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The new ASSP version 2.8.1 build 24222 provides some new features and several fixes. Please read the changelog.txt and the changelog_2.6.X.txt for the complete list of changes.

If you've configured your assp to autoupdate the assp.pl script and you don't have a "Global PenaltyBox Subscription", you are requested to update all used Plugins manually as soon as possible.
It is highly recommended to bring perl - but at least the perl modules - uptodate. ... read more

The new ASSP version 2.8.1 build 23131 provides some new features and several fixes. Please read the changelog.txt and the changelog_2.6.X.txt for the complete list of changes.

If you've configured your assp to autoupdate the assp.pl script and you don't have a "Global PenaltyBox Subscription", you are requested to update all used Plugins manually as soon as possible.
It is highly recommended to bring perl - but at least the perl modules - uptodate. ... read more

this release contains several fixes and new features

• the SMTP extension PIPE_CONNECT is removed from the EHLO answer and is no longer a valid SMTP command

• invalid UTF8 characters in a mail subject may caused SEGV errors in 'Win32::Unicode::Dir' on windows systems

• Downloaded Griplist-IPv6 addresses were not correctly merged in to the local griplist.

• Blockreports initiated by an admin or schedule and send to a regular user unexpected contained links to open the blocked mail in the assp GUI. ... read more

this release contains several fixes and new features

• The definition in 'myGreeting' has only replaced the last greeting line (220 text) from the MTA, lines starting with 220-text
  were not touched. Now all greeting lines are replaced.

• mails to local postmaster@ and webmaster@ are no longer hardcoded skipped from backscatter checks
  if you want skip them in future from backscatter checks, add the addresses to 'noBackSctrAddresses'... read more

The version 2.6.3 build 20002 is released on SF download page.
It contains several fixes and enhancements.

• ASSP_ARC.pm 2.09 is released - it prevents Storable from croaking about invalid data structures, which may caused unexpected worker exceptions
• If a DKIM-identiy tag (i=.....) was calculated for a DKIM-signature, this DKIM-identity was cached and unexpected added to all later calculated DKIM-signatures until assp was restarted,
  which made this DKIM-signatures invalid.
• Several parameters in the ASSP-MIB.txt file contained an underscore (_) , which is not allowed and may prevented the snmp daemon from loading the MIB file.
  A new ASSP-MIB.txt is provided and both MIB-creator scripts
• IP-blocking was unexpected skipped, if PBextreme-blocking was not configured
• If MySQL 5.7 (or higher) or MariaDB was used as database backend at a case sensitive filesystem and the mysql configuration switch 'lower_case_table_names = 1'
  ( https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html ) was not defined in the MySQL Server configuration file, it was possible that assp database imports
  and the assp database connection keeping failed.
• an error: 'error: DKIM-cfg - no configuration left for any domain' was logged, if a valid DKIM-configuration was stored, but 'genDKIM' was not enabled and 'genARC' was not enabled
• disabled 'ScoreForeignCountries' was ignored in some cases
• mails were unexpected blocked, if 'disableAUTH' was enabled and the sender used the AUTH=<> extension in the MAIL FROM: SMTP command (RFC4954)
• the whitelist state was some times wrong shown in the 'work with lists' GUI panel
• if 'genARC' was enabled and foreign Authentication-Results: headers were present in the mail, no ARC-signature was created and an error
  "error: ARC message parsing failed - unexpected token at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Mail/DKIM/ARC/Signer.pm line 254 thread ..."
  was written to the maillog.txt... read more

The fixup 2.6.3 build 19214 is released on SF download page.
It contains several fixes and enhancements.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.3 build 19169 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

The fixup 2.6.3 build 19115 is released on SF download page.
It contains several fixes and enhancements.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.1 build 19007 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.1 build 18271 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.1 build 18128 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.
Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.1 build 18120 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

an important fixup version is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/ASSP%20V2%20multithreading/2.6.1%20latest%20fixup/

There was a BUG in the code, which may caused very high CPU usage because of an unhandled exception.

It is highly recommended to upgrade to this fixup version. All version since 2.3.4 13156 are affected by this BUG.

Thomas

a quick fixup version of assp V2 is published at sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/ASSP%20V2%20multithreading/2.6.1%20latest%20fixup/

latest production version : assp 2.6.1 build 17355
current fixup : assp 2.6.1 build 18022

Thomas

ASSP version 2.6.1 build 17355 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.5.5 build 17223 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

Thomas

ASSP version 2.5.5 build 17073 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

• perl 5.24 is no longer experimental

Thomas

Hi all,

with the 1.1.2017 the development perl base is switched to Perl 5.024001 - 5.24.1.

NOTICE:

Perl 5.24 has still an experimental state in relation with assp. The first 2017 dev. build will solve all unexpected warnings in perl 5.24.1 (also in the yesterday published new plugin versions).
Target is, to give Perl 5.24 the production ready state within the first quater of 2017.

EOL - announcement for the next two years:... read more

ASSP version 2.5.5 build 16366 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

some fixes:
- GUI refresh
- GUI provides a browser history and context help

Thomas

ASSP version 2.5.3 build 16347 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

some fixes:

• improved 'DoNoFrom' check - the existence of the email address in the FROM: header line is now also checked
• the attachment detection is optimized
• equal DNS server definitons are now eliminated internaly
• ASSP has now a buildin code integrity check.
• an IPv6 peer was ignored by the configuration sync feature
• the MXA check failed, if the MX had only an IPv6 address/host defined
• Blockreport request forwarding was not working, if the target host was an IPv6 only host
• enhanced obfuscated IP (v4 and V6) address detection in URIBL
• more functional implementation of lists.dnswl.org and equivalent local RWL providers

latest production version : assp 2.5.3 build 16294
current fix list : assp 2.5.3 build 16302:

• if the connection to a peer used SSL/TLS and
• a mail was larger than the maximum SSL-send-buffer-size
• and 8BITMIME was enabled and used with any charset
• or the mail was malformed encoded in any part
• or a regex match contained UTF8 multibyte characters and the result was added to the X-ASSP headers
• and also some other rare cases
  the IO-byte-count provided by IO::Socket::SSL and the IO-buffer-content recalculation done by assp was inconstent.
  This may have caused malformed 8BITMIME mails and destroyed attachments.... read more

Hi all,

ASSP version 2.5.3 build 16294 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.

some fixes:

• syslog can now follow the RFC5424
• destroyed attachments
• assp runs more stabil
• large performance improvment for SSL/TLS connections
• assp can now be used together with Perl 5.24.x - Perl 5.24 is still experimental
• Perl 5.22 is no longer experimental
• a microseond timestamp is added to all debug lines
• the new return values '56' and '57' provided by senderbase.org are no longer causing a warning in assp
• spamlover score overrides for low-limit and limit were ignored by failed Plugins
• the [NWLI] option for weighted regular expressions was not working in every case like expected
• improved thread handling to prevent connection transfer problems from the MainThread to the Workers
• enhanced export function for DB's and the configuration to make system migrations more easy
• ASSP_AFC 4.39 plugin is now able to detect MS-Office macros as executable code
• some 5XX replies in the handshake part of a SMTP connection were some times ignored and not sent to the client ... read more

Hi all,

ASSP version 2.5.1 build 16177 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.
fixes:

• returned report notifications contained some times a wrong MIME encoded subject

• Global PenaltyBox library- and Plugin updates were not working for all files

• if VRFY was used to verify local mail addresses and the queried MTA replied with a 4XX code (because it was
  unable to process the request), the address was detected as invalid in every case, even 'LDAPfail' was not set

NOTICE: extensive tests have shown that AMAVIS is incompatbile with ASSP and several other mail servers
IF you use postfix together with ASSP V2, disable or uninstall the AMAVIS plugin from postfix.
If enabled, AMAVIS may destroy attachments.... read more

Hi all,

a prerelease of assp V2 (assp 2.5.1 build 16114) is published at
sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/ASSP%20V2%20multithreading/2.5.1%20latest%20fixup/

The readme for this folder follows below.

Thomas

------------------ readme.txt -----------------

This folder contains the latest patched production version of ASSP V2 in assp.pl.gz.
If there are currently no fixes for the latest patched production version of ASSP V2 available,
no download file is provided.... read more

Hi all,

ASSP version 2.5.1 build 16100 is released on sourceforge.
This build contains several changes, fixes and new features (see below).
For the full description of the changes, fixes and new features, please
read the changelog.
fixes:

• the 'DoRFC822' failed, if the host name of a envelope sender address was valid but
  the domain nearest to the TLD was invalid, like in 'co.delaware.pa.us' where 'delaware.pa.us' is invalid... read more