If your Nest thermostat, doorbell or camera reaches Home Assistant through the official Nest integration, its real-time updates depend on a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Many older setups use a topic that Google hosts for you, with an ID in the form projects/sdm-prod/topics/enterprise-<project-id>. Google's Device Access documentation now carries a w
The second release candidate of Home Assistant OS 18.4 went out on 23 October 2026 at 23:15 Polish time. Most of it is security housekeeping on top of RC1: Linux kernel 6.18.58, Buildroot 2025.02.19 and Go 1.27.3. The change worth testing is a fix for a common USB Bluetooth adapter, the Realtek RTL8761B with USB ID 0bda:a728, which the release note
Home Assistant Supervisor 2026.10.4 reached the beta channel on 24 October 2026 at 10:12 Polish time. Stable installs were still on 2026.10.3 at the time of writing and will update on their own once the release is promoted. Two of its fixes deal with situations where a Home Assistant system could get stuck without any obvious cause.
The matter.js-based Matter Server, which Home Assistant's Matter integration talks to, reached version 1.5.5 on 24 October 2026. It is the third release in two days, after 1.5.3 and 1.5.4 on 23 October. The main fix is for systems where, after an upgrade to the 1.5 series, only part of the Matter devices came back after a restart.
Home Assistant 2026.10.4 came out on 24 October 2026 at 22:03 Polish time, one day after 2026.10.3. It has only two changes, and both repair things that broke last week. If you use Lutron Caséta, this is the update to install.
Adding Somfy blinds and shutters to Home Assistant through the Overkiz integration has so far meant choosing the server your gateway is registered on. The hub list offered separate entries for Somfy (Europe), Somfy (Australia) and Somfy (North America), next to the other Overkiz brands. A pull request merged on 24 October 2026 adds a single "Somfy"
Tesla's charge on solar mode keeps a car charging while the house has surplus solar power and pauses when the surplus runs out. Home Assistant's Teslemetry integration can now switch it on and off. The change by Brett Adams (Bre77), reviewed by silamon and frenck, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026 together with its documenta
Since Home Assistant 2026.10, arming or disarming a Blink system from Home Assistant has worked, but the alarm panel entity kept showing the old state for up to five minutes. A fix by Sean Cardus, reviewed by frenck, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026. The pull request doesn't say which release will carry it.
The BleBox integration in Home Assistant now understands tankSensor, the tank level device from the Polish maker of Wi-Fi modules. The change, by contributor bkobus-bbx and reviewed by joostlek, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11. Like the rest of the BleBox integration, it rea
