PracticesHome Assistant Cloud is being renamed Home Assistant Link2 OctNabu Casa says the old name never fit: people thought the subscription ran Home Assistant in the cloud, and it never did. The new name goes official in the December 2026.12 release.
Homebridge 2.5.0 adds Matter device types for solar, battery, EV chargers, meters, tariffs and water heaters, and spends the rest of its list on behaviour that used to go wrong: air quality reporting only two levels, thermostats registering late, restored accessories losing their uniqueId or owner, and cache reads that took the accessory with them. It also bumps @matter/main to v0.18.0 and @homebridge/hap-nodejs to v2.3.0.
Mealie 3.30.0 moves AI prompt control into the app, so prompts can be appended to, replaced or extended with global instructions, and it retires the OPENAI_CUSTOM_PROMPT_DIR variable while importing existing prompts automatically. Instruction steps gain individual durations, meal plan entries can cover a full week, and a batch of fixes tightens import scoping, locale lookup and the permissions needed to manage units, tools, labels and recipe actions.
The first v16 major of the ESP8266/ESP32 firmware fixes unauthenticated UFS writes on password-protected web interfaces, removes direct migration from versions before v8.1.0, and adds ESP32-S31, C61 and P4R3 support, optional MQTT 5.0, Matter 1.6.1 and expanded DALI-2.
A Miele induction hob, Philips Hue hardware, a Somfy curtain motor and dozens of Tuya-family modules join the supported list, alongside fixes for cover states, MQTT reconnects and transaction handling.
One computer at home runs films, music, games, files, the household board and an AI assistant called Nox, while lights, plugs and the TV remote go through Home Assistant. It is a first release, and it knows it.
Frigate 0.18.0 is the first stable of the 0.18 line, bringing full UI configuration, profiles, a GenAI chat agent and rebuilt exports, with a config migration, a WebP-only snapshot change and an FFmpeg 8 trap in go2rtc.
