Pi-hole v6 released

[Posted February 18, 2025 by jzb]

Pi-hole v6 has been released. The latest version of the popular ad-blocking software sports a redesigned user interface, has support for subscribing to allowlists, and brings a new REST API and embedded web server. Its Docker/OCI image is now based on Alpine Linux rather than Debian to reduce image size. See the announcement for guidance on upgrading existing Pi-hole installations.

Pretty smooth upgrade

Posted Feb 18, 2025 21:35 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I upgraded a couple of machines to Pi-hole v6 and it was mostly smooth. On one machine, I had it disable lighttpd, but on the other, I needed to keep lighttpd because it was also hosting other web pages. I wanted to use lighttpd as a proxy in front of Pi-hole, but couldn't find the docs on how to do this. So for anyone else out there, this was my final setup:

server.modules   += ( "mod_proxy" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/(admin|api)" {
    proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => "8080" ) ) )
}