2025.12 Beta week

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A general reminder: Beta week is not designed to fully overhaul a new feature, but to identify bugs that may be introduced with the update.

If you have an issue, please let us know here! However, the developers are very active in the #beta channel of our Discord server during Beta - it’s good to hop in there if you can. To ensure things are addressed in a timely manner, be sure to also submit issues on GitHub in their proper space:

Here are this month’s Beta notes! Sorry this is late, it’s been a no-coffee day in the Missy household. :grimacing:

These are my cliff notes for this month’s release, in order of my excitement:

  • Home Assistant Labs! :snowman_with_snow: Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere, but also in your Home Assistant instance!! I’m particularly excited about this one, it was a single shitpost turned into reality. That’s not all what Labs are about, but it’s definitely a fun way to introduce y’all to them. :laughing:
  • New in Labs is Intuitive triggers and conditions - now you can think about what you want to automate without needing to think about how you automate it - enabled via Labs from the System settings.
  • The Energy dashboard was updated to include real-time power monitoring and downstream water tracking.
  • Paulus upgraded the voice debug interface - inspect the system prompt to see why an AI decided to skip over an entity.
  • Another month, another round of dashboard improvements! :tada: Default dashboard settings are now system-level, with individual users being able to adjust their preferred default dashboard still. We say goodbye to the experimental flag from the dashboard creation list, and Areas has evolved into the Home dashboard - something which had its layout adjusted this release.
  • Android now supports adding entities to widgets and favorites.
  • New integrations this release include Backblaze B2, a couple new Google integrations, and Philips Hue BLE. There are others, so check it out if you’re curious about those.
  • Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations - the ESPHome integration was updated to let HA generate the entity IDs to align with how other integrations work, Tuya received a ton of love, Reolink also got more love this month, and I’m personally excited to see the Xbox integration on this list. There are so many more, clicky the link if you’re interested!
  • We had 6 integrations achieve new quality scale levels, 2 reached Platinum, 1 reached Gold, another 2 reached Silver, and 1 reached Bronze. Great job to those integration owners! :clap:
  • Other noteworthy changes - there are new template math functions, you can filter by state on the logbook card, min and max options have been added to the bar gauge feature, delete helpers directly from the helper panel instead of in its card, blueprints panel will now show how many automations and scripts are using it, you can double-click the automation editor to reset its width, and labels now show on the device info card.

The list of backward incompatible changes is fairly important this month, as we are finally saying goodbye to Core and Supervised installation methods. There are also notes for Templates, Hive, go2rtc and UniFi Protect.

Build is available for y’all. :clap:t2: Happy testing, friends!

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I’m not sure if it’s just me, but 2025.12 Beta: A Betta title - Home Assistant section has broken image links?

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it’s not unusual for the Beta post to be missing images, etc until post is finalised with the official release…as the post itself says near the very top…

“Please note that these release notes are a work in progress. :construction_worker_woman:We will be completing them over the next couple of days.”

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HA just release the update 2025.12.0b0, it has supported sensitivity and hold time setting for Heiman matter motion sensor, sharing the view.

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This is some serious change in b2, where Fix lab automations icons and sidebar width by wendevlin · Pull Request #28184 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub changed ha-icon

See issue Button card icon size problem · Issue #28200 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub

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Are the log files coming back? That’s a huge miss

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is it not possible to add battery percentage in the new live power flow dashboard somewhere please?

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No.

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cant find any documentation on the new intuitive triggers. (Labs feature)

it seems to be very promising, but please introduce a great new feature with good documentation, and dont make us test out all triggers in the GUI and next click Edit in Yaml to find what it does.

  - trigger: fan.turned_on
    target:
      floor_id: woongedeelte
    options:
      behavior: any

seems so easy and obvious, but I only found it as described above.
This begs for documentation.

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this is ugly Add markdown support for assist messages by krsilas · Pull Request #27957 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub

makes Markdown cards flash raw Markdown, when editing in the GUI, and even more importantly, in the live Frontend, on reload.
IOS app and desktop…

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What about us in the other half of the globe enjoying a sunny summer?

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Enjoy the summer, i wish i could be in Australia again.

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Yeah about that, where is it?

Was a very cold and wet spring here.

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Perth was 39 C yesterday

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Is fixed. However, we now have all borders in markdown tables…
What is it with all of these undocumented changes to our views…

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Hi,
having installed the b03 today I must admit that I do love the labs snowflakes. But they are not showing up in any other user than the main, which I was using for installation and activation of the feature.

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Great job, team! I think the labs feature is a great move forward, it has the potential to engage a lot more users in the development process, which is good. Haven’t tested the intuitive trigger feature yet, but it sounds promising.

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it was renamed to ‘purpose-specific triggers and conditions’ because it wasnt that intuitive after all :wink:

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AND WE’VE REACHED THE END!

2025.12 is now released. :clap:t2: Please head to the release blog thread to continue any feedback regarding this release.

Thanks, y’all! 🫰🏻