Can not install beta anymore

Installation
1

Hello there,

I usually install beta of HA to test it and (eventually) report issues.
I do that for years now, using the command for core

pip3 install --pre --upgrade homeassistant

But this time, the --pre is not doing anything.
So I tried

pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant==2025.2.0b6

without success, the error is

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement homeassistant==2025.2.0b6 (from versions: ... <plenty versions here> ...
, 2025.1.3, 2025.1.4)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for homeassistant==2025.2.0b6

Did something change with the 2025.2.0 beta releases? I read the release note without noticing anything.

2

Maybe they have just moved it to prepare it for release.

3

I’m scared of Python to be honest.
My version is 3.12.1 and I know for sure that it will be deprecated sooner or later.
And this one seems to be the one

  • Drop Python 3.12 support ([@frenck] - [#135589]) (breaking-change)

Latest version is never available in Debian for RPi

(homeassistant) homeassistant@hassbian:/srv/homeassistant $ apt list -a python3
Listing... Done
python3/stable,now 3.11.2-1 armhf [installed]

I tried to recompile Python 3.13.1 as I did for 3.12.1 but even if it was fine, a lot of HA integrations failed to load, so I revert to 3.12.1

I’ll wait for the release this Wednesday, fingers crossed, but no real hope

4

Debian is notorious for having old versions of packages and RPi is not exceptional there. It is all platforms.

5

Next release, 2025.2, will deprecate Python 3.12, so you got 2 days.

6

I’m on it, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll take more than 2 days, 2025.2 will be delayed for me