AAkismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection: version, compatibility and updates

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection is a WordPress plugin with 5+ million active installs. The current version on WordPress.org is 5.7.2, last updated on 18 August 2026.

Facts from WordPress.org

Does Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection work with WordPress 7.2?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection says it was tested up to WordPress 7.1.4. It does not yet say it has been tested with WordPress 7.2. See the full WordPress 7.2 compatibility list.

What the plugin says about itself

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: …

Newest changelog entry

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

Recent releases

Days are when each version's tag was created in WordPress.org's code repository.

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