Home Assistant Daily: Constants Cleanup and Dependency Updates
Twenty pull requests merged on May 24th focused primarily on code maintenance, with developer Max Michels leading a systematic cleanup of duplicate constants across multiple integrations. Several dependency updates were also merged to improve Bluetooth functionality and calendar handling.
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for Saturday, May 24th, 2026.
Yesterday saw significant maintenance activity with twenty merged pull requests, mostly focused on code cleanup and dependency management.
Max Michels led a comprehensive cleanup effort, merging eleven pull requests that replaced duplicate constants with centralized imports from homeassistant.const. The affected integrations include ElevenLabs, Fujitsu FGLair, Version, EnergyID, Fish Audio, Hegel, Zeroconf, TPLink Omada, Drop Connect, and Growatt Server. These changes reduce code duplication and improve maintainability across the platform.
Several dependency updates were merged to enhance functionality. J. Nick Koston bumped habluetooth to version 6.7.1, improving Bluetooth device handling. Allen Porter updated the ical library to version 13.2.4, affecting Google Calendar, Local Calendar, Local Todo, and Remote Calendar integrations. Bieniu updated the gios library to version 7.1.0, and Penny Wood bumped python-izone to version 1.2.10, which removes async-timeout as a transitive dependency.
Additional maintenance work included Ludeeus adding a devcontainer-lock.json file to improve development environment consistency, and NickKoepr removing himself as code owner from the blue_current integration. Allen Porter fixed exception translation placeholder mismatches in google_photos and cleaned up duplicate elevation constants in the fitbit integration.
What's next: The constants cleanup initiative appears ongoing with more integrations likely to be updated. The dependency updates should provide improved stability and performance for affected integrations.
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