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Antispam Bee · Version history

Antispam Bee changelog and version history

Latest version
2.11.13
Aug 23, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
43
since 2012
In the last year
5
about one every 37 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20129 releases
  • 20145 releases
  • 20153 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20171 release
  • 20184 releases
  • 20191 release
  • 20202 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.11.13Latest

    • Enhancement: New filter antispam_bee_honeypot_styles to change the styles of the honeypot field
    • Fix: Escape the URL of the settings link (Thanks @thisismyurl!)
    • Fix: Strip tags in the spam notification email the WordPress way (Thanks @thisismyurl!)
    • Fix: Show the plugin update notice again (Thanks @thisismyurl!)
    • Fix: Reject more invalid paths for the spam log file (Thanks @thisismyurl!)
    • Fix: Return a boolean from the mobile theme check (Thanks @thisismyurl!)
    • Tweak: Use the WordPress function for the word count type
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 7.1

  2. Antispam Bee 2.11.12

    • Fix: Fatal error in the dashboard spam counter (Thanks @robertstaddon!)

  3. Antispam Bee 2.11.11

    • Enhancement: Add shorturl.fm spam pattern

  4. Antispam Bee 2.11.10

    • Fix: remove build-tool warnings from minified Javascript and CSS resources

  5. Antispam Bee 2.11.9

    • Tweak: Improved compatibility with unquoted HTML attributes in comment forms
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 7.0

20251 release

  1. Antispam Bee 2.11.8

    • Tweak: Minor code changes and housekeeping
    • Tweak: Add link to Patchstack in readme
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.8

20242 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.11.7

    • Tweak: Use SCRIPT_NAME instead of REQUEST_URI to check path
    • Fix: Remove add_reasons_to_defaults() from general initialization for better WordPress 6.7 compatibility
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.7

  2. Antispam Bee 2.11.6

    • Fix: Delete missed out option on uninstall (Thanks @okvee!)
    • Tweak: Minor i18n improvements (Thanks Pedro!)
    • Tweak: Minor code changes and housekeeping
    • Tweak: Updated dependencies

20234 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.11.5

    • IMPORTANT: If you use the country check and are behind a proxy or similar, you need to use the antispam_bee_trusted_ip filter to get the correct IP from a header like HTTP_X_FORWARDED (don’t return an empty value here, otherwise all comments are marked as spam).
    • Fix: Usage of core filter pre_comment_user_ip breaks ASB if the IP address is removed for GDPR compliance

  2. Antispam Bee 2.11.4

    • IMPORTANT: If you use the country check and are behind a proxy or similar, you need to use the pre_comment_user_ip filter to get the correct IP from a header like HTTP_X_FORWARDED.
    • Fix: Read client IP for country check from REMOTE_ADDR only (filterable via pre_comment_user_ip)
    • Fix: No spam reason in spam notification email, and related PHP warning
    • Fix: Remove outdated info from readme
    • Enhancement: Show upgrade notice on plugin overview page
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.3

  3. Antispam Bee 2.11.3

    • Fix: Multiselect for “Delete comments by spam reasons” was not saving values
    • Fix: Fix broken link for ISO country codes
    • Maintenance: Added test for PHP 8.2
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.2

  4. Antispam Bee 2.11.2

    • Tweak: remove superfluous translations
    • Tweak: make FAQ link an anchor link
    • Fix: spam counter no longer raises a warning with PHP 8.1 if no spam is present yet
    • Fix: spam reasons are now localized correctly
    • Fix: Translations were loaded twice on some admin pages
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.1

20222 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.11.1

    • Tweak: remove superfluous type attribute from inline script tag
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.0

  2. Antispam Bee 2.11.0

    • Fix: Allow empty comments if allow_empty_comment is set to true
    • Fix: Add aria-label to work around bug in a11y testing tools
    • Fix: Change priority for comment_form_field_comment from 10 to 99
    • Tweak: Updated some FAQ entries
    • Tweak: Updated build tooling

20212 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.10.0

    • Fix: Switch from ip2country.info to iplocate.io for country check
    • Enhancement: Use filter to add the honeypot field instead of output buffering for new installations and added option to switch between the both ways
    • Tweak: Added comment user agent to regex pattern check
    • Tweak: Make the ping detection filterable to support new comment types
    • Tweak: Updated internal documentation links
    • Tweak: Several updates and optimizations in the testing process
    • Tweak: Adjust color palette to recent WP version
    • Tweak: Adjust wording in variables and option names
    • Readme: Add new contributor and clean up unused code

  2. Antispam Bee 2.9.4

    • Enhancement: Add filter to allow ajax calls
    • Tweak: Better wording for BBCode feature in plugin description
    • Tweak: Better screenshots in the plugin directory
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 5.7

20202 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.9.3

    • Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 5.5
    • Fixed: Undefined index on spam list page
    • Tweak: Better wording on settings page
    • Tweak: AMP compatibility
    • Tweak: Protect CSS from overwrite through bad themes

  2. Antispam Bee 2.9.2

    • Fix: Delete comment meta for deleted old spam. For the cleanup of older orphaned comment meta we suggest the usage of WP Sweep
    • Fix: Statistic in dashboard showed wrong value
    • Tweak: Change autocomplete attribute to “new-password”
    • Tweak: Autoptimize compatibility improved
    • Tweak: Renamed blacklist/whitelist to a better phrase
    • Tweak: Added new pattern
    • Tweak: UI and text optimizations
    • Tweak: Better compatibility with some server configurations
    • Tweak: Make spam reason sortable and filterable
    • Tweak: Add spam reason for manually marked spam
    • Maintenance: Deleted unused code
    • Maintenance: Removed Fake IP check (unreliable and producing false positives)
    • Maintenance: Fix some coding standard issues
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 5.4
    • Maintenance: Tested up to PHP 7.4

20191 release

  1. Antispam Bee 2.9.1

    • Improved backend accessibility
    • Prefilled comment textareas do now work with the honeypot
    • Compatible with the AMP plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/)
    • Improved dashboard tooltips
    • Improvements for the language detection API
    • Scalable IP look up for local spam database

20184 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.9.0

    • Introduction of coding standards.
    • Switch to franc language detection API for the language check.
    • Do not longer overwrite the IP address WordPress saves with the comment by using pre_comment_user_ip.
    • Do not show “Trust commenters with a Gravatar” if the “Show Gravatar” option is not set.
    • Skip the checks, when I ping myself.
    • Fixes some wrong usages of the translation functions.
    • Use the regular expressions check also for trackbacks.
    • Add option to delete Antispam Bee related data when plugin gets deleted via the admin interface.
    • Save a hashed + salted IP for every comment
    • New check for incoming trackbacks.
    • Introduction of behat tests.
    • Updates the used JavaScript library for the statistics widget.
    • Bugfix in the “Comment form used outside of posts” option.

  2. Antispam Bee 2.8.1

    • PHP 5.3 compatibility
    • Bugfix where a spam trackback produced a fatal error
    • For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/8?closed=1

  3. Antispam Bee 2.8.0

    • Removed stopforumspam.com to avoid potential GDPR violation
    • Improves IP handling to comply with GDPR
    • Improves PHP7.2 compatibility
    • Fixes small bug on mobile views
    • Allow more than one language in language check
    • Minor interface improvements
    • Remove old russian and Dutch translation files
    • For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/4?closed=1

  4. Antispam Bee 2.7.1

    • Fixes an incompatibility with Chrome autofill
    • Fixes some incompatibilities with other plugins/themes where the comment field was left empty
    • Support for RTL
    • Solve some translation/language issues
    • A new filter to add languages to the language check
    • For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/6?closed=1

20171 release

  1. Antispam Bee 2.7.0

    • Country check is back again (thanks to Sergej Müller for his amazing work and the service page)
    • Improved Honeypot
    • Language check through Google Translate API is back again (thanks to Simon Kraft of https://moenus.net/ for offering to cover the costs)
    • More default Regexes
    • Unit Test Framework
    • Accessibility and GUI improvements
    • An english documentation is now available, too. Some corrections in the german documentation.
    • Some bugfixes – Among other things for WPML compatibility
    • For more details see https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/milestone/3?closed=1

20162 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.6.9

    • Updates donation links throughout the plugin
    • Fixes an error were JavaScript on the dashboard was erroneously being enqueued
    • Ensures compatibility with the latest WordPress version

  2. Antispam Bee 2.6.8

20153 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.6.7

  2. Antispam Bee 2.6.6

  3. Antispam Bee 2.6.5

20145 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.6.4

  2. Antispam Bee 2.6.3

  3. Antispam Bee 2.6.2

  4. Antispam Bee 2.6.1

  5. Antispam Bee 2.6.0

20129 releases

  1. Antispam Bee 2.4.6

  2. Antispam Bee 2.4.5

  3. Antispam Bee 2.4.4

  4. Antispam Bee 2.4.3

  5. Antispam Bee 2.4.2

  6. Antispam Bee 2.4.1

  7. Antispam Bee 2.4

  8. Antispam Bee 2.3

  9. Antispam Bee 2.2

Questions about Antispam Bee’s releases

What is the latest version of Antispam Bee?

2.11.13, released on Aug 23, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.2 or later.

How often is Antispam Bee updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 37 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2012.

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