Software Update: Adguard Home 0.103.2

Adguard Home version 0.103.1 has been released and due to an annoying bug in the rules matching also 0.103.2. With this software, a DNS server can be set up at home to block advertisements and malware on the entire network, among other things. It is therefore comparable to Pi-hole. Adguard Home works on a machine with Windows, macOS, Linux or FreeBSD and is also capable of phishing protection and has parental control. The program can be discussed on our own forum. The release notes for version 0.103.1 look like this:

Completely redesigned query log: #1421

Bet you spend a lot of time here. You just can’t resist, can you? I surely can’t. The more important it’s for the query log to look slick, and even more important to be super informative. Luckily, the updated query log ticks all the boxes.

$client modifier support: #1761

One of the advantages of adblock-style syntax (and the reason we prefer it to ‘hosts’ files) is extensibility. Let us demonstrate it once again by extending the syntax with a new modifier. Now you can narrow rules scope to a specific client(s).

A couple of examples:

• @@||*^$client=127.0.0.1 — unblock everything for localhost;
• ||example.org^$client=”Frank”s laptop’ — block example.org for the client named Frank’s laptop only. Sorry Frank, no example.org for you today. Note that the name must be enclosed in quotes and the quote character must be escaped.

Lord you can find more examples.

‘Edge’ update channel

This new update channel is for you if you really like living on the edge want to use the LATEST version of AdGuard. It is updated daily and this is the closest thing to the master branch you can get. And if even that’s not enough for you… check out our job listings, I guess. Lord you can learn how to install it.

Multi-arch Docker images

Instead of a multitude of arch-specific tags, we now publish multi-arch images to Docker Hub. So if you were using some arm64-latest tag, don’t do that anymore and simply switch to latest.

Other changes Added or improved

• Move “Blocked services” to a separate page under “Filters” menu: #1744
• Do not require root for the first startup: #1699
• Add support for PTR/rDNS for DHCP hostnames: #1682
• “Drill down” to activity reports: #1625
• Expose cache size and TTL settings: #1587
• Rolling log files: #1573
• Reduce the ARP scanning period: #1398
• Choosing filter lists for AdGuard Home: #1325
• Add an option to disable writing query log to file: #876
• GL-Inet integration: #1853

Fixed

• Autohosts module crash: #1814
• Hosts file parsed improperly: #1807
• Unable to add local lists: #1792
• Adding two DNS rewrites for a domain, null IP for AAAA and CNAME causes Adguard to use CNAME for both A & AAAA records: #1764
• “DNS rewrites” – An error is prompted when adding a new rewrite rule, but the actual addition is successful.: #1754
• In “Setup guide – Router – 4th line”, the hyperlink “DHCP server” is not available.: #1740
• Rules Special characters “^” not working as expected: #1732
• DNS rewrites cause panic logging stats: #1724
• panic in dnsforward.(*Server).updateStats: #1712
• Do not reply to DNS responses: #1710
• Block for tag not work in website: #1707
• Trailing 0 in last IP octet is ignored when specifying disallowed client: #1687
• AdGuard Home expects valid TLS config even when allow_unencrypted_doh is configured: #1677

Other

• Show a link to the FAQ article about Ubuntu when port 53 is in use: #1889
• Fixing FreeBSD install: #1871
• Use the same tooltip style everywhere: #1866
• Only loopback interface during first installation: #1856
• Make language tag in HTML same as setting language in AdGuard Home: #1797
• Statistics reset after reboot: #1785
• Skype file transfer issue: #1782
• error handling UDP packet: dns: buffer size too small: #1777
• Wrong 24 hour time format DNS blocklists page: #1766
• mDNS/Bonjour requests may be spamming the logfile: #1742
• When anonymize IPs is enabled, trim IPs to /16: #1741
• Log spam after upgrade to v0.102.0: #1735
• Don’t hide version string when built-in auto-update is disabled: #1726
• v0.102.0 crashes when rewriting any internal CNAME: #1704
• syslog error message – unexpected HTTP status code 400 from ‘https://dns-family.adguard.com:443/dns-query: #1697
• Incorrect rule count: #1694
• Add more info about DNS names from etc/hosts to “Clients (runtime)”: #1686
• Allow Fastest IP address and Parallel requests to toggle each other on and off: #1678
• Use of monospace font in selected text areas of the web UI: #1650
• Make reloading log list work better: #1642
• Support for disabling DNS caching: #1591
• Add another /querylog API call with offset/limit params: #1559
• DNS Rewrites: support wildcard domain name exceptions: #1547
• Internal DNS queries for whois.* domains bypass AGH: #1535
• Improve logs page – clear input field when switching from/to logs page: #1523
• Document the DNS blocking limitations and issues: #1433
• http: TLS handshake error: #1167

API changes

Please read the changelog to learn about API changes.

Please note, that starting with this version we now strip “v” prefix from the version name in beta and release builds, but it is still there in “edge” builds.