## 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

Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.2 has been released on 30 August 2025,
primary focus for development is now ongoing maintenance bug fixes to the latest release, 4.0.2.
We also started developing new plugins.

## Membership Data:

Apache SpamAssassin was founded 2004-06-01 (21 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- PMC members:
   Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-11-09. 
- No new committers. Last addition was Kent Oyer on 2024-03-29.

## Project Activity:

Last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 4.0.2 on 30 August 2025.

We maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via our mass-check facility.

## 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.



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