What's Changed
New
- Energy widget: follow your energy dashboard right from your desktop
- Calendar widget: see your upcoming Home Assistant calendar events at a glance
- Medium-size Assist widget with support for multiple pipelines
- Automatic server switching based on your location
- Search your entities from Spotlight, and new App Intents for events and calendars
- New app icon and refreshed launch experience
Fixed
- Many crashes and stability issues, including a crash when opening the Assist pipeline picker
- Widgets and Assist audio now work on servers using mTLS client certificates
- Certificate import and manual URL connection during server setup
- "Open Home Assistant UI in browser" no longer reopens the dashboard repeatedly
- Deep links no longer ignored while another screen is open
- Deleted servers no longer reappear
Improved
- Faster launch
- Settings reorganized into clearer groups, now with search
- Entity pickers with better search, filters and multiple selection
- The app now recovers automatically when your session expires
New Contributors
- @mvanhorn made their first contribution in #5037
- @Roei-Bracha made their first contribution in #4672
- @bemble made their first contribution in #5140
- @aero-oli made their first contribution in #4923
- @demilul made their first contribution in #5349
Full Changelog: release/2026.7.0/2026.2208...release/2026.8.0/2026.2805