Home Assistant OS 18.1 is a minor release on top of 18.0. It resolves the Raspberry Pi 5 display freeze on older firmware that was present in 18.0, and brings broader Intel hardware support along with incremental Linux kernel updates across all platforms. All users are recommended to update.
Read the HAOS 18.0 release notes for the noteworthy changes in this major release.
Home Assistant Operating System
- Enable iwlmld driver for Wi-Fi 7 Intel devices (#4809) @agners
- busybox: Disable seedrng applet (#4836) @agners
- busybox: Drop unused netstat applet (#4835) @agners
- Add usage to busybox utils (#4831) @mhansen
- Remove timeout from data partition resize service (#4821) @agners
Raspberry Pi
Note
The Home Assistant OS 18.0 release has been removed from the stable channel (since OS updates are not working on old firmware and due to #4811). For users who already updated to HAOS 18.0, you may need to upgrade the Raspberry Pi 5 firmware using ha os boards raspberrypi firmware update before upgrading to the next Home Assistant OS release.
Note
The default graphics (DRM) driver on Raspberry Pi 4 has been switched from the legacy, no longer maintained FKMS driver to the modern KMS driver, which among other things enables HDMI-CEC support. This only applies to new installations. On existing ones, config.txt in the boot partition must be adjusted manually to make the switch.
Home Assistant Yellow
Note
The Home Assistant OS 18.0 release has been removed from the stable channel (since OS updates are not working on old firmware and due to #4811). For users who already updated to HAOS 18.0, you may need to upgrade the Raspberry Pi 5 firmware using ha os boards raspberrypi firmware update before upgrading to the next Home Assistant OS release.
Note
Currently, Raspberry Pi Firmware updates are not supported on Yellow with CM4. You have to use rpiboot method to update the firmware. The reason reported is currently unsupported_boot_device, which is not correct.
Home Assistant Green
Open Virtual Appliance
- Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
- Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
- Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
- Enable Intel NPU driver (ivpu) for x86-64 boards (#4816) @agners
Generic x86-64
- Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
- Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
- Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
- Enable Intel NPU driver (ivpu) for x86-64 boards (#4816) @agners
Hardkernel ODROID
Warning
There have been reports with HAOS 18.0 that the system was no longer bootable after the upgrade (see #4786 and #4788). So far we have not been able to reproduce the issue, and it seems to affect only a small subset of devices. Make sure to create a full backup and download it before upgrading the to latest version, just in case. If you run into the issue and are able to assist debugging the issue, please speak up on the issue tracker.
- Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
- ODROID-N2: Fall back to other slot when a kernel fails to load (#4832) @agners
Khadas VIM Series
Generic aarch64
- Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
- Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
- Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
Dependencies
Dependency updates (click to expand)
- Bump actions/cache/save from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#4841) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump actions/setup-python from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 (#4840) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 7.4.0 to 7.5.1 (#4839) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump actions/cache/restore from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#4838) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump shogo82148/actions-upload-release-asset from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 (#4797) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 7.3.1 to 7.4.0 (#4798) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.3 to 7.0.0 (#4799) @dependabot[bot]
- Bump mikepenz/action-junit-report from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2 (#4800) @dependabot[bot]