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Akismet 2.5.9 Released for WordPress 2 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
In case you haven’t noticed from within your WordPress dashboard, Akismet 2.5.9 is now available. It introduces the following very minor fixes: Update the ‘Already have a key’ link to a redirect page...
High Levels of Spam Continue — What We’re Doing and How You Can Help 2 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
In our 2012 year in review post, we explained that, without surprise, spam levels were greatly on the rise. We are a bit beyond the halfway point of 2013 and wanted to post an update on what we’re cur...
University Site on WordPress? Let Akismet Kill Your Spam 13 May 2013 | 11:10 pm
Much like the peanut butter and chocolate, Akismet and higher education are a match made in heaven. If your college, university, or higher educational institution’s website uses WordPress, Akismet is ...
Sign into Akismet with WordPress.com Connect 24 Jan 2013 | 03:32 am
With the new year upon us, your friends here at Automattic have resolved to make it easier to manage your accounts across all our services. Maybe you’re using Akismet to stop spam in its tracks, Vault...
A Spammy Year in Review 21 Dec 2012 | 08:03 pm
It’s that time of the year again. Time for family members to joyfully gather for the holidays. Time to work on those ill-fated New Year’s resolutions. Time to relax and reflect on the past year and le...
Akismet WordPress Plugin 2.5.7 14 Dec 2012 | 02:12 am
Version 2.5.7 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This is a maintenance release that fixes various minor bugs and includes some proactive security improvements. Changes include: Fix ...
Over 60 billion spams squashed 5 Dec 2012 | 04:04 am
It works while you work, it works while you sleep, during your vacation, your weekends, and never takes a day off. Akismet, the best way to protect your online properties from spam, recently hit an in...
Pro Tip: Testing, testing 20 Jul 2012 | 10:33 am
If you’re developing a new implementation for the Akismet API, or integrating an existing library with your own application, you will of course need to test it. Often we see developers get ahead of th...
Erroneous claims of vulnerabilities in the Akismet plugin 19 Jul 2012 | 06:50 am
Recently we were alerted to several claims of security flaws in the Akismet 2.5.6 plugin for WordPress. We tested the claims of vulnerabilities in the current version of the Akismet plugin, and found...
Legacy plugin 2.4.1 is now available 19 Jul 2012 | 06:46 am
Version 2.4.1 of the legacy Akismet plugin is now available. The 2.4 branch of Akismet is for old versions of WordPress only, WP 2.9 and earlier. This is a security update. 2.4.1 fixes a XSS vulnerab...
