Home Assistant Daily: AWS S3 Backup Enhancement and Sonarr Service Overhaul
The Home Assistant core repository saw 20 pull requests merged and 30 additional commits on February 26th, 2026. Major updates include AWS S3 prefix support for better backup organization and a significant Sonarr integration overhaul replacing sensor attributes with service calls.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-02-26T11:15:40Z
- Audio duration: PT2M5S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for February 26th, 2026.
The development team merged 20 pull requests yesterday, focusing on backup improvements and integration enhancements.
Kamil Breguła merged the AWS S3 prefix support update, adding the ability to organize backups within a single S3 bucket using custom folder paths. This addresses a long-standing need for users running multiple Home Assistant instances who want to share storage without conflicts.
Liquidmasl completed a major Sonarr integration overhaul, replacing sensor attributes with dedicated service calls. This breaking change deprecates the old approach while providing more robust functionality for managing media automation. A follow-up patch was also merged to address post-merge cleanup.
Luca Angemi added minimum state duration filtering to the history stats sensor, giving users better control over statistical calculations by excluding brief state changes.
Several new device integrations were expanded. Przemko92 added fan support to the Compit integration, while Joostlek added power sensors to Zinvolt. Jamie Magee contributed platform tests and diagnostics capabilities to Aladdin Connect, improving the…
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