2025.6 delayed, IKEA and Sonos respectfully breakup

Headlines

• Open Home Summit 2025
  The release of 2025.6 is still a week away, as the Open Home Foundation are having an in-person summit in Dublin!
  
• New episodes coming out this month
  We’ve got some great episodes coming out this month including an interview with Pete Borchers from the Technical Difficulties Podcast, Justin and Trevor from Apollo Automation stopped by, and Andre who is another Home Assistant user who has created a new product PokyPow as well.
  
  You can get early and ad-free access to those episodes on our Patreon feed of course, but speaking of all these episodes we want to check in and see if you’re liking the new episodes?
  
  We’re excited to announce we’ll be keeping the pace with more episodes coming to your feed over the next few months. If there’s a specific topic you’d like us to deep-dive into, or if you want to share your story please reach out to us on [email protected]
  
• Sonos and IKEA parting ways
  Discuss…
  
• Home Assistant to Deprecate installation methods and 32-bit architectures
  The Core and Supervised installation methods are now officially deprecated. These setups, involved running Home Assistant in a Python environment or installing the Supervisor on top of your own operating system.
  
  Home Assistant will be focusing on Home Assistant OS and Home Assistant Container.
  
  Support for legacy 32-bit CPU architectures—i386, armhf, and armv7—is also being phased out. 
  

New Features

• Device Picker Enhancements
  There is now improved search functionality for pickers, which are now also available for the area, category, floor, label, user, and device pickers too. 2025.5 had a big change for the entity picker.
  
  The biggest change you’ll notice is that manufacturer logos are now included
  
• Bluetooth Network
  The Bluetooth integration now provides a graph that shows how your Bluetooth devices are connected to your Home Assistant instance. This includes information about whether the device is connected directly or through a Bluetooth proxy.
  
  The Zigbee integration–which already has a similar feature–also got an update to its graphs, making it consistent with the amazing new Bluetooth graphs.
  
• Area Dashboard Love
  2025.4 had a new experimental “areas” dashboard type introduced. This release brings some iterations on this one, based on user feedback.
  
  
• Template Integration
  There’s now modern-style YAML support for template fans, locks, alarm control panels, vacuums, and covers.
  
  
• New Get Statistics action
  The recorder get_statistics action lets you query statistics directly from the recorder component
  
• Sidebar
  You can customise links in your sidebar, previously these customisations were stored on the device you were accessing Home Assistant from.
  
  These are now stored in your user profile, so will work wherever you sign into Home Assistant
  
• Media Player Groups
  You can now join/unjoin media players which support group playback from the UI using the media player card!
  
  
• ESPHome Deep Sleep Devices
  Can now be updated from Home Assistant. Very useful for battery devices
  
• Homee
  Now supports fans and provides alarm control panels.
  
• Teslemetry
  Added a hazard lights binary sensor, a valet mode switch, and a credit balance sensor.
  
• Shelly
  Has been improved to use sub-devices for multi-channel devices
  
• SmartThings
  Support for cooktops, hobs, water heaters, hood fan speeds, Steam closet modes, freezer and cooler temperatures, washer spin and soil levels, valve positions, heat pump zone climates, and atmospheric pressure.
  
• Miele
  vacuum support, drying step sensors, washer-dryer program phases, and hob plate sensor
  
• SwitchBot
  Now supports Vacuums, and their new lock models the Lock Ultra and Lock Lite
  
• Sonos
  Playlists are now shown under favourites
  
• Anthropic Claude 4 is now supported
  

New Integrations

• Amazon Devices
  Allows support for the Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Fire TV.
  
  You can send an announcement using a notify service, or start a radio stream as some example automations.
  
• Immich
  Integrates with Immich App, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution that puts you in control of your personal media.
  
• Paperless-ngx
  Connect to your Paperless-ngx system to track and manage your digital documents from Home Assistant.
  
• Probe Plus
  Integrate wireless Bluetooth meat thermometers compatible with the PROBE PLUS app, bringing real-time temperature monitoring during cooking into Home Assistant.
  
• Zimi
  Connect to Zimi Cloud devices to monitor and control your Zimi smart home products
  
  

Breaking Changes

• RTSPtoWebRTC has been removed as it has been replaced by the go2rtc integration.
• Met Office
  Met Office deprecated the Datapoint API used by this integration. To address this, it is now migrated to DataHub API.
  
  You will need to provide a new API key, which can be obtained by signing up for DataHub and subscribing to Global spot dataset. The free subscription provides 360 calls per day, which is enough for this integration to work