Preparing for the v6 release
A little over 10 months ago, we announced the beginning of a beta testing round for Pi-hole v6. We’re excited to share that after countless hours of testing, feedback, and fine-tuning, we believe it’s now (very nearly) ready for release!
The response from our community has been incredible, with over 250 discussion threads on our forum centred around the v6.0 beta. These conversations have been invaluable, helping us identify and resolve bugs, uncover new use cases, and polish the overall experience.
One of the most rewarding aspects of running a beta testing round is witnessing the collective effort to improve the software. Our users have shown tremendous dedication in helping us refine Pi-hole v6. Whether by spotting issues we missed or suggesting enhancements we hadn’t considered, the community’s contributions have been crucial in getting us to this point.
As we prepare for the final release, we want to assure you that your feedback has made Pi-hole v6 stronger and more reliable. Our goal has always been to ensure that when we finally hit the button on a general release, the majority of users will have a smooth and trouble-free experience.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be wrapping up the final touches, the first of which will be to move all of the development-v6 branches into their equivalent “main” development branches on each repo. For those of you on the beta already, once this switch happens you’ll need to switch to these branches to continue receiving updates (pihole checkout dev on bare metal installs, or switch to the dev tag on Docker) until such time as we are finally ready for general release.
IMPORTANT: Unless explicitly asked to by a developer, do not run any checkout commands until https://github.com/pi-hole/web/pull/3019, https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/1950, https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/5100 , and https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/pull/1626 have been merged!
As always, we are incredibly grateful for the continued support from our community. If you’ve found Pi-hole to be a valuable tool in your network, consider supporting our work through a donation at pi-hole.net/donate. Every contribution helps us to keep improving and maintaining Pi-hole for everyone.
Stay tuned for more updates as we move closer to releasing the best version of Pi-hole yet. Thank you for your continued support and participation—together, we’ve made Pi-hole v6 something truly special!