<p>It’s time for Home Assistant 0.43. This release has been focused on refining the system and fixing a lot of bugs. We have also upgraded to the latest version of our HTTP library which should give us a significant boost serving files and API.</p>
<p>On our social media front, we have crossed the 1000 likes on <ahref="https://www.facebook.com/homeassistantio">our Facebook page</a>! Also on the social media front, the YouTube channel diyAutomate has been putting out a lot of great getting started videos about Home Assistant, <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/c/diyautomate">go check them out!</a></p>
<p>Also want to take a moment to thank Austin Andrews aka <ahref="https://github.com/templarian">Templarian</a> for his <ahref="https://materialdesignicons.com/">Material Design Icons</a>. He is part of what makes Home Assistant so beautiful 🤗.</p>
<li>Met Office weather and sensor components (<ahref="https://github.com/jacobtomlinson">@jacobtomlinson</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6742">#6742</a>)</li>
<li>Total Connect alarm systems (<ahref="https://github.com/wardcraigj">@wardcraigj</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6887">#6887</a>)</li>
<li>Eddystone Beacon Temperature Sensor (<ahref="https://github.com/citruz">@citruz</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6789">#6789</a>)</li>
<li>CrimeReports.com integration shows crimes around a location in the US (<ahref="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6966">#6966</a>)</li>
<li>The Ring doorbell has been integrated further with the inclusion of binary sensors (<ahref="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6520">#6520</a>)</li>
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<h2>Breaking changes</h2>
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<li>We were incorrectly treating groups named <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">default_view</code> as default views. Make sure you set <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">view: true</code> in the config for these groups. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/pull/251">#251 (frontend)</a></li>
<li>The last release introduced a revamped LIFX platform. We only realised after deploy that this version does not work on Windows. We have added the old LIFX implementation back as <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">lifx_legacy</code>.</li>
<li>We added indexes to the database to speed up the history view. Initial boot can take a couple of minutes. Do not shut down while migration is occurring. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6688">#6688</a></li>
<li>Z-Wave cover workaround has been removed. Use device config instead. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6832">#6832</a></li>
<li>If you set an initial state for an automation, input_boolean, input_slider or input_select it will overrule over the previous state. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6924">#6911</a></li>
<li>Z-Wave rename node service parameter <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">entity_id</code> has been replaced with <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">node_id</code> to align parameters <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6938">#6938</a></li>
<li>Automations are now initialized when Home Assistant finishes starting up. This means that it is deprecated to listen for event <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">homeassistant_start</code>. Instead, use the new <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">homeassistant</code> automation platform. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6936">#6936</a></li>
<li>The Ring component has moved the authentication to a dedicated ring component. <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6520">#6520</a></li>
<li>Flux led update lib (<ahref="https://github.com/danielhiversen">@danielhiversen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6763">#6763</a>)</li>
<li>Adding expire_after to mqtt sensor to expire outdated values (<ahref="https://github.com/micw">@micw</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6708">#6708</a>)</li>
<li>New indexes for states and recording_runs tables (<ahref="https://github.com/m00dawg">@m00dawg</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6688">#6688</a>) (breaking change)</li>
<li>Fix flaky template test (<ahref="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6768">#6768</a>)</li>
<li>Version bump to 0.42.0.dev0 (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>current temp could be none (<ahref="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6759">#6759</a>)</li>
<li>Typing error and update test (<ahref="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6757">#6757</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade pydroid-ipcam to 0.7 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6772">#6772</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade psutil to 5.2.1 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6771">#6771</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade sleekxmpp to 1.3.2 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6773">#6773</a>)</li>
<li>Tests for zwave workaround detection (<ahref="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6761">#6761</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfix automation fire on bootstrap (<ahref="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6770">#6770</a>)</li>
<li>Fix bridge-led support in limitlessled.py (<ahref="https://github.com/quadportnick">@quadportnick</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6776">#6776</a>)</li>
<li>Wrong info in discovery schema (<ahref="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6779">#6779</a>)</li>
<li>switch.tplink: upgrade to the newest upstream release which adds support for plugs using the newer communication protocol (<ahref="https://github.com/rytilahti">@rytilahti</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6790">#6790</a>)</li>
<li>Add switch to MQTT discovery (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6733">#6733</a>)</li>
<li>Add optional unit of measurement (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6796">#6796</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade zeroconf to 0.19.0 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6792">#6792</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade pysnmp to 4.3.5 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6793">#6793</a>)</li>
<li>Platform for Munich public transport departure times (<ahref="https://github.com/DavidMStraub">@DavidMStraub</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6704">#6704</a>)</li>
<li>Use string formatting and remove already global disabled pylint issue (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6801">#6801</a>)</li>
<li>Fix typo and update name (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6809">#6809</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade matrix-client to 0.0.6 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6808">#6808</a>)</li>
<li>Make get_snmp_data more robust (<ahref="https://github.com/tantecky">@tantecky</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6798">#6798</a>)</li>
<li>Add NVR support to Hikvision Binary Sensors (<ahref="https://github.com/mezz64">@mezz64</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6807">#6807</a>)</li>
<li>Update Insight parameters using the subscription data. (<ahref="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6782">#6782</a>)</li>
<li>fix WOL in docker/jail (<ahref="https://github.com/goto100">@goto100</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6810">#6810</a>)</li>
<li>Allow to monitor Windows hosts (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6803">#6803</a>)</li>
<li>lights/hue: use device class for on/off devices like the osram lightify plug (<ahref="https://github.com/jannau">@jannau</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6817">#6817</a>)</li>
<li>[switch.wemo] Fix mW to kW conversion. (<ahref="https://github.com/lwis">@lwis</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6826">#6826</a>)</li>
<li>yeelight: adjust supported features on update() (<ahref="https://github.com/rytilahti">@rytilahti</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6799">#6799</a>)</li>
<li>Updated pubnubsub-handler version (<ahref="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6829">#6829</a>)</li>
<li>history_stats: Fix schema, as <codeclass="highlighter-rouge">state</code> can be arbitrary string (<ahref="https://github.com/leppa">@leppa</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6753">#6753</a>)</li>
<li>Rflink group commands (<ahref="https://github.com/aequitas">@aequitas</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/5969">#5969</a>)</li>
<li>Updating Alarm.com Component for async and no Selenium (<ahref="https://github.com/Xorso">@Xorso</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6752">#6752</a>)</li>
<li>Add voluptuous config validation to scenes (<ahref="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6830">#6830</a>)</li>
<li>Integration with lockitron (<ahref="https://github.com/aarya123">@aarya123</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6805">#6805</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Locative tests to use aiohttp test utils (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6838">#6838</a>)</li>
<li>Convert Alexa tests to use aiohttp test utils (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6839">#6839</a>)</li>
<li>Handle initial event after entity is instantiated. (<ahref="https://github.com/aequitas">@aequitas</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6760">#6760</a>)</li>
<li>Add option to disable automatic add for lights and sensors. (<ahref="https://github.com/aequitas">@aequitas</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6852">#6852</a>)</li>
<li>Update aioHTTP to 2.0.5 (<ahref="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6856">#6856</a>)</li>
<li>Introduced Ring binary sensors and refactored Ring component (<ahref="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6520">#6520</a>) (breaking change) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Upgrade sendgrid to 3.6.5 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6866">#6866</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade sphinx-autodoc-typehints to 1.2.0 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6865">#6865</a>)</li>
<li>Added Met Office weather and sensor components (<ahref="https://github.com/jacobtomlinson">@jacobtomlinson</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6742">#6742</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Upgrade speedtest-cli to 1.0.3 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6867">#6867</a>)</li>
<li>Bumped amcrest module to 1.1.5 (<ahref="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6872">#6872</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade pytz to 2017.02 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6875">#6875</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade aiohttp_cors to 0.5.2 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6874">#6874</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade sqlalchemy to 1.1.8 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6873">#6873</a>)</li>
<li>added support for Fibaro FGR-222 (similar to FGRM-222) (<ahref="https://github.com/ChristianKuehnel">@ChristianKuehnel</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6890">#6890</a>)</li>
<li>Fix Tado climate set off mode (<ahref="https://github.com/wmalgadey">@wmalgadey</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6848">#6848</a>)</li>
<li>Fox UMP volume set (<ahref="https://github.com/danieljkemp">@danieljkemp</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6904">#6904</a>)</li>
<li>Move examples out (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6908">#6908</a>)</li>
<li>Fix for #6691 Neato Connection error handling (<ahref="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6731">#6731</a>)</li>
<li>Adds support for the PlugInDimmer hardware (<ahref="https://github.com/gurumitts">@gurumitts</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6915">#6915</a>)</li>
<li>Support for zwave light transitions (<ahref="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6868">#6868</a>)</li>
<li>Bump pyHik library version to support more cameras (<ahref="https://github.com/mezz64">@mezz64</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6921">#6921</a>)</li>
<li>Update vera cover refresh logic (<ahref="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6897">#6897</a>)</li>
<li>Automation: initial state > restore state (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6911">#6911</a>) (breaking change)</li>
<li>Upgrade flux_led to 0.17 (<ahref="https://github.com/danielhiversen">@danielhiversen</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6929">#6929</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade paho-mqtt to 1.2.1 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6928">#6928</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade distro to 1.0.4 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6926">#6926</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade Sphinx to 1.5.4 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6927">#6927</a>)</li>
<li>Allow token authentication for ‘hook’ switch component (<ahref="https://github.com/KlaasH">@KlaasH</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6922">#6922</a>)</li>
<li>WIP - Fix bug in state handling in Vera Switch and Light (<ahref="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6931">#6931</a>)</li>
<li>total connect alarm support (<ahref="https://github.com/wardcraigj">@wardcraigj</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6887">#6887</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Initial state over restore state (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6924">#6924</a>) (breaking change)</li>
<li>Eddystone Beacon Temperature Sensor (<ahref="https://github.com/citruz">@citruz</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6789">#6789</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Add android ip webcam support for aiohttp2 (<ahref="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6940">#6940</a>)</li>
<li>Clean artifacts after running Ring tests. (<ahref="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6944">#6944</a>)</li>
<li>Rename zwave nodes by node ID instead of entity ID (<ahref="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6938">#6938</a>) (breaking change)</li>
<li>Report proper features in mqtt_json light (<ahref="https://github.com/jawilson">@jawilson</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6941">#6941</a>)</li>
<li>Add multi phone numbers support (<ahref="https://github.com/titilambert">@titilambert</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6605">#6605</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade Sphinx to 1.5.5 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6947">#6947</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade py-cpuinfo to 3.0.0 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6948">#6948</a>)</li>
<li>Fix automations listening to HOMEASSISTANT_START (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6936">#6936</a>) (breaking change)</li>
<li>Upgrade mysensors dep and callbacks (<ahref="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6950">#6950</a>)</li>
<li>Added average temperature for the day before and the current period (<ahref="https://github.com/diogos88">@diogos88</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6883">#6883</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade sqlalchemy to 1.1.9 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6955">#6955</a>)</li>
<li>Update for 0.42 (<ahref="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Initial import for HassIO (<ahref="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6935">#6935</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>light.yeelight: catch i/o related exceptions from the backend lib (<ahref="https://github.com/rytilahti">@rytilahti</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6952">#6952</a>)</li>
<li>Fix current_temperature is rounded (<ahref="https://github.com/aufano">@aufano</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6960">#6960</a>)</li>
<li>Foscam Camera: Adding exception handling when fetching the camera image to avoid python exception errors when host is not reachable or rather any url error to camera (<ahref="https://github.com/viswa-swami">@viswa-swami</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6964">#6964</a>)</li>
<li>Update kodi for aiohttp2 (<ahref="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6967">#6967</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfix time and task coro (<ahref="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6968">#6968</a>)</li>
<li>Update Emby for aiohttp v2 (<ahref="https://github.com/mezz64">@mezz64</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6981">#6981</a>)</li>
<li>switch.tplink: bump pyhs100 version requirement (<ahref="https://github.com/rytilahti">@rytilahti</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6986">#6986</a>)</li>
<li>Warn if start takes a long time. (<ahref="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6975">#6975</a>)</li>
<li>Bump Amcrest module to 1.1.8 (<ahref="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <ahref="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6990">#6990</a>)</li>
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