Pi-hole v5.0 is here!

[mibere]

I already support this amazing project as a monthly patron.

The developers, including the staff, again invested a lot of work, time and research to offer us a new release with useful extensions and many improvements.

The whole Pi-hole team did and does great work, also with support here in the board.

Guys, you rock! My $100 donation is on its way to you.

[Coro]

@paolopizzaiola

Maybe there is a way by defining clients by MAC address or something??

They said they are currently thinking about how to improve this.

@DL6ER

However, we're open for discussions on improving Pi-hole if you have a good idea. We can maybe allow both: IP addresses (with possible CIDR modifier for subnet description) and hardware addresses. This will be complex and maybe even harder to explain to users.

Source: Groups and DHCP - #7 by DL6ER

[DL6ER]

@Coro

@paolopizzaiola

Maybe there is a way by defining clients by MAC address or something??

They said they are currently thinking about how to improve this

Yes, check out my most recent comment in the linked topic.

Groups and DHCP

We're working on this. It is not all that straightforward as it may seem, especially since MAC addresses are only visible in the immediate vicinity of your Pi-hole (it will not work across routers, VLANs, etc.). You can monitor for our progress. Currently, it is still a feature draft, albeit a working one. If you (or anyone else) want to test it at any point, it would be appreciated.

[Sean_Anderson1]

I see that there is now a "Local DNS Records" page.
Previously, I had setup local DNS entries using a config file in /etc/dnsmasq.d.
Is using the Local DNS Records page now the better way to do things?

[PromoFaux]

@Sean_Anderson1

now the better way to do things?

Better is entirely subjective. The new feature makes it easier to manage these from the web GUI

[Coro]

@PromoFaux

Better is entirely subjective

It is true. Reading the Pi-hole documentation (not entirely sure where I have seen it) says that Local DNS record changes can be reloaded with pihole restartdns reload whereas changes in config files needs a full pihole restartdns (which is much slower).

[CharAznable]

The new update works well. Since my build is a previously installed that I updated, which block lists were removed from the initial list? I'd like to remove them as well.
Is there a command I can run to restore the ad lists to the default of the current build?

[Bucking_Horn]

@CharAznable

Is there a command I can run to restore the ad lists to the default of the current build?

See Restoring default Pi-hole adlist(s) for different options.

[Leitplanke]

Awesome! Great job!
I'm running pi hole on a PiZero:
The ram utilization has been more than halved!

Best regards

[MrLuisArano]

Amazing update, thank you for the hard work!!

[andrum99]

Hi folks. Just a quick note to say a big thank you to the Pi-hole devs for the group management features in v5. I've had a problem for a while with using channel 5's catchup app on my YouView box with the Pi-hole DNS with default blocklists, which I have got round in the past by simply disabling the blocking while the catchup video player starts up and runs. I've now placed my YouView boxes into their own group with no ad blocking and the channel 5 app is working perfectly.

(And before anyone says it, I know the problem is caused by channel 5's YouView app, this is not in any way a complaint about previous versions of Pi-hole).

I'm alo really grateful to have Pi-hole blocking clickbait like taboola across my network. Web access on my phone is noticeably slower when I'm not connected to my own Pi-hole enabled wireless LAN, apart from the fact that I would rather not see the clickbait.

Keep up the good work

[michaelltaylor]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I do not like the new bar graphs. I preferred the smooth line graphs. I think they do a better job of showing trends. It would have been a better idea to give users an option for this rather than force everyone to use someone else's preference.

[PromoFaux]

From : Add option to re-enable smooth graphs - #12

@DanSchaper

The bars won't be going away. It's a time-division graph for measuring total counts in discreet and uniform time periods.

The line graph is indicative of a continuous range, which isn't true.

But Promo has something that will allow a toggle to the line graph for people that are resistant to change.

[michaelltaylor]

It's not about resisting change. It's about using the format that best displays what the user is looking for based on their needs. For me, the bar graph looks cluttered and makes looking for trends very difficult, if not impossible.