Home Assistant Core 2025.4.3 – Release Summary
The Home Assistant Core 2025.4.3 release focuses on numerous bug fixes and integration improvements. This update enhances stability and reliability across multiple device integrations with important dependency upgrades.
Key Takeaways:
- Integration fixes: Improvements and bug corrections across Duke Energy, Apple TV, SmartThings, and more.
- Dependency updates: Core libraries including Environment Canada and reolink-aio have been upgraded for better performance.
- Enhanced integration robustness: Fixes address data retrieval, device discovery, sensor accuracy, and playback reliability.
- License update: Added Python-2.0 to the list of approved software licenses.
- No new major features: The release emphasizes quality and security improvements over introducing new functionalities.
Integration Bug Fixes and Improvements
Energy and API Integrations
Duke Energy now correctly respects the service start date when retrieving data, ensuring accurate historical energy tracking.
The Tessie integration added a vital check to verify that the Energy Live API is functional prior to creating the coordinator, preventing premature failures.
Device Integration Fixes
Home Connect improved reliability by fixing enum member checking, reducing errors from invalid or unexpected values.
Habitica addressed issues with recurrence calculations that affected task scheduling accuracy.
For MQTT, device discovery problems when using node_id were resolved to ensure seamless identification and integration.
The Squeezebox integration now forces item IDs to string type, maintaining consistency and preventing data type conflicts.
Apple TV enhancements include recording the last ‘play status’ update timestamp, improving status reliability.
Reolink fixed the selection of the correct device UID and enhanced playback reliability on the Home Hub Pro.
The LLM Conversation Agent received improvements to address degraded quality in question answering.
Kraken integration optimized the retrieval process for tracked pairs, increasing performance.
The Jewish Calendar integration prevented blocking I/O during data schema retrieval, improving startup efficiency.
UK Transport updated the integration documentation URL for better accessibility.
Comelit fixed synchronization issues affecting switch state reporting, ensuring accurate device states.
The Shelly integration increased the allowed deviation for uptime reporting to reduce false alerts.
Starlink minimized false deviations in the uptime sensor, enhancing sensor data quality.
SmartThings resolved soundbar issues when media is not playing and restored a missing binary sensor for CoolSelect+ refrigerators, improving device management.
Dependency Updates
This release includes important updates to several core dependencies enhancing security and compatibility:
- Environment Canada library upgraded to version 0.10.1 for improved environmental data handling.
- Devolo PLC API updated to 1.5.1 to ensure smoother powerline communication operations.
- The Holidays library advanced to version 0.70, impacting Workday and Holiday integrations for more accurate holiday data.
- reolink-aio package updated to 0.13.2 enhancing Reolink device control and stability.
- pysmhi upgraded to 1.0.2 improving Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute data processing.
- ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) integration updated to 0.0.56 for better Zigbee device compatibility.
Other Changes and Noteworthy Updates
License Additions: The Python-2.0 license has been added to the list of approved software licenses, expanding compliance options.
For full details, visit the official Home Assistant Core 2025.4.3 release page.
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