Pi-Hole v6.0 Released – Jason's Blog

This is a major version release, and they’ve changed a lot (see below). The web pages show some additional information in the left shortcuts, and they’ve changed to their own web server, so you’re asked to disable lighttpd if you don’t use it for anything else. If you’re not running Pi-Hole DNS/Unbound servers on your home network, you should investigate it as it is a tremendous project and extends ad blocking to all devices on your home network, not to mention blocking telemetry and malware sites as well (you can really blocking by list or manually). And shout out to ham radio operator DL6ER, Dominik, who is listed below on a lot of the updates.

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.0

What’s Changed

Remove option to set static IP address if DHCPCD is installed by @yubiuser in #5111
Do not remove -all|exact when not surrounded by space in query.sh by @yubiuser in #5300
Add code to remove old lighttpd config files left over from v5. by @PromoFaux in #5314
Switch to new branch name for FTL v6 development by @PromoFaux in #5319
Set new gravity database version to 16 by @PromoFaux in #5328
Add /var/log/pihole/webserver.log to the logrotate scripts by @DL6ER in #5329
If ${USER} variable is blank, then populate it with whoami by @PromoFaux in #5341
Remove webpage.sh by @yubiuser in #5357
Remove fake user agent when downloading adlist by @yubiuser in #5367
Ignore ABP style entries in debug log dig test by @yubiuser in #5382
Ensure pihole-FTL can write to all files in /etc/pihole, /run/pihole and /var/log/pihole by @yubiuser in #5356
Add antigravity support to gravity by @DL6ER in #5330
Some verbiage change to outputs (plus a couple of comments) by @PromoFaux in #5406
Disable checkout function for (official) docker containers by @PromoFaux in #5416
Allow pihole to access subdirs in /etc/pihole by @yubiuser in #5427
Remove Chronometer by @yubiuser in #5423
Set owner of gravity output files to pihole by @yubiuser in #5419
Update query.sh to use FTL’s API instead of directly interacting with the database by @yubiuser in #5361
Add a final message to gravity by @rdwebdesign in #5441
Avoid printing getFTLConfigValue return in statusFunc() by @rdwebdesign in #5442
Logrotate config file needs to be owned by root by @yubiuser in #5444
Remove temp dir created when downloading FTL by @yubiuser in #5429
BREAKING Drop support for ancient ARMv4 and ARMv5 by @DL6ER in #5445
Fix gravity swapping by @DL6ER in #5455
Fix and simplify binary download by @DL6ER in #5451
Use suffixed temp file by @yubiuser in #5457
Tweak Pi-hole’s debug facility for v6 by @DL6ER in #5461
Remove idn2 as punycode conversion is handled by FTL by @yubiuser in #5468
Start counting at postion 1 by @yubiuser in #5470
Check for valid OS via IPv4 and IPv6 by @yubiuser in #5305
When setting a blank password, use webserver.api.password instead of webserver.api.pwhash by @PromoFaux in #5465
Tweak help text of pihole setpassword by @yubiuser in #5476
pihole -d: Include pihole.toml only once by @DL6ER in #5478
Move custom.list to /hosts/custom.list by @yubiuser in #5488
Improve v6 debug log and remove leftovers by @yubiuser in #5481
Support special webserver.port ports ending in “s” (secure) and “r” (redirect) by @DL6ER in #5499
Use files.gravity_tmp as temporary directory for the intermediate lists by @DL6ER in #5504
Treat FTL return data as strings by @yubiuser in #5509
Bash completion by @yubiuser in #5516
Remove obsolete sudo file by @yubiuser in #5514
Simplify pihole -v by @yubiuser in #5517
Add “-ni” to all sqlite3 invocations by @DL6ER in #5518
pihole -d: Fix gateway ping if it is a LL address by @DL6ER in #5527
Fix failing tests in development-v6 branch by @PromoFaux in #5542
Do not store remote version in versions file if on custom branch by @DL6ER in #5549
Use 204 return code for deleted sessions by @yubiuser in #5541
Drop Fedora 36 and add Fedora 39 to the test suite by @yubiuser in #5482
Test ftl.pi-hole.net availability by @DL6ER in #5563
Make IDs of anti-/gravity lists available in vw_(anti)gravity by @DL6ER in #5526
Remove local.list and openVPN traces by @yubiuser in #5480
Fix gravity by @DL6ER in #5573
Allow adlist duplicates by @DL6ER in #5572
Highlight “### CHANGED” strings in the debug log of pihole.toml by @DL6ER in #5601
Verify remote FTL checksum by @DL6ER in #5603
Fix edge-case where an adlist domain is blocked by @DL6ER in #5571
Improve changed binary message during update process by @DL6ER in #5621
Only use local files (file://) when they have explicit permissions a+r by @DL6ER in #5622
Add Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, remove Fedora 38 by @yubiuser in #5657
Also check for IPv6 address for configured DNS servers by @DL6ER in #5560
Migrate dnsmasq config files by @DL6ER in #5479
Fix version check for release Docker images by @jacklul in #5667
Add CAP_SYS_TIME to FTL’s ambient capabilities by @DL6ER in #5676
Remove CentOS8 from test suite by @yubiuser in #5682
Add pytest-clarity to test environment to improve error log output by @yubiuser in #5692
Add protocol validation when downloading blocklist from URL by @DL6ER in #5698
Fix minor spelling mistake by @eltociear in #5704
Finish core v6 implementation by @DL6ER in #5689
Remove obsolet getFTLPIDFile() by @yubiuser in #5710
Remove obsolet files and log file symlink code by @yubiuser in #5711
Merge development > development-v6 by @yubiuser in #5725
[fix] [v6] typo in bash-completion allow-regex option by @allendema in #5729
Fix setting query logging and privacy level by @yubiuser in #5724
Add missing creation of table antigravity in migration script 16 to 17 by @PromoFaux in #5737
Add pihole api [endpoint] callback suitable for local API requests by @DL6ER in #5736
Make the help text of “pihole checkout [what] [branch]” more colorful by @DL6ER in #5734
Update existing logrotate files to inlcude webserver.log by @yubiuser in #5738
Disable SELINUX on CentOS 9 test dockerfile by @yubiuser in #5743
Fix pihole status on not-ready states by @DL6ER in #5747
Disable SELINUX on CentOS 9 test dockerfile v5 by @yubiuser in #5744
Resolve merge conflicts (again) by @yubiuser in #5745
Remove obsolet Debian 10 by @yubiuser in #5707
Wait after restarting FTL before trying to check version by @DL6ER in #5613
Tweak/gravity dns by @yubiuser in #5752
Fix risk of popd without a pushd by @SkyLined in #5701
Account for renaming of devel branch on web repo by @yubiuser in #5753
Fix wrong message being displayed while waiting for the DNS by @jacklul in #5757
Add /etc/pihole/dnsmasq.conf to debug log (stripped-down version) by @DL6ER in #5740
Return early during v6 migration if migration dir exists by @yubiuser in #5766
Revert “Return early during v6 migration if migration dir exists” by @yubiuser in #5768
Add fallback option for OS check without hard-coded nameserver by @yubiuser in #5751
Remove lines containing Adguard JavaScript rules from adlists by @yubiuser in #5754
Add database optimization and gravity timing by @DL6ER in #5773
Grouped common dependencies of distros by @WouterServaes in #5762
Fix removing old man page by @yubiuser in #5789
Show version information after a web update by @yubiuser in #5788
Remove the restartdns functionality and promote the reloaddns functions by @PromoFaux in #5780
Remove restartdns: Redux by @PromoFaux in #5791
Add color by @yubiuser in #5798
Use pihole.toml to decide if installer runs on an update by @yubiuser in #5790
Fix gavity version 19 by @yubiuser in #5801
Do not print FTL update check details on pihole -up by @yubiuser in #5800
Exit 1 on failure by @yubiuser in #5803
Improved error message for invalid protocol in adlist download by @Seva41 in #5806
Fix errors on fresh installations while setting privacy levels and query logging due to absence of pihole.toml by @yubiuser in #5799
Add Fedora 41 and remove Fedora 39 from tests by @rdwebdesign in #5813
Remove remaining traces of audit log by @DL6ER in #5817
Fix possible gravity permissions issue by @DL6ER in #5819
Fix empty adlists by @DL6ER in #5821
Remove Ubuntu 23 tests, it is EOL by @DL6ER in #5822
Fix ARP flush command by @DL6ER in #5823
move the sourcing of utils.sh outside of installPihole by @PromoFaux in #5825
Remove no-longer-needed utils by @PromoFaux in #5826
Install dependencies by creating a meta package on-the-fly by @yubiuser in #5785
Fix rare case when apt and rpm package managers are found by @yubiuser in #5827
Improve v6 user output by @yubiuser in #5829
Improve dependency package output by @yubiuser in #5828
Fix v5 -> v6 update by @yubiuser in #5832
Speedup api response handling by @yubiuser in #5833
Exit early when neither service nor systemctl commands are available by @DL6ER in #5834
Disable lighttpd if found by @DL6ER in #5835
Remove now unused function test_dpkg_lock() by @yubiuser in #5848
Improve lighttpd disabling by @DL6ER in #5849
Explicitly migrate from v5 to v6 by @DL6ER in #5830
Remove unused code from debug log and skip some tests inside containers by @rdwebdesign in #5854
Gravity database resilience by @DL6ER in #5818
Use a different method to identify if a gravity restore succeeded by @DL6ER in #5868
Fix counting of domains in the gravity summary by @DL6ER in #5881
Gravity: Use ETags by @DL6ER in #5867
Move gravity list cache into dedicated directory by @DL6ER in #5869
Show only enabled domains/regex in the final gravity message by @DL6ER in #5884
Remove outdated dns-servers.conf by @yubiuser in #5883
Add call to os_check in the update script by @PromoFaux in #5845
Decide if the content was changed before passing over to FTL by @DL6ER in #5872
installer: use a drop-in to disable systemd-resolved stub listener by @enr0n in #5885
Amend warning on gravity tree build failure by @DL6ER in #5888
Fix database integrity check in debug log by @yubiuser in #5889
Pi-hole core v6.0.0 by @PromoFaux in #5842

New Contributors

@jacklul made their first contribution in #5667
@eltociear made their first contribution in #5704
@allendema made their first contribution in #5729
@SkyLined made their first contribution in #5701
@WouterServaes made their first contribution in #5762
@Seva41 made their first contribution in #5806
@enr0n made their first contribution in #5885

Full Changelog: v5.18.4…v6.0