Home Assistant Daily: Release 2026.2.2 and Z-Wave Improvements

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Good morning, I'm your host with the Home Assistant Daily for February 14th, 2026.

Yesterday saw the release of Home Assistant 2026.2.2. Frenck merged the release pull request containing fixes for 44 issues across 90 files. Key fixes include AsyncIteratorReader stream exhaustion, HomematicIP glass thermostat humidity sensors, and device class corrections for Teslemetry and Tessie backup reserve sensors.

Several major Z-Wave improvements landed. AlCalzone merged support for handling Z-Wave values that are re-added at runtime, particularly useful when battery devices lose connection. Anders Odlund modernized Z-Wave lock service actions, extracting error messages to strings.json and improving code organization.

YogevBokobza added Switcher heater support, expanding the integration's device compatibility by bumping the aioswitcher library to version 6.1.0.

Infrastructure improvements were significant. Erik Montnemery enhanced backup testing by removing filesystem operation mocks and adding real test fixtures. The team also fixed nightly build failures caused by home-assistant-intents package conflicts.

Several integrations received dependency updates: Tesla Fleet API bumped to 1.4.3 across Tesla Fleet, Teslemetry, and Tessie integrations. The Smarla integration updated to pysmarlaapi 1.0.1, adding connection failure differentiation and controller availability tracking. KNX frontend updated to version 2026.2.13 with time server configuration dialog support.

Additional changes include Miele TQ1000WP tumble dryer program additions, Telegram bot file transfer timeout configurations, and SpaceAPI type improvements.

Looking ahead, the team continues focusing on testing infrastructure improvements and integration reliability enhancements.

That's your Home Assistant Daily. I'm back tomorrow with more updates from the smart home automation platform.