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AdGuard Home vs Dragonfly
A side-by-side editorial comparison of AdGuard Home and Dragonfly — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
AdGuard Home vs Dragonfly: at a glance
What is AdGuard Home?
AdGuard Home renames its next release: the 0.108 beta line becomes v1.0.0.
The beta channel has moved to the new UI and versioning scheme, and the first build under it is v1.0.0-b.1, published two days after v0.108.0-b.91. It carries a Go security update, a fix for reading partially received TCP prefixes and a command-line update panic fix, and drops macOS 13 support as a consequence of Go 1.27. The stable line last moved with 0.107.79 in August.
What is Dragonfly?
Dragonfly speeds up slot lookups on 2.0 as its cluster-mode fixes keep coming.
Dragonfly maintains two incremental lines, 1.40 and 2.0, with small targeted releases. The 2.0 line has fixed dropped writes during slot migration and moved experimental slot-based sharding to Fibonacci hashing. i2.0.6 on October 30 makes GetSlotInfo faster, another cluster-mode refinement.
AdGuard Home vs Dragonfly: editorial side-by-side
AdGuard Home
0.0INFRA · APIS
AdGuard Home renames its next release: the 0.108 beta line becomes v1.0.0.
◆ Current state
The beta channel has moved to the new UI and versioning scheme, and the first build under it is v1.0.0-b.1, published two days after v0.108.0-b.91. It carries a Go security update, a fix for reading partially received TCP prefixes and a command-line update panic fix, and drops macOS 13 support as a consequence of Go 1.27. The stable line last moved with 0.107.79 in August.
◆ Where it's heading
What began on the edge channel in August has reached beta, and the version number now states the ambition: the long-running 0.x project is preparing a 1.0. Fix lists on the beta remain short and focused on correctness and Go updates, which suggests the work is converging rather than adding scope.
◆ Prediction
More v1.0.0 betas are likely before a stable 1.0, and the new UI will arrive for stable users with it. No date or candidate is given in these notes.
Dragonfly
5.0INFRA · APIS
Dragonfly speeds up slot lookups on 2.0 as its cluster-mode fixes keep coming.
◆ Current state
Dragonfly maintains two incremental lines, 1.40 and 2.0, with small targeted releases. The 2.0 line has fixed dropped writes during slot migration and moved experimental slot-based sharding to Fibonacci hashing. i2.0.6 on October 30 makes GetSlotInfo faster, another cluster-mode refinement.
◆ Where it's heading
The 2.0 line is maturing through cluster and migration work, while 1.40 gets targeted performance backports. Release cadence has slowed from paired weekly builds to occasional single fixes.
◆ Prediction
Expect further 2.0.x builds focused on cluster mode and slot migration; whether scope-based memory tracking gets switched on is still unclear.
Alternatives to AdGuard Home and Dragonfly
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either AdGuard Home or Dragonfly.
Hanko
Hanko maps SAML and OIDC attributes into custom claims, a step toward enterprise SSO.
Apache Airflow
Airflow's provider candidates go final while 3.4 and the TypeScript SDK stay in testing.
Timely
Timely adds seat visibility and per-period budgets in a steady run of weekly releases.
Volatility
Volatility 3 2.28.2 adds Mermaid tree output and starts deprecating macOS analysis.
GLAuth
GLAuth's September releases are security dependency updates and build fixes.
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Recent activity from AdGuard Home and Dragonfly
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoDragonflyi2.0.6: faster slot info lookups in cluster mode
- 12d agoDragonflyi1.40.13: Sidekiq queues placed on the same shard
- 12d agoDragonflyi2.0.5: Fibonacci hashing evens out slot-based sharding
- 12d agoDragonflyi1.40.12: single-shard BLMOVE completes in one hop
- 12d agoDragonflyi2.0.4: slot migration no longer drops writes to empty buckets
- 13d agoDragonflyi2.0.3: storage read-lifetime fix backported
- 1mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta channel moves to the new UI as v1.0.0-b.1
- 1mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.91 fixes DHCP lease persistence and DNS64 chains
- 2mo agoAdGuard HomeAdGuard Home 0.107.79 hardens DNS-over-QUIC against exhaustion
- 3mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.90 carries the DNS-over-QUIC exhaustion fix
- 3mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.89 hardens against JIGGLE attacks (GHSA-p5f5-3p5g-rfjw)
- 3mo agoAdGuard Home0.107.78: over half the changelog is security fixes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between AdGuard Home and Dragonfly?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Dragonfly is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is AdGuard Home better than Dragonfly?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Dragonfly is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to AdGuard Home?
Top AdGuard Home alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "AdGuard Home alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/adguard-home for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Dragonfly?
Top Dragonfly alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Dragonfly alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/dragonfly for the full list with editorial commentary on each.