What is new in Home Assistant 2026.10?
The release is titled "You are here" and its headline act is a rebuilt map. After the previous map provider began requiring an API key on its tiles, Home Assistant moved to vector tiles from the OpenStreetMap Foundation, served through a new Map tiles integration that fetches and caches them via your own instance, so browsers no longer contact tile servers directly. There is a dark style, an automatic fallback to the classic map on devices that cannot render vector maps, and redesigned markers that show people's pictures and group anyone in the same zone into one bubble. A new Map dashboard overview has People, Devices and Zones tabs, and a zone editor sits on the map itself.
Elsewhere, the automation editor gains a Triggered by condition. You tick the triggers it should match instead of typing trigger IDs; triggers are numbered, missing ones are flagged and shared IDs get a one-click Fix. Existing YAML IDs keep working. The profile page is regrouped into Appearance, Localization, This browser and Security, and every user, not just admins, can now edit their own picture and name. For the pre-release view, see our 2026.10 beta preview.
Can Home Assistant 2026.10 connect to AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes, with less fiddling than before. The page formerly called AI tasks is now simply AI, and it includes a Model Context Protocol card that switches on the MCP server and lists the URLs to copy into your AI client. New setups expose all entities and allow only administrator accounts, so check what you are sharing before pointing a cloud assistant at your home. Other small additions include a live pass/fail indicator on dashboard visibility conditions, a Modbus panel under Settings > Connectivity, a Use device name switch for entities, and timer actions and presets on tile cards.
Which integrations are new, and which are removed?
There are 15 new integrations, led by energy hardware: SolarEdge Modbus (Platinum at launch), Sunsynk, KACO Modbus, my-PV, Axle Energy and Zonneplan, plus Threema, INDI Allsky and Willow. Our guide to all 15 new integrations covers which run locally. Eight integrations were removed:
| Removed integration | Reason / replacement |
|---|---|
| Dublin Bus | API shut down in September 2020 |
| Etherscan | Relied on the retired V1 API; use the RESTful sensor with Etherscan V2 |
| Melnor RainCloud | Device discontinued in April 2026 |
| Orange and Rockland Utility | Use Opower instead |
| Sigfox | Relied on the retired V1 backend API |
| SolarEdge Local | Use SolarEdge or SolarEdge Modbus |
| Travis-CI | travis-ci.org API shut down in June 2021 |
| Zestimate | Zillow retired the API it relied on |
Linode and Tank Utility were also disabled because their libraries are unmaintained.
What breaks when you update to Home Assistant 2026.10?
Most homes will update cleanly, but several changes are easy to trip over. These are the ones most likely to matter:
- Authentication: the legacy mode of the authentication provider is gone, and usernames are normalised to lowercase with no leading or trailing spaces. Expect a repair prompt if yours differed.
- Admin-only actions:
mqtt.publish,mqtt.dumpand Synology DSM'srebootandshutdownnow need an administrator account, so non-admin scripts will fail. - State conditions: combining
forwith a state attribute, a state list or another entity's state now fails validation. - Telegram bot: a
directory_pathfordownload_filemust be listed inallowlist_external_dirs. - Mealie: needs server version 3.2 or newer.
- Energy sensors: easyEnergy and EnergyZero sensors were renamed and lost their unit, OpenEVSE's charging status uses snake_case states, Proxmox VE uptime now reports a start timestamp, and Sofar lost six energy sensors on inverters without a meter.
- UpCloud: the polling interval option was removed and it always polls every 60 seconds, so a 300-second interval becomes five times as many API calls.
- Xbox: the Game Pass binary sensor was removed because it always reported false.
This is a selection; the full changelog lists the rest.
Should you update to 2026.10 now or wait?
Take a backup, then update if none of the breaking changes above touch your setup. If you run MQTT or Synology actions from non-admin users, or use easyEnergy, EnergyZero, OpenEVSE or Sofar sensors in dashboards and the Energy panel, check those first. Waiting for the first patch release is a reasonable choice for a production home. Also note that Home Assistant Cloud is being renamed Home Assistant Link, due in the December release, with the same service under a new name; see our explainer on the rename.
