Download SpamAssassin 3.1.7

SpamAssassin is a spam filter, written in Perl, that allows a mail server to recognize spam messages. For this purpose, a number of known methods are combined to stop different species. It examines the content of the message and determines whether or not the message is spam on the basis of a self-learning filter. It also enlists the help of a number of blacklists and distributed hash databases on the Internet. The developers released version 3.1.7 with the following announcement:

Version 3.1.7:

Version 3.1.7 is a “quick fix” release; it contains only a fix for one bug, introduced accidentally in 3.1.6:

• bug 5119: if admins had set rule scores in the site configuration in /etc, sa-update would fail. Back out this change

Version 3.1.6:

Version 3.1.6 includes a large number of bug fixes and documentation updates. Here is an abbreviated changelog (since 3.1.5) for major updates (see the Changes file for a complete list):

• bug 4940: fixes to bug in date handling affecting DATE_IN_FUTURE_* and DATE_IN_PAST_* rules when more than one Resent-Date header is present
• bug 5044: include local site config in sa-update ribbon checks
• bug 5081: fix race condition in spamd preforking code that sometimes left one child process running after SIGHUPing spamd
• bug 5076: unescape hash characters in the config
• bug 5077: fix false SPF_SOFTFAIL’s when SPF queries timeout
• bug 5080: update RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP evaltest to properly deal with 127/8
• bug 5089: enable adding headers with single digit zero value
• bug 5098: add support for ecelerity Received headers
• bug 5101: fix a bug, introduced in 3.1.5, in mbx code
• bug 5105: M::SA::Client doesn’t always catch failed connection to spamd, fixed