I am happy to report that 3.4.0-pre2 is available at
http://people.apache.org/~kmcgrail/devel/
A draft of the announcement is attached.
Please note, pre2 was prepared but I chose to skip posting the
announcement due to the fairly large number of changes related to perl
5.17 compatibility thanks to Mark Martinec.
And now that I am pretty comfortable building releases, hopefully we can
look to see if there are any blockers to moving on to a release candidate.
Regards,
KAM
To: users, dev, announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available
Release Notes -- Apache SpamAssassin -- Version 3.4.0
Introduction
------------
This is a major release. It introduces nearly 18 months of bug fixes and
introduces native IPv6 functionality.
Downloading and availability
----------------------------
Downloads are available from:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi
md5sum of archive files:
406d3d096c3bfd290dce28ffdbb2a630 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.tar.bz2
b4aafbabb4d3e78fdef47df11a9e7343 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.tar.gz
2f0747ca36caa70eda2662f4e527804e Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.zip
5e1cc2427b2d3d8ef58e8929704a2a3b
Mail-SpamAssassin-rules-3.4.0-pre3.r1434591.tgz
sha1sum of archive files:
8d58628910fa276ade1ef69370b61e9057fc489c Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.tar.bz2
4908ac3453a01f05a8bbf979e61ec2f312e35509 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.tar.gz
b5cbf092d125164f4fcfcab0ec3261889b4b6eca Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre3.zip
bf4f9e26ec70be76010d8b7f3ba47421f31bcd9f
Mail-SpamAssassin-rules-3.4.0-pre3.r1434591.tgz
Note that the *-rules-*.tar.gz files are only necessary if you cannot, or do not
wish to, run "sa-update" after install to download the latest fresh rules.
See the INSTALL and UPGRADE files in the distribution for important
installation notes.
GPG Verification Procedure
--------------------------
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://www.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/KEYS
The key information is:
pub 4096R/F7D39814 2009-12-02
Key fingerprint = D809 9BC7 9E17 D7E4 9BC2 1E31 FDE5 2F40 F7D3 9814
uid SpamAssassin Project Management Committee
<[email protected]>
uid SpamAssassin Signing Key (Code Signing Key, replacement
for 1024D/265FA05B) <[email protected]>
sub 4096R/7B3265A5 2009-12-02
To verify a release file, download the file with the accompanying .asc file and
run the following commands:
gpg -v --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key F7D39814
gpg --verify Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0-pre1.tar.bz2.asc
gpg --fingerprint F7D39814
Then verify that the key matches the signature.
Note that older versions of gnupg may not be able to complete the steps above.
Specifically, GnuPG v1.0.6, 1.0.7 & 1.2.6 failed while v1.4.11 worked
flawlessly.
See http://www.apache.org/info/verification.html for more information on
verifying Apache releases.
Summary of major changes since 3.3.2
------------------------------------
NOTE: Complete changes are available at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.4/Changes
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About Apache SpamAssassin
-------------------------
Apache SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project
that serves as a mail filter to identify spam. SpamAssassin uses a
variety of mechanisms including mail header and text analysis, Bayesian
filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. In
addition, Apache SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows
other technologies to be quickly incorporated as an addition or as a
replacement for existing methods.
Apache SpamAssassin typically runs on a server, classifies and labels
spam before it reaches your mailbox, while allowing other components of
a mail system to act on its results.
Most of the Apache SpamAssassin is written in Perl, with heavily
traversed code paths carefully optimized. Benefits are portability,
robustness and facilitated maintenance. It can run on a wide variety of
POSIX platforms.
The server and the Perl library feels at home on Unix and Linux
platforms, and reportedly also works on MS Windows systems under ActivePerl.
For more information, visit http://spamassassin.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides
organizational, legal, and financial support for more than 100
freely-available, collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The
pragmatic Apache License enables individual and commercial users to
easily deploy Apache software; the Foundation's intellectual property
framework limits the legal exposure of its 2,500+ contributors.
For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/
