Apache SpamAssassin report to Board for June 2022

SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers.

Status and health report:

The project activities, including running our rule update infrastructure and our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly.

Primary focus for development is now targeting version 4.0.0.

On 1 June 2022 we produced our second pre-release of 4.0.0, containing all the major changes and new features that we intend for 4.0.0, which will be tested in production environments as part of the final steps towards a full release.

Releases:

The last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 3.4.6 on 12 April 2021.

Note that we maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility.

Committer/PMC changes:

Most recent new committer:

Paul Stead (pds) 12 September 2018

Most recent new PMC members:

Paul Stead (pds) 23 March 2021