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Home Assistant 2026.5.0 – safe to update?

Newer release in this line: Home Assistant 2026.5.4 (2026-05-22). If you're updating now, check that one instead — it may already fix the issues reported here.

What's in this release

CVEs fixed

No CVEs mapped to this release.

Community reports

• Problem 2026.5.x and 2026.6.x restarts · Reddit · 2026-06-05

  had issues upgrading to 2026.5.x and now also on 2026.6.0 where upgrade completes, but HA then drops off/restarts. reverting to a 2026.4.x backup restores functionality... this is on a Raspberry Pi 5. Ideas?

• Mention Mrs. Weasley’s clock · Reddit · 2026-10-07

  Most of the people in my family are big Harry Potter fans (I never read it, tbh). My wife asked if I could use HA to build something like Mrs. Weasley’s clock. After looking up what that was, I figured I could take a stab at it. What do y’all think? (Disclaimer: I leaned HEAVILY…

• Mention Any charcoal grillers here? Looking for beta testers for a free, open-source charcoal blower controller (≈ USD$20 in easily-available parts if you already grill and run HA) · Reddit · 2026-09-25

  I've been building a blower controller for my Big Green Egg that runs entirely inside Home Assistant, and I'm looking for a few people to beta test it on their own kamados and kettles. What it does - Holds your pit at a set temperature by pulsing a blower through a smart plug: s…

• Mention Huge backup size increase with last Piper update · Reddit · 2026-09-20

  Updated Piper integration five days ago. Backups exploded from ~630MB to ~1.6GB. Checked the archive, and the entire change was due to Piper going from 57KB in the backup to 950KB. Two questions: Has anyone else seen a similar increase in the backup space used for Piper? Is ther…

• Mention New iOS sensors · Reddit · 2026-08-26

  Wondering if anyone has any cool use case scenarios for the new sensors on iOS 👍🏻

• Mention Anybody ever have a bunch of ZWave nodes go dead at the same time? (ZWaveJS + HASS) · Reddit · 2026-07-18

  I am... Scratching my head on this one. Randomly, one day 2-3 weeks ago: All of my SmartWings shades went dead A smattering of light switches from different vendors went dead Some notes: Ignore the thermostat... It was old and physically died I have not had lighting strikes or p…

• Mention I built Skins Pro to make Home Assistant dashboards easier · Reddit · 2026-07-01

  We see amazing dashboards shared here all the time, but recreating them usually takes a lot of time and effort. You have to install custom cards, copy configuration, download assets, and tweak everything until it finally looks right. Since Home Assistant 2026.5 introduced Commun…

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