Pi-hole Core/Web v5.2.2 and FTL v5.3.4 released!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….

No shiny new features for you this time, but fixes for bugs identified since the last version, and a few tweaks here and there. Full details below.

As ever, before running pihole -up to update, make sure you’ve read over the release notes to ensure there’s nothing that would stop you from upgrading. Pi-hole docker containers will be updated in due course… (before anyone asks “Where’s the Docker update??”)

Update: Just pushed the :v5.3.4 tags for Docker. Merry Christmas!

Core:

• Update pihole-FTL man-pages #3883 (@ganto)
• piholeDebug: Fix warning if lighttpd/php are not installed #3902 (@ganto)
• piholeDebug: Diagnose output if (Web) git directory is not found #3904 (@ganto)
• Fix chronometer output if web interface is not installed #3900 (@ganto)
• Adding comma to the adlist table format #3909 (@onegreydot)
• Add fallback for arch detection on i386/x86_64 #3940 (@dschaper)

Web:

• Change color of blocked queries in dashboard piechart forward destination to red #1594 (@yubiuser)
• Switch from fontawesome webfonts to SVG + JS #1619 (@notriddle)
• Show status of retried DNS queries in query log correctly #1646 (@dnhp)
• Require auth for recentBlocked function #1650 (@aidentwoods)
• Use hash_equals when comparing to pwhash from cookie #1652 (@aidantwoods)
• Validate target domain for CNAME records #1662 (@yubiuser)
• Fix transactions in groups.php #1664 (@DL6ER)
• Prevent malformed DNS queries executing JS on querylog/long term query pages #1665 (@PromoFaux)

FTL:

New

• Immediately resolve host names of clients and upstream destinations #996
• Add UNKNOWN option for REFRESH_HOSTNAME #985
• Add lua and luac drop-in support #968
• Show BOOTP server and file strings used by TFTP in dhcp-discover #963

Tweaks

• Add DEBUG_EXTRA flag #994
• Improve compatibility with old (ancient) kernels #984 #969
• Add more debugging output for domain reloading (on receipt of SIGHUP) #970
• Implement interrupt-safe systemcalls #969

Fixes

• Escape spaces by ~ in domains and hostnames to fix API issues with such names #997
• Fix CNAME query blocking mode #995
• Fix crashing forks when regex structure changed #982
• Fix freeing regex pointers to free the global objects #971
• Fix possible crash in parse_FTLconf() #967
• Update dnsmasq version to 2.82 #964