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.
(Updated.) The rename has since gone further than this announcement first described. PhoenixDKIM is a standalone project, not a drop-in replacement for OpenDKIM: as of the 1.0.0-beta1 release the binary, configuration path, library, and Lua namespace are all phoenixdkim (/etc/phoenixdkim/, libphoenixdkim, pdkim). The configuration keyword format and the KeyTable/SigningTable layout carry over, and the two daemons can be installed side by side — see the Coming From guide.
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.