DNSSEC fix generally released.

Please run `pihole -up` to update Pi-hole with the fixes noted in the previous post. Thanks!

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Fixing two new DNSSEC vulnerabilities

  Today, we have been informed about two DNSSEC vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, which Pi-hole FTL is forked from. Both vulnerabilities, via specially crafted DNSSEC answers, can lead DNSSEC validators down a very CPU intensive and time costly validation/NSEC3 hash calculation path. This results in degraded performance and denial of service in trivially orchestrated attacks. In…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.24, and Core v5.17.3 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) While the majority of our development effort is currently focused on the running v6.0 beta, we are absolutely dedicated to supporting and enhancing v5. We understand that many users continue to depend…
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Pi-hole V6 Beta Testing

It’s no secret that we’ve been working on the next iteration of Pi-hole for quite some time now (Nearly four years!). You may have seen mentions of v6.0 floating around on our Github, Discourse, or Reddit channels. Today we’re looking to ask some of the more brave users to help us test and troubleshoot it

PSA: Renaming the web repo

What’s happening? We will be renaming the current web repo from AdminLTE to web Why is this happening? The web repo started off life a long time ago as a fork of popular admin dashboard template AdminLTE (building on their demo template). What we probably should have done in retrospect was start from scratch and embed…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.23, Web v5.20 and Core v5.17 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Highlights The list parsing functionality of Gravity is now handled by FTL which makes it much faster and less memory/storage intensive. (#1559 & #5275) RISC V support (#5196) Add local network scanning…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.22, Web v5.19 and Core v5.16.1 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Highlights A long time ago (in this galaxy…) we dropped gravity’s support for parsing Adblock Plus (ABP) style lists (v4.3.2 release notes). The parsing implementation we had in place at the time…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.21, Web v5.18.4 and Core v5.15.5 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Extend regex extension ;querytype=… by @DL6ER in #1527 Update embedded dnsmasq to v2.89 by @DL6ER in #1522 Fix bug which can break the invariants on the order of a hash chain.…
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Pi-hole Web v5.18.2 and Core v5.15.1 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Update 2023-01-25: Core v5.15.3 released to address an issue with the PHP config for the admin page: Change lighttpd options min_procs value to 1 by @rdwebdesign in #5149 Web v5.18.3 released with a security fix for CVE-2023-23614: Fix insecure…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.20.1, Web v5.18.1 and Core v5.15 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Notable Changes in this release As mentioned in the last release, we have some fairly large changes for the core repository in this release. As a reminder: Native systemd service We have…
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