diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index d002be8db..07b42c02f 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
  - Alejandro Mery: fixed ncurses/zlib to install into /, fixed ncompress
                    download location and updated smartmontools
+ - updated exim and spamassassin
 
 *) 2003-09-12 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/rene/exim/exim.conf b/package/rene/exim/exim.conf
index bb65d2a5d..aeff144f3 100644
--- a/package/rene/exim/exim.conf
+++ b/package/rene/exim/exim.conf
@@ -20,13 +20,12 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-
 exim_main()
 {
   mkdir -p /etc/exim
   
   echo "merging exiscan ..."
-  patch -p1 < $archdir/exiscan-${exiscan_version}.patch
+  bunzip2 -c $archdir/exiscan-${exiscan_version}.patch | patch -p1
 
   echo "patching Makefile ..."
   cp src/EDITME Local/Makefile
diff --git a/package/rene/exim/exim.desc b/package/rene/exim/exim.desc
index e89a19909..8aa835966 100644
--- a/package/rene/exim/exim.desc
+++ b/package/rene/exim/exim.desc
@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 4.20
+[V] 4.22
 [P] X -----5---9 241.000
 
 [O] exiscan_version=acl-4.20-02
 
-[D] 4153088991 exim-4.20.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
-[D] 1824314326 exiscan-acl-4.20-02.patch http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/
+[D] 0 exim-4.22.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
+[D] 0 exiscan-acl-4.22-12.patch.bz2 http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/
 [D] X config.samples.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
 
diff --git a/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc b/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
index 0eb3d141e..9ccda2625 100644
--- a/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
+++ b/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.60
+[V] 2.60-rc4
 [P] X -----5---9 230.000
 
-[D] 1748541027 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz http://www.spamassassin.org/released/
+[D] 0 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-rc4.tar.gz http://www.spamassassin.org/released/