## Description:
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.
## Project Status:
Project state: Ongoing with low to moderate activity
Primary focus for development is now ongoing maintenance bug fixes to the latest release, 4.0.1.
Issues for the board: Selection of Giovanni Bechis as new Chair has been placed on Board agenda
## Membership Data:
Apache SpamAssassin was founded 2004-06-01 (20 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2.5:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- PMC members:
Sidney Markowitz resigned as Chair, pending confirmation of his replacement
Giovanni Bechis was selected as new Chair, to be confirmed by the Board
Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-11-09.
Michel Parker resigned on 2025-03-02, recognized as emeritus by PMC
Henrik Krohns resigned on 2025-03-14, recognized as emeritus by PMC
- No new committers. Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-03-29.
## Project Activity:
Last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 4.0.1 on 29 March 2024.
We maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility.
On 28 February 2025, the server that was donated to ASF by Sonic.net for sa-update.spamassassin.org was decomissioned, replaced by newer infrastructure we have available.
## Community Health:
Maintenance of our rule update infrastructure, developer community submissions for rule update testing, and our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly.