A pull request from Paulus Schoutsen, Home Assistant's founder, merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026, closes a gap between users of the same Home Assistant instance. Anyone signed in who knew a conversation's ID could continue someone else's conversation with Assist, together with its history and the tools the agent had available.
On 23 October 2026 two pull requests were merged into zigpy/zha, the library behind the ZHA integration in Home Assistant. They change how new Zigbee groups get their addresses and make group creation fail with a clear error instead of quietly doing something else. Neither is in a zha release yet (the latest is 2.3.1 from 9 October), so they will r
If your automations still send Telegram messages through a notify entry with platform: telegram in configuration.yaml, they will stop working after the next Home Assistant update. A pull request by jbouwh, merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026, removes the legacy Telegram notify platform. It is expected in Home Assistant 2026.11. Th
If part of your Matter setup comes through a bridge, Home Assistant's Matter network map has so far shown only the bridge itself. That changes with a frontend pull request by mib1185, reviewed by MindFreeze and merged on 23 October 2026. It went into the development branch, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11.
Every state change in Home Assistant ends up in a database. A light turning on, a temperature reading, a phone's battery dropping by one percent, an ESP board reporting its Wi-Fi signal every few seconds. The recorder integration writes all of it, and with the defaults that is fine for a small setup. Add a few energy meters, a dozen ESPHome devices
Matter cameras are getting a proper home in Home Assistant. On 22 October 2026 the Matter integration gained a camera platform, merged into the development branch that becomes Home Assistant 2026.11. A Matter 1.5 camera now shows up as an ordinary camera entity, with live video and still images in the same views and cards you already use for other
An MQTT entity in Home Assistant can only belong to a device if it has a unique_id. Until now, Home Assistant still read the device block of entities that had none, and that had one visible side effect. Pull request #187856, merged into the development branch on 22 October 2026 and marked as a breaking change, stops that. It is due in Home Assistan
If one of your ESPHome nodes uses the devices: list under esphome:, the next release will refuse to compile it until you add one line per sub-device. Pull request #21232, merged into ESPHome's development branch on 22 October 2026, adds a required relation: key to every entry in that list. The change is marked as breaking and is heading for ESPHome
Home Assistant's own camera view is getting two-way audio. Changes merged on 22 October 2026 in the core, the frontend and the iOS app add a Talk control to the live stream, so you can speak through a camera's or doorbell's speaker without opening the manufacturer's app. Reolink is the first integration to support it. The core and frontend code is
