Hedda
June 30, 2026, 9:01am
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Hedda:
Not currently mentioned in the beta release-notes is that all the libraries for the ZHA (Zigbee) integartion has been bumped to 2.0.0 version because they contain a major update with a huge change where the Quirks API for ZHA Device Handlers is now fully revamped which is first step to make adding support for new Zigbee devices simpler so that the ZHA community can support advanced/complex devices more quickly:
For reference, the first major step towards improving zigpy/zha APIs to make adding new devices simpler so that the ZHA community can support new devices more quickly. See that this is also raised and tracked as an Open Home Foundation roadmap item too:
Note that niether ZHA integration documentation or repository description and readme files has been updated yet to reflect that change, see:
and
@MissyQ IMHO it would by the way also be good to make a new dedicated Home Assistant blog-post to high-light this major change ZHA Ziggurat that is not mentioned in the release notes either but is now in public beta and possible to use with the Home Assistant 2026.7 release and later. Ziggurat can replace closed-source Zigbee Coordinator firmware on any Zigbee adapter with OpenThread RCP (more info ) and runs inside of a Home Assistant app . Ziggurat is not yet mature, but it is 100% open source, very fast , written in safe Rust, and lets your Zigbee network benefit from the computing power of a general purpose computer.
PS: Ziggurat now in public beta was also mentioned in Bump ZHA to 2.0.0 by puddly · Pull Request #174586 · home-assistant/core · GitHub as a kind of stealth announcement
@MissyQ Submitted a PR with text that would add this to the release notes -> Revise and extend Zigbee updates and details in 2026.7 Beta release notes by Hedda · Pull Request #46545 · home-assistant/home-assistant.io · GitHub
You probably weant to check with puddly and TheJulianJES regardless.
rc ← Hedda:patch-755867
opened 08:53AM - 30 Jun 26 UTC
## Proposed change
Updated the Zigbee section in 2026.7 Beta release notes … to reflect major changes, including UX improvements, major library updates which change how quirks for Zigbee devices are made for ZHA, and the introduction of the new Ziggurat Zigbee-stack as public beta.
Ping @puddly @TheJulianJES
## Type of change
- [ ] Spelling, grammar or other readability improvements (`current` branch).
- [ ] Adjusted missing or incorrect information in the current documentation (`current` branch).
- [x] Added documentation for a new integration I'm adding to Home Assistant (`next` branch).
- [ ] I've opened up a PR to add logos and icons in [Brands repository](https://github.com/home-assistant/brands).
- [ ] Added documentation for a new feature I'm adding to Home Assistant (`next` branch).
- [ ] Removed stale or deprecated documentation.
## Additional information
It was not mentioned in the beta release-notes is that all the libraries for the ZHA (Zigbee) integartion has been bumped to 2.0.0 version because they contain a major update with a huge change where the Quirks API for ZHA Device Handlers is now fully revamped which is first step to make adding support for new Zigbee devices simpler so that the ZHA community can support advanced/complex devices more quickly:
* https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/174586
* https://github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers/pull/5113
* https://github.com/zigpy/zha/pull/762
* https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/pull/1846
"_**Our quirks API is now fully revamped: complex ZHA entities can now be created entirely within with quirks, allowing for faster community support of new devices and new complex devices.**_"
For reference, the first major step towards improving zigpy/zha APIs to make adding new devices simpler so that the ZHA community can support new devices more quickly. See that this is also raised and tracked as an Open Home Foundation roadmap item too:
* https://github.com/OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap/issues/194
Note that niether ZHA integration documentation or repository description and readme files has been updated yet to reflect that change, see:
* https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/46445
and
* https://github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers/discussions/5129
Ziggurat now in public beta was also mentioned in https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/174586 as a kind of stealth announcement
* https://github.com/zigpy/ziggurat/
* https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-ziggurat
* * https://github.com/zigpy/addons
An alternative could be to make a new dedicated Home Assistant blog-post to high-light all the major change ZHA under the hood 😀 It is kind of a huge dubble-whammy by announcing both the major zha and zigpy libaries updates that change how quirks works and Open Home Foundation's new fully open-source host-side Zigbee stack, [Ziggurat](https://github.com/zigpy/ziggurat/) that was not yet mentioned in the release notes but is now in public beta and possible to use with the Home Assistant 2026.7 release and later. Ziggurat can replace closed-source Zigbee Coordinator firmware on any Zigbee adapter with OpenThread RCP ([more info](https://github.com/zigpy/ziggurat/#ziggurat)) and runs inside of a Home Assistant [app](https://github.com/zigpy/addons). Ziggurat is not yet mature, but it is 100% open source, very *fast*, written in safe Rust, and lets your Zigbee network benefit from the computing power of a general purpose computer.
- Link to parent pull request in the codebase:
- Link to parent pull request in the Brands repository:
- This PR fixes or closes issue: fixes #
## Checklist
- [x] This PR uses the correct branch, based on one of the following:
- I made a change to the existing documentation and used the `current` branch.
- I made a change that is related to an upcoming version of Home Assistant and used the `next` branch.
- [x] The documentation follows the Home Assistant documentation [standards].
[standards]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/documenting/standards
MissyQ
June 30, 2026, 9:04am
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Nice! I dunno if it'll get approved but I did share your feedback with the team on this. There are talks that this might be better for a Dev blog instead of a full blog for Home Assistant.
oliof
July 1, 2026, 6:43am
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It seems beta3 broke some things around updates. Can't update ESPhome to 2026.6.4. I will file a bug.
petro
July 1, 2026, 10:28am
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Working for me, what errors are you getting? Are you sure it’s not related to an Esphome config change?
oliof
July 1, 2026, 11:59am
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I also had some other entities not update for roughly 2 hours. But it's now resolved magically while I tried to repro for the bug report )-:
MissyQ
July 1, 2026, 6:24pm
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AND WE’VE REACHED THE END!
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