Download Pi-hole Web 5.18 / FTL 5.20

Versions 5.18 from Pi-hole Web 5.18 and 5.20 of Pi-hole FTL have been released, Pi-hole Core has not been updated this time. Pi-hole is an advertising-aware DNS and web server intended to run on a Raspberry Pi in the network. If the router points to Pi-hole for DNS handling, all devices within the network will automatically use it without having to adjust any settings. Subsequently, advertisements are no longer retrieved, causing pages to load faster. It can also potentially keep malware out. For more information, we refer you to the explanation and videos on this pageor this manual from tweaker jpgview. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Pi-hole FTL v5.20 and Web v5.18 released

As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.)

Pi hole FTL changes:

This release finally ships the remaining bits of the latest dnsmasq release and updates the help text of FTL. We also update the embedded LUA engine and increase the SQLite3 cache size to get some more performance due to relying more on our internal caching compared to rely on page caching done by the kernel (for the gravity B-tree).

• Increase SQLite3’s cache size
• Update embedded dnsmasq to v2.88rc3
• Update embedded dnsmasq to v2.88rc4
• Print more detailed (“extended”) error code in SQLite3 code
• Embedded lua scripts into FTL
• Update embedded LUA to 5.4.4
• Update embedded dnsmasq to v2.88rc5
• Fix incorrect DNSSEC-related warning during history import
• Exit immediately after running dnsmasq test
• Improve -vv and –help

Full Changelog: v5.19.2…v5.20

Pi-hole Web changes:

More API endpoints now require auth – as mentioned last month in this blog post

• Fix donutTooltip if total percentage of shown slices is less than 0.1%
• Require auth for more API endpoints
• Increase small-box footer contrast ratio

Full Changelog: v5.17…v5.18