Home Assistant Daily: MQTT Protocol Deprecation and Script Fixes
Home Assistant's May 5th update includes a major MQTT protocol deprecation moving to version 5, critical script async teardown fixes, and various integration improvements including SwitchBot time offset controls and OpenAI TTS format fixes.
Duration: PT2M20S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M20S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for May 5th, 2026.
Twenty pull requests were merged today along with thirty additional commits, bringing significant infrastructure changes and integration improvements.
The most significant change comes from jbouwh, who merged MQTT protocol version deprecation, moving Home Assistant to MQTT version 5 while deprecating 3.x protocols. This affects all MQTT broker connections and includes migration paths for users.
Arturpragacz fixed a critical async unload teardown race condition in scripts that was causing runtime errors when script runs overlapped during teardown processes.
Several integration improvements were merged today. Elgris added a number entity for SwitchBot Meter CO2 devices to control display time offset in minutes. Shulyaka fixed OpenAI TTS to properly return requested audio formats, particularly addressing OGG format issues. The Growatt Server integration was bumped to…
Infrastructure work included emontnemery improving template reload functionality and adding a should_include method to EntityTriggerBase for better trigger handling. Multiple dependency updates were processed, including serialx to 1.7.0, victron-ble-ha-parser to…
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