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,…
Read more
Like you, we’ve been thinking a lot about the current global COVID-19 pandemic. During the Beta testing period, many of us were unaffected by this outbreak, but as the effects have intensified around the world, it has got a bit tougher for us to work on some things due to restrictions that have come up…
Read more
From today we are looking for people to help us beta test the next iteration of Pi-hole! We have been quiet on the release front for a few months, but we have been busy working away on lots of new features to make Pi-hole an even better tool for your ad-blocking needs!
We are pleased to release version 4.3.2 of the core and web repositories. Please see the change list below. In order to update, please run pihole -up from a terminal session. One major change in this release is the removal of support for adblock style lists such as Easylist / Easyprivacy, so you may notice…
Read more
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Pi-hole 4.3! Thank you to to our patrons and everyone else who continue to support us. Highlights Network Information Table We have added a new page to the web interface which displays some enhanced information about the devices on your network. Fixes And Tweaks Improved support for…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
2018 went by fast for the Pi-hole team. We though it would be fun to share some interesting facts from this year. We had four official releases of Pi-hole, moving from v.3.2.1 to v4.1.2 We had 99.9668% uptime for internal and external services We had over 22k posts on our user forums the majority of…
Read more
We’re very happy to announce the release of v4.1 of Pi-hole. We’d also like to thank our Patrons for their continued support as our project would be very difficult to maintain without your patronage.
Jacob Salmela recently went to the Snapcraft Summit in London and worked with Alan Pope for a few days to attempt to make Pi-hole installable via snap. They made some progress, but it’s not quite functional enough to publish in the Snap Store. To that end, we wanted to make the repo public to see…
Read more