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    Release

    A new version of Home Assistant. One comes out on the first Wednesday of every month, with patch releases in between.

    Also
    releases, version

    Versions are the year, the month, and the patch: 2026.10.0 is the first release of October 2026, and 2026.10.1 its first patch release. A beta comes out the week before each monthly release, for testing.

    Related terms

    • BetaA test version of the next release, published a week before it, so people can find problems before everyone updates.
    • Patch releaseA smaller release with fixes, that comes out between the monthly releases, like 2026.10.1.
    • Release notesThe blog post on home-assistant.io that tells what is new in a release, what changed, and what users need to do about it.
    • Dev branchThe branch where development happens in many Home Assistant repositories, like Home Assistant Core and the frontend. Pull requests go there.
    • Backward-incompatible changeA change that requires users or developers to change something on their side, like their configuration or their custom integration.
    • DeprecationAnnouncing that something will be removed in a later release, while it keeps working until then, so people can move on.