SpamAssassin 2.64 released

(**IMPORTANT**: This is not an ASF release; this is a maintainance release of the older 2.6x stable branch, which is NOT released under an Apache license.)

SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited commercial/bulk email).

Pick it up from:
http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip

md5sum of archive files:

a82a9dab95462d102e253edb99091fdd Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
cd482160ddbe371bbf4fb58b715ebbdf Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
82a8f47ad87774b5a94805ed9bc6753b Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip

sha1sum of archive files:

7d5776a7c462c849bc48f12a48ed82dc929ac06f Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
ea4925c6967249a581c4966d1cefd1a3162eb639 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
5922db581c6ef8026455ecce055f14a25b499a3b Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip

Or on CPAN shortly, once the mirrors update.
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 keyserver, as well as http://www.spamassassin.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY

The key information is:

pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key <release@spamassassin.org>
Key fingerprint = 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B

Summary of major changes since 2.63:

  • Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x versions to date.
  • Backported several very reliable rules from the SpamAssassin 3.0.0 codebase.

NOTE: If you are testing SpamAssassin 3.0.0, you need to read the README file before using this distribution!

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