In September 2020, the JSOF Research Lab discovered seven security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq. They named the set of vulnerabilities dnspooq. We’ve been in contact with them and, over the last couple of weeks, we’ve partnered and worked closely with Cisco, Red Hat and, Simon Kelley (the maintainer of dnsmasq) [the order of mentioning does not…
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A new year, a new release! Before running pihole -up to update, make sure you’ve read over the release notes below 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: Docker containers now tagged at :v5.4 Core:…
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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…
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They say Pi-hole releases are like London buses.. you don’t see one for ages, and then they all come at once! Mostly just bugfixes in this release, no new features. Core: Don’t delete entries including and greater than PIHOLE_DNS_10 on update/repair #3874 (@PromoFaux) Fix “Never forward non-FQDNs” checkbox #3887 (@DL6ER) Fix processing of CONDITIONAL_FORWARDING_REVERSE #3882…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. If you have any issues with the web interface after updating. Highlights Upgrade RegEx engine #815 Adding approximate matching (catch URL typos), back-references, more character classes for bracket expressions, type-specific filtering (e.g. regex only for type AAAA queries), and more. See this Discourse…
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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…
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As always, we recommend that you read through the release notes and ensure that this update is something you wish to install. Highlights Dark-mode You asked for it, we added it. Dark mode has been an often-requested feature. With Pi-hole v5.1, we finally have an inbuilt dark-mode which can be enabled on the settings page.…
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After a successful beta testing and development period (many thanks to the beta testers!), we are pleased to announce the release of 5.0 for general availability! Important notice There are many fundamental changes between Pi-hole 4.x and 5.0 – as such, this is strictly a one way operation. Once you move from 4.x to 5.0,…
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We released two small updates to Core and FTL, which will bump both to version 4.2.2. In the Core codebase, some users experienced crashes if their systems were without libcap support which caused FTLDNS to run as root, later dropping to the unprivileged user pihole. As the shared memory objects used for FTLDNS are created…
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We’re always happy when we can release a new version of Pi-hole, so today we’re announcing v4.2 of Pi-hole. Thank you to to our patrons and everyone else who continue to support us. Along with many other things, we’ve merged in the upstream code from dnsmasq v2.80. For anyone who doesn’t know, FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) is…
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