# PSA: FTL v6.2 / FTL v6.2.1 crashes workaround

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339 "2025-06-02T12:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![PromoFaux](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/promofaux/32/1545_2.png) [@PromoFaux](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/PromoFaux)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339/1 "2025-06-02T12:08:16Z")

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Originally published at: [PSA: FTL v6.2 / FTL v6.2.1 crashes workaround – Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/06/02/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/)

We are currently aware of FTL crashing with a segmentation fault on some systems – more detailed information about this issue can be followed on Github, here: [https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/issues/2473](https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/issues/2473).

If you are currently affected by this issue, the easiest way to get things back up and running is to downgrade FTL to the previous version. There are instructions in the above Github thread that describe the steps to do so, however to make the process of downgrading more straightforward, we have created a special branch named `release/v6.1` and you will be able to switch to it with the following command:

`sudo pihole checkout ftl release/v6.1`

Once we have gotten to the bottom of the issue, we will release a new version of FTL and announce it in all the usual places.

Huge apologies to anyone affected by this – and thank you for those that have reported the issue to us.

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**Author:** ![PromoFaux](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/promofaux/32/1545_2.png) [@PromoFaux](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/PromoFaux)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339/2 "2025-06-02T12:52:49Z")

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**Author:** ![rdwebdesign](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/rdwebdesign/32/51363_2.png) [@rdwebdesign](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/rdwebdesign)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339/3 "2025-06-05T07:32:41Z")

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FTL v6.2.2 was released.

> **[Release v6.2.2 · pi-hole/FTL](https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/tag/v6.2.2)**
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> This release addresses crashes reported in #2473 #2475 #2481 and friends.
> What's Changed
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> Update build containers to Alpine 3.22 by @DL6ER in #2477
> Update dnsmasq to 2.92test11(-1) by @DL6ER in #24...

> [@Pi-hole FTL v6.2.2 Released](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-ftl-v6-2-2-released/80447):
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> Originally published at: [Pi-hole FTL v6.2.2 Released – Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/06/06/pi-hole-ftl-v6-2-2-released/) Following on from our [previous post](https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/06/02/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/), we have now released FTL v6.2.2, which contains fixes for some underlying bugs in dnsmasq that should now resolve the majority of cases where we have seen crashes. We have also downgraded the embedded version of SQLite from 3.50.0, as this was also causing issues. Full details and converation around the issues can be found in [pi-hole/FTL#2473](https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/issues/2473) If you had switched to FTL v6.1 following the p…

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**Author:** ![rdwebdesign](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/rdwebdesign/32/51363_2.png) [@rdwebdesign](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/rdwebdesign)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339/4 "2025-06-10T19:44:28Z")

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FTL v6.2.3 was released, fixing the remaining issues.

> **[Release Pi-hole FTL v6.2.3 · pi-hole/FTL](https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/tag/v6.2.3)**
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> This patch release contains fixes for almost all reported bugs (most importantly, it fixes a logging regression where types are missing from pihole.log as well as a crash in filter\_servers() deep d...