Not sure if Pi-hole is updating

General Beta 6.0
1

Hi there,
I usually check for Pi-hole updates each day but for a few weeks now I have not seen any updates for the Beta 6.0 stream.
My output from pihole -v is below, if someone could please let me know if it's all up-to-date.

root@PiHole:~# pihole -v
Core
    Version is v5.18.3-444-ga8d305d5 (Latest: null)
    Branch is development-v6
    Hash is a8d305d5 (Latest: N/A)
Web
    Version is v5.21-929-g085c2880 (Latest: null)
    Branch is development-v6
    Hash is 085c2880 (Latest: N/A)
FTL
    Version is vDev-e5a24bd (Latest: null)
    Branch is development-v6
    Hash is e5a24bdd (Latest: N/A)

Thank you!

2

If you run sudo pihole -up from the terminal, you will get the latest update.

For the beta version, the update available on the web GUI does not work, since there is no master build to work from. It's a Github thing.

As of this moment, this is the current build:

Core
    Version is v5.18.3-622-g70942587 (Latest: null)
    Branch is development
    Hash is 70942587 (Latest: 112b9617)
Web
    Version is v5.21-959-g7acf4647 (Latest: null)
    Branch is devel
    Hash is 7acf4647 (Latest: 7acf4647)
FTL
    Version is vDev-3dd756d (Latest: null)
    Branch is development
    Hash is 3dd756da (Latest: 3dd756da)

Note that you will also want to switch to the dev branch, as that is where Beta V6 currently resides.

https://pi-hole.net/blog/2024/08/18/preparing-for-the-v6-release/#page-content

3

It always comes back with everything is up to date when running pihole -up

  [i] Checking for updates...
  [i] Pi-hole Core:     up to date
  [i] Web Interface:    up to date
  [i] FTL binary already installed, verifying integrity...
  [i] Local binary up-to-date. No need to download!
  [i] FTL:              up to date
  [i] Warning: You are using FTL from a custom branch (development-v6) and might be missing future releases.

  [✓] Everything is up to date!
4

You are on a stale branch.

Run sudo pihole checkout dev to move to the active development branch.

5

Thank you, that's worked:

Core
    Version is v5.18.3-537-g112b9617 (Latest: null)
    Branch is development
    Hash is 112b9617 (Latest: 112b9617)
Web
    Version is v5.21-1012-gc689fdc7 (Latest: null)
    Branch is development
    Hash is c689fdc7 (Latest: c689fdc7)
FTL
    Version is vDev-3dd756d (Latest: null)
    Branch is development
    Hash is 3dd756da (Latest: 3dd756da)
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6

Thanks for this info. I never saw a notice to move to "dev" but are you guys stating that it's ok now to move from development-v6 to dev?

7

This answer has 2 parts:

This was announced 2 months ago: Preparing for the v6 release.
The branches named development-v6 won't be updated anymore.
Now you need to use development branches to run Pi-hole v6.

Yes, but using development.

pihole checkout dev won't use branch dev. It will use development branches.

This command is a Shortcut equivalent to these 3 commands in sequence:

pihole checkout core development
pihole checkout web development
pihole checkout ftl development
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8

Thanks, I did the checkout dev command and up to date in the V6 "development" branch. Everything looks good.