diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Revision history for HaskellNet-SSL
+
+## 0.4.0.0 -- 2025-01-07
+
+- drop support for connection in favour of crypton-connection
+- compatibility with GHCs up to ghc 9.8 (bump base and bytestring)
+- fix example
+- add tested-with stanza
diff --git a/HaskellNet-SSL.cabal b/HaskellNet-SSL.cabal
--- a/HaskellNet-SSL.cabal
+++ b/HaskellNet-SSL.cabal
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 name:                HaskellNet-SSL
 synopsis:            Helpers to connect to SSL/TLS mail servers with HaskellNet
-version:             0.3.4.4
+version:             0.4.0.0
 description:         This package ties together the HaskellNet and connection
                      packages to make it easy to open IMAP and SMTP connections
                      over SSL.
 homepage:            https://github.com/dpwright/HaskellNet-SSL
+tested-with:         GHC ==9.4.8 || ==9.6.5 || ==9.8.2
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Daniel P. Wright
-maintainer:          Leza M. Lutonda <lemol-c@outlook.com>, dani@dpwright.com
+maintainer:          Leza M. Lutonda <lemol-c@outlook.com>, dani@dpwright.com, contact@mangoiv.com
 copyright:           (c) 2013 Daniel P. Wright
 category:            Network
 build-type:          Simple
-cabal-version:       >=1.10
-data-files:          README.md
+cabal-version:       1.18
+extra-doc-files:          README.md, CHANGELOG.md
 
 flag network-bsd
    description: Get Network.BSD from the network-bsd package
@@ -34,11 +35,22 @@
   other-modules:       Network.HaskellNet.SSL.Internal
   build-depends:       base >= 4 && < 5,
                        HaskellNet >= 0.3 && < 0.7,
-                       connection >= 0.2.7 && < 0.4,
-                       bytestring >= 0.9 && < 0.12,
+                       crypton-connection >= 0.3.1 && < 0.5,
+                       bytestring >= 0.9 && < 0.13,
                        data-default >= 0.2 && < 0.8
   if flag(network-bsd)
     build-depends:     network >= 3.0 && < 3.2,
                        network-bsd >= 2.7 && < 2.9
   else
     build-depends:     network >= 2.4 && < 3.0
+
+executable HaskellNet-SSL-example
+  hs-source-dirs:   examples
+  main-is:          gmail.hs
+  other-modules:
+  build-depends: base,
+                 HaskellNet-SSL,
+                 HaskellNet,
+                 bytestring
+
+  default-language: Haskell2010
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-HaskellNet-SSL
---------------
+# HaskellNet-SSL
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/dpwright/HaskellNet-SSL.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/dpwright/HaskellNet-SSL)
+[![haskell ci](https://github.com/dpwright/HaskellNet-SSL/actions/workflows/haskell.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/dpwright/HaskellNet-SSL/actions/workflows/haskell.yml)
 
 This package ties together the excellent [HaskellNet][HaskellNet] and
-[connection][connection] packages to make it easy to open IMAP and SMTP
+[crypton-connection][crypton-connection] packages to make it easy to open IMAP and SMTP
 connections over SSL.  This is a simple "glue" library; all credit for a)
 connecting to IMAP/SMTP servers and b) making an SSL connection goes to the
 aforementioned libraries.
 
 [HaskellNet]: https://github.com/jtdaugherty/HaskellNet
-[connection]: https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-connection
+[crypton-connection]: https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/crypton-connection
diff --git a/examples/gmail.hs b/examples/gmail.hs
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/gmail.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
+import           Network.HaskellNet.IMAP.SSL
+import           Network.HaskellNet.SMTP.SSL as SMTP
+
+import           Network.HaskellNet.Auth (AuthType(LOGIN), Password)
+import           Network.Mail.Mime
+
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as B
+import           Data.String
+
+username :: IsString s => s
+username = "username@gmail.com"
+
+password :: Password
+password = "password"
+
+recipient :: Address
+recipient = "someone@somewhere.com"
+
+imapTest :: IO ()
+imapTest = do
+    c <- connectIMAPSSLWithSettings "imap.gmail.com" cfg
+    login c username password
+    mboxes <- list c
+    mapM_ print mboxes
+    select c "INBOX"
+    msgs@(firstMsg : _) <- search c [ALLs]
+    msgContent <- fetch c firstMsg
+    B.putStrLn msgContent
+    logout c
+  where cfg = defaultSettingsIMAPSSL { sslMaxLineLength = 100000 }
+
+smtpTest :: IO ()
+smtpTest = doSMTPSTARTTLS "smtp.gmail.com" $ \c -> do
+    authSucceed <- SMTP.authenticate LOGIN username password c
+    if authSucceed
+      then do 
+        mail <- simpleMail
+          recipient
+          username 
+          subject
+          body
+          mempty
+          mempty
+        sendMail mail c -- recipient username subject body
+      else print "Authentication error."
+  where subject = "Test message"
+        body    = "This is a test message"
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do 
+  smtpTest 
+  imapTest