Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.8 release date
Not announced. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.8 has not been officially announced. This is our forecast, built from the evidence below.
Not announced
How we reached this date
The last 8 gaps between Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection releases ran 69 to 547 days, typically 143 days. The latest line, 5.7, came out on 23 April 2026.
Counting on from there, and ignoring past gaps that are already shorter than the time that has passed, the most likely day is 16 February 2027, inside a window from 10 January 2027 to 2 September 2027.
The 20% is the share of comparable past releases that landed in a window like this, reduced a little because the sample is small. It is not a promise.
What would move it
An official announcement, a release-candidate version appearing in the code, or WordPress.org listing 5.8 as the current version. Each new signal is added to the timeline below and the window is recalculated. When WordPress.org lists 5.8 as current, this page switches to launch facts.
From the plugin's own description
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 hi…
What we know so far
- 23 April 2026The last 8 releases of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection came 69 to 547 days apart. Source: WordPress.org plugin code repository
Questions
When will Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.8 be released?
Our most likely date is 16 February 2027, with a 20% chance it lands between 10 January 2027 and 2 September 2027. It has not been announced.
Is Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.8 out yet?
Not as of 1 November 2026. We check WordPress.org's listing and the plugin's code repository, and this page switches to launch facts the day it ships.
How sure is this forecast?
The 20% is the share of comparable past releases that landed in a window like this, reduced a little because the sample is small. It is an estimate, not a promise.