Software update: Pi-hole 4.1

Pi-hole is an advertising-aware dns and web server intended to run on a Raspberry Pi in the network. If Pi-hole is referenced 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 released version 4.1 with the following changes and improvements:

New

• Add support for privacy level 4 #2383
• Start pihole-FTL as root if Linux capabilities are not supported by the system (virtual container, etc.) #2378
• Improve (speed up) the enable/disable method #2356

tweaks

• Improve error message when downloading FTL failed #2331
• Removed dependency on net-tools #2299

Fixes

• Remove PowerPC from FTL binaries #2329
• Fix Stopwatch heading #2327
• Touch /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases to ensure it exists #2377
• Fix lighttpd 1.4.50 crash #2407
• Allow for non-standard port assignment for DNS #2505