2024.10: Heading in the right direction

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Boo! 👻

Please don’t be scared; it is October, Halloween is coming, and so is the next
Home Assistant release: 2024.10! 🎃

The release we bring you today is a perfect mix of new UI features, advanced
features, improvements, and lots of bug fixes while not being too overwhelming.
There is something for everyone in this release.

Most notably, we have a brand new heading card. It allows you to add titles or
subtitles to your dashboards, make them clickable, and even add cute little
entities to them. The new section dashboard gets better and better with every
release, which is super exciting!

We also introduce some small YAML automation syntax changes. If you are still
a sucker for writing your automations in YAMLYAML is a human-readable data serialization language. It is used to store and transmit data in a structured format. In Home Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for example in the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml files. [Learn more] (like me), I’m sure you’ll love
these little tweaks that make it all feel more natural.

Enjoy the release!

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Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 issue and replacement

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Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 issue and replacement

We’ve found an issue in Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 that has affected a small number of customers, which appears to be the result of a faulty part incorporated in the most recent batch of ZBT-1 devices. We want to make sure everyone can get a replacement ZBT-1 and ensure they are covered far into the future.

Though Home Assistant SkyConnect is identical to the ZBT-1 under the hood, it is not affected. The design is not what’s at fault, but instead, a defective voltage regulator that was used in this specific batch that is causing the issue. When a ZBT-1 is inserted into certain USB-A ports, the voltage regulator can fail, fully bricking the device. We used high-quality manufacturing and quality control in this and previous batches. We are undertaking an investigation to find out how this could happen and most importantly, to avoid a repeat of anything remotely similar in the future.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. Below are details on our investigation, how devices are affected, and the replacement program.

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Open Source Begets Open Source: How Tesla is Accelerating AI

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Alpha Omega Foundation Content Security Policy Grant

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Alpha-Omega has provided a grant for three months of full-time work to improve the Jenkins implementation of Content Security Policy. The improvements will be implemented in October, November, and December of 2024. Shlomo Dahan is implementing the improvements with technical guidance from Basil Crow and project management support from Bruno…

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New Features in Teleport Policy provide more insight into infrastructure policy risks

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2024 Jenkins Election Candidate Statements

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Candidate nominations for the 2024 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. This announcement shares the election candidates and their statements. Nominees for the Jenkins governance board include: Alex Earl Alexander Brandes Kris Stern Oleg Nenashev Stefan…

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