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2.64. HelpSpot 4.8.17

Updated: 15 Apr 2026, 11:21 AM EDT

Originally published 2019-03-01

Enhancements

• A new command “php hs spam:clean” was added to help reduce size of the spam filter without reducing spam filtering quality
• Caching implemented on high-volume database queries, especially filter counts, to help on installs with a large number of filters. This reduces the load on the database server and improves admin page load times.
• Session garbage collection enhancement to remove old session data, especially for installs with high API usage
• Made improvements to spam filtering performance.
• Optimized tasks2 maintenance tasks to run once per day