# Project renamed to PhoenixDKIM

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`.

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