Category: Updates

Upcoming Pi-hole changes

We are fast approaching another release (soon™), and we’ve been very busy since the last one. There are a number of smaller changes, but we thought it would be nice to share some of the bigger/more important changes ahead of time, so that they are not missed in amongst the release notes. Saying Goodbye to…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.16, Web v5.13 and Core v5.11.1 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Check struct sizes on the CI instead of during compile-time by @DL6ER in #1329 Add query type “Blocked (special domain)” by @DL6ER in #1338 Fix for theoretical one byte buffer overflow by @DL6ER in #1342 Log reply forcing…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.15, Web v5.12 and Core v5.10 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Fix negative “others” in Upstream Servers pie chart by @DL6ER in #1305 Update SQLite to v3.38.0 by @DL6ER in #1307 Reload blocking mode independently of incoming queries by @DL6ER in #1310 Replace reference to hard-coded default GCinterval value…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.14, Web v5.11 and Core v5.9 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Update Sqlite3 engine to 3.37.2 by @DL6ER in #1276 Enable history and auto-completion for embedded SQLite3 engine by @DL6ER in #1282 Optimize queries table by @DL6ER in #1255 Use embedded SQLite3 engine for the tests by @DL6ER in #1283 Add others…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.13, Web v5.10 and Core v5.8 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Add human-readable table output mode by @DL6ER in #1262 Return DNS port on “>dns-port” telnet command by @DL6ER in #1264 Fix cache statistics by @DL6ER in #1267 Sync master -> development by @DL6ER in #1266 Improve Linux capabilities check by @DL6ER in #1270 Update…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.12, Web v5.9 and Core v5.7 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Extend pihole -vv by @DL6ER in #1229 Print FTL version when calling the built in sqlite function only in interactive mode by @yubiuser in #1226 Compute reply time also for queries which failed upstream by @DL6ER in #1234…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.11, Web v5.8 and Core v5.6 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: Prevent race collisions when parsing FTL config file #1222 Fix incorrect response times for complex CNAMEs #1213 Improve CI tests #1212 Ensure compatibility with alpine 3.13+ #1210 Support dynamic linking as fallback #1204 (thanks @pemensik) Add PIHOLE_PTR=HOSTNAMEFQDN option #1202 Tweak rate-limiting #1199…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.10.1, Web v5.7 and Core v5.5 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly. Highlights Changes in the embedded dnsmasq-v2.87rc1: Fix crash if combining server=/domain/# is combined with address=/domain/1.2.3.4(issue reported by Pi-hole) Add all defined RR types to the table of type names used for query logging (Pi-hole…
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Pi-hole FTL v5.9, Web v5.6 and Core v5.4 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. After a successful beta round, we are excited to announce that the next version(s) of Pi-hole are now available in the main branches! A great big “Thank You” to all those who not only tested the beta, but actively reported back with any…
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[Hotfix] Pi-hole Web v5.5.1 released

Just a quick note to say we have pushed out a small bugfix release for the web component to address a couple of security issues reported to us. As ever, read the release notes before updating. GHSA-g3w6-q4fg-p8x8 – “Stored XSS Vulnerability in the Pi-hole Webinterface” reported by both Dariusz Gońda and @awareseven GHSA-5cm9-6p3m-v259 – “(Authenticated)…
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