Software update: Pi-hole 3.1

Pi-hole is an advertising-aware dns and web server intended to run on a Raspberry Pi in the network. By pointing to Pi-hole on the router for dns handling, all devices on the network will automatically use it without any settings being required. Ads are then no longer fetched, causing pages to load faster. It can potentially also keep malware at bay. For more information, we refer you to the explanation and videos on this pageor this manual from Tweaker jpgview. The developers behind Pi-hole have released version 3.1 with the following changes and improvements:

New

• Stopwatch 2 #1474
• Tricorder debug logs are now uploaded using SSL when openssl is available #1464
• Tricorder has a 10 second opt-out window if openssl isn’t available when uploading #1469
• IPv6: Use ULA addresses in favor of GUA addresses if available #1508
• Add weekly log rotation of FTL’s log #1509
• Separate blacklist into blacklist.list from gravity.list #1534

tweaks

• Install loopback firewall rules for FTL #1419
• Default dhcpcd.conf nameservers to 127.0.0.1 #1436
• Version now displays FTL data. New flags and rewritten script. #1447 #1459
• Improve busybox portability and support #1465
• Improve formatting or help docs #1468
• Fixed handling of pihole -wild help text #1317
• Repair/Reconfigure will reset any changes made to /etc/.pihole and /var/www/html/admin #1481 #1491
• Stash changes when using checkout #1384
• Update adlist query to search whitelist #1456

Fixes

• Apt failure message doesn’t show internal function name to users. #1446
• Fix whitelisting via block page if not on the root page #1452
• Debug log now shows status of Gateway checks #1455
• Only log rotate once at midnight #1476
• Disable wildcard-list when disabling Pi-hole #1495
• FTL would update twice if both it and core had an update #1517
• Correct permissions on /etc/pihole #1530
• Delete temporary FTL install files after install #1532