Backup agents can now be renamed
As of Home Assistant Core 2026.11, an integration can move the backup settings of an agent to a new agent ID with async_rename_agent.
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All postsTwo-way audio for camera entities
Camera entities can now declare two-way audio support, so people can talk through their cameras and doorbells.
1 min readConfig entry functions now return None
async_setup_entry, async_unload_entry, and async_migrate_entry return None in core now. What changes, and what it means for custom integrations.
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