Is Pi-hole 2026.10.1 safe to update?

Low-risk patch updating the Alpine base image and CI caching. No breaking changes or issues yet, but only 3 hours of data. Risk level is currently evaluated as TOO_EARLY with a stability rating of 7 out of 10.

Are there breaking changes in Pi-hole 2026.10.1?

No explicit breaking changes detected in official changelog.

How to rollback Pi-hole to previous stable version 2026.10.0?

To rollback, pull previous image: docker pull pihole/pihole:2026.10.0 or set image in docker-compose.yml to image: pihole/pihole:2026.10.0.

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Pi-hole 2026.10.1

Stability Score

7/10

⏳ TOO EARLY TO TELL

Low-risk patch updating the Alpine base image and CI caching. No breaking changes or issues yet, but only 3 hours of data.

Published

127.2h ago

Post-Release Issues

1 opened

DB Migration

No / Safe

Reactions

👍 6 • 👎 0

⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations

✓ No breaking changes or dangerous deprecations detected for this release.

🐛 Issues Opened After 2026.10.1 Release

1 monitored

#2096 - `pihole -g` does not work correctly when run as root

### Versions - Pi-hole: v6.5 - Web: v6.6.1 - FTL: v6.8 ### Platform

⏪ Emergency Rollback to 2026.10.0

If 2026.10.1 breaks your environment, revert container image tag to previous stable release:

Docker CLI:

pihole/pihole:2026.10.0

docker-compose.yml:

image: pihole/pihole:2026.10.0