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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
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Soon™
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
4 years
After a successful beta testing and development period (many thanks to the beta testers!), we are pleased to announce the release of 5.0 for general availability! Important notice There are many fundamental changes between Pi-hole 4.x and 5.0
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Pi-hole v4.0 Released With FTLDNS, Improved Blocking Modes, Regex, Docker, and More
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4 years
As always, we recommend that you read through the release notes and ensure that this update is something you wish to install. Highlights Dark-mode You asked for it, we added it. Dark mode has been an often-requested feature. With Pi-hole v5.1,
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@The_Pi_Hole
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6 years
Pi-hole v4.2 Available With Shared Memory, New Blocking Modes, And More
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5 years
From today we are looking for people to help us beta test the next iteration of Pi-hole! We have been quiet on the release front for a few months, but we have been busy working away on lots of new features to make Pi-hole an even better tool for your
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@The_Pi_Hole
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4 years
Today, we release Pi-hole FTL v5.7 and Web v5.4. This release improves the security and reliability of your Pi-hole.
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4 years
In September 2020, the JSOF Research Lab discovered seven security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq. They named the set of vulnerabilities dnspooq. We've been in contact with them and, over the last couple of weeks, we've partnered and worked closely with
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
We are pleased to release version 4.3.2 of the core and web repositories. Please see the change list below. In order to update, please run  pihole -up from a terminal session.
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
Oh, hi there.. it's been a while.
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
Thank you Pi-hole community!!
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Now/Next
5 years
pi-hole has surpassed 20,000 stars on GitHub
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@The_Pi_Hole
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1 year
A preview of things to come...
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
@Scott_Helme @Facebook I bet it was DNS. It's always DNS.
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@The_Pi_Hole
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6 years
Pi-hole v4.1 Is Now Available
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
Pi-hole 4.3 released!
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4 years
Today's release is mainly to get some much needed changes to FTL out into the wild, including an update of the internal dnsmasq version, however we have a few bug fixes for the core and web components, too.
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@The_Pi_Hole
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4 years
Pi-hole Core/Web v5.2.2 and FTL v5.3.3 released!
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@The_Pi_Hole
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4 years
Pi-hole FTL v5.8, Web v5.5 and Core v5.3 released!
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@The_Pi_Hole
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4 years
A new year, a new release! Before running pihole -up to update, make sure you've read over the release notes below to ensure there's nothing that would stop you from upgrading. Pi-hole docker containers will be updated in due course...
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
Sigh, now we need a lawyer to make open source?
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
6 years
Woke: Letting Google gain browser dominance because it's easier to develop websites against one rendering engine Broke: Google using their dominance to break plugin API's, effectively killing ad-blockers like uBlock Origin
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@The_Pi_Hole
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7 months
Pi-hole core v5.18 released with a vulnerability fix.
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1 year
Hello Pi-hole fans, what number comes after 5? Asking for a friend...
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
Read this first, and then update. Docker updated, too. (Who am I kidding, nobody ever reads this first 😔)
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4 years
As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. If you have any issues with the web interface after updating. Highlights
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
1 year
Pop your reading specs on, it's time for another Pi-hole release note post...
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@The_Pi_Hole
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10 months
This was meant to happen at Christmas time, but life gets in the way sometimes! Small update for Pi-hole v5
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
If you read nothing else today... read this:
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
New year, New release (Read the release notes. I'M SUPER SRS)
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
Pi-hole FTL v5.14, Web v5.11 and Core v5.9 released
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
7 years
This is a really solid write-up for those on the fence about enabling Cloudflare's DNS over HTTPS on their Pi-hole installation. It also includes instructions on securing your Web Interface with Let's Encrypt!
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Scott Helme
7 years
This is an awesome weekend project that will improve your security and privacy across all of the devices in your home!
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
Oh hey everyone, read this, and then you can update... but most importantly read this.
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3 years
It is Wednesday, my dudes.
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2 years
Bought a @Raspberry_Pi just for Pi-hole? Think you could be doing so much more with it? You can! @TheMagPi have a guide on setting one up as a media player, including installing Pi-hole (skip the section about installing apache2 - we use lighttpd OOTB!)
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
3 years
Hey, hey you... Yeah, you! Stop reading whatever you're reading, and read this:
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
@jaybird110127 @textfiles Pi-hole will disable the feature via the Firefox approved canary domain feature. -ds
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
3 years
What's that, Christmas has come early? Remember to read the release notes first!
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
2 years
Read This:
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Pi-hole
4 years
Another release so soon after v5.5(.1) was released? Yes! FTL v5.5(.1) brought you the bleeding-edge dnsmasq v2.83 and our attentive users have quickly reported an issue with queries for the same domain coming from different network sockets.
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@The_Pi_Hole
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9 months
Fixing two new DNSSEC vulnerabilities
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
Don't get excited and `pihole -up` JUST yet... but here is a pre-release semi-changelog
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
Happy New Year!
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
5 years
Like you, we’ve been thinking a lot about the current global COVID-19 pandemic. During the Beta testing period, many of us wereunaffected by this outbreak, but as the effects have intensified around the world, it has got a bit tougher for us to work
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It's Friday, read this before you go off and do your weekending
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6 years
Announcing Our RESTful API — Contributions Welcome
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2 years
Some (small) changes ahead of some slightly bigger changes. But not this side of Christmas.
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2 months
V6 status update (Sooner™ than it was before.. but not yet!)
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6 years
Pre-loaded Pi-hole Kit
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6 years
Hotfix Release Of Pi-hole v4.2.2
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
Slight false start (hence the hotfix already) but happy Thursday folks, enjoy a Pi-hole update!
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7 years
Pi-hole v3.3 Released: It’s “Extra” Special
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@The_Pi_Hole
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4 years
We have just pushed a hotfix release for FTL which should hopefully resolve some database issues that we have been seeing reported. If you have been affected by issues with the database (not everyonehas), the general advice is to mv the database
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7 years
Pi-hole v3.2.1 Released With Lots Of Fixes
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
This time I even hit release on docker _before_ I hit publish on the blog post... (give it 10 mins!) Anyway.. READ THIS:
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
7 years
Here's a small list of #DeleteFacebook domains to block, using the wonderful wildcard feature!
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
6 years
Pi-hole and @internetofshit , a winning combination! 😊
@internetofshit
Internet of Shit
6 years
I've been tracking what devices are most talkative on my network, and who to, and holy shit the Roku loves calling home (this is just 24 hours)
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Pi-hole Docker now updated to latest
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3 years
Pi-hole Web v5.5.1 hotfix released to address a couple of (small) vulnerabilities in v5.5
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
4 years
PayPal: "You're not eligible." Me: "Why" PP: "You don't meet the requirements." Me: "Which are?" PP: "requirements, the ones you don't meet."
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
2 years
Hopefully we got all the point releases out of the way before announcing this time... but lets see. (Docker soon)
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2 years
Some bugfixes and tweaks - nothing major, no need to stop everything you're doing
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
6 years
It's shiny, and it helps by directly supporting the development team. Win/win, right? 😁
@PiSupply
Pi Supply
6 years
Beautiful new packaging sleeves for our @JustBoomAudio and @The_Pi_Hole plug-and-play kits has just dropped! Proudly sporting the Powered by @Raspberry_Pi logo 😁🤩
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@The_Pi_Hole
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2 years
Had a bit of a spring clean in the Docker image - refactoring some code here, upgrading S6 Overlay to V3 there It seems to be working OK, but would like to invite folk to try the `dev` tag to see if we've missed anything. Please feedback on the repo:
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@The_Pi_Hole
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7 years
Pi-hole v3.2 Introduces Long-term Statistics, An Audit Log, Colours, and More!
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Pi-hole Operations: A New Series About How We Work And Maintain The Pi-hole Project
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@The_Pi_Hole
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Why Some Pages Load Slow When Using Pi-hole And How To Fix It
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@troyhunt @Alex_Forster With the right blocklist, it definitely can! One of the lists featured at is Perflyst's SmartTV list: - W3K
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@The_Pi_Hole
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pi-hole's GitHub Sponsors profile is live! You can sponsor us to support pi-hole's open source work 💖
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@The_Pi_Hole
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If you like what we do, please feel free (but certainly not obligated!) to chuck a little money our way Pi-hole is community driven and your support helps us continue to develop, provide technical support and give back to the community.
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3 years
Ahem, and now FTL 5.10.2 after some eagle-eyed users fed back some bug reports
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6 years
The Pi-hole 2018 Retrospective
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Number 17 will surprise you... 🤷‍♂️
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6 years
Be careful who you run `pihole -up` in front of!
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7 years
Coming Soon: FTLDNS™ Pi-hole’s Own DNS/DHCP server
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6 years
Aww yeah!
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
FTL 5.10.1 now released. Have at it!
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@m3ntum @Web2PointDoh @woon_flivver That'd be our dashboard! Check us out at - W3K
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Understanding DNSSEC validation using Pi-hole's Query Log
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7 years
Pros for turning off your adblocker: the content creator gets paid. (It's important to find ways to support the content you love!) Cons for turning off your adblocker: ads, popups, invasion of privacy, tracking, telemetry, drive-by malware, cryptojacking...
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Pi-hole Web Interface: The Next Generation
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4 years
Is there a life-hack or trick to getting @paypal to actually listen to support requests?
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4 years
They say Pi-hole releases are like London buses.. you don't see one for ages, and then they all come at once!
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@The_Pi_Hole
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3 years
It's also Wednesday today. Could that mean anything? 😉
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@The_Pi_Hole
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7 years
@RealMStanga @SwiftOnSecurity We'll admit that adblocking is a band-aid issue to the issues facing digital advertising. While we make it easy for people to "stick their head in the sand", so to speak, it's important that people take a stand and say "Enough is enough".
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@The_Pi_Hole
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5 years
@Frenck The end goal is to have users protected. If your time and talents can do that more effectively with AdGuard, then that's the solution. They have a full time paid professional team and are faster than we are. I like Home Assistant myself, what's best for you is the best. -ds
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
6 years
What Really Happens On Your Network? Part Seven
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@The_Pi_Hole
Pi-hole
6 years
Relatable! We're thankful for everyone who've helped us reach 31% of our funding goal () in six months, but it's a slow process to reach the end. Fortunately, we developers know that Rome wasn't built (or funded!) in a day. Happy Holidays, all! 💚
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Joxean Koret (@[email protected])
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People don't know the amount of work that Open Source developers do for free on their spare time. Hello from one of them. BTW, the sun in shining outside.
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NXDOMAIN And Null Blocking With FTLDNS
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