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Home Assistant Core 2025.4.4 Update

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Home Assistant Core 2025.4.4 (Release Summary)

The Home Assistant Core 2025.4.4 update introduces several important integration enhancements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes aimed at improving stability and expanding feature support. This release focuses on refining existing integrations and maintaining compatibility with third-party libraries.

Users can expect smoother entity management, updated weather condition mappings, and improved performance across various components.

  • Meteo-France integration now supports new states and updated weather condition mappings.
  • Home Connect integration improves entity creation logic based on availability of programs.
  • Key dependencies such as setuptools, aiohomekit, dio-chacon-api, and pysmartthings have been updated for greater reliability.
  • Other integrations including LinkPlay media player, Random sensor, and Vodafone Station have seen targeted fixes and feature enhancements.
  • Overall, this release emphasizes stability, accuracy, and better integration interoperability.

Meteo-France Integration Updates

Meteo-France integration has been enhanced to support new states recently introduced by the Météo-France API as of mid-April. This ensures that weather information drawn from the API is up to date and more accurate.

One notable update is the adjustment of the weather condition mapping specifically for “Ciel clair” (clear sky), providing better consistency in how weather states are represented within Home Assistant.

For in-depth details about these changes, users are encouraged to consult the meteo_france integration documentation.

Home Connect Integration Improvements

The Home Connect integration now intelligently creates active and selected program entities only when the device actually has available programs. This change prevents unnecessary entity clutter, improving system efficiency and user control over connected appliances.

For more details about this behavior, users should refer to the home_connect integration documentation.

Dependency Updates and Maintenance

Setuptools Upgrade and Fixes

The setuptools package has been upgraded to version 78.1.1. This upgrade ensures improved compatibility and overall stability within the Home Assistant environment. Additionally, a license check issue affecting setuptools was resolved, eliminating potential deployment problems.

Library Updates Affecting Integrations

Several important libraries were updated to maintain optimal integration functionality:

  • aiohomekit upgraded to 3.2.14, impacting the HomeKit controller integration’s reliability and performance.
  • dio-chacon-api updated to version 1.2.2, relevant to users with Chacon Dio devices.
  • pysmartthings bumped to 3.0.5, enhancing support for SmartThings ecosystems.

Other Integration Improvements

LinkPlay Media Player

The LinkPlay media player integration now supports a configurable scan interval and allows parallel updates. These enhancements provide better performance and responsiveness when interacting with media player devices.

Random Sensor

Device classes within the Random sensor integration have been synchronized to ensure correctness and accurate device representation.

Vodafone Station

A bug affecting the unloading of configuration entries in the Vodafone Station integration was fixed. This resolves issues some users experienced when disabling or removing the integration.

For full details, including all merged pull requests and verified documentation references, visit the official release page: Home Assistant Core 2025.4.4 Release Notes.

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