| To: users, dev, announce |
| Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.1-rc1 available |
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| Release Notes -- Apache SpamAssassin -- Version 3.4.1-rc1 |
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| Introduction |
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| To be completed. |
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| Notable bug fixes |
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| Notable features: |
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| New configuration options |
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| New plugins |
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| Optimizations |
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| Downloading and availability |
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| Downloads are available from: |
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| http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi |
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| md5sum of archive files: |
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| 06ce92812b84bd51f20bc90fa931933c Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.tar.bz2 |
| 5cc08804e32adeb104f0ef9b68de8d8d Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.tar.gz |
| c3cc867edbf875d157e8a871b73838a6 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.zip |
| cafc1a8b3a870e1c5634d39df99f37f7 Mail-SpamAssassin-rules-3.4.1-rc1.r1645877.tgz |
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| sha1sum of archive files: |
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| 9a26266720114d907596a078671e10e14025ec1d Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.tar.bz2 |
| 1029b7da3e279455ff2e8ea9619b0eb9222a484a Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.tar.gz |
| 0fee42eb54bec29fd817082d31cc4749a81e0b77 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-rc1.zip |
| d63d73515445b15980a3155ff8004fc069527d93 Mail-SpamAssassin-rules-3.4.1-rc1.r1645877.tgz |
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| 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. |
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| See the INSTALL and UPGRADE files in the distribution for important |
| installation notes. |
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| 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 |
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| The key information is: |
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| pub 4096R/F7D39814 2009-12-02 |
| Key fingerprint = D809 9BC7 9E17 D7E4 9BC2 1E31 FDE5 2F40 F7D3 9814 |
| uid SpamAssassin Project Management Committee <private@spamassassin.apache.org> |
| uid SpamAssassin Signing Key (Code Signing Key, replacement for 1024D/265FA05B) <dev@spamassassin.apache.org> |
| sub 4096R/7B3265A5 2009-12-02 |
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| To verify a release file, download the file with the accompanying .asc file and run the following commands: |
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| gpg -v --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key F7D39814 |
| gpg --verify Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0.tar.bz2.asc |
| gpg --fingerprint F7D39814 |
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| Then verify that the key matches the signature. |
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| 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. |
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| See http://www.apache.org/info/verification.html for more information |
| on verifying Apache releases. |
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| About Apache SpamAssassin |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The server and the Perl library feels at home on Unix and Linux |
| platforms, and reportedly also works on MS Windows systems under ActivePerl. |
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| For more information, visit http://spamassassin.apache.org/ |
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| About The Apache Software Foundation |
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| 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. |
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| For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ |