Tired of comment spam? Let Akismet take care of it for you.
This morning around 9 AM CST there was a database error that ended up causing API slowness for 3-4 minutes, which could have manifested itself on your end as timeouts or spam getting through.
Although the downtime was short it did alert us to a weakness in our system we’ll address so this won’t happen again.
Our last major downtime was in September 2007, one thousand and twenty eight days ago. These things usually happen in threes but hopefully we can head off the next two.
Version 2.2.9 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available.
This version fixes a conflict in 2.2.8 that could potentially lead to spurious spam or ham reports on blogs that use other spam filtering plugins in conjunction with Akismet. The conflict does not affect accuracy, but may in some circumstances cause incorrect stats.
Users of modern WordPress versions can upgrade by following the prompts in the wp-admin dashboard.
