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layout: post
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title: "Home Assistant moving to YAML"
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description: "Configuration will now be more flexible"
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date: 2015-03-01 20:38:00 +0100
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date_formatted: March 1, 2015
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author: "Theodor Lindquist"
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comments: true
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categories: Release-Notes
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Home Assistant is now using [YAML](http://yaml.org/) for it's configuration file. YAML allows the use of lists, which should make the configuration file a bit more flexible and useful. The new configuration file format is backwards compatible with existing components. Because of this, there is no need for component developers to update their components.
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The new file is named configuration.yaml and if it can't be found in your config directory, Home Assistant will instead try to find the old configuration file, home-assistant.conf.
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The home-assistant.conf.example has been replaced with an updated [configuration.yaml.example](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/config/configuration.yaml.example).
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Users of Home Assistant should migrate as the old configuration format is deprecated.
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