2026.8: Approachable by design

Tip Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube on August 5, 2026, at 20:00 GMT / 12:00 PT / 21:00 CET! Tip There’s more to look forward to next week: the ESPHome Starter Kit is launching, and you’re invited to the official launch party! 🚀 Join the ESPHome team and their partners at Apollo Automation on the ESPHome YouTube channel on August 12 at 21:00 CEST. Familiar faces are dropping by to celebrate lift-off, too: Reed from Smart Home Solver, Simon from Simon Says Home Assistant, and Gavin from HomeTech.fm. Home Assistant 2026.8! 🎉 Hi, I’m Ashley, the Technical Program Manager at the Open Home Foundation. With Frenck taking a well-deserved break, Bram and I are teaming up to handle things this time around. We have been working on a lot over the past few weeks, and I’m excited to share some of what we have done for this release! If there’s one thread tying this release together, it’s a direction we care about: making Home Assistant something you don’t need to be technical to use. This release is another step along that path. Enjoy the release! - Ashley Making Home Assistant more approachable The same Home Assistant, minus the magic number Your current setup keeps working Want to change the port? We’ve got you covered What this means for YAML Less “advanced”, more approachable Describing the feature, not the user Just Tools, no developer required Home Assistant Cloud, now easier to explore Your entity IDs, your choice A cleaner way to handle your devices We can’t stop adding triggers and conditions Integrations New integrations Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations Integration quality scale achievements Now available to set up from the UI Farewell to the following Other noteworthy changes Tell us how setup went A roomier template editor Taps that land where you mean them A combined battery level you can trust Search your media Find your favorite cards faster Z-Wave lock credentials, properly managed And a few more Patch releases 2026.8.1 - August 7 2026.8.2 - August 14 2026.8.3 - August 21 Need help? Join the community Backward-incompatible changes All changes A huge thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible! And a special shout-out to @frenck and @bramkragten who helped write the release notes this release. Also, @piitaya, @RaHehl, and @farmio for putting effort into tweaking its contents. Thanks to them, these release notes are in great shape. ❤️ Making Home Assistant more approachable One of the directions we care about most for Home Assistant is making it simpler to pick up and use, without compromising on capability. It’s something we have been working toward for a long time, and it runs through our roadmap and goals for this year. We cannot do it overnight though, so we keep listening to your feedback to make sure we are fixing the things that actually get in your way. If there is something you would like to see, we would love for you to weigh in. Every comment helps shape what comes next. This release brings together some of that work. It may never be truly finished, and that is fine, but it is something we hold close: the more people who can use Home Assistant, whatever their technical ability, the better. The same Home Assistant, minus the magic number Ever wondered why the address for your own home has a random number stuck on the end? So did we. For years, reaching Home Assistant meant remembering to add :8123 to the address, a little piece of technical trivia that everyone simply had to learn. This release starts to put that right. New installations of “Home Assistant OS”Home Assistant OS, the Home Assistant Operating System, is an embedded, minimalistic, operating system designed to run the Home Assistant ecosystem on single board computers (like the Raspberry Pi) or Virtual Machines. It includes Home Assistant Core, the Home Assistant Supervisor, and supports apps. Home Assistant Supervisor keeps it up to date, removing the need for you to manage an operating system. Home Assistant Operating System is the recommended installation type for most users. now use a normal web address by default, with no number to add on the end. You reach your home the same way you reach any website. Nothing extra to remember, nothing extra to type. Your current setup keeps working If you are already running Home Assistant, nothing changes and there is nothing you need to do. This only affects new installations of Home Assistant OS. Your existing installation is completely unchanged, keeps the exact port it has always used, and keeps working just as before. If everything works today, the simplest thing is to leave it exactly as it is. Want to change the port? We’ve got you covered You do not have to change anything, but if you would like the cleaner address, or need to change the port for another reason, you can now do it yourself from the interface. The same screen also holds a few more options, like choosing which network connection Home Assistant liste

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