Pi-hole: 8 years later

Pi-hole v6 homepage around year 8.In 2017 I installed a Pi-hole into my network and routed all my DNS traffic through it. Today is August 30, 2026 and I've been running it ever since. While I've lost the consistency of blogging exactly every year, this grows the collection of pi-hole posts on this blog.We ended the last blog post on the release of version 6 of Pi-hole, which was followed by lots of patches still living under the v6 tag. My versions now reported at the footer are: Core (v6.4.3), FTL (v6.7) and Web (v6.6). Things generally have their own tags now between the FTL software, the Core and the Web. So it became a bit more difficult to summarize a changelog of them all. Roughly summarizing each release into a few words to catch us up over the last year.v6.0.5 (March 3, 2025) - Fixes for high RAM/CPU usage & slowness.v6.1 (March 30, 2025) - Hundreds of bug fixes.v6.2 (May 30, 2025) - Upgrades to tools, bug fixes, cleanup.v6.3 (October 25, 2025) - TLS & CSP improvements,…