Home Assistant 2025.12 released

[Posted December 3, 2025 by corbet]

Version 2025.12 of the Home Assistant home-automation system has been released.

This month, we're unveiling Home Assistant Labs, a brand-new space where you can preview features before they go mainstream. And what better way to kick it off than with Winter mode? ❄️ Enable it and watch snowflakes drift across your dashboard. It's completely unnecessary, utterly delightful, and exactly the kind of thing we love to build. ❄️
But that's just the beginning. We've been working on making automations more intuitive over the past releases, and this release finally delivers purpose-specific triggers and conditions. Instead of thinking in (numeric) states, you can now simply say "When a light turns on" or "If the climate is heating". It's automation building the way our mind works, as it should be.

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Hard to keep up

Posted Dec 5, 2025 10:44 UTC (Fri) by ganneff (subscriber, #7069) [Link] (4 responses)

Running a Homeassistant install is *hard* work, and a lot.

You went around and updated all the components, wanting to grab a drink as a reward - and POP goes the thing "Update available".
You look in disbelief and ask the void "How can that be?" - appears someone made an integration for the void and HA answers you with "3 more updates available".

They keep up this insane update speed for a long time now. Release early, release often - and most of the time it doesn't break.

Good work.

Hard to keep up

Posted Dec 5, 2025 13:27 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (3 responses)

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to buffer all that and hammer you at $FREQUENCY with all the knick-knack stuff.

Hard to keep up

Posted Dec 12, 2025 11:44 UTC (Fri) by motiejus (subscriber, #92837) [Link] (2 responses)

NixOS community does it for free -- I get my share of hone-assistant integration updates in a one-go, every 6 months.

Hard to keep up

Posted Jan 9, 2026 16:42 UTC (Fri) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link] (1 responses)

You don't need to do that. You can just use their operating system release, which is supported by the Open Home Foundation and also features an immutable A / B update setup. So if an update fails, it automatically rolls back. It also does a backup of your setup before updating. Finally, you can just elect to push the update button only once every half a year, but (unlike what you mentioned) you can also update weekly if you want.

Hard to keep up

Posted Jan 9, 2026 16:43 UTC (Fri) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link]

(I should mention that I'm a holdover from the pip install homeassistant era)