SpamAssassin 2.60 is released! SpamAssassin 2.60 is the first major update of SpamAssassin since February 2003 (when the 2.50 series was released).
SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited commercial/bulk email). Downloading ----------- Pick it up from: http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.bz2 http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.zip md5sum: bd1607d8fa52ef3f5fdda5e05f971e9d Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.bz2 46d1db67ed1d860ddb136e0beb5f6ac3 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz f35b1b558c846a4e7fd7a50a7986cc26 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.zip sha1sum: 2b2ee745c4964f27005f2a791f4f4880b13795fa Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.bz2 5d42b39430da13443dd94e78a2dad6c2b1c7cb5a Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz 7e88af2cb92acb899d772752c1236d50991e80ee Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.zip The release files also have a .asc accompanying them. The file serves as an external GPG signature for the given release file. The signing key is available via the wwwkeys.pgp.net keyserver, as well as http://www.spamassassin.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY The key information is: pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint =3D 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B The release will also be available via CPAN within a few days. Important installation notes ---------------------------- - Bayes FYI: 2.60 has a new Bayes backend and database format. Your old database(s) will automatically be upgraded the first time 2.60 tries to write to the DB, and any journal, if it exists, will be wiped out without being synced. In addition, we have had to drop support for Bayes databases in formats other than DB_File, due to a large number of serious issues (including crash and concurrency bugs) with those formats. So, what you want to do is something like this: - stop running spamassassin/spamd (ie: you don't want it to be running during the upgrade) - run "sa-learn --rebuild", this will sync your journal. - upgrade SA to 2.60 - install DB_File module if necessary - if you were using another database module, run "sa-learn --import" to migrate the data into new DB_File files - run "sa-learn --rebuild", this will cause the db format to be upgraded - start running spamassassin/spamd again Obviously the steps will be different depending on your environment, but you get the idea. :) - Bayes FYI 2: Because of the new database format, "check_bayes_db" will no longer function properly. The functionality from that script was added to sa-learn via the "--dump" parameter. Please see the sa-learn man/pod documentation for more info. - SpamAssassin 2.6x will be the last release supporting perl 5.005, so it's suggested to upgrade to at least perl 5.6.1 - Razor2 isn't fully taint safe. So since SpamAssassin 2.60 enables taint mode by default, there's a Razor2.patch file which needs to be applied to Razor2. Documentation exists in the patch file. Summary of major changes since 2.5x ----------------------------------- spamd improvements - spamd now supports UNIX-domain sockets for low-overhead scanning, thanks to Steve Friedl for this. This is strongly recommended if you're running spamc on the same host as the spamd server Bayes improvements - new tweaks to the Bayes engine: it now breaks down email addresses and URI elements while learning to use as additional features when testing email - new bayes backend, including new database format, ability to learn messages to the journal, etc. Improved expiration mechanism HTML parser improvements - HTML::Parser 3.24 or higher is now required - major improvements to the HTML engine, including better support for detecting 'invisible text' and similar obfuscation techniques used in spam DNS blacklist and network testing improvements - DNS blacklists (RBLs) overhauled; lots of new lists, including SORBS and SpamCop; dropped Osirusoft due to their retirement (brought on by a DDOS) - RBL timeouts are now handled much more efficiently; if one RBL is taking much longer than all the others, it will be cut short and ignored - the RBL engine improves the extraction and selection of IP addresses queried by inferring trust relationships between Received headers; trust can also be manually specified using the new "trusted_networks" option - a generalised Received-header parser to more easily detect HELO string forgery and faked relay lines - support for domain-based blacklists and TXT record queries - dccifd support added - Razor 1 support dropped Report improvements - to reduce confusion, the default report now includes the hostname of the machine where SpamAssassin is running and the installer also asks for an administrative address or URL - more flexible header and report rewriting including a simple template system Other changes - workaround for red hat kernel with NPTL reporting "application bug" in spamd due to use of waitpid() when SIGCHLD is set to SIG_IGN - taint mode is now enabled by default (for perl versions 5.6.0 and higher) for extra security - Makefile variables were changed to use DESTDIR instead of the various INST_* variables. Please read the PACKAGING file for more information. - Lots of bugs fixed and new rules added. ;) - timelog code has been removed -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Down *every* path lies madness, if you're talking about documentation. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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