Update docker container from 2021.12.6 (stable) to latest stable image, safe?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been using HASS for about a year now (hence the version I’m running atm) and feel it is time to update.
I’m running HASS in docker on Synology and I am wondering if I would run into any trouble if I update my current container to the latest stable version, jumping from 2021.12.6 to 2022.10.1?

Will it be ok? Do I need to do anything to make it work?

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Maybe. Probably.

What you’ll need to do is read breaking changes section of each release since 2021.12 to see if:

  1. You’re using an integration with a breaking change
  2. What you need to do to handle that
  3. Whether there’s two sets of breaking changes that means you will want to update to an interim version

For the third, an example would be where an integration has been converted from YAML to UI configuration, then the YAML configuration has been removed.

If you just jump directly to the latest version your YAML configuration will be ignored completely and simply throw errors. If however you update to a release before it is removed, then your YAML config will be imported and the integration configured for you.