Pyzor 0.5 Released

[Tony Meyer]

The Pyzor team is pleased to announce release 0.5 of Pyzor.

The previous release was made in September of 2002, so it has
obviously been a while!  With this release, we have aimed to resolve
all the outstanding reported bugs and incorporate submitted patches
(many of which are also from some time ago).  The hope is that this,
along with the recent improvements to the public Pyzor server,
revitalises the Pyzor project.

We are aiming to release the next version of Pyzor, which will include
new features, around the end of June (2009!).  If you'd like to have
input into that release, please subscribe to the pyzor-users mailing
list, or monitor the SourceForge tickets for the Pyzor project.  We
are very keen to have as much input from the user-base as possible.

The majority of the improvements in the 0.5 release were submitted
from the Debian Pyzor package.  Many thanks to them for pushing these
back 'upstream' - if you have any improvements that you are running
locally, please consider doing the same and contributing these as
patches to the main Pyzor package (open a ticket on the SourceForge
site).

Main changes include:

       *       Man pages for pyzor and pyzord.

       *       Changing back to signals for database locking,
               rather than threads.  It is likely that signals
               will be removed again in the future, but the
               existing threading changes caused problems.

       *       Basic checks on the results of "discover".

       *       Extended mbox support throughout the library.

       *       Better handling on unknown encodings.

       *       Added a --log option to log to a file.

       *       Better handling of command-line options.

       *       Improved error handling.

You can get the release (via the 'download' link on the left), as well
as information about the mailing lists and other news, at:

   http://pyzor.org

Enjoy the new release and your reduced spam mail :)

As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release!

Tony.
(on behalf of the Pyzor team)

--- What is Pyzor? ---

Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block spam
using identifying digests of messages.

Pyzor initially started out to be merely a Python implementation of
Razor, but due to the protocol and the fact that Razor's server is not
Open Source or software libre, Frank Tobin decided to implement Pyzor
with a new protocol and release the entire system as Open Source and
software libre.

Since the entire system is released under the GPL, people are free to
host their own independent servers, although there is a
well-maintained public server available (public.pyzor.org), which
anyone is welcome to use.