Home Assistant Daily: The 2026.7.2 Patch Wave and the Push-Over-Poll Trend
The 2026.7.2 patch release from Frenck bundles roughly sixty fixes, while several separate PRs continue a shift toward event-driven coordinators and push-based updates over polling, alongside a cluster of retry-storm and race-condition fixes.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-07-11T06:00:06Z
- Audio duration: PT2M57S
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Good evening, it's July 11th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The headline tonight is consolidation. Frenck's 2026.7.2 release, PR 176241, pulls in nearly sixty linked fixes in one patch — from trusted proxy handling in the HTTP core, to a Teslemetry reauth fix, to dependency bumps for ical and uiprotect. That's a lot of accumulated bugfixes landing at once, which is normal…
Underneath that, there's a clear architectural theme: moving integrations off polling and onto push or coordinator patterns. Vemboy200's Control4 conversion, PR 176238, switches that integration from local polling to WebSocket push, and notes it incidentally fixed a batch of unrelated bugs — a sign the old polling…
The second theme is race conditions and retry storms. Jeeftor's fix for WeatherFlow Cloud, PR 169573, stops two coordinators from double-connecting the same WebSocket during setup. Bre77's PR 175671 stops Teslemetry from hammering the API with retries on a dead token. And Erwin Douna's MELCloud Home work, PRs 176131…
A few smaller but concrete fixes: Ekobres is chasing a Z-Wave JS reload bug tied to temperature scale changes on multilevel sensors, and dns13 has two open VeSync PRs — one adding…
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