Two related pull requests landed in ESPHome's development branch on the evening of 27 October 2026. The first, #21669 by bdraco, merged at 19:00 Polish time, adds rate limiting filters to text sensors. The second, #21416 by fornellas, merged at 21:50, uses them for a new xy text sensor on the Hi-Link LD2450 radar. The branch is numbered 2026.11.0-d
ESPHome has had no way to react in YAML to the traffic going through a Modbus hub. A new modbus_monitor block fills that gap. Pull request #20256 by Bascht74 was merged into the development branch on 27 October 2026 at 02:28 Polish time. The branch is numbered 2026.11.0-dev, so the block should first appear in ESPHome 2026.11.
A fresh Home Assistant OS install on a small board will no longer pull in the Matter Server app on its own. Pull request #188890 by RaHehl was merged into the development branch on 27 October 2026 at 17:00 Polish time. That branch is numbered 2026.11.0.dev0, so the change is headed for Home Assistant 2026.11.
Home Assistant OS 18.4 was published on 27 October 2026 at 13:42 Polish time, and by the evening the stable update channel was offering it to every board, from generic x86-64 to Raspberry Pi 4. The release notes call it a bugfix and security release and end the summary with "All users are encouraged to upgrade."
Battery-free Zigbee Green Power switches moved one step closer to Home Assistant on 27 October 2026. Change #868 by puddly was merged into zigpy/zha, the Python library behind Home Assistant's ZHA integration. It is the ZHA side of the Green Power runtime that zigpy shipped in version 2.4.0 last week. No ZHA release contains it yet; the latest one
Scenes, scripts and automations that still turn off a Hue light effect with effect: "None" will break in Home Assistant 2026.11. Change #188867 by Martin Hjelmare, merged into the development branch on 27 October 2026 and marked as a breaking change, removes the compatibility mapping that kept that value working.
Aqara has started a pre-launch trial for two security products it showed at IFA 2026 in September: the battery-powered Camera G510 and the Security Station M410. The trial was announced on the Aqara Forum on 26 October 2026. Sixty testers in the EU, the UK and a few neighbouring countries will be able to buy the two devices as a kit for 49.99, befo
Three vulnerabilities in Yoosee smart cameras built on the Grain Media GM8135S chip were published in the US National Vulnerability Database on October 26, 2026. They affect firmware up to and including 21.00.01.36, possibly other versions too. The vendor, Shenzhen Gwell Times, has not responded to the researcher and has not released a fix. The res
Samsung finished rolling out SmartThings hub firmware 0.62.15 on 26 October 2026, ending a 0.62.x update cycle that took almost two months. The release covers the SmartThings Hub v2 (2015) and v3 (2018), the Aeotec Smart Home Hub and Smart Home Hub 2, and the ThingsOne Smart Home Hub. 0.62.15 itself only brings "minor bug fixes and performance impr
