ESPHome devices built on Beken BK7231N and BK7231T chips, common in cheap Tuya plugs and switches, get a new toolchain in ESPHome 2026.11. Pull request #21531 by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, bumps LibreTiny to 1.14.0, released on 22 October, and builds both chips with version 3.0.78 of Beken's SDK
Automations that react to a tap or swipe on Nanoleaf touch panels through a device trigger will stop working in Home Assistant 2026.11. Change #188656, merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, deletes the Nanoleaf device trigger platform and is marked as a breaking change.
Updating a Beken or Lightning chip over Wi-Fi with ESPHome is about to get noticeably shorter. Change #21642 by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), merged into ESPHome's development branch on 26 October 2026, makes the CLI send only the parts of a LibreTiny firmware file the device actually writes. That roughly cuts the upload by 60% for BK72xx and LN882H chi
For three years the "Simple" option in ESPHome's LD2420 operating mode select did not do what it said. Change #21651 by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, makes it actually switch the HLK-LD2420 mmWave presence radar into simple reporting. The fix is expected in ESPHome 2026.11, unless it is backported t
The same ESPHome YAML could produce a different configuration depending on the computer that compiled it. Change #21678 by Jonathan Swoboda, merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, fixes that for the !include_dir_* tags by loading files in name order. The fix is expected in ESPHome 2026.11, unless it is backported to a 2026.10.x patc
Home Assistant now limits how much data a client can send to the parts of its API that work without a login. A pull request merged into the development branch late on 26 October 2026 caps those requests at 64 KiB. Until now they inherited limits meant for something else entirely: 16 MiB for HTTP requests and 4 MiB for the first WebSocket message.
Ten days after integration categories, Home Assistant core got the next piece of the same effort. A pull request merged on the evening of 26 October 2026 adds an optional connectivity key to the integration manifest. With it, an integration lists the protocols Home Assistant uses to reach its devices or service. The epic behind both changes also li
MQTT devices can now use the child device model that Home Assistant introduced for products made of several parts. A pull request by Jan Bouwhuis, merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, adds a child_device option to MQTT entities. A follow-up fix merged the same evening is already tagged for the 2026.11 beta.
Z-Wave JS UI 11.25.2 came out on 26 October 2026 with one real fix. Since 11.25.0, some installations with HTTPS turned on would not start at all: the Docker container restarted over and over and the log showed ERR_SSL_EE_KEY_TOO_SMALL ("ee key too small"). The new version repairs most of those setups on its own, but it also makes the custom certif
