Is there a way to configure HA to only provide notifications on major releases? Or even single point releases?
I understand the HA team(s) like to get updates out the door but the most recent update was only 3 days after the one before it. Yeah I know updates are optional unless you’re impacted by a bug but I don’t even want to see them in the UI unless they’re more significant or I check for updates.
“Just ignore them” isn’t an appropriate answer here, thanks.
Major and single point releases are all releases.
Major releases occur on the first Wednesday of every month and contain new features and bug fixes.
Minor releases occur when needed for bug fixes, mostly weekly unless there is some urgent bug affecting a lot of users.
But in answer to your question, no there is no way to do this*. Just skipping them is painless and very quick so I do not see how doing this once a week is “inappropriate”.
Feel free to vote for this feature request: Select frequency of update notifications for Home Assistant Core
*Not strictly true.
You could disable the following entities:
update.home_assistant_core_update
update.home_assistant_operating_system_update
Then create your own rest sensors that monitor the versions here: https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json and or use the version integration (Version - Home Assistant) to create your own logic by comparing the installed and available versions using the jinja version comparison: Version - Home Assistant and notifying you only when you want. There are major and minor template comparisons available.
Thanks. I just came back here to say I could just disable the update sensor but I see you mentioned that, too.
I understand the need for frequent releases and I didn’t say the release frequency itself is inappropriate. I just want the notifications to be visible if I choose them to be (similar but identical to the linked feature request). I just didn’t want to anyone to say “Ignore them if you don’t like them” since that sort of answer is unhelpful in the context of my question.
Disabling the update sensors and creating your own version alert logic is the way then. I wouldn’t recommend disabling the supervisor update entity if you are running HA OS, as that automatically updates anyway.