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Coming Soon To A Pi-hole Near You: FTL

We know the Web interface has been very slow when people’s query logs get too large, so we are here to preview something that addresses this and we are branding it FTL (Faster Than Light) to fit with the theme of Pi-hole and also to indicate how much better it performs over PHP. This wasn’t…
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Pi-hole 2.10.1 / 2.0.1 Fixes Zero Blocked Queries And More

This update should fix many of the issues you may have run into with the last release. You can install this update with: pihole -up It also contains:

Pi-hole Updated To 2.10 Core / 2.0 Web With Fixes And Goodies

Thanks to your donations, we have been inspired to keep working on Pi-hole and are pleased to release new versions of both Pi-hole core (updated to version 2.10) and the Web interface (updated to version 2.0). How To Update Just run pihole -up to get these new features.

Crack Our Medical Tricorder, Win A Raspberry Pi 3

We use tricorder.pi-hole.net to store debug logs (for 48 hours) from users. Somewhere in the anti-matter containment field we’ve hidden an Easter Egg for you to (try to) find.

Pi-hole 2.9.5 Released With Fixes And Two New Features

We’re happy to announce Pi-hole Core 2.9.5. And thank you for your continued donations. We made lot’s of fixes and tweaks, which you can find at changes.pi-hole.net. If you have any issues updating, there is a known bug in the current version of the update script which is hopefully resovled with this release. See this…
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A Better Place To Discuss Pi-hole

We’re happy to introduce our new forums/FAQs/feature requests/general discussion platform, Discourse. Our old forums were not very good, so this is a welcomed change. Head over to discourse.pi-hole.net (the old forum links now redirect there). We’ll still be available on Reddit, Twitter, and email, but this will be our go to place for Pi-hole discussion.…
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Tips For Accessing Your Pi-hole Remotely

It is possible to use your Pi-hole remotely for ad-blocking on-the-go. We don’t have a guide on this process for several reasons, which you will read about below. It’s been challenging to keep up because the project is growing larger then any of us ever imagined. And because each member of the Pi-hole dev team…
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Pi-hole 2.9 Released With Important Bug Fixes Plus Some Cool New Stuff

We’re happy to release a new version of Pi-hole core. With this release, please accept our apologies for the pihole -d command. You pointed out that it uploads some sensitive information without permission. We put a fix in place quickly, but we were a bit slow on the release.

Enjoy The Rio Olympics Ad-free With Pi-hole

The NBC app (or their live stream site) for watching the olympics isn’t that great to begin with, but throw is some obtrusive advertisements and it quickly degrades the olympic experience. This can be easily remedied with an ad-blocking Pi-hole.

Our New Logo

We really like it and we think you’ll agree. Legitimacy Pi-hole has always been a community-driven project and we couldn’t have made it this far without all of you. In keeping with that spirit, we wanted our users to help us design and pick a new logo.