ESPHome 2026.10.2 came out on 2 November 2026, six days after 2026.10.1. It is a short patch release with six fixes, and two of them matter to people running ESPHome devices day to day.
The Meshtastic project published firmware 2.8.2.4c89b69 on 2 November 2026, a month after 2.8.1. It is marked as an alpha, so it is for people who like to test. Meshtastic is open-source firmware that turns cheap LoRa boards, many of them built on the ESP32 or nRF52840, into an off-grid text messaging mesh.
Toit v2.0.0 was released on 31 October 2026. Toit is an open-source, object-oriented language with its own compiler and virtual machine that runs on the ESP32, and the stable release follows more than four years of alpha builds. In the announcement, Florian Loitsch counts more than 2,000 commits, more than 500,000 changed lines and over 200 alpha r
A laser particulate sensor is one of the most satisfying parts you can wire to an ESP board. Ten minutes after powering it up you have a live PM2.5 graph, and the first time you fry onions or light a candle you watch it jump. The hard part is not getting a number. It is knowing what the number means, how far to trust it and how long the sensor will
Anyone who has built a dimmable LED strip or lamp on an ESP32 with ESPHome has probably seen it: a fade looks smooth until the last few percent, then the light drops in visible steps before it goes out. On 1 November 2026, just before 1:00 Warsaw time, ESPHome merged a change by Jakub Sztandera (Kubuxu) that targets exactly that. The ledc output ge
ESPHome has native support for the Hi-Link HLK-LD6004, a 60 GHz presence radar that reports the position of each person it sees, not just whether a room is occupied. The seven pull requests by Rick van Hattem (wolph), reviewed by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), were merged into the dev branch early on 31 October 2026, between 04:05 and 06:45 Warsaw time.
Two days after Zephyr 4.5.0, the project put out a maintenance release for an older branch. Zephyr 4.3.2 was published on the evening of 30 October 2026 as a bugfix release for 4.3.1, and its security section is long: 225 CVE entries. For 121 of them the notes give a description and a GitHub security advisory. The other 104 are marked as under emba
Turning something on and off is the first real job most people give an ESP32. A blue relay board costs little, the code is one digitalWrite(), and the lamp clicks on. Then the relay clicks every time the board reboots, the module will not switch off from a 3.3 V pin, or a small LED bulb keeps glowing behind a solid-state relay that is supposedly of
Espressif published a detailed overview of Matter Fabric support in ESP RainMaker, its IoT cloud platform, on its developer portal on 30 October 2026. It is not a new product. RainMaker has supported Matter fabrics since 2023, and the post pulls together what the support covers today. It is aimed at device makers who want their products to work wit
