Home Assistant Daily: 2026.4.1 Release and Template Engine Refactoring
Home Assistant released version 2026.4.1 with 29 bug fixes across multiple integrations, while core development continues with template engine refactoring and new Matter device support.
Duration: PT2M23S
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: 2026-04-04T10:01:22Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
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Good morning, I'm your host with the Home Assistant Daily for April 4th, 2026.
The major development yesterday was frenck's merge of Home Assistant 2026.4.1, a maintenance release addressing 29 issues across the platform. Key fixes include Tuya energy sensor units, Ring snapshot functionality, Tesla Fleet OAuth scope handling, and websocket update component improvements. The release touched 77…
Several notable feature additions were merged. g4bri3lDev added AES-128 encryption support to the OpenDisplay integration, enhancing security for display communications. lboue contributed Matter PIR sensor improvements, adding support for unoccupied to occupied delay configuration. Shulyaka enhanced AI task…
Infrastructure improvements include frenck's ongoing template engine refactoring, extracting serialization functions into a dedicated Jinja2 extension. This continues the effort to modularize Home Assistant's template system. The Fritz integration received automated device tracker cleanup, deprecating the manual…
Multiple dependency updates were processed, including habluetooth 6.0.0, soco 0.30.15 for Sonos improvements, and various other library bumps for Russound, Portainer, and Zinvolt…
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