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Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2005/07/02 08:27:14 UTC
SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre3 released!
*** THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE ONLY, NOT THE FINAL 3.1.0 RELEASE ***
SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre3 is released! SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a major update and
includes a number of new email and anti-spam technologies.
SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and
heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited bulk email).
This is a prerelease, and NOT the full release.
Highlights of the release
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- Apache preforking algorithm adopted; number of spamd child processes is now
scaled, according to demand. This provides better VM behaviour when not
under peak load.
- added PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1+, and local SDBM file Bayes storage modules. SQL
storage is now recommended for Bayes, instead of DB_File. NDBM_File support
has been dropped due to a major bug in that module.
- detect legitimate SMTP AUTH submission, to avoid false positives on
Dynablock-style rules.
- new plugins: DomainKeys (off by default), MIMEHeader: a new plugin to perform
tests against header in internal MIME structure, ReplaceTags: plugin by Felix
Bauer to support fuzzy text matching, WhiteListSubject: plugin added to
support user whitelists by Subject header.
- Razor: disable Razor2 support by default per our policy, since the
service is not free for non-personal use. It's trivial to reenable.
- DCC: disable DCC for similar reasons, due to new license terms.
- Net::DNS bug: high load caused answer packets to be mixed up and delivered as
answers to the wrong request, causing false positives. worked around.
- DNSBL lookups and other DNS operations are now more efficient, by using a
custom single-socket event-based model instead of Net::DNS.
Downloading
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Pick it up from:
http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0-pre3.tar.gz
http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0-pre3.tar.bz2
http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0-pre3.zip
md5sum:
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c7b806c1761e4fd8eb1bc2fd8ea1f8b3 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0-pre3.zip
sha1sum:
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0c61fd032ec6ac07d113ab0d8708b8a50937c030 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0-pre3.tar.gz
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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 key server, as well as
http://spamassassin.apache.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY
The key information is:
pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key <re...@spamassassin.org>
Key fingerprint =3D 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B
Important installation notes
----------------------------
- see the INSTALL and UPGRADE files in the distribution.
Summary of major changes since 3.0.x
------------------------------------
- Apache preforking algorithm adopted; number of spamd child processes is now
scaled, according to demand. This provides better VM behaviour when not
under peak load.
- Inclusion of sa-update script which will allow for updates of rules and
scores in between code releases.
- added PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1+, and local SDBM file Bayes storage modules. SQL
storage is now recommended for Bayes, instead of DB_File. NDBM_File support
has been dropped due to a major bug in that module.
- detect legitimate SMTP AUTH submission, to avoid false positives on
Dynablock-style rules.
- new Advance Fee Fraud (419 scam) rules.
- removed use of the Storable module, due to several reported hangs on SMP
Linux machines.
- Converted several rule/engine components into Plugins such as:
AccessDB, AWL, Pyzor, Razor2, DCC, Bayes AutoLearn Determination, etc.
- new plugins: DomainKeys (off by default), MIMEHeader: a new plugin to perform
tests against header in internal MIME structure, ReplaceTags: plugin by Felix
Bauer to support fuzzy text matching, WhiteListSubject: plugin added to
support user whitelists by Subject header.
- TextCat language guesser moved to a plugin. This means "ok_languages"
is no longer part of the core engine.
- Razor: disable Razor2 support by default per our policy, since the
service is not free for non-personal use. It's trivial to reenable.
- DCC: disable DCC for similar reasons, due to new license terms.
- Net::DNS bug: high load caused answer packets to be mixed up and delivered as
answers to the wrong request, causing false positives. worked around.
- DNSBL lookups and other DNS operations are now more efficient, by using a
custom single-socket event-based model instead of Net::DNS.
- add support for accreditation services, including Habeas v2.
- better URI parsing -- many evasion tricks now caught.
- URIBL lookups are prioritized based on the location in the message
the URI was found.
- mass-check now supports reusing realtime DNSBL hit results, and sample-based
Bayes autolearning emulation, to reduce complexity.
- sa-learn, spamassassin and mass-check now have optional progress bars.
- modify header ordering for DomainKeys compatibility, by placing markup
headers at the top of the message instead at the bottom of the list.
- spamd/spamc now support remote Bayes training, and reporting spam.
- spamc now supports reading its flags from a configuration file using the -F
switch, contributed by John Madden.
- added SPF-based whitelisting.
- Polish rules contributed by Radoslaw Stachowiak.
- many rule changes and additions.
Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre3 released!
Posted by Kai Schaetzl <ma...@conactive.com>.
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