The Home Assistant 2026.11 beta opened on 28 October 2026 with release 2026.11.0b0, and 2026.11.0b2 followed on 30 October. The final release is planned for Wednesday 4 November, with the release party stream at 21:00 CET. The headline item is the Marketplace, the built-in successor to HACS, which we covered when it was announced. The beta notes sh
Music Assistant 2.10.9 came out on 30 October 2026. The headline change removes a chore that ESPHome 2026.10.0 introduced: since that release, Sendspin connections are encrypted, and each ESPHome speaker had to be paired with Music Assistant by pasting a pairing token. With 2.10.9 and Home Assistant 2026.11, Music Assistant can do the pairing itsel
The Home Assistant team announced on 29 October 2026 that all of November will be the Month of "What the Heck?!" (WTH). For one month, anyone can post on the community forum about what makes Home Assistant hard, confusing or annoying. The event runs once every two years, and this edition has a different target audience from the previous ones.
Anyone who points Home Assistant at its own SSL certificate, instead of putting it behind a reverse proxy, will see a new repair after updating to 2026.11. It offers to switch the HTTP server to a newer set of TLS rules. On 29 October 2026, a day before the second beta, the developers changed which set that repair recommends: Intermediate v6, which
The National Vulnerability Database published CVE-2026-59177 on October 28, 2026. It covers a flaw in ESPHome Device Builder, the dashboard behind the ESPHome add-on for Home Assistant, which let any device on the local network open the dashboard with no credentials. The bug is not new. ESPHome fixed it in June and published the advisory (GHSA-vv4j
The Template integration in Home Assistant can now build media player entities. The pull request was merged on 27 October 2026 and is part of 2026.11.0b0, the first beta of the November release, published on 28 October at 17:06 CET. Until now, anyone who controlled a TV, amplifier or old receiver through an IR blaster, a smart plug or a set of scri
ZHA groups are changing place in Home Assistant 2026.11. Until now every group entity, such as a light that controls a whole Zigbee group, was attached to the coordinator device. With a dozen groups, the coordinator page turned into a long list of lights and switches that had nothing to do with the USB stick itself. A pull request by TheJulianJES,
Owners of Schlage smart locks will soon be able to hand out temporary PIN codes straight from Home Assistant. On 27 October 2026 a pull request by Aaron (abpei) that adds scheduled access codes to the Schlage integration was merged into Home Assistant's development branch. It was reviewed by MartinHjelmare, epenet, iluvdata and joostlek.
On 27 October the Home Assistant team added Everything Smart Home to its Works with Home Assistant program. The certified devices are the company's three mmWave presence sensors: the Everything Presence Lite, One and Pro. All three run ESPHome and work without a cloud account.
