Software update: Pi-hole 3.2

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 having to adjust any settings. 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 version 3.2 released with the following changes and improvements:

New

• audit log (implemented feature request) #1399
• Add pihole checkout ftl #1567
• Add web frontend shutdown command #1572
• Allow for Custom block page #1688
• Add pihole -a email functionality for Block Page contact email #1691
• add SELinux checks to debug script #1735
• Use cron based update checker to speed up web interface #1752
• Support local block lists (implemented feature request) #1779

tweaks

• Randomize gravity update time (implemented feature request) #1747
• Send SIGHUP to pihole-FTL when restarting/reloading dnsmasq #1751
• Add nuclear option to list.sh #1728
• Add VPN host names to local.list #1682 #1718
• Gravity: Add ignore-case switch to sort (domains) #1687
• Colourised output text #1471
• Make Chronometer usable on smaller screens #1518
• Revamp of debug script to better allow users to self-diagnose their installs #1565, #1585
• Install Script: Add comments for nearly every line of code #1586
• User-friendly pihole -q output #1483
• Avoid reactivating a deactivated lighttpd service #1485
• Only download FTL if a newer version than currently installed is detected (or if no version is detected) #1600
• Block Page 2.0 #1416
• Prevent Let’s Encrypt HTTPS from causing Block Page issues #1420
• Decrease local-ttl to 2 #1701
• Cleanup uninstall script #1663
• Clean up and optimize Gravity #1631
• Start and enable FTL prior to running Gravity #1700

Fixes

• Allow passwords with spaces #1780
• Minor grammatical and formatting fixes #1757
• Fix IPv6 wildcard blocking (if CIDR is present) #1556
• Fix IPv6 gravity generation (if CIDR is present) #1564
• Fix install script using IPv6 CIDR notation #1570
• Use the correct hostname for Pi-hole (regression) #1560
• Accept underscores when validating domain names #1571
• Show text typed when pressing Ctrl+C after using pihole -a -p #1587
• Prevent Web Admin from printing restartdns color codes #1575
• Provide correct FTL stats #1619
• Fix pihole -q if adlists URLs have been removed #1618
• Always process DNS and DHCP settings in installer #1630
• Stop an extra h being added to leasetime of DHCP server. #1646
• Fix URL extension parsing in certain cases on the block page #1602
• Replace superseded netstat command #1676
• Add php5-sqlite to dependencies #1581
• Slow query fix & queryFunc optimization #1694
• Exclude files from Web Admin that should not be accessible #1704
• Correctly highlight Pi-hole’s IPv4/6 addresses when running pihole tail #1707