Rule updates

[Lars Jørgensen <la...@kb.dk>]

Hi,

I noticed the rules for 3.3.1 were updated during the weekend (don't worry about my workaholism, I noticed this monday morning ^-^). I was preparing to upgrade to 3.3.2, but seeing the updated rules makes me doubt whether the upgrade is necessary.

Was this a one-time effort or will rules be updated frequently for 3.3.1 from now on? Or do I need to move to 3.3.2 to get regular rule updates?


Lars

Re: Rule updates

[spixx_ <sp...@gmail.com>]

The rule updates is handled by themselfs but some require certains versions
of spamassassin (see /var/lib/spamassassin) or man sa-update


Lars Jørgensen-6 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed the rules for 3.3.1 were updated during the weekend (don't worry
> about my workaholism, I noticed this monday morning ^-^). I was preparing
> to upgrade to 3.3.2, but seeing the updated rules makes me doubt whether
> the upgrade is necessary.
> 
> Was this a one-time effort or will rules be updated frequently for 3.3.1
> from now on? Or do I need to move to 3.3.2 to get regular rule updates?
> 
> 
> Lars
> 
> 

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Re: Rule updates

["Warren Togami Jr." <wt...@gmail.com>]

On 6/27/2011 7:03 AM, darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 06/27, Lars Jørgensen wrote:
>>     I noticed the rules for 3.3.1 were updated during the weekend (don't worry
>>     about my workaholism, I noticed this monday morning ^-^). I was preparing
>>     to upgrade to 3.3.2, but seeing the updated rules makes me doubt whether
>>     the upgrade is necessary.
>
> I expect rule updates to remain compatible throughout the 3.3.x series, so
> as long as updates are happening for any 3.3.x version, you you should get
> them, and they should work, with 3.3.1 (and 3.3.0, etc.).
>
> That *could* change, I suppose, but I don't expect it.  There has been talk
> of adding a rule to hit all emails for versions nolonger being maintained,
> something like SPAMASSASSIN_OUT_OF_DATE:
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6614

3.3.x is the first version that supports rule conditionals, so it is 
possible that 3.4.x rule updates updates could refer to plugins that do 
not exist in 3.3.x, and those sections are safely ignored by 3.3.x.

It seems the intent is to release 3.4 late this year.  I heard that the 
only compat change from 3.3.x to 3.4.x is in the spamc/spamd protocol, 
so it should theoretically be an easy upgrade.  It remains to be seen 
exactly what is decided for 3.3.x rule updates after 3.3.x is released.

Warren

Re: Rule updates

[da...@chaosreigns.com]

On 06/27, Lars Jørgensen wrote:
>    I noticed the rules for 3.3.1 were updated during the weekend (don't worry
>    about my workaholism, I noticed this monday morning ^-^). I was preparing
>    to upgrade to 3.3.2, but seeing the updated rules makes me doubt whether
>    the upgrade is necessary.

I expect rule updates to remain compatible throughout the 3.3.x series, so
as long as updates are happening for any 3.3.x version, you you should get
them, and they should work, with 3.3.1 (and 3.3.0, etc.).

That *could* change, I suppose, but I don't expect it.  There has been talk
of adding a rule to hit all emails for versions nolonger being maintained,
something like SPAMASSASSIN_OUT_OF_DATE:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6614


You just noticed the update because *all* sa-updates (for 3.3.x?) were just
re-enabled.  They had been intentionally disabled for a while.  The post to
the dev list that mentioned they were re-enabled was here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-dev/201106.mbox/%3C4E075F47.8070702@PCCC.com%3E

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