.
9.0.304 Dev.23 4 Sep 2018
After using Dev.22 heavily myself for 3 years, I put it up for download as Dev.23 on 31 January 2020 but dated 4 Sep 2018.
9.0.304 Dev.22 30 April 2017
Improved parsing of macro arguments that are grouped versus those that contained grouping characters as data. Command-parsing error messages improved somewhat but more work is needed. Some improvements to \fsplit(). Some improvements to the handling of built-in internal macros such as IF, FOR, and SWITCH. The command parsing changes were actually quite massive and fundamental, so this version was never uploaded to the Web/FTP site.
9.0.304 Dev.21 21 April 2017
A development (pre-alpha, pre-beta) release. The only siginifcant change is a new ability to allow the FOPEN command to "open" the standard input stream via a new command FOPEN /STDIN. This allows Kermit scripts to read the output of another program through a pipe, as in Unix, using its regular FREAD command. There are also some minor additions to the S-Expression (LISP) command repertoire. Dev.20 of February 16, 2016, was just a bug fix for Mac OS X.
Fri Feb 5 20:38:11 2016
This is C-Kermit 9.0.304 Dev.19, a development (pre-alpha, pre-beta) version of the first new release of C-Kermit since the cancelation of the Kermit Project at Columbia University. Since 1 July 2011, C-Kermit is Open Source software, released under the modified 3-clause Berkeley License. The changes since version 9.0.302 are detailed at the bottom of the NOTES.TXT file.
Major New Features:
. Android support. . The CHANGE command (type "help change" for details). . The TOUCH command (type "help touch" for details). . Locale support for dates, times, error messages, etc. . A way to direct messages to stderr. . A new \ffilecompare() function. . GREP /ARRAY:&x puts the results in the array &x.
Major Problems Fixed:
Crash when receiving files with Kermit protocol on certain 64-bit platforms such as OpenBSD on Sparc64, caused by conflicting int/long declarations.
Custom builds using certain combinations of feature-selection flags would fail.
Linux builds becoming increasingly problematic with the neverending proliferation of Linux distributions, each one doing things differently.
Problems parsing certain REMOTE commands.
DIRECTORY /BRIEF /EXCEPT:xxx didn't work, now it does.
Numerous problems with OpenSSL as it changes out from under us.a
All these need testing. To see a summary of the changes in each development version, see:
http://www.kermitproject.org/ckdaily.html
The current development version is packaged as follows:
In ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/test/text/ :
README.TXT This file cku304dev19.tar Unix source code, tar archive cku304dev19.tar.Z Ditto, compressed cku304dev19.tar.gz Ditto, gzipped cku304dev19.zip Unix and VMS source code, Zip archive
In ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/test/text/ :
Individual source files
The documentation files that accompany a real release are not included, since they have not changed and remain available in the normal places:
http://www.kermitproject.org/ckermit.html (C-Kermit Web) ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/ckermit/ (C-Kermit FTP area) ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/archives/ (Tar/Zip FTP area)
Executable binaries are not distributed because there is not enough space or bandwidth for them on the Kermit Project's new host. Binaries prior to October 2011 remain available on the Columbia University Kermit website (which is frozen and will not change):
http://kermit.columbia.edu/ (CU Kermit home page) http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckbinaries.html (C-Kermit binaries)
Unpacking and building instructions are here:
http://www.kermitproject.org/ckdaily.html
Briefly: Unpack the archive into a fresh directory and run the build procedure. In Unix do "make linux" (or whatever); in VMS do "@ckvker.com". Upon success, the result will be an executable wermit file (WERMIT.EXE in VMS) in the same directory. It's called wermit instead of kermit to avoid overriding any production version that might be in the same directory.
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