Welcome to Kermit 95 2.1.00 Release Candidate 1

Thu Oct 24 15:30:00 2002 EDT

K95 2.1 is primarily a bug fix release to the 2.0 release. The 2.1 release will be shrinkwrapped, unlike the 2.0 release. The next release to follow will be 3.0 which will have significant new functionality.

BETA TEST GOALS

Through the beta test period we hope to gain feedback on the following:

Test the new features of the updated GUI, Terminal, TCP/IP and Printer Configuration pages in the dialer.

Ensure that scripts that worked with previous releases continue to work. Especially scripts that make use of SET HOST commands with optional switches.

Ensure that all bugs listed as fixed in the newbugs.txt file are indeed fixed.

We hope this beta will be very short. On the order of a week or two.

CHANGES SINCE BETA.5

Finished updating the Kermit 95 HTML manual.
Updated the Emerson Mono Terminal font which includes Horizontal Scan Line glyphs.
Fixed Overlapped I/O serial port handling when the number of I/O buffers was 1.
Fixed File Seeking which was used during file transfer Zmodem file transfer resumption.
Fixed reception of Zmodem file transfers of length zero.
Corrected Compose key table for non-breaking space.
Updated ORIENTATION command to describe locations of K95SITE.INI and K95CUSTOM.INI.

CHANGES SINCE BETA.4

Most of the online Kermit 95 Manual has been updated.
SET GUI MENUBAR OFF disabled some of the menu functions but only temporarily. The menu was being re-initialized each time the K95G frame window was brought to the foreground. This has been fixed.
When K95 accepts a handle on the command line with the -j _handle syntax, K95 was initiating Telnet Protocol Option negotiations. This has been fixed.
Added SET TERMINAL ATTRIBUTE DIM { ON, OFF }
Added new built-in variables: log_packets, log_transaction, log_debug, log_session, log_connection
The dialer generated incorrect script commands for MINIMIZE and MAXIMIZE run modes.

CHANGES SINCE BETA.3

Updated the security and ckermit 8.0 update documentation files.
Fixed GPF error caused by switching the fontname
Fixed Zmodem receiver Time Remaining calculations
Modified serial port write timeout values for modem connections
Fixed RMDIR command
Fixed Help->Via the Web->Kermit 95 Technical FAQ link
Added No EOL versions of the markcopyclip and markcopyhost keyboard verbs and assigned them to Button 1 Alt-Drag and Button 2 Alt-Drag respectively.

CHANGES SINCE BETA.2

Installer no longer installs CTL3d32.DLL on XP or 2000. MSVCRT.DLL installed into K95 executable directory.
More new variables for the GUI: gui_fontname and gui_fontsize
SSH AGENT error messages updated
When GUI window is maximized, the gap between terminal window output and frame window is now filled with default erase color based upon terminal type instead of being left unpainted.

CHANGES SINCE BETA.1

Improvements to the Font Resizing when the number of columns is altered while the K95 GUI window is maximized
The display of DIM characters has been changed from thin font (usually normal) with high intensity bit set to thick font without the high intensity bit set.
SET GUI TOOLBAR OFF does no longer disables the functionality of the Switch to K95 Dialer or Switch to/from Command Screen buttons.
The Dialer's Terminal screen no longer crashes if you select ANNARBOR as the terminal type.

NEW FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

The following is a summary of new features or changes that have taken place since the 2.0 release:

The MIT Kerberos distribution was updated to KFW 2.2 + KRB5 1.2.6

The OpenSSL distribution was updated

Fixed autodownload zmodem transfers over SSL/TLS or TELNET START_TLS connections

Added support for ssh://hostname URLs on the command line

Added new Kermit variables:

gui_runmode = restored, minixmized, maximized
gui_xpos, gui_ypos = pixel position of upper left corner of the gui window
gui_xres, gui_yres = pixel height/width of maximized window

Changed Terminal Autodownload to Yes/No/Ask. Ask is now the default. Filename Save As dialogs are provided to allow the user to change the Save As name for each file transferred via Kermit/XYZModem or initiated by command line URL processing.

Username and Passwords may now be specified for SOCKS and HTTP Proxy connections.

Added SET TERMINAL ROLL KEYSTROKES { RESTORE-AND-SEND, IGNORE, SEND } command to allow auto restoration of the scrollback buffer when user input is received. Default is SEND.

The Session Log Keyboard Verb and Action->Capture menu item now produce a Save As dialog

Many FTP client improvements. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/newftp.html
SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT setting would be reset at the wrong time.
GUI TOOLBAR and selected MENUBAR functionality can be disabled at run time with new commands: SET GUI { MENUBAR, TOOLBAR } OFF. Once disabled they cannot be re-enabled.
When accessing the K95 Dialer via the File->Connections menu item the current K95 session is no longer re-used if a connection is currently active.
The Dialer is now notified about FTP Connection status.
SET GUI WINDOW RUN-MODE { MINIMIZE, MAXIMIZE, RESTORE } as been added with equivalent functionality in the Dialer.
Incomplete SUN console and AnnArbor terminal support added.
Windows user name no longer provided as default in dialogs for SSH and FTP connections.
Several scrollback buffer vs scrollbar bugs fixed
SET COMMAND CURSOR-POSITION fixed
Fixed /POPUP dialogs in the GUI version
Windows XP TAPI dialing rules were improperly parsed
Fixed: SET AUTH TLS VERIFY NO did not disable hostname checking
SSH-AGENT functionality has been fixed.
SSH KEY CREATE was converted to use dialogs
--fontname on the command line no longer causes a fata error if the specified facename does not exist
Default RGB values in the dialer changed to 127 from 128
FTP character-set translation fixed.
New SET CD HOME command to define Kermit's home directory.
/QUIET switch for ASK-class commands to suppress error messages.
Made SET OPTIONS DIRECTORY work for server-generated listings.
SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET TRANSPARENT fixed.
LDIR fixed to run Kermit's internal DIRECTORY command.
Server side of REMOTE SET { FILE, TRANSFER } CHARACTER-SET fixed.
Problems with pattern-matching {a,b,c} lists fixed.
Extraneous Locus dialogs reduced.
Various HELP text messages updated.
Problems using networks directory for SSH connections fixed.
COPY /APPEND now accepts wild source filespec.
Numerous problems with SWITCH statement fixed.
Problems with expansion of \%* ("all arguments") fixed.

Kermit 95 2.1.0 Beta / The Kermit Project / Columbia University / kermit@kermitproject.org / 24 Oct 2002