21 May 2026
The project has been renamed from opendkim-ng to PhoenixDKIM.
The name opendkim-ng was chosen early on as a working title: it described what the project was — a next-generation OpenDKIM — but it also created an unfortunate ambiguity. The original OpenDKIM project is maintained (or was maintained) by the Trusted Domain Project. PhoenixDKIM is an independent fork, started as a personal project by one maintainer. Sharing a name with the upstream project risks confusion about provenance, support, and security responsibility.
PhoenixDKIM is a drop-in replacement for OpenDKIM. It uses the same binary name (opendkim), the same configuration file format, and the same milter interface. Existing deployments do not need to change anything other than the package name.
The source repository is at github.com/edmundlod/PhoenixDKIM. The pre-releases tagged prior to this rename appear there as v3.0.0-beta1 through v3.0.0-beta11.