github.com/britannic/blacklist

• Only load failover /config/user-data/blacklist.failover.cfg if API config fails

• Add source OSID Mobile Blocklist
• Update documentation
• Check for internet connectivity before running an update
• Check and load /config/user-data/blacklist.cfg in preference to config.boot
• Fix bug in configure preventing use of the latest commit

• Add build architecture and OS information to "-version" argument
• Code refactor and parsing algorithm updates

• Performance enhancements for source entry processing
• Improved data counter metrics for found, extracted and dropped records

• Document updates

• Fixed bug that overwrote user configured blacklist settings during an upgrade

• Fixed bug that prevented pre-configured included hosts being correctly blacklisted

• Fixed minor log message bug to insert space between progname and "starting up"
• Renamed blacklist-cronjob.sh to update-dnsmasq-cronjob.sh to be consistent with update-dnsmasq
• Fixed a bug when scripted configure session isn't detected, resulting in wrong showconfig mode being used
• Fixed a bug in blacklist-cronjob.sh that inhibited the cron job delay
• Changed http error handling from fatal to error notification, so that update-dnsmasq can continue processing for sources that don't have problems and complete the update
• Added code to support dnsmasq configuration file whitelisting for domains and hosts (servers) using hash syntax (the "#" force dnsmasq to forward the DNS request to the configured nameservers)
• i.e. servers (hosts)

server=/www.bing.com/#

• i.e. domains

address=/bing.com/#

• Added functions to ensure all blacklist configuration files are removed from /etc/dnsmasq.d/ when uninstalling using

dpkg -P edgeos-dnsmasq-blacklist

• Or

apt-get remove --purge edgeos-dnsmasq-blacklist

• dnsmasq will be automatically restarted to remove stale redirects

• Added logic to not run the post installation script after an upgrade

• Algorithm to trap out of range cronjob arguments

• Adjust task-scheduler argument

• Fix bug in task-scheduler stanza to insert missing key work "system

• Nightly update-dnsmasq cron job now has a configurable argument to set how many seconds of random delay before starting

set system task-scheduler task update_blacklists executable arguments 60
set system task-scheduler task update_blacklists executable path /config/scripts/blacklist-cronjob.sh
set system task-scheduler task update_blacklists interval 1d

• Implemented starting nightly update-dnsmasq cron job at random times to prevent a datastorm if a lot of users are in the same time zone
  • Suggested by EdgeMax Community User @sorvani

• Switching to debian respository installation using apt-get

• Updated sources
  • Changed hosts source https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/ to version that only blacklists ads and malware

• Updated sources
  • Changed hosts source https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/ to version that doesn't blacklist social networks

• Updated sources
  • Added hosts source https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/
  • Removed Yoyo and raw.github.com, since the new sources make them redundant
• Fixed bug where "domains" was reported as "hosts" source type

• Added global exclude "evernote.com" as it is being false flagged by some sources

• Reformatted update-dnsmasq.log output
• README Updates
  • Added FAQ
  • Refactored layout

• Improved counters for statistics logging
• Increased test coverage of code
• Additional documentation
• Added config.boot file loader

• Removes redundant references to blacklist.t and perl modules
• Replace "▶" with ":" in log messages

• Debian package release for ease of installation, maintenance and updating. See README for instructions and general release notes.