A chronological list of changes, bug fixes, and other milestones
- 20240507 — 55,000 entries
- 20240209 — 54,000 entries
- 20231118 — 53,000 entries
- 20230928 — Fixed bug that affected phrases containing the terms “nufactur” and “meridia”, such as “manufacture” and “meridian”
- 20230818 — 52,000 entries
- 20230812 — Fixed bug relating to a handful of false positives
- 20230415 — 51,000 entries
- 20230301 — 50,000 entries
- 20230206 — 49,000 entries
- 20230108 — 48,000 entries
- 20221021 — Fixed bug that affected comments containing a period followed by a comma
- 20220812 — 47,000 entries
- 20220731 — Fixed bug that affected terms ending with a space and a hyphen
- 20220314 — 46,000 entries
- 20220217 — Fixed bug that affected valid links containing site.co or site.in
- 20211124 — 45,000 entries
- 20210913 — Fixed bug that affected email addresses from German service provider t-online
- 20210902 — 44,000 entries
- 20210705 — Removed several terms containing number signs to better handle valid anchor references
- 20210512 — 43,000 entries
- 20210319 — Pluginkollektiv renames the Blacklist Updater plugin to Block List Updater
- 20210107 — Fixed bug that affected phrases containing the term “cialis”, such as “specialist”
- 20210106 — 42,000 entries
- 20201203 — Removed several terms containing “online” to better handle valid email domains
- 20200905 — Fixed bug that affected phrases containing the common character pair “oy”
- 20200626 — 41,000 entries
- 20200424 — Removed generic terms containing equal signs to better handle valid search strings
- 20200406 — 40,000 entries
- 20200112 — 39,000 entries
- 20191113 — 38,000 entries
- 20190926 — Refactored generic terms containing underscores to better handle valid wiki links
- 20190915 — 37,000 entries
- 20190820 — Ben Gillbanks’ WP Toolbelt plugin released
- 20190726 — 36,000 entries
- 20190721 — Fixed bug that affected comments containing the common term “product”
- 20190720 — Fixed bug that affected comments containing the common term “while”
- 20190420 — 35,000 entries
- 20190217 — Apasionados’ Comment Blacklist Updater plugin released
- 20190212 — 34,000 entries
- 20190107 — 33,000 entries
- 20181125 — 32,000 entries
- 20181102 — 31,000 entries
- 20180729 — 30,000 entries
- 20180630 — 29,000 entries
- 20180602 — Fixed bug that affected comments containing exuberant punctuation
- 20180523 — 28,000 entries
- 20180410 — 27,000 entries
- 20180210 — 26,000 entries
- 20171009 — 25,000 entries
- 20170422 — 24,000 entries
- 20170111 — Fixed bug that affected comments containing the common term “port”
- 20161013 — 23,000 entries
- 20160518 — 22,000 entries
- 20160224 — WordPress Simple Firewall plugin rebranded as Shield
- 20160123 — 21,000 entries
- 20150926 — 20,000 entries
- 20150801 — 19,000 entries
- 20150630 — Pluginkollektiv takes over maintenance of Sergej Müller’s Blacklist Updater plugin
- 20150522 — 18,000 entries
- 20150313 — 17,000 entries
- 20150108 — 16,000 entries
- 20141214 — 15,000 entries
- 20141124 — Fixed bug that affected IPv6 localhost addresses
- 20141115 — 14,000 entries
- 20141011 — 13,000 entries
- 20140911 — Added to the Combating Comment Spam section of the WordPress Codex
- 20140826 — 12,000 entries
- 20140624 — 11,000 entries
- 20140527 — Added MIT License
- 20140527 — WordPress Simple Firewall plugin adds “human spam comment filtering” support
- 20140508 — 10,000 entries
- 20140501 — Sergej Müller’s Blacklist Updater plugin released
- 20140501 — Andrew Norcross’ Comment Blacklist Manager plugin released
- 20140324 — 9,000 entries
- 20140206 — 8,000 entries
- 20131215 — 7,000 entries
- 20131122 — Fixed bug that affected most user agent strings
- 20131105 — Migrated project to GitHub
- 20131020 — 6,000 entries
- 20130911 — 5,000 entries
- 20130715 — 4,000 entries
- 20130226 — 3,000 entries
- 20130130 — Added documentation
- 20120529 — 2,000 entries
- 20120217 — 1,000 entries
- 20111122 — Released as a Gist with just over 140 entries