Update entities can customize update availability
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As of Home Assistant Core 2026.11, update entities can override the new
has_update property to determine whether an update is available.
Previously, update entities determined availability by comparing
installed_version and latest_version. Integrations can still customize that
comparison by overriding version_is_newer, and existing implementations
continue to work unchanged.
Integrations whose device or service provides update availability directly can
now override has_update instead:
@property
def has_update(self) -> bool:
"""Return whether an update is available."""
return self.device.update_availableHome Assistant reads has_update only when both versions are known and differ,
and the latest version has not been skipped. The default implementation calls
version_is_newer, preserving the existing behavior.
For more details, see the update entity documentation.
