Software Update: Pi-hole Core 5.6 / Web 5.8 / FTL 5.11

Version 5.6 of Pi-hole Core has been released. Also be Pi-hole Web 5.8 and FTL 5.11 hatched. Pi-hole is an advertising-aware DNS and web server intended to run on a Raspberry Pi in the network. If the router references Pi-hole 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. Potentially, it can 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 changelogs for the three separate modules can be found below.

Pi hole v5.6

• List fix: no reload #3981
• Due to use defined file path variables #4105
• Remove obsolete DEB package name checks #4106
• add –no-rebase to the git pull command(s) to squelch hint message in newer versions of git (#4226†
• Add ca-certificates to INSTALLER_DEPS #4343
• Remove netcat from dependencies (#4346†
• Do not export DNS_FQDN_REQUIRED and DNS_BOGUS_PRIV unconditionally #4354
• Don’t account for refactor anymore (#4355†
• Do not let the user select if they want to blocking via IPv4 and/or IPv6 #4357
• Install script comment tweaks (#4361†
• Remove unused wildcard_regex_converter.sh(#4369†
• Remove .idea/ #4373
• Set file permission for query database in pihole-FTL.service #4328
• Tweak final whiptail dialog #4321
• companion to pi-hole/AdminLTE#1231 #4375
• Simplify vw_adlist #4379
• Make debug log file size human readable #4350
• Update upstream DNS server capability descriptions #4363
• Include df -h in debug log #4380
• Fix PHP8.0 detection #4383
• Tweak local DNS record and CNAME #4384
• update tests: remove fedora 32, add fedora 34 #4403

Pi hole web v5.8

• Dashboard icons – send to back and fixing position when scaled up #1915
• Unescape German umlauts #1914
• Add note to query log that pi.hole queries are not logged #1913
• Do not default true for unset variables DNS_FQDN_REQUIRED and DNS_BOGUS_PRIV #1909
• Background colors on Query log + striped table #1916
• fix: row background colors in query log #1906
• Make entire Forgot Password box header clickable #1917
• #1777 “Remember me for 7 days” doesn’t work if you log in from Recent Queries #1870
• Handle empty “” domain in query top list correctly #1790
• Modal-Dialog for Teleporter Import #1231
• Suppress empty lines during teleporter import #1921
• Do not try to resolve hostname of clients in long-term data #1931
• Add delete button to the network table to allow deleting individual entries #1924
• Do not restart for every item during Teleporter import of Local DNS record or CNAME #1925
• Display Docker Tag in footer if the PIHOLE_DOCKER_TAG environment variable is detected #1933
• Set font’s color in teleporter iframe (fix for #1923† #1934
• Prevent possible XSS attack vector on add_client GHSA-mhr8-7rvg-8r43

Pi-hole FTL v5.11

• Prevent race collisions when parsing FTL config file #1222
• Fix incorrect response times for complex CNAMEs #1213
• Improve CI tests #1212
• Ensure compatibility with alpine 3.13+ #1210
• Support dynamic linking as fallback #1204
• Tweak rate limiting #1199
• Improve interface detection #1198
• Fix rare crashes when rate-limiting happens before queries are blocked #1197
• Fix network byte order confusion in local lookups #1196
• Fix deep CNAME inspection #1192