Pi-hole FTL v5.2 Released

Today’s release is mainly to get some much needed changes to FTL out into the wild, including an update of the internal dnsmasq version, however we have a few bug fixes for the core and web components, too.

For core, some improvements have been made to the unsupported OS detection – which should hopefully stop a few common issues we have seen since 5.1 was released.

For those of you using PADD, this release of FTL should fix the issue you have been seeing with the status of FTL.

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. If you have any issues with the web interface after updating, clear your browser cache to see if that resolves it before reporting a bug!

More details below:

Changelog

FTL v5.2:

• Update dnsmasq version to v2.82 #848
• Add logging for CNAME inspection (Discourse Feature Request) #832
• Re-add portfile as its removal broke the (old) chronometer (pihole -c) #838
• Improve TCP worker handling #845
  • Fixes some issues with strangely behaving clients
  • Increase the TCP worker timeout from 150 seconds (dnsmasq default) to 300 seconds to not kill connections too early
  • Increases maximum number of concurrent TCP connections from 20 (dnsmasq default) to 60
• Safely reopen gravity database to avoid API race collisions #847
• Enhance pihole restartdns reload and ... reload-lists speed #850
• Make FTL builds faster by putting all sources in dedicated cmake objects #852

Core v5.1.2:

• Allow port number on IPV6 validator 643d2c0 (@PromoFaux)
• Fix for gravity cronjob #3599 (@DL6ER)
• Wrap OS Check function in gate and add ns1 resolver for dig #3596 (@PromoFaux)
• Add OS and version to output if unsupported OS is detected #3597 (@yubiuser)
• Report and exit if dig supportedOS returns nothing #3620 (@yubiuser)
• Allow IPv6 loopback address to be added #3654 (@DL6ER)

Web v5.1.1:

• IP Address sorting on the query/long term query pages 6065680 (@PromoFaux )
• Fix teleporter bug on hosts with . in their names #1517 (@DL6ER)
• Fix ARPFLUSH button on the settings page #1514 (@DL6ER)
• Fix audit log button #1518 (@DL6ER)
• Fix query types links on the dashboard (Query Types pie chart) #1519 (@DL6ER)
• Allow IPv6 loopback address to be added #1548 (@DL6ER)

Discuss version 5.2 on our Discourse! https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-ftl-v5-2-released/36964