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Akismet Anti-spam · Version history

Akismet Anti-spam changelog and version history

Latest version
5.7.2
Aug 18, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
93
since 2009
In the last year
4
about one every 93 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20093 releases
  • 20106 releases
  • 20112 releases
  • 20125 releases
  • 20132 releases
  • 20147 releases
  • 201510 releases
  • 20166 releases
  • 20178 releases
  • 20187 releases
  • 20193 releases
  • 20204 releases
  • 20217 releases
  • 20227 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 5.7.2Latest

    • Release Date – 19 August 2026
    • Fix Fluent Forms integration on WordPress versions older than 6.1.

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 5.7.1

    • Release Date – 17 August 2026
    • Fix link styling and hover previews in the Comments screen for the upcoming WordPress 7.1.
    • Display external links consistently.

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 5.7

    • Release Date – 23 April 2026
    • Add Abilities API support for stats and comment checking, including MCP tool integration.
    • Add support for the new Connectors page in the upcoming WordPress 7.0.
    • Improve detection of automated spam submissions on the front end.
    • Make comment history sorting more resilient when called with invalid data.
    • Use wp_get_inline_script_tag() for safer inline script output, and other small security enhancements.
    • Add action hooks to allow customization of the admin page header and footer.
    • Accessibility improvements.

20255 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 5.6

    • Release Date – 12 November 2025
    • Improve caching of compatible plugins.
    • Explain the key features of Akismet more clearly on the setup page.
    • Improve the configuration process to better explain errors when they occur.
    • Setup UI cleanup and refresh.
    • Improve messaging related to usage limits.

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 5.5

    • Release Date – 15 July 2025
    • Enable webhooks so that Akismet can process comments asynchronously to detect more types of spam.
    • Only include the Akismet widget CSS when the Akismet widget is present
    • Improve contrast/readability for certain UI elements

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 5.4

    • Release Date – 7 May 2025
    • The stats pages now use the user’s locale instead of the site’s locale if they’re different.
    • Adds a ‘Compatible plugins’ section that will show installed and active plugins that are compatible with Akismet.
    • Akismet now requires PHP version 7.2 or above.

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.7

    • Release Date – 14 February 2025
    • Simplify the logic used during a comment-check request to compare comments.

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.6

    • Release Date – 4 February 2025
    • Improve the utility of submit-spam and submit-ham requests.
    • Modernize styles for the Akismet classic widget.

20245 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.5

    • Release Date – 18 November 2024
    • Address compatibility issues with < PHP 7.3 in v5.3.4 release.

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.4

    • Release Date – 18 November 2024
    • Improve activation notice on Comments for users who haven’t set up their API key yet.
    • Improve notice about commercial site status.

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.3

    • Release Date – 10 July 2024
    • Make setup step clearer for new users.
    • Remove the stats section from the configuration page if the site has been revoked from the key.
    • Skip the Akismet comment check when the comment matches something in the disallowed list.
    • Prompt users on legacy plans to contact Akismet support for upgrades.

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.2

    • Release Date – 21 March 2024
    • Improve the empty state shown to new users when no spam has been caught yet.
    • Update the message shown to users without a current subscription.
    • Add foundations for future webhook support.

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3.1

    • Release Date – 17 January 2024
    • Make the plugin more resilient when asset files are missing (as seen in WordPress Playground).
    • Add a link to the ‘Account overview’ page on akismet.com.
    • Fix a minor error that occurs when another plugin removes all comment actions from the dashboard.
    • Add the akismet_request_args filter to allow request args in Akismet API requests to be filtered.
    • Fix a bug that causes some contact forms to include unnecessary data in the comment_content parameter.

20233 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 5.3

    • Release Date – 14 September 2023
    • Improve display of user notices.
    • Add stylesheets for RTL languages.
    • Remove initial disabled state from ‘Save changes’ button.
    • Improve accessibility of API key entry form.
    • Add new filter hooks for Fluent Forms.
    • Fix issue with PHP 8.1 compatibility.

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 5.2

    • Release Date – 21 June 2023
    • Visual refresh of Akismet stats.
    • Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility.
    • Improve appearance of plugin to match updated stats.
    • Change minimum supported PHP version to 5.6 to match WordPress.
    • Drop IE11 support and update minimum WordPress version to 5.8 (where IE11 support was removed from WP Core).

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 5.1

    • Release Date – 20 March 2023
    • Removed unnecessary limit notices from admin page.
    • Improved spam detection by including post taxonomies in the comment-check call.
    • Removed API keys from stats iframes to avoid possible inadvertent exposure.

20227 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 5.0.2

    • Release Date – 1 December 2022
    • Improved compatibility with themes that hide or show UI elements based on mouse movements.
    • Increased security of API keys by sending them in request bodies instead of subdomains.

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 5.0.1

    • Release Date – 28 September 2022
    • Added an empty state for the Statistics section on the admin page.
    • Fixed a bug that broke some admin page links when Jetpack plugins are active.
    • Marked some event listeners as passive to improve performance in newer browsers.
    • Disabled interaction observation on forms that post to other domains.

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 5.0

    • Release Date – 26 July 2022
    • Added a new feature to catch spammers by observing how they interact with the page.
    • For older changelog entries, please see the additional changelog.txt file delivered with the plugin.

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2.5

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2.4

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2.3

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2.2

20217 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2.1

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 4.2

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.12

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.11

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.10

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.9

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.8

20204 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.7

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.6

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.5

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.4

20193 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.3

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.2

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1.1

20187 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 4.1

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.8

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.7

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.6

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.5

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.4

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.3

20178 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.2

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0.1

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 4.0

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 3.3.4

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 3.3.3

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 3.3.2

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 3.3.1

  8. Akismet Anti-spam 3.3

20166 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 3.2

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.11

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.10

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.9

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.8

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.7

201510 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.6

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.5

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.5

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 2.6.1

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.10

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.4

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.3

  8. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.2

  9. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1.1

  10. Akismet Anti-spam 3.1

20147 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.4

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.3

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.2

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.1

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.0

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 3.0.0-RC1

  7. Akismet Anti-spam 2.6.0

20132 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.9

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.8

20125 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.7

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 2.4.1

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.6

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.5

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.4

20112 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.3

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.2

20106 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.1

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 2.5.0

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 2.4.0

  4. Akismet Anti-spam 2.3.0

  5. Akismet Anti-spam 2.2.9

  6. Akismet Anti-spam 2.2.8

20093 releases

  1. Akismet Anti-spam 2.2.7

  2. Akismet Anti-spam 2.2.6

  3. Akismet Anti-spam 2.2.5

Questions about Akismet Anti-spam’s releases

What is the latest version of Akismet Anti-spam?

5.7.2, released on Aug 18, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is Akismet Anti-spam updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 93 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2009.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Akismet Anti-spam’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.