{
  "id": 98530,
  "title": "C-Kermit 11 released",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/c-kermit-11-released",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-03T18:15:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1086953/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}