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Music Assistant
A folder picker replaces typed paths, while existing network-share sources retain their libraries and access rules.
Music Assistant brings local folders, connected drives and network shares into one Local files setup. People can browse for a music folder instead of typing its server path, and household members allowed to add music sources can choose from storage made available by an administrator.
Home Assistant
Household members can update their own identity without asking an administrator.
Reviewed by abmantis, RosemaryOrchard, wendevlin
Home Assistant lets each household member edit their own name and profile picture from an Edit profile button. Previously, changing a picture required an administrator to open that person’s settings. The new dialog uploads and crops an image and keeps the name consistent across the account and its linked person.
Home Assistant
A dedicated companion-app integration would replace copied notification codes with guided actions while keeping personal sensors under the phone owner’s control.
Home Assistant is considering a dedicated integration for its official iOS and Android apps, with guided notification and phone-command controls instead of special values copied into configuration. A proposal published by Bruno Pantaleão Gonçalves describes one place for a person’s mobile devices and actions that show only compatible targets.
ESPHome
A new default build system speeds compilation, with an opt-out needed for custom frameworks and unlisted boards.
Reviewed by swoboda1337, jesserockz
ESPHome changes the default build system for ESP8266 devices, using its own packaged compiler and Arduino framework instead of fetching them from the PlatformIO registry. Apple Silicon Macs run the compiler directly without Rosetta, and Device Builder gains a compilation percentage for these devices.
ESPHome
Standard temperature, humidity and occupancy reports open a path to direct device bindings.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
ESPHome gives makers an option to expose ESP32-based Zigbee sensors using the standard measurement formats understood by other devices. A temperature sensor can use Temperature Measurement instead of a generic input, opening the possibility of binding it directly to a compatible Zigbee thermostat.
OHF Voice
OHF Voice corrects language choices and narrows the advertised list to the selected recognition backend.
OHF Voice’s Wyoming Faster Whisper service correctly routes Cantonese requests to supported speech-recognition backends. A Cantonese Home Assistant pipeline could previously fail to match the advertised language, and the Qwen3 backend could turn the request into Mandarin by dropping its region code.
Music Assistant
Shared users avoid failed sign-ins and accidental connections with the server owner’s access.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant corrects sign-in for people using a Plex server shared with their account. Falling back to an ordinary Plex account token could either fail setup or, on networks allowing unauthenticated access, connect in the server owner’s context instead of the shared user’s.
Home Assistant
Bluetooth and network discovery no longer withdraw a setup already being completed.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant stops removing a device’s setup card while someone is entering its pairing code. Bluetooth devices can stop advertising as soon as a connection begins, so pairing itself could make the device disappear and end setup with an invalid-flow error.
Music Assistant
Smaller requests avoid oversized replies, and a new filter finds tracks within loaded lists.
Music Assistant’s mobile app retrieves large libraries and queues in smaller pieces instead of asking for an entire collection in one reply. Oversized responses could never reach Android Auto, CarPlay, the add-to-playlist picker and queue refreshes because they exceeded the server’s message limit.
Home Assistant
A remembered interpretation no longer carries one device’s room into another device’s request.
Reviewed by arturpragacz
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Firefox and password managers can find and submit the login fields again.
Reviewed by wendevlin
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One address containing a line break no longer causes other readings to be lost in an InfluxDB export.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
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The boiler connection is being reconsidered as part of a shared Modbus integration.
Reviewed by frenck, c0ffeeca7
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DFRobot presence sensors use the configured delay; old millisecond workarounds need correcting.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
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Music Assistant preserves favourites and playlist entries when another source still carries the track.
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