Download AdGuard Home 0.107.0

Adguard Home version 0.107.0 has been released. 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 runs on a machine with Windows, macOS, Linux or FreeBSD, is also capable of phishing protection and has parental control. The program can be discussed on our own forum. The complete changelog for this release can be found on this page are being found. In short, these are the main improvements made in version 0.107.0:

Native Apple Silicon support

There’s no shortage of killer features in this changelog, but this one takes the cake as the biggest of them all, without any doubt. You won’t have to resort to Rosetta or any such solutions anymore if you want to configure AdGuard Home on a Mac with a Silicon chip.

RFC 9000 support In DNS-over-QUIC

It’s not quite over nine thousand, but it’ll do. The IETF has formalized QUIC this year with RFC 9000, and DNS-over-QUIC protocol finally supports it. If you haven’t tried DoQ yet, consider this a sign.

$dnsrewrite rules and other DNS rewrites will now be applied even when protection is disabled (#1558†

Another popular demand. This change only makes sense, as DNS rewrites often carry a different purpose than simply blocking ads or trackers. You still can disable them by opening the admin panel, going to Settings → General settings, and removing the check mark from the Block domains using filters and hosts files box.

DNS-over-HTTPS queries now use the real IP address of the client instead of the address of the proxy (#2799†

Note that this change concerns only those proxies that you’ve added to the list of “Trusted proxies”, otherwise it would be a major security risk. We wouldn’t want anything of that sort to happen to you! Right now trusted_proxies can only be configured in AdGuardHome.yaml, but that might change in the future.

Optimistic DNS cache (#2145†

To reduce latency you may make AdGuard Home respond from the cache even when the stored entry is expired, while trying to refresh them at the same time. This checkbox is located in Settings → DNS settings → DNS cache configuration and it’s not ticked by default. Responses made from DNS cache are marked with a special label in the Query log.

Query log search now supports internationalized domains (#3012†

Internationalized domain names (IDNAs) are domain names that contain symbols in non-Latin script/alphabet, such as яндекс.рф or ουτοπία.δπθ.gr, for example. Previously, they were being converted to Unicode in AG Home Query log (xn--d1abqjx3f.xn--p1ai and xn--kxae4bafwg.xn--pxaix.gr in our examples), which is a detriment in most cases. Now IDNAs are displayed as is, and you can search for them without resorting to Unicode.