MQTT naming convention problem. can anyone explain?

[on1dds]

About the breaking changes in the MQTT naming conventions in this 2023.8 release
I read and reread the referred ‘Naming Convention’ pages and honestly I don’t understand it.
I would be very grateful if anyone can explain it to me

Thank you

[petro]

PSA: MQTT Name changes in 2023.8

Everyone, there will be MQTT name changes in the next release of the software. There is nothing to worry about, your names are safe. However the change caused addons like Z2M (and other MQTT integrations) to update their discovery information. As it stands, Z2M will not be able to release a version with this fix until September 2023. During that time a warning will be in your logs indicating that there is an issue. You can safely ignore this warning. As of this writing, there may also be a…