Home Assistant Daily: Deprecation Cleanup and Service Modernization
Merges on November 2nd focused on removing long-deprecated YAML, light, backup and media player APIs, plus standardizing service actions with enums. A parallel wave of library bumps delivered fixes for Palazzetti stoves, Ouman heating, and KNX gear.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-11-03T06:00:52Z
- Audio duration: PT2M56S
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Hello, and welcome to Home Assistant Daily for November third, twenty twenty-six.
Yesterday's merges centered on clearing long-deprecated APIs and standardizing service definitions, a classic pre-release cleanup with direct breaking-change risk for custom integrations.
First, deprecation removals. Pull requests 190095 and 190094 drop legacy YAML configuration for R F Link and O P N sense, requiring UI setup. The same push removes fallbacks for light color temperature limits in 190075, the old backup agent none return in 190098, and target selector data in 190100, plus commit…
Second, service modernization. A series from one contributor adds action enums to Bring, Cast, Browser and B S B Lan, for example 190053 and 190056, while 190048 and 190067 move Z-Wave and Route 53 registration out of ad-hoc setup into dedicated service modules. Impact is better validation, translations and…
Finally, library bumps with user-visible fixes. Palazzetti slow communication is addressed in 190080 on top of a library bump in 190076, Ouman E H 800 gains relay state binary sensors in 190090, and K N X picked up both a front-end and library bump in 190120 and 190116. MikroTik now allows removing stale…
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